Death Valley Days
TVPG
Anthology
Western
Stories based on the legends and lore of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area.
Cast & Crew
Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Tuesday, April 23
Black Bart
Season 3 • Episode 4
A teacher stages a holdup as a practical joke, and then he decides to make a career of it.
Tuesday, April 23
The Light on the Mountain
Season 3 • Episode 5
Two men fight to rid Virginia City of its corrupt judicial system.
Tuesday, April 23
To Big Charlie From Little Charlie
Season 3 • Episode 6
Two prospectors -- both named Charlie -- strike it rich and choose different paths in life.
Tuesday, April 23
Sequoia
Season 3 • Episode 7
Sequoia is the object of ridicule as he painstakingly tries to develop an alphabet for his people.
Wednesday, April 24
Lola Montez
Season 3 • Episode 8
The story of Lola Montez, the legendary dancer of the 1800s.
Wednesday, April 24
The Big Team Rolls
Season 3 • Episode 9
A tenderfoot must prove himself when the mule team he's working on is robbed.
Wednesday, April 24
Death and Taxes
Season 3 • Episode 10
A man must collect back taxes and hires some muscle for assistance, but a surprise awaits him.
Thursday, April 25
Riggs and Riggs
Season 3 • Episode 11
Depositing his gold in San Francisco, a prospector encounters the temptations of the big city.
Thursday, April 25
Million Dollar Wedding
Season 3 • Episode 12
Prospectors offer a friend shares in their mine if he'll marry the homely Aggie Filene.
Thursday, April 25
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Season 3 • Episode 13
A prospector strikes it rich and decides to marry the girl he left behind.
Thursday, April 25
The Seventh Day
Season 3 • Episode 14
Wagon train members oppose their leader's desire to observe Sunday as a day of rest.
Friday, April 26
The Mormon's Grindstone
Season 3 • Episode 15
Miners become hostile when they suspect an assayer cheated them with deceptive evaluations.
Friday, April 26
Death Valley Scotty
Season 3 • Episode 16
A grizzled old man charters a train to break the speed record between Los Angeles and Chicago.
Friday, April 26
The Crystal Gazer
Season 3 • Episode 17
A crystal ball sends the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter West to seek her fortune.
Friday, April 26
I Am Joaquin
Season 3 • Episode 18
Bandits board a gold-carrying ship and murder most of the passengers and crew.
Saturday, April 27
The Valencia Cake
Season 4 • Episode 2
A Spanish family claims ownership of a piece of land but they don't have the deed.
Saturday, April 27
Reno
Season 4 • Episode 1
The story of Lt. Jessie Lee Reno, for whom the city of Reno was named.
Saturday, April 27
A Killing in Diamonds
Season 4 • Episode 3
Two prospectors discover a fabulous diamond mine but greed interferes with their plans.
Saturday, April 27
The Homeliest Man in Nevada
Season 4 • Episode 4
A homely miner tries to win a pretty girl's heart.
Monday, April 29
Miracle of the Sea Gulls
Season 4 • Episode 5
A counterfeiter making a getaway joins a wagon train of Mormons headed to Salt Lake City.
Monday, April 29
Wildcat's First Piano
Season 4 • Episode 6
When a piano arrives in town, the search begins for someone who can play it.
Monday, April 29
California's First Ice Man
Season 4 • Episode 7
A man sells snow to pioneers in Sacramento, Calif.
Tuesday, April 30
The Hangman Waits
Season 4 • Episode 8
A noted prosecutor faces a young associate defending a man accused of murder.
Tuesday, April 30
Gold Is Where You Find It
Season 4 • Episode 9
A detective disguises himself as a Mexican to clear himself of a robbery charge.
Tuesday, April 30
The Man Who'd Bet on Anything
Season 4 • Episode 10
Abe Curry wants to make a difference in Carson City but takes reckless chances with his money.
Tuesday, April 30
The Baron of Arizona
Season 4 • Episode 11
A crusading reporter investigates an Arizona land baron.
Tuesday, April 30
Nevada's Plymouth Rock
Season 4 • Episode 12
In a mining town, a woman dealing with a sick son and a broke husband longs to move back East.
Tuesday, April 30
The Hoodoo Mine
Season 4 • Episode 13
A prospector, double-crossed by his partner and left to die in the desert, is saved by an Indian.
Wednesday, May 1
Mr. Bigfoot
Season 4 • Episode 14
Meek Stubby Weeks and brawny Dutch Hogan compete for the same girl.
Wednesday, May 1
Escape
Season 4 • Episode 15
An escaped killer holds hostage Harry and Evelyn Nelson, a couple on the verge of divorce.
Wednesday, May 1
Two Bits
Season 4 • Episode 16
An Army private tries to save an emaciated racehorse about to be destroyed.
Wednesday, May 1
Bill Bottle's Birthday
Season 4 • Episode 17
When grifters show up at a wealthy man's family reunion, he treats them with unexpected familiarity.
Thursday, May 2
The Sinbuster
Season 4 • Episode 18
A man of the cloth finds it difficult to adjust to life in a rugged desert town.
Thursday, May 2
Pay Dirt
Season 4 • Episode 19
A newlywed on his honeymoon falls for a phony gold-mine swindle.
Thursday, May 2
The Longest Beard in the World
Season 4 • Episode 20
A politician is encouraged to go to the World's Fair as the man with the world's longest beard.
Thursday, May 2
Emperor Norton
Season 4 • Episode 21
A San Francisco merchant works to corner the market on rice when he hears China will ban its export.
Friday, May 3
Faro Bill's Layout
Season 5 • Episode 1
A woman, bothered by a drunk, gets upset when Faro Bill kills the man.
Friday, May 3
The Bear Flag
Season 5 • Episode 2
U.S. settlers arrive in Mexican-controlled California and clash with the resident Hispanic families.
Friday, May 3
Pat Garrett's Side of It
Season 5 • Episode 3
New sheriff Pat Garrett embarks on a mission to capture the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid.
Friday, May 3
The Hidden Treasure of Cucamonga
Season 5 • Episode 4
The daughter of a California ranch owner discovers a lost fortune after his death.
Saturday, May 4
The Loggerheads
Season 5 • Episode 5
A lady wishes to court a shy but highly skilled logroller.
Saturday, May 4
The Rose of Rhyolite
Season 5 • Episode 6
Three telegraph workers fall for a dance hall queen.
Saturday, May 4
The Last Letter
Season 5 • Episode 7
Alex Todd starts a mail service when he discovers he can make money by delivering the mail.
Saturday, May 4
Year of Destiny
Season 5 • Episode 8
Colorful residents become the inspiration for "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."
Monday, May 6
The Washington Elm
Season 5 • Episode 12
The story of Harvard's stately elm tree.
Monday, May 6
Mercer Girl
Season 5 • Episode 9
A man must transport 500 mail-order brides from Boston to the state of Washington.
Monday, May 6
California's Paul Revere
Season 5 • Episode 10
In 1846, American forces leave sparsely manned Los Angeles an inviting target to the Mexicans.
Monday, May 6
The Trial of Red Haskell
Season 5 • Episode 11
A bandit uses a look-alike to create an alibi for his crime.
Tuesday, May 7
The Rosebush of Tombstone
Season 5 • Episode 13
A woman reforms herself in Tombstone.
Tuesday, May 7
The Luck of the Irish
Season 5 • Episode 14
A doctor must stop an outbreak in a Paiute village.
Tuesday, May 7
Lady Engineer
Season 5 • Episode 15
Mary Granger finds herself caught between two miners: one for love, the other for money.
Tuesday, May 7
Train of Events
Season 5 • Episode 16
Outlaw Belle Clayton and her gang are more determined than ever to rob a Montana-bound train.
Wednesday, May 8
The Man Who Was Never Licked
Season 5 • Episode 17
Elias Jackson Baldwin heads for California in 1853 to seek his fortune.
Wednesday, May 8
California Gold Rush in Reverse
Season 6 • Episode 1
An Army-Navy rivalry complicates the transfer of gold from California to Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, May 8
Camel Train
Season 6 • Episode 2
In 1847, Lt. Edward Beale tries to promote the use of camels in the southwest.
Thursday, May 9
California's First Schoolmarm
Season 6 • Episode 3
A bear disrupts a California classroom.
Thursday, May 9
Arsenic Springs
Season 6 • Episode 4
A bank teller accused of embezzlement has only two defenders.
Thursday, May 9
Fifty Years a Mystery
Season 6 • Episode 5
Charlie Bates' dream about a holdup becomes a reality and he becomes the suspect.
Thursday, May 9
Fifteen Paces to Fame
Season 6 • Episode 6
Mark Twain, a news reporter in 1864, tangles with rival newspaperman Ganse Taylor.
Friday, May 10
Quon Lee
Season 7 • Episode 11
A politician tries to link senatorial candidate with a dance hall girl.
Friday, May 10
The Calico Dog
Season 6 • Episode 7
Nancy Drake becomes jealous of her fiance's dog.
Friday, May 10
Rough and Ready
Season 6 • Episode 8
A gold-mining town dislikes newcomers, particularly the Easterner who swindled his way in.
Friday, May 10
The Last Bad Man
Season 6 • Episode 9
The California governor sends a lawman to track down a notorious bandit.
