The WORST episodes of The Young Riders
Every episode of The Young Riders ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Young Riders!
Set just before the American Civil War, this series presented a highly fictionalized account of the heyday of the Pony Express. Its focus was a group of young Express riders based at the waystation in Sweetwater, Kansas. Running the station was ex-Texas Ranger and all-around eccentric Teaspoon Hunter. The role of cook, housekeeper and mother hen was filled first by Emma and later by Rachel. The riders included the future "Buffalo Bill" Cody and James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok, as well as Ike, a mute, Buck, a half-White/half-Kiowa scout and the Kid, a quiet Southerner. Their final member was Lou, a young woman who lived and worked with the riders disguised as a boy. In second season, their group was joined by Noah Dixon.
#1 - The Exchange (2)
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1991
Teaspoon, the riders, and their new acquaintances continue to race against the clock to find Amanda, although the loyalties of some become unclear. Then the stakes are raised when the kidnappers gain another hostage.
#2 - Kansas
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1991
Noah is taken into slavery when he tries to free his former teacher Calvin (Roundtree).
#3 - Judgement Day
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1991
Still affected by Hezekiah Horn's death, Cody seeks guidance from a preacher-vigilante.
#4 - The Play's the Thing
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/29/1990
Cody considers joining a theater troupe, and unknowingly enters a plot to assassinate a U.S. General.
#5 - Gathering Clouds (1)
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/1990
The tension between the North and the South reaches crisis proportions, and Kid is recruited to infiltrate a band of Southern guerrillas led by a charismatic Robin Hood called the Hawk.
#6 - Mask of Fear
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/28/1992
A man returns to Rock Creek after serving time for murder. When Jesse's boss is killed, Jesse is quick to assume the new arrival is guilty.
#7 - A Noble Chase
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/9/1991
Jimmy Hickok and Jake Colter are after the same thing... or rather the same person. Lon Chase is a wanted man and the trick is to keep him in your custody.
#8 - Good Night, Sweet Charlotte
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1992
An old friend of Lou's arrives in town stirring up secrets of a man who attacked her. She pulls away from Kid when she needs him the most
#9 - Blind Love
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1989
Hickok's heart is lassoed by a mysterious woman, but he is caught in a dangerous tangle when he discovers that she is bound to another man.
#10 - The Talisman
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/23/1991
A band of outlaws terrorizes a small town looking for its supply of silver. Father Riley sends one of the young men to Teaspoon to call in an old favor. While Teaspoon and the other boys are gone, Buck is left to help out as a deputy. A mysterious man is stalking a lone woman outside of town. Who could be doing such a thing?
#11 - Gathering Clouds (2)
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/14/1990
Kid escapes the noose, but Hawk's raiders are still on the loose, so Hickok works his way into the gang, which hangs any pretense of civility to pursue its violent purpose.
#12 - Spirits
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1991
Rachel falls for Mike Stadler, a man with a drinking problem. Rachel falls off the wagon as it is revealed that she once had a drinking problem too.
#13 - The Man Behind the Badge
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/22/1990
Sam finds himself on the wrong side of the law in his own town when the man responsible for the murder of Sam's wife takes over Sweetwater.
#14 - Requiem for a Hero
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1990
Cody meets and learns from his doomed Old West hero Hezekiah Horn.
#15 - Bad Company
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1990
Hickok leaves to become sheriff of the lawless town of Regrets, haoping to meet death quickly as retribution for accidentally killing a young woman during a gunfight.
#16 - The Debt
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/16/1992
A new rider is hired to replace Lou when she gets married. When the new rider dissappears on his first ride Lou and Jimmy ride out to check on him. No one in the town is willing to talk about what happened
#17 - Hard Time
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1990
Kid is sentenced to hard time on a trumped-up charge by a small-town sheriff carrying out the policies of the sadistic man who keeps the town under a cloud of fear.
#18 - Blood Money
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1990
The Kid catches Dyson, a would-be horse thief, who apparently hangs himself while in the custody of a corrupt marshal.
#19 - The Peacemakers
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/1991
Hickok falls for Alice, a woman from an ostracized religious group, and settles an old score with a gunfighter named Tyler.
#20 - Daisy
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1991
Kid asks Lou to marry him (AGAIN!) When she refuses they break up. Meanwhile... a friend of Rachel's arrives with his daughter.
#21 - Old Scores
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/1991
Ike recognizes one of the men responsible for his families death. But it turns out the man has a family of his own. Second story: The riders try to find a mysterious beast.
#22 - A House Divided
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1991
Pony Express's rider move to Rockcreek.
#23 - Initiation
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/25/1991
Jimmy captures Jesse's brother Frank James after a bank robbery. Jesse feels that he owes his brother his loyalty and so he breaks him out of jail forcing Teaspoon and Jimmy to track them.
#24 - Just Like Old Times
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1991
Kid's childhood sweetheart comes to town. Lou is a bit jealous, but she can see that her arrival is bringing back bad memories.
#25 - A Tiger's Tale
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/28/1991
Jesse sends Lou and love letter, but Lou thinks the letter was from Kid. Meanwhile, Cody and Noah have many adventures trying to get a tiger all the way to St. Joseph Missouri