Episode
Alias Smith and Jones: The Root of It All
Overview
Smith and Jones retrieve a letter for a young lady and wind up searching for a buried Army payroll.
Details
- Series
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1971-03-25
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Root of It All is Episode 11 in Season 1 of Alias Smith and Jones. It aired on 1971-03-25. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 10: The Man Who Murdered Himself
While Curry drives a wagonload of dynamite across rugged country, Heyes hires on as a guide for two Englishmen searching for a tribe of giant redheaded Indians rumored to have lived in the area of Devil's Hole.
Episode 12: The Fifth Victim
The guys become involved with a friendly rancher in a not-so-friendly poker game.
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Episode 9: Stagecoach Seven
A stationmaster battles for his own interests against a band of outlaws.
Episode 13: Journey from San Juan
Smith and Jones balance a Mexican bandit and pretty saloon owner while they gather a herd of wild cattle as a cover for other activities.
Episode 8: A Fistful of Diamonds
After an embezzling banker / murderer sets up Curry and Heyes to take the fall for his crimes, the boys try to clear themselves by playing on his greed with a salted diamond field.
Episode 14: Never Trust an Honest Man
The boys return a fortune in jewels to a railroad magnate, who promptly sets a posse after them when he learns the gems are fake.
Episode 7: Return to Devil's Hole
An outlaw leader faces a dilemma; he must decide who is telling the truth, Heyes' lady friend or the man she's trying to kill.
Episode 15: The Legacy of Charlie O'Rourke
A saloon entertainer and a special agent suspect that Heyes and Curry's interest in a condemned robber is the same as their own; a rumored fortune in stolen buried gold.
Episode 6: The Great Shell Game
Heyes seems to be reverting to his old thieving ways when he sets up a pretty young woman to lose $10,000 in a phony horse betting operation.
Episode 5: The Girl in Boxcar #3
Curry gets involved with a runaway girl riding the rails as he tries to deliver $50,000 to a town 400 miles away.
Episode 4: Wrong Train to Brimstone
Heyes and Curry gain passage on a train that is full of Bannerman detectives who are setting a trap for them and their gang
Episode 3: Exit from Wickenburg
Someone's trying to get the guys out of a town where they are helping a widow run from the saloon left to her by her late husband, but they can't figure out who's doing it or why.