Bat Masterson Season 1 - Screenpix

Bat Masterson faces off with gambler and saloonkeeper Big Keel Roberts who is crushing the livelihood of another saloonkeeper and friend of Bat's. But it isn't guns at play, but rather a game of show-down poker.

Tough, hot tempered Sergeant Foley orders Bat Masterson out of Swan Valley. Reason: Bat has become interested in Foley's girl Molly Doyle, a dance-hall beauty. Although his life is threatened, Bat refuses to leave - and clashes with the redoubtable Foley.

Sometime-cattleman Bat Masterson wins a herd in a poker game. Ruthless rancher Roaul Cummings blocks his route to the Cheyenne stockyards. As he prepares to give battle, Bat finds a determined troop of other embattled ranchers backing his play.

Laura Hopkins calls to Bat Masterson for help. She and others are herding horses and breaking them for the sale to the army. When turmoil leads to gunfire, the inevitable happens: a stampede of wild horses.

Sportsman Bat Masterson admires a ferocious and promising young boxer. When he sees the young man being mishandled by an unscrupulous manager, Bat entices the manager into a poker game and wins the fighters contract.

Hunting guide Bat Masterson takes on a party bent on hitting bear. As the expedition moves forward, Bat realizes that three of his companions are fugitives from murder and robbery charges in other states.

The smartest deck-hand (card deck that is) in the West -- Bat Masterson -- is about to be gunned down during a game, when trigger-happy Ben Thompson saves his life. Thompson, wounded in the affray, is unable to carry out his intention to help his brother Billy break jail. However, Bat's gratitude comes in good stead for Ben and his brother.

Joe Quince tries running Jan and Woody Larkin out of town. Joe wants the store they inherited from their father, but they won't sell. In the midst of this danger, Bat Masterson agrees to teach Woody how to handle a gun.

Prospector Bat Masterson carries three thirds of a treasure map on an expedition, when he seeks a reputedly fabulous cache. Each part of the map belongs to one of the mutually distrustful heirs.

Influential John Conant calls Bat Masterson to Cheyenne. The most adept card player of the frontier, Bat is able to test the rumors that Steve Haley - Conant's daughter's fiancé - is a poker cheat. Between the tension of gambling and the excitement of romance, Bat finds unusual adventure.

Bat Masterson mixes in politics when President Rutherford B. Bayes and General William Tecumseh Sherman, the scourge of Atlanta, come to Dodge City on a campaign tour. Bat goes into action when unrest threatens because there are rumors that ex-Confederates threaten violence to Sherman.

Between the scorching desert and ruthless trail pirates, wagon train after wagon train are destroyed. The unique method the pirates use to lure the wagons astray, puts Bat Masterson on the track of a monstrous conspiracy.

The sheriff of Trinidad used Bat's name in order to get the job. When Bat hears about, it he goes to investigate.

Trail boss Bat Masterson runs afoul of an illegal toll as he leads a drive to the rail head. Between the local politics of Protection, Kansas and the local feed dealer, Bat finds unexpected action.

At the request of General Phil Sheridan, heroic Bat Masterson challenges renegade Chief Stone Calf. Purpose of the challenge: Rescue the Rafferty sisters from Stone Claf's war party which kidnapped them.

Outlaw and idle-boaster bailey Harper says Bat Masterson will never find him. After Harper steals Bat's gun, money, and horse, Bat tests his great skill at trailing fugitives...And at the end of the line, he runs into sudden, explosive action.

The Sheriff of Mason City insists that gambler Bat Masterson join the Protective Gamblers' Association. This little group seems unsavory to Bat - he refuses and is thrown behind bars by the sheriff who controls the Association.

Bat Masterson, frequent target of gunfights, falls into the sights of Harry Varden's trigger man. Varden, biggest saloonkeeper in Dodge City, fears that Bat plans to relieve him of some property - and he figures his only recourse is to eliminate Masterson.

Bat Masterson is relieved of $10,000 in a daring riverboat hold up. After the clever band of robbers works its way systematically through the entire passenger list of a Missouri boat, Bat goes into action.

Bat commands one of the forces in a railroad war. Mace Pomeroy, frantically attempting to beat General Moran in laying tracks through a canyon, offers Bat a small fortune to help fight Moran. Bat, however, decides for Moran and ends up in a historic gang fight in the wilds of the canyon country.

Morganville's bully-boy, Dan Morgan - to his great misfortune - cheats Bat in a poker game. Bat executes a bold plan to retrieve his money: He discovers the names of Morgan's other victims - and sets out to settle scores for them as well as for himself.

Lady newspaper editors are a great and colorful Frontier tradition. One of them, Jo Hart, inveighs against Bat Masterson, calling him a ruthless gunman and scoundrel. When Bat calls on the lady to set the record straight, she exercises her "woman's prerogative" of changing her mind.

When one of Bat Masterson's friends is murdered, Bat is deputized as federal officer to conduct the suspect - outlaw Luke Steiger - to Fort Smith for trial. However, Steiger disappears on the night before he and Bat are to leave for their destination.

Sports-fan Bat Masterson fails to see eye to eye with the Denver Fire Department about the fire hazards of the Denver Athletic Club. Bat has just bought the institution - but the Fire Commissioner declares it a fire risk and orders it torn down.