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The Guns of Will Sonnett

All Episodes 1967 - 1969

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  • 1967-09-08T04:00:00Z
  • 25m
  • 1d 1h (50 episodes)
  • Aaron Spelling
  • United States
  • English
  • Western
Ex-cavalry scout and gunfighter Will Sonnett and his grandson, Jeff, search the West for Will's son - and Jeff's father - Jim Sonnett, a former lawman and gunslinger, who has avoided seeing his son in order to keep him away from the assortment of killers and bounty hunters who are after him.

54 episodes

Featuring many famous guest stars and their careers.

Documentary featuring the life, TV series and films of Walter Brennan.

Series Premiere

1967-09-08T04:00:00Z

1x01 Ride the Long Trail

Series Premiere

1x01 Ride the Long Trail

  • 1967-09-08T04:00:00Z30m

Jeff and Will encounter a man who lost an arm in a gunfight with Jim Sonnett.

1967-09-15T04:00:00Z

1x02 A Bell for Jeff Sonnett

1x02 A Bell for Jeff Sonnett

  • 1967-09-15T04:00:00Z30m

With Will's gun arm injured, Jeff is forced into his first-ever gunfight against a master gunfighter (Charles Grodin, of all people) who uses every psychological trick in the book.

1967-09-22T04:00:00Z

1x03 A Grave for James Sonnett

1x03 A Grave for James Sonnett

  • 1967-09-22T04:00:00Z30m

Arriving in a Mexican town, the Sonnetts find Jim's grave and a curiously reticent padre, and tangle with a bandito leader who may -- or may not -- have killed James. Features an exceptionally lively gunfight at the end.

1967-09-29T04:00:00Z

1x04 The Natural Way

1x04 The Natural Way

  • 1967-09-29T04:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff sign on as deputies in order to come to the aid of a wounded sheriff.

Will and Jeff go to Wyoming to see whether a man scheduled to hang is really Jim Sonnett.

1967-10-13T04:00:00Z

1x06 Message at Noon

1x06 Message at Noon

  • 1967-10-13T04:00:00Z30m

In our first extended look at Jim Sonnett, he enjoys lunch in a restaurant with a friendly bartender, while outside a young punk and his accomplice agitate for a gunfight.

1967-10-20T04:00:00Z

1x07 A Son for a Son

1x07 A Son for a Son

  • 1967-10-20T04:00:00Z30m

A farmer provides Jeff, ill with fever, a bed while his wife tends. The Sonnett's don't know the farmer offered because Jim Sonnett killed their son in a shootout in the last year. The wife, sick with grief, thinks Jeff is the dead son.

1967-10-27T04:00:00Z

1x08 Meeting at Devil's Fork

1x08 Meeting at Devil's Fork

  • 1967-10-27T04:00:00Z30m

A bounty hunter takes Jeff and Will prisoner to lure Jim Sonnett to Devil's Fork.

1967-11-03T05:00:00Z

1x09 First Love

1x09 First Love

  • 1967-11-03T05:00:00Z30m

When Will and Jeff land in jail, a beautiful woman puts up the bail and asks them to stay in town.

1967-11-10T05:00:00Z

1x10 The Favor

1x10 The Favor

  • 1967-11-10T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff stumble upon a wounded man in a ghost town saloon.

1967-11-17T05:00:00Z

1x11 Ride the Man Down

1x11 Ride the Man Down

  • 1967-11-17T05:00:00Z30m

A sheriff rounds up a possee to hunt down Jim Sonnett after a dying bank robber wrongly names the gunslinger as his accomplice.

1967-11-24T05:00:00Z

1x12 The Turkey Shoot

1x12 The Turkey Shoot

  • 1967-11-24T05:00:00Z30m

Near broke, Will enters Jeff in a shooting contest where a prize bull is at stake put up by a local cattle baron who keeps local breeders dependent. Tensions escalate as the Sonnett's hear of how they treated Jim on an earlier visit.

1x13 And a Killing Rode in Town

  • 1967-12-01T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff encounter a woman who claims to be Jeff's mother.

1x14 Find a Sonnett, Kill a Sonnett

  • 1967-12-08T05:00:00Z30m

When two vengeful brothers take Jeff hostage, Will convinces an old friend to impersonate Jim Sonnett.

1967-12-15T05:00:00Z

1x15 Sunday in Paradise

1x15 Sunday in Paradise

  • 1967-12-15T05:00:00Z30m

In the town of Paradise, Will reconnects with an old friend who still owns a brothel. She is looked down upon by the very men of the town who have unpaid accounts. Rather than have them pay up, she just asks them to help build a church.

1x16 The Secret of Hangtown Mine

  • 1967-12-22T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff travel to Hangtown to speak with a doctor that treated Jim but the doctor is out of town. They visit the doctor's wife at their home but she and the hired hand have sinister plans for them and a treacherous secret concealed.

1967-12-29T05:00:00Z

1x17 The Hero

1x17 The Hero

  • 1967-12-29T05:00:00Z30m

When Will is shot in a bank robbery he and Jeff stumble into the middle of, Jeff insists on joining the local sheriff in pursuing the robbers. While Will convalesces, he learns the sheriff's wife knows a shocking truth about the robbery.

1968-01-05T05:00:00Z

1x18 What's in a Name?

1x18 What's in a Name?

  • 1968-01-05T05:00:00Z30m

The Sonnett's meet a small-time hustler posing as Will to mooch meals and drinks with trick shooting. When confronted, he admits he began the scam after helping Jim when he was shot. A local gunslinger challenges the poser to a gunfight.

1968-01-12T05:00:00Z

1x19 End of the Rope

1x19 End of the Rope

  • 1968-01-12T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff race to Waco, where Jim Sonnett stands trial for murder.

1x20 And He Shall Lead the Children

  • 1968-01-19T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff unwittingly stumble upon an outlaw's mountain cabin.

1968-01-26T05:00:00Z

1x21 Look for the Hound Dog

1x21 Look for the Hound Dog

  • 1968-01-26T05:00:00Z30m

Will pleads Jeff's case after a lynch mob accuses the boy of murdering a storekeeper.

1x22 Stopover in a Troubled Town

  • 1968-02-02T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff befriend a saloon girl who is a single mother unable to both care for her baby and please her cruel taskmaster employer. Her father is to arrive but she's afraid because she married her faithless husband against his wishes.

1968-02-09T05:00:00Z

1x23 Alone

1x23 Alone

  • 1968-02-09T05:00:00Z30m

Will arranges to meet Jeff in a ghost town saloon, but he ends up getting caught in a hail of rifle bullets instead.

1968-02-23T05:00:00Z

1x24 The Sins of the Father

1x24 The Sins of the Father

  • 1968-02-23T05:00:00Z30m

Jeff starts to fall for a young woman who claims that James Sonnett is the father of her infant son.

1968-03-01T05:00:00Z

1x25 The Warriors

1x25 The Warriors

  • 1968-03-01T05:00:00Z30m

Will goes undercover for the Cavalry to help stop a gunrunner from selling rifles that may start a new Indian war.

Season Finale

1968-03-08T05:00:00Z

1x26 A Fool and His Money

Season Finale

1x26 A Fool and His Money

  • 1968-03-08T05:00:00Z30m

An old friend of Will's is posing as a wealthy man to land a woman and asks for Will's help. However, a couple of disreputable, former business partners aim to demand their share of Charlie's apparent newfound wealth.

Season Premiere

1968-09-27T04:00:00Z

2x01 Reunion

Season Premiere

2x01 Reunion

  • 1968-09-27T04:00:00Z30m

James Sonnett finally learns that his father and son are trying to track him down -- but the way he learns is from a vengeful young punk who's ploying Will and Jeff for information -- and posing as Jeff.

1968-10-04T04:00:00Z

2x02 The Trap

2x02 The Trap

  • 1968-10-04T04:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff are arrested on trumped-up charges and forced to work on a chain gang, blasting a tunnel through a mountain for the railroad. Once there, the two find that any traveler passing through town has been bushwhacked and forced to work until they drop dead while the Sheriff and the Judge pocket the proceeds.

1968-10-11T04:00:00Z

2x03 Chapter and Verse

2x03 Chapter and Verse

  • 1968-10-11T04:00:00Z30m

The Sonnett's encounter a bounty hunter team who are pursuing Jim Sonnett and other fugitives. Will challenges their ruthless tactics and use of Bible scriptures to justify them and later discovers they have crossed the line.

1968-10-18T04:00:00Z

2x04 Pariah

2x04 Pariah

  • 1968-10-18T04:00:00Z30m

The father of a little girl killed by a stray bullet during a gunfight with James Sonnett tries to exact revenge on Will and James' old friend Buck Cobb. The father goads Will into a gunfight by burning Buck's homestead to the ground.

1968-11-01T05:00:00Z

2x05 Joby

2x05 Joby

  • 1968-11-01T05:00:00Z30m

The Sonnets arrive at the town of Willow where a saloon flunky loves to instigate gun fights. Having instigated one between Jim Sonnett and a local earlier, he's delighted when Will and Jeff arrive.

1968-11-08T05:00:00Z

2x06 The Straw Man

2x06 The Straw Man

  • 1968-11-08T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff find a straw effigy of James Sonnett hanging in a town. A young widow has accused James of killing and robbing her husband but when Will does some digging, the real facts come to light.

1968-11-15T05:00:00Z

2x07 A Difference of Opinion

2x07 A Difference of Opinion

  • 1968-11-15T05:00:00Z30m

Will & Jeff run into a couple of crooked lawmen who claim to have run Jim Sonnett out of town.

1968-11-22T05:00:00Z

2x08 Home Free

2x08 Home Free

  • 1968-11-22T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff try to help a man recently released from prison to get a new start with his wife and child. Unfortunately, others in the town aren't as willing to give the young man another chance, including an old friend of Will's from the Army.

1968-11-29T05:00:00Z

2x09 Guilt

2x09 Guilt

  • 1968-11-29T05:00:00Z30m

Three brothers believe Will and Jeff are in town to avenge James, whom one of the brothers thinks he killed in an ambush. Now that brother thinks the only way to prevent being killed is to ambush Will and Jeff as well.

1968-12-06T05:00:00Z

2x10 Meeting in a Small Town

2x10 Meeting in a Small Town

  • 1968-12-06T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff have a not-so-friendly hello to a bounty hunter in a small town. Jim Sonnett appears at the end in an unrelated (but chilling) segment.

1968-12-13T05:00:00Z

2x11 The Fearless Man

2x11 The Fearless Man

  • 1968-12-13T05:00:00Z30m

Dave Henry rescues Will and Jeff from a trio of horse thieves. Henry appears totally without fear, and Jeff thinks of him as a kind of idol, but Henry's apparent fearlessness actually masks a terrible secret.

1968-12-20T05:00:00Z

2x12 Where There's Hope

2x12 Where There's Hope

  • 1968-12-20T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff try to find a home for a little girl named Hope, whose drunken father just died in a house fire. But finding a family willing to take her is not easy.

1969-01-03T05:00:00Z

2x13 Join the Army

2x13 Join the Army

  • 1969-01-03T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff meet a young man on the trail who is eager to join the army. But instead, an old hunter talks the young man into joining him slaughtering and skinning buffalo in excess numbers, which could lead to an Indian war.

1969-01-10T05:00:00Z

2x14 Time Is the Rider

2x14 Time Is the Rider

  • 1969-01-10T05:00:00Z30m

Three outlaws, one posing as an Army major, talk Jeff into accompanying them to meet his father, but they actually have more sinister plans for both Jeff and James. Will teams with an old prospector to look for them.

1969-01-17T05:00:00Z

2x15 Robber's Roost

2x15 Robber's Roost

  • 1969-01-17T05:00:00Z30m

With reason to believe James has been through the area, Will and Jeff both enter a town which has been taken over by an outlaw gang that has practically enslaved the residents.

1969-01-31T05:00:00Z

2x16 Trail's End

2x16 Trail's End

  • 1969-01-31T05:00:00Z30m

A maniacal man avenging the death of his brother -- allegedly a murder by James Sonnett, though this is never proved -- will empty his gun through a hotel window just on the rumor that Jim Sonnett is on the other side. Though the hotel-shooting is the result of a cruel practical joke, the gunman still thinks he has a line on Jim's whereabouts through a saloon hostess who was recently Jim's girlfriend. When Will and Jeff arrive in the town, the sheriff and the hostess work separately to prevent a disastrous gunfight.

1969-02-07T05:00:00Z

2x17 A Town in Terror (1)

2x17 A Town in Terror (1)

  • 1969-02-07T05:00:00Z30m

When Will and Jeff run right into the middle of a deadly cattle versus sheep feud which has enveloped a grazing town, James Sonnett, a hired gun for the sheep ranchers, runs right into a cattleman's hired gun who looks just like him (played by a different actor) -- and gets into a fatal gunfight.

1969-02-14T05:00:00Z

2x18 A Town in Terror (2)

2x18 A Town in Terror (2)

  • 1969-02-14T05:00:00Z30m

Posing as his own killer, Jim Sonnett reports to the cattlemen who hired the killer in a cattlemen-sheepmen feud (he's working for the sheepmen, as are Will and Jeff), and meets Jeff face-to-face for the first time, knocking him unconscious with a sucker punch in order to keep his secret ... but the cattlemen figure out the secret and hold Jim hostage just as Will and Jeff come to the rescue.

1969-02-21T05:00:00Z

2x19 Jim Sonnett's Lady

2x19 Jim Sonnett's Lady

  • 1969-02-21T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff try and foil a trap set by an old enemy of Jim's. Meanwhile Jim spends some downtime with a beautiful saloon owner with an agenda of her own.

1969-02-28T05:00:00Z

2x20 The Trial

2x20 The Trial

  • 1969-02-28T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff learn that James may be coming to the town they're in to testify in favor of a man accused of murder---and that a powerful rancher who may be the real killer intends to make sure he never gets the chance.

1969-03-07T05:00:00Z

2x21 One Angry Juror

2x21 One Angry Juror

  • 1969-03-07T05:00:00Z30m

While Jeff lies sick with a fever in a hotel room, Will is forced into jury duty. A Swedish farmer is accused of murdering the son of a wealthy rancher but refuses to testify in his own defense. Will suspects that the case isn't as open and shut as it seems.

1969-03-14T05:00:00Z

2x22 The Sodbuster

2x22 The Sodbuster

  • 1969-03-14T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff stay with a poor family that James recently stayed with, and try to help them, not only with their struggle to keep their home and farm, but with the husband and wife's deteriorating relationship.

2x23 The Man Who Killed Jim Sonnett

  • 1969-03-21T05:00:00Z30m

Will and Jeff stop in a town where a play is being staged about the killing of James Sonnett, and many in the town, including the actors, claim that it really happened that way.

Season Finale

1969-09-16T04:00:00Z

2x24 Three Stand Together

Season Finale

2x24 Three Stand Together

  • 1969-09-16T04:00:00Z30m

After two long years of searching, Will and Jeff finally catch up to Jim Sonnett. Will convinces James that it's time to stop running, so the three take jobs as lawmen in a small town. Trouble doesn't take long to find the Sonnetts - a group of men paid to kill James ride into town only to find that James isn't the only fast gun in the family.

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