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Pedro

Pedro


A BAD NAME

Episode: 27

Synopsis

Rancher Lucky Chance and his foreman, Matt Ames, are gunning for Big Ben the Bandit. They say that he and Red Scalp have been rustling cattle.

Ben protests his innocence to Tex, who locks the Bandit up until the law has had time to investigate.

Cast

no. Lucy Chance
Matt Ames
Big Ben the Bandit
Dusty the Dog
Tex Tucker
Grampa Twink
Doc Haggerty
Rocky the Horse
Red Scalp


THE MA JONES STORY

Episode: 28

Two strangers in Four Feather Falls trick Ma Jones into signing a paper which gives them the right to take her store - lock, stock and barrel. Heartbroken, Ma Jones gets into her buggy and leaves Four Feather Falls for good.

When Tex Tucker hears about the 'trick he forces the crooks to hand over the paper Ma Jones signed. Then he sets out to bring Ma Jones back. He finds her in the Desert just as a mountain cat is about to make a meal out of her.

Cast

Tex Tucker
Rocky the Horse
Dusty the Dog
Slim Jim
Brad Martin
Jeff Ward
Ma Jones
Grampa Twink
Dan Morse


HORSE THIEVES

Episode: 29

Synopsis

Pedro and Fernando need ready cash and with a prompt from Big Ben the Bandit decide that horse-rustling is the quickest way of raising it. Big Ben will buy all the horses they rustle.

Pedro and Fernando take every horse in Four Feather Falls, including Rocky. Secure in their knowledge that Tex can't catch them without his horse or raise a posse the bandits settle down in their cabin to wait for Big Ben and the cash ... the stolen horses tethered outside.

But with Dusty's help, Rocky breaks away from the other horses and returns to town. Tex saddles him up and gallops off to the bandit's cabin. The Sheriff, and the magic guns, outwit Pedro and Fernando yet again.

Cast

Tex Tucker
Rocky the Horse
Dusty the Dog
Pedro the Bandit
Fernando the Bandit
Big Ben the Bandit
Doc Haggarty
Grampa Twink
Dan Morse
Marvin Jackson


BANDITS ABROAD

Episode: 30

Synopsis

A reward of 200 dollars is out for Pancho Gomea the Bandit. Pancho closely resembles Fernando - a fact which doesn't go unnoticed by Pedro. After thoroughly disguising Fernando, Pedro duly delivers him to Tex Tucker and collects the 200 dollars reward for Pancho. Later Pedro helps Fernando to bust out Of jail.

With a posse on their tail, the two bandits decide to split up, Pedro takes the Dead Plan's Gulch trail and ... surprise, surprise ... meets the real Pancho coming the other way, Pedro thinks that Pancho is the disguised Fernando, and Pancho, quickly realising what has happened decides to play along with Pedro and pretend he really is Fernando ... especially when he learns that Pedro has collected the 200 dollar reward.

Cast

Pedro the Bandit
Fernando the Bandit
Tex Tucker
Marvin Jackson
Dan Morse
Pancho the Bandit
Rocky the Horse
Dusty the Dog


A CURE FOR EVERYTHING

Episode: 31

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Synopsis

Two phoney medicine peddlars have discovered a secret water spring which has invigorating qualities. They're selling the water, with colour added, as medicine to cure everything and the townsfolk in FOUR FEATHER FALLS are so impressed that Doc is forced out of business.

Chief Kalamakooya tells Tex where the water spring lies, When the two medicine peddlars come for a fresh supply of water, Tex is hiding behind a rock. He hears one of the men joke to the other that the folks in the town are drinking nothing more than coloured water, Tex now has enough evidence to run the two phonies out of town.

Cast

Tex Tucker
Rocky the Horse
Dusty the Dog
Doc Haggerty
Mr. Scragg - a medicine man
Mr. Wright - a medicine man
Grampa Twink
Little Jake
Ma Jones
Big Ben the Bandit
Chief Kalamakooya
Makooya


TEETHING TROUBLE

Episode: 32

Synopsis

Rocky has toothache, but nothing anyone says can persuade him to have his tooth out. Ma Jones says she'll give him some candy if he's a brave horse and has it out. Rocky says he doesn't like candy. Mr. Jackson tries to tempt him with the promise of a bright new shiny five cent piece. But Rocky is as immovable as his name. He just says "I'd rather have tooth!"

Rocky goes off to see an Indian medicine man, but Tex brings him back again.

Tex has brought a dentist to see Rocky. Rocky says he'll have his tooth out as long as Tex has one out first, Tex agrees and has a tooth extracted.

Rocky's toothache suddenly vanishes. He says it must have been the magic water the Indian medicine man gave him to drink. It's no longer necessary for Rocky to have a tooth out, but as he says to Tex..."If you ever have a tooth out again, I'll have mine out too."

Cast

Tex Tucker
Rocky the Horse
Doc Haggerty
Ma Jones
Dan Jackson
Medicine Man
Mr. Rankin


FIRST TRAIN THROUGH

Episode: 33

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Synopsis

The Canyon Railroad are laying a line into FOUR FEATHER FALLS, but the foreman and a hired hand by the name of Hank are in the pay of a rival company - Overland Railroad. They keep on sabotaging tho railroad by engineering avalanches and floods so that Canyon will eventually go bust and be forced to sell out to Overland.

Tex Tucker reckons there's something crooked going one. He doesn't accept the foreman's explanation that the catastrophes are caused by "the forces of nature", ... so he calls the bluff of the foreman and Hank and at last the railroad into FOUR FEATHER FALLS is opened........constructed by the Caynon Railroad Company.

Cast

Tex Tucker
Rocky the Horse
Dusty the Dog
Doc Haggerty
Ma Jones
Dan Jackson
Medicine Man
Grampa Twink
Foreman
Hank


BUFFALO ROCKY

Episode: 34

Synopsis

A clever horse thief is covering his tracks by wearing false buffalo hooves. Tex suspects the buffalo marks aren't genuine and arranges for Rocky to take a close look at the "buffalo".

The plan doesn't work out quite the way Tex had thought and Rocky is stolen by the horse thief. Tex follows Rocky's tracks, but loses them at the edge of a stream.

Cast

Pete Carson
Tex Tucker
Dusty the Dog
Grampa Twink
Rocky the Horse
Abe


SAFE AS HOUSES

Episode: 35

Synopsis

Missouri Mike is a sharp-talking salesman with a yet to get-rich-quick. First of all he persuades the folks in FOUR FEATHER FALLS that their money may not be safe in the local bank. He follows it up by selling safes for five dollars and a free bottle of brandy thrown in with each sale. The folk buy eagerly and draw their money out of the Bank to put in their newly-bought safes.

The free bottles of brandy are doped and soon everyone with a safe, including Tex Tucker, falls asleep. Missouri Mike quickly empties all the safes. Tex has suspected a trick like this and he is only feigning sleep when Mike opens the safe in his office. Tex quickly arrests the crook and puts him safely behind bars.

Cast

Tex Tucker
Dusty the Dog
Rocky the Horse
Grampa Twink
Slim Jom
Missouri Mike
Dan Jackson


HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Episode: 36

Synopsis

Little Jake wants to buy Tex a pair of fine gauntlets for his birthday. The only place he might be able to get them is Silver City and he's left it rather late to get there and back in time for Tex's birthday. He and Grampa Twink set off for Silver City even though time is against them.

Luckily, Ma Jones tells little Makooya about Twink's and Jake's dash across the Prairie to Silver City. Makooya tells Chief Kalamakooya who decides to help. He uses magic to produce a pair of wonderful gauntlets, and then he tells Makooya to head-off Twink and Jake at the water-hole and to give Jake the gauntlets.

The day is saved. The whole town turns out for Tex's party and he has a very happy birthday.

Cast

Grampa Twink
Little Jake
Ma Jones
Makooya
Chief Kalamakooya
Doc Haggerty
Tex Tucker
Marvin Jackson
Rocky the Horse


FANCY SHOOTIN'

Episode: 37

Synopsis

The fastest gun in the West, Buck Reevers, arrives in Four Feather Falls to give a shooting demonstration. Tex Tucker knows that men like Buck Reevers attract professional gun-fighters who want to improve their reputations. When Lightnin' Lew drops by to challenge Buck Reevers, Tex hopes that Buck isn't just a big talker and can really handle Lew.

But the fact is, that Buck, though a brilliant shot, is a coward when he's face to face with a real gun-man. As he's giving a demonstration in the saloon Lew bursts in and challenges Buck to draw. Tex's magic guns fire so quickly, disarming Lightnin' Lew, that the folks stood around think that Buck has outshot Lew. There's a round of applause, Tex keeps quiet, Buck's reputation is saved and Four Feather Falls is minus one dangerous gunman - Lightin' Lew.

Cast

Little Jake
Gampa Twink
Ma Jones
Big Ben the Bandit
Slim Jim
Dusty the Dog
Rocky the Horse
Buck Reevers
Tex Tucker
Dan Morse
Lightnin' Lew
Marvin Jackson


RIDE 'EM COWBOY

Episode: 38

Synopsis

It's rodeo day in Silver City and the championships are narrowed down to Tex Tucker and Gtampa Twink for Four Feather Falls, and Bart Stevens for Silver City. Bart is determined to win and he's bribed Pedro and Fernando to steal Tex's riding- boots and to fix Twink's gun.

Chief Kalamakooya uses magic to find the boots. Tex arrives at the rodeo in time to lend one of his guns to Grampa Twink who then beats Bart Stevens in the shooting match.

Foiled, Bart tries one more trick. He dopes Dusty so that Tex can't ride him in the championship. But Dusty manages to tell Tex what has happened and Bart is at last put where he belongs, behind bars.

Cast

Marvin Jackson
Tex Tucker
Bart Stevens
Pedro the Bandit
Fernando the Bandit
Dusty the Dog
Rocky the Horse
Makooya
Chief Kalamakooya
Two Strangers
Silver City Sheriff
Grampa Twink
Little Jake


AMBUSH

Episode: 39

Synopsis

Red Scalp and a war-party ambush the train from Dallas to Four Feather Falls, and steal a bank roll worth 10,000 dollars. They also kidnap the bank messenger on the train, William J. Haddon. Red Scalp and Haddon are in cahoots with one another and the kidnapping was just to make the robbery look more authentic.

But as Tex Tucker, Rocky and Dusty pick up the bandits, Red Scalp decides to double-cross Haddon and keep all the 10,000 dollars for himself. At nightfall, he takes Haddon's boots off and leaves him with the money, in the centre of a circle of rod-hot fire embers. Red Scalp and his braves sleep soundly in the knowledge that Haddon can't escape.

When Tox arrives at the camp, he ties strips of blanket around his boots and rescues Haddon. The money is saved and Haddon confesses his part in the robbery.

Cast

Tex Tucker
Marvin Jackson
Red Scalp
2 Indians Ma Jones
William J. Haddon
Grampa Twink
Little Jake
Rocky the Horse
Dusty the Dog