Best of the West (1981)
An unwitting city slicker is made the marshal of a lawless town in this absurdist Western that pokes gentle but clever fun at the genre's stock plots and characters. Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982.
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Episode 1 - Pilot
Release Date: 1981-09-09Sam arrives in town intending to run the general store, then runs into all kinds of trouble after turning down the protection racket.
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Episode 2 - The Prisoner
Release Date: 1981-09-17Sam must face a prisoner's outlaw brothers after the sheriff who was taking him in becomes ill on his way through town.
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Episode 3 - The Calico Kid Returns
Release Date: 1981-10-01The Square Deal Saloon's new cook is the Calico Kid; he has sworn to never again kill anything he can't eat.
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Episode 4 - They're Hanging Parker Tillman (1)
Release Date: 1981-10-15Sam goes out on a limb and manages to save Tillman from a lynch mob, but at the trial, his mixed-up testimony has him back at the end of a rope.
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Episode 5 - They're Hanging Parker Tillman (2)
Release Date: 1981-10-22Sam infiltrates an outlaw band to try to prove Tillman is innocent of cattle rustling.
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Episode 6 - The New Marshal
Release Date: 1981-10-29Sam loses his badge in a special election to Tillman's squeaky-clean candidate.
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Episode 7 - Daniel's First Love
Release Date: 1981-11-05Daniel is as surprised as anyone when a few innocent kisses lead to a shotgun wedding.
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Episode 8 - Laney in Love
Release Date: 1981-11-12Laney is smitten with a smoothie who bids high for her at a social—but he turns out to be a low-down heel.
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Episode 9 - The Reunion
Release Date: 1981-10-08Elvira's die-hard Confederate father (Andy Griffith) stays at the Square Deal Saloon while he is in town. His wife is trying to patch things up with their daughter; she married a Yankee!
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Episode 10 - The Railroad
Release Date: 1981-11-19Sam and Tillman try hard to convince the railroad to come to Copper Creek.
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Episode 11 - The New Jail
Release Date: 1981-11-26Sam's image as a lawman quickly loses its edge after he manages to shoot himself in the leg; the jail collapsing around him doesn't help.
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Episode 12 - A Man, a Woman, and a Horse
Release Date: 1981-12-17Sam doesn't pay attention to signs of discontent from Elvira until the day he comes home to finds her packed to leave.
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Episode 13 - Frog's First Gunfight
Release Date: 1982-01-07Frog meets a woman who was recently jilted by her beau, but neither realizes he wants her back.
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Episode 14 - The Calico Kid Goes to School
Release Date: 1982-01-14The reformed Calico Kid decides he wants to be a United States Marshal. But he lacks one qualification: a third-grade education.
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Episode 15 - Tillman Held for Ransom
Release Date: 1982-01-21Tillman has been kidnapped and the kidnappers are demanding a ransom, but the Copper Creek citizens have no intention of paying up.
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Episode 16 - Mail Order Bride
Release Date: 1982-01-28Doc's mail-order bride has a vivid personality with a past to match it.
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Episode 17 - The Cave-In
Release Date: 1982-02-12Elvira and her stepson explore an abandoned outlaw cave, unaware that it is booby-trapped to collapse.
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Episode 18 - Daniel Fights a Bully
Release Date: 1982-02-19Daniel's refusal to fight a relentless bully leads to Sam having to fight the bully's father.
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Episode 19 - The Pretty Prisoner
Release Date: 1982-02-26Sam is handcuffed to his prisoner—a flirtatious female outlaw—for an overnight journey.
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Episode 20 - Elvira's Old Beau
Release Date: 1982-06-07Elvira's former fiance' comes to town, intent on taking her away with him.
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Episode 21 - Sam's Life Is Threatened
Release Date: 1982-06-14Sam receives an anonymous threatening note.
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Episode 22 - The Funeral
Release Date: 1982-06-21Sam and Tillman try to foil a holdup by holding a funeral for Frog; the coffin contains the $20,000 the thieves are after.