Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Cade's County' from 1970-1982:
- Edgar Buchanan as J.J. Jackson (1971-1972)
- Glenn Ford as Sam Cade (1971-1972)
- Peter Ford as Pete (1971-1972)
- Taylor Lacher as Arlo Pritchard (1971-1972)
- Victor Campos as Rudy Davillo (1971-1972)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Cade's County':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Jerry Ludwig, Eric Bercovici, Cliff Gould D: Marvin Chomsky
With Darren McGavin (Courtney Vernon), Richard Anders (Larry Greer), Loretta Swit (Ginny Lomax), H.M. Wynant (Charlie Morrell), Jean Fowler (Marian Greer), Sandra Ego (Joanie Little Bird), Myron Healey (Police Lieutenant), Ralph James (Vic). Glenn Ford stars in his first TV series as Sam Cade, modern-day sheriff in the Southwest. In the premiere, an assasin-for-hire -- an old boyhood pal of Cade's -- is hired to eliminate the sheriff before he can testify at a crime czar's trial.
Season 1, episode 2
D: Robert Day
With Will Geer (Hurley Gaines), Pippa Scott (Jenny Gregg), Alan Vint (Jimmy John), Flora Plumb (Luanne), John McLiam, Lucille Benson. Sam Cade's search for a man who jumped bail sends him into a small town where everyone's hand is against him.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Luther Davis D: Reza Badiyi
With Martin Sheen (Freddie), Laraine Stephens (Allison Burton), James Callahan (Lewellyn Burton), Elaine Giftos (Eleanor Jameson), Geoffrey Lewis (Roederer), James B. Sikking (Harold Hopkins), Timothy Brown (Stan), Nora Marlowe (Miss Glaskill), Owen Bush (Rancher), Dennis Fimple (Phil). In a finely executed robbery plan, Sam Cade is kidnapped and held hostage while a gang of young criminals take over the bank in Madrid.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Jack Turley, Charles Larson D: Richard Donner
With James Gregory (Taylor Hargutt), Margaret Markov (Anita Dru), Rodolfo Acosta (Nacho Gutierrez), Linda Dangcil (Felice Sanchez), Timothy Scott (Travis Spencer), Richard Yniguez (Esteban Sanchez), Bert Santos (Carlos Sanchez), Sandra Ego (Joanie Little Bird), Simon Scott (Owen Rauth). Cade's investigation of a barroom murder leads to one of Madrid County's most powerful ranchers, a second slaying and an international smuggling operation.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Jim Byrnes, Cliff Gould D: David Lowell Rich
With William Windom (Frank Leonard), Pat Harrington Jr. (Eddie Collins), John Calvin (Jody Roy Baker), John Anderson (Colonel Street), Barney Phillips, Gordon Jump, Ann Whitsett (Opal), Tony Perez (Dro Carrillo). Cade sets out to prove the innocence of a man facing execution in 72 hours for the murder of his girlfriend eight years before. An attorney with political ambitions complicates Sam's efforts.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Charles Larson, Clyde Ware D: Alf Kjellin
With Cameron Mitchell (John Gray Wolf), Jay Silverheels (Chief Wild Horse), Sharon Acker (Roseann Claybourne), James Luisi, Tom Nardini (Tom Running Man), John Savage (Frank Stubock), Douglas Kennedy. Sam Cade tracks an escaped killer, John Gray Wolf, and his female hostage behind the "turquoise curtain", the sacred ground of the Indians which no white man is permitted to enter.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Stephen Kandel, Charles Larson D: Paul Stanley
With William Shatner (Jack Pilgrim), Mariette Hartley (Frances Pilgrim), Norman Alden (Daniels), John Zaremba (Col. Shorthand), Sandra Ego (Joanie Little Bird), Eric Christmas (Ross), Lee J. Casey (Dnasso), Dan Ferrone (Floyd). Sam Cade hunts a demolitions expert who is planning to destroy a nuclear missile base.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Robert Malcolm Young, Cliff Gould D: Irving J. Moore
With George Maharis (Deck Minty), Brenda Scott (Ilona Wallach), Gordon Jump (John Kilroy), Barney Phillips (Dr. Ganby), John Quade (Frank Mueller), Jack Starrett (Wilbur Bain), Charles Dierkop (Happy Tillotson), Brendon Boone (Kevin Wallach), Betty Ann Carr (Betty Ann Sundown), Julian Rivero (Papa Segovia). Sam Cade poses as a drifter to collect evidence on a suspected murderer involved in the illegal capture and sale of wild horses.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Harold Medford, Charles Larson, Cliff Gould D: Marvin Chomsky
With Dane Clark (Lt. John Gilford), L.Q. Jones (Grover Curtis), Lee Weaver (Ringwald), Burr DeBenning (Bob Curtis), Irene Tsu (Mimi Drake), Dub Taylor, Charlotte Stewart (Sheila Curtis), Richard Arlen. Dep. Sheriff J.J. Jackson has mysteriously disappeared from a peace officer's convention in Los Angeles and Sam Cade's subsequent investigation leads to a robbery scheme. If Cade thwarts the robbery he could endanger his friend's life.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Anthony Lawrence D: Richard Donner
With David Doyle (Dr. Geis), Linda Cristal (Celia), Bobby Darin (Billy Dobbs), Warren Kemmerling (McCann), Leif Garrett (Gabriel), Richard Kelton (Paul Jeffries). An escaped convict has delusions that he's Billy the Kid -- and that Sam Cade is Pat Garrett.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Rick Husky, Charles Larson D: Joseph Pevney
With John Payne (Clement Stark), Broderick Crawford (Wes Novak), Johnny Crawford (Billy Don Bucknell), Charles Knox Robinson (Dick Haskell), E.J. Peaker (Gerri Randell), Virginia Paris (Bernice Esposito), Jerry Daniels (Dr. Ramirez), Jimmy Lydon (Dane Hoffman). Sam Cade searches for the killer of a local beauty queen with an unsavory past.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Jackson Gillis, Charles Larson D: Irving J. Moore
With Forrest Tucker (Ward Farrell), Heidi Vaughn (Heather), Al Alu (Munir), Fred Sadoff (Joe Bishara), Katherine Cannon (Christy), Sandra Ego (Joanie Little Bird), Betty Ann Carr (Irene), Mike Road (Jack Forbes). Sam Cade's efforts on behalf of the son of an Arab diplomat, jailed on a charge of murder, are complicated by the father of the boy's girlfriend.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Warren Duff, Cliff Gould D: Lee Madden
With Anthony Zerbe (Maury Benedict), Judy Carne (Judy), Milt Kamen (Al Stone), Lonny Chapman (Kettenbach), Barney Phillips (Dr. Ganby), Betty Ann Carr (Betty Ann Sundown), Richard Eastham (Rafaelson), John Gruber (Foyle). When J.J. is critically wounded during the discovery of smuggled gold, Sam Cade goes undercover as a crooked insurance adjuster to get at the brains behind the operation.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Michael Gleason D: Irving J. Moore
With David Wayne (Harley), William Smithers (William Courtney), Michael Baseleon (Max Galt), Mike Road (District Attorney Forbes), S. John Launer, Sid Grossfield (Bryce Ackerman), James McCallion. A wino has trouble convincing the district attorney that he saw his friend killed, until Cade begins an investigation.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Robert Malcolm Young D: Alf Kjellin
With Edmond O'Brien (Clint Pritchard), Christopher Stone (Jess Pritchard), Cheryl Miller (Alana Meredith), Michael Pataki (Ward Cramer), Elliot Street (Johnny Cramer), Frank Maxwell (Walt Meredith), Betty Ann Carr (Betty Ann Sundown), Ted Gehring (Wiley Hughes). Arlo is caught between his duty as a deputy sheriff and family loyalty when he suspects his spoiled brother is involved in the planning of a crime.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Rick Husky, Anthony Wilson D: Robert Day
With Tony Bill (Willie Ball), Hunter Von Leer (Roger Boone), Harry Lauter (Ben Houghton), Mark Jenkins (George Traven), Sam Chew Jr. (Stephen Evans), Jill Banner (Melanie), Dehl Berti (David Aguilas), Leslie Parrish (Jana Gantry), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Ed Kaproski), John Schuck (Luke Edwards), Anne Seymour (Judge Tanner). A young Indian confesses to two murders, which Cade finds difficult to believe.
Season 1, episode 17
W: Rick Husky, Anthony Wilson D: Robert Day
With Tony Bill (Willie Ball), Hunter Von Leer (Roger Boone), Harry Lauter (Ben Houghton), Mark Jenkins (George Traven), Sam Chew Jr. (Stephen Evans), Jill Banner (Melanie), Dehl Berti (David Aguilas), Leslie Parrish (Jana Gantry), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Ed Kaproski), John Schuck (Luke Edwards), Anne Seymour (Judge Tanner). Cade races time to prove Willie Ball, convicted of a double murder, is innocent before he can be extradited to Chicago to stand trial for a series of similar murders.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Alvin Boretz, Cliff Gould D: Lee Madden
With Steve Ihnat (Jason Benedict), Simon Oakland (Roger Phillips), Bridget Hanley (Ellie Benedict), Ken Sansom (Randell Newcomb), Don Dubbins (Bryan), Woodrow Parfrey (Oliver See), William Wintersole, Jan Merlin (Rennie). Two hired killers accidentally kill a scientist they are following at a bus depot on the outskirts of Madrid.
Season 1, episode 19
D: Lee Philips
With Kathie Browne (Amanda), Jeanette Nolan (Olive Rand), Tracy Bogart (Beth), Scott Marlowe (Leo Rand), Lou Antonio (Frank Cameron), Shelly Novack (Earl Grimes), Bart La Rue (Paul Sawyer). A series of seemingly meaningless acts of vandalism draws Cade into a feud between the matriarch of a department store chain and her son.
Season 1, episode 20
W: James Banning D: George Marshall
With Kathryn Hays (Helen Derman), Russ Tamblyn (Brewster), Jack Carter (Bennie Mitchell), Harry Townes (Phil McGiver), Tom Falk (Grant), Troy Melton (Sims), Betty Ann Carr (Betty Ann Sundown), Robert F. Hoy (Sgt. Blaine), Suzanne Roth (Carole Jenks), Lorie Busk (Martha Derman). Kidnappers utilize the sheriff's radio frequency to extort a bizarre ransom from an old friend of Sam Cade.
Season 1, episode 21
D: Marvin Chomsky
With Bobby Sherman (Nick Braddock), Barbara Rush (Jessie Braddock), Bill Hayes (Jack Forbes), Kenneth Tobey, Harold J. Stone (Tom Braddock), Fredd Wayne (Mark Walters), Robert Patten (Fred Irons), William Bryant (Phil Torre), Bill Shannon (Benny Lucas). The embittered son of a wealthy businessman accuses his stepmother, an old flame of Sam Cade's, of the murder of his father.
Season 1, episode 22
W: John Wilder D: Leo Penn
With O.J. Simpson (Jeff Hughes), Rosemary Forsyth (Gail Hyland), Don Porter (Martin Russell), George Murdock (Vic Winters), Joe Turkel (Joe Pitts), Rayford Barnes (Carl), Betty Ann Carr (Betty Ann Sundown), William Hansen (Barney). An ex-convict turned artist gets involved in a crime syndicate's theft of art masterpieces.
Season 1, episode 23
W: Pat Fielder D: Richard Donner
With Edward Asner (Nick Grainger), Shelley Fabares (Stephanie Grainger), Ed Flanders (Ben Crawford), Lawrence P. Casey (Merle Green), Eddie Firestone (Hassett), Felice Orlandi (Eddie Pine), William Bassett (Howard Tanner), Anne Randall (Carla Ardmore), Betty Ann Carr (Betty Ann Sundown), Philip Kenneally (Harry), Gene LeBell (Wally). A former syndicate boss refuses to believe Sam Cade's warning that he's been marked for execution.
Season 1, episode 24
W: Cliff Gould D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Chief Dan George (Taxkahe), Eric Braeden (Karl Verboeck), Stewart Moss (Jarvis), Barney Phillips (Dr. Ganby), Joe Renteria, Jennifer Kulik. An Indian philosopher who teaches non-violence witnesses a murder and refuses to identify the killer. (Last show of the series.)