Episode List
| Episode no. | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | "Night Mail" | Sidney Salkow | Stephen Longstreet | May 18, 1958 |
| Casey Jones and the Cannonball Express must race a train from the Southern and Panhandle Railroad to win the contract to carry the mail from St Louis to Fort Worth. When their attempt to bribe Casey fails, the crew of the 'Swamp Tiger' resort to sabotage in order to win the race. | ||||
| 02 | "The President’s Special" | Abby Berlin | Frank L Moss | May 25, 1958 |
| A Secret Service agent travels on the Cannonball to meet U.S. President Chester Arthur, but unknown to Casey the man on board is an impostor intent on assassination. | ||||
| 03 | "Prison Train" | Abby Berlin | Bill Barrett | June 1, 1958 |
| Casey must transport gold bullion along with several soldiers who are prisoners aboard the Cannonball, one of whom, Baylor, is played by Bing Russell. The train is ambushed by a gang intent on stealing the gold and leaving no witnesses… | ||||
| 04 | "Way Station" | George Blair | Berne Giler | June 8, 1958 |
| A gang of thieves hijacks the Cannonball, intent on stealing the registered mail. They hold Casey, Wallie and the passengers in a Way Station until the mail train arrives… | ||||
| 05 | "Spurline to Danger" | Lew Landers | Tony Barrett | June 15, 1958 |
| While delivering supplies to Fort Lawrence, Casey and his family are caught up in an attack by Sioux Indians provoked by Colonel Bullock’s bad treatment of Indian prisoners. Casey must get back to the Cannonball to gather more ammunition. | ||||
| 06 | "Satan’s Wail" | George Blair | Earl Baldwin | June 22, 1958 |
| While Casey makes a new whistle for the Cannonball, Casey Junior decides he wants to be a telegrapher instead of an engineer. Casey must transport the contents of a bank including $1 million in gold bullion on board the Cannonball, but the soldiers sent to accompany the shipment are in fact a gang of thieves intent on robbing the train. | ||||
| 07 | "The Old Timer" | George Blair | Kenneth A Enochs, Christopher Knopf | June 29, 1958 |
| Redrock is forced to take compulsory retirement but danger lies ahead for Casey when an overnight storm damages the trestle further down the line. | ||||
| 08 | "Run to Deadwood" | George Blair | John K Butler | July 6, 1958 |
| Casey must transport a special prisoner aboard the Cannonball, and finds an unexpected use for his lunch pail. | ||||
| 09 | "Death Rides the Tender" | Lew Landers | Ellis Marcus | July 13, 1958 |
| When a man is found shot on the line, Casey must turn detective and help the sheriff track down the murderer. | ||||
| 10 | "One Way Ticket" | George Blair | Lawrence Resner | July 27, 1958 |
| Charlie Ferguson, played by Jimmy Lydon, is released from prison after the manslaughter of Luther Wagner's daughter, but a mob from Midvale is awaiting his return. This episode focuses on reconciliation in the face of revenge. | ||||
| 11 | "The Lost Train" | George Blair | J Robert Bren & Gladys Atwater | August 3, 1958 |
| The Cannonball Express is stolen by a gang intent on using it to escape with their haul of stolen gold. | ||||
| 12 | "The Gunslinger" | Lew Landers | Lee Erwin | August 10, 1958 |
| When a young girl falls ill with appendicitis on the Cannonball, her only hope is the sheriff’s prisoner Doc Bailey, a man accused of murder on his way to trial. | ||||
| 13 | "Storm Warning" | George Blair | John K Butler | August 17, 1958 |
| Two fugitives break into Casey’s home and hold him and his family hostage, but when one falls ill from his wounds, Casey must appeal to the other to stand by his friend rather than abandon him. | ||||
| 14 | "Iron Men" | George Blair | Frank Moss | August 24, 1958 |
| Casey comes to the aid of immigrant railroad workers who come under threat from cattlemen reluctant to share the land. | ||||
| 15 | "Girl in the Cab" | George Blair | Kay Lenard, Jess Carneol | August 31, 1958 |
| A woman hiding in the cab is intent on robbing a strong box bound for the bank at Midvale. | ||||
| 16 | "A Badge for Casey" | Abby Berlin | Mona Fisher | September 7, 1958 |
| Mort Clio (Lee Van Cleef) and his men take over the town of Bitter Creek, lying in wait to kill Judge Ripley in revenge for sentencing Clio’s brother to hang. When they kill the sheriff, Casey is challenged to accept the Sheriff’s badge and stop them. | ||||
| 17 | "Night Run" | George Blair | Oscar Brodney | September 14, 1958 |
| When a terrible storm causes the dam to burst, Casey must rescue the people of Valley Junction and make it to high ground in the Cannonball before the flood waters hit the town. | ||||
| 18 | "The Marauders" | George Blair | Bill Barrett | September 21, 1958 |
| With Morgan’s Marauders intending to plunder Dover City, Casey is ordered to wreck a train carrying the Marshal and his men. Robert Knapp portrays Morgan. | ||||
| 19 | "Black Box" | George Blair | Wells Root, Paul Savage | September 28, 1958 |
| Casey is asked to carry a special shipment on behalf of the Mexican government aboard the Cannonball, the crown jewels of the late Emperor Maximilian. But the Secret Service man accompanying the casket has been replaced by an impostor planning to uncouple the carriage and steal the jewels. | ||||
| 20 | "The Trackwalker" | Abby Berlin | Thomas Seller | October 5, 1958 |
| When a drifter (Russell Johnson) saves the Cannonball, Casey gets him a job in the yard, but the newcomer is being shadowed by a blackmailer. | ||||
| 21 | "Star Witness" | George Blair | John K Butler, Donald H Clark | October 12, 1958 |
| Casey must take a U.S. marshal and Miss Dixon to Denver. Miss Dixon is a witness for the Railroad Commission and knows who was responsible for a recent railroad crash, but as the Cannonball enters a tunnel, shots are fired and Purvis is injured… | ||||
| 22 | "The Dutch Clock" | George Blair | Bill Barrett/ Polly James, Tom Kilpatrick | October 19, 1958 |
| When a farmer’s crop is destroyed apparently by sparks from the speeding Cannonball, a Dutch clock (a tachograph) is installed in the engine. Although suspended, Casey decides to take the Cannonball out for an unscheduled run to get to the bottom of the claim. | ||||
| 23 | "The Dark Rider" | George Blair | Merwin Gerard, Robert Eisenbach | October 26, 1958 |
| When a sailor aboard the Cannonball is found to be infected with smallpox, Casey must get him to a hospital but has to contend with both passengers trying to leave the quarantined train and vigilantes forbidding them to stop along the route. Peter Adams guest stars as Dr. John Morton. | ||||
| 24 | "Dangerous Hours" | George Blair | Crane Wilbur | November 2, 1958 |
| A gang robs the bank at Midvale and hijacks the Cannonball Express. When they learn that Alice Jones is on board, Casey is forced to go along with their demands. | ||||
| 25 | "The Treasure of Sam Bass" | George Blair | John K Butler, George & Gertrude Fass | November 9, 1958 |
| Following a shootout aboard the Cannonball, Casey Junior finds a map hidden amongst the peanuts he has been selling to the passengers, a map Gene Deming will do anything to find… | ||||
| 26 | "Hard Luck Train" | George Blair | Bill Barrett | November 16, 1958 |
| During Casey’s absence, the Cannonball is robbed twice, each time driven by his old friend Earl Bonner. Casey must stay loyal to his friend and help prove his innocence. | ||||
| 27 | "The Silk Train" | George Blair | John K Butler | November 23, 1958 |
| When a train carrying a cargo of raw silk from the Orient passes through, a gang plans to use the Cannonball to stage a crash and steal the shipment. | ||||
| 28 | "Lethal Journey" | George Blair | Arthur Orloff | November 30, 1958 |
| When ten men are trapped following a mining accident, Casey volunteers to carry a cargo of nitroglycerine aboard the Cannonball in a race against time – but a man has gotten aboard the train, determined to get to Galesburg to prevent a hanging. | ||||
| 29 | "Honeymoon Express" | George Blair | Bill Barrett | December 7, 1958 |
| The Cannonball is chartered by Arlo Bradford to pick up his wife and wedding party, but Casey gets suspicious when Bradford insists on stopping to pick up a couple of men along the way. When they stop at Kiola, Bradford has things on his mind other than lunch… | ||||
| 30 | "The Fire Eater" | George Blair | Bill Barrett | December 14, 1958 |
| Casey’s friend Ben Mallory loses his job with the Pontus Variety Players. The next day, with Mallory and Pontus aboard, the Cannonball develops a problem and runs out of water in Apache country. When Pontus and Redrock are captured, Mallory must face up to his fear if he is to save the men. | ||||
| 31 | "Mrs Casey Jones" | Lew Landers | Mary McCall Jr, Lee Erwin | December 21, 1958 |
| Tired of the risks Casey takes as an engineer, Alice persuades him to take the job of district manager with the railroad. But when fifty people are stranded on Crown Hill by a forest fire, the Cannonball’s new driver refuses to take the risk, leaving Casey with a dilemma. | ||||
| 32 | "Layover at Jamestown" | George Blair | Kevin David | December 28, 1958 |
| Sam Wilson, the dispatcher at Jamestown, is being held for murder. Marshal Croy, who intends to take him for trial in Laramie, Wyoming, has a reputation of taking his prisoners in dead… and Casey learns that the man Sam shot was Croy’s elder brother. |
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