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Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Quest' from 1970-1982:



1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Quest':


(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)





May 13, 1976: The Quest
With Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, Brian Keith.
Pilot for a western series about brothers separated after an Indian raid -- one is a city boy training to be a doctor, and the other has been reared by Indians. A man who is a cattle thief, gunslinger and con man uses the brothers as shills for his dealings.





September 22, 1976: The Captive
Season 1, episode 1
W: Mark Rodgers   D: Barry Shear

With Christopher Connelly (Corporal Callender), Richard Egan (Capt. Wilson), Susan Dey (Charlotte Ross), Dennis Cole (Stormer), Russ Tamblyn (Kelly), Bill Fletcher (Sgt. Yoelker), Bibi Besch (Janet Farleigh), Royal Dano.
The season's only new western is introduced with a 90-minute episode in which two brothers, hoping to find their missing sister, instead find another young white woman whose plight becomes more than an Indian problem.

September 29, 1976: The Buffalo Hunters
Season 1, episode 2
W: Paul Savage   D: Earl Bellamy

With Alex Cord (McWhorley), John Quade (Neely), Lee de Broux (Colton).
The Baudine brothers are held captive by buffalo hunters.

October 13, 1976: Shanklin
Season 1, episode 3
W: Charles A. McDaniel   D: Corey Allen

With Don Meredith (Shanklin), John Anderson (Harper), Mariette Hartley (Vay), Phillip Pine (Savage), Kevin Hagen (Tom Nokes), Ned Romero (Salcedo).
The Baudine brothers track down a Mexican plunderer.

October 27, 1976: Day Of Outrage
Season 1, episode 4
W: Frank Telford   D: Bernard McEveety

With Don Matheson (Sam Grant), Pamela Sue Martin (Ginger), Amanda Blake (Miss Sally), James Keach (Blue), Mills Watson (Buck), Steve Kanaly (Turk), Don 'Red' Barry (Judge Barton), Barry Atwater (Senator Blake), Severn Darden (Circuit Preacher), George Gaynes (Gotham).
The Baudine brothers help a frontier madam in her fight against a cattle baron.

November 3, 1976: Seventy-Two Hours
Season 1, episode 5
W: Anthony Lawrence   D: Alf Kjellin

With Howard Keel (Shanghai Pierce), Cameron Mitchell (Marshal Horne), Aldo Ray (Chippy), Frank Ryan (Mag Wood), Roy Jenson, Jacques Aubuchon (Mayor), Mitch Vogel (Jess).
The Baudine brothers are caught in a showdown between the town marshal and a cattle boss.

November 10, 1976: Prairie Woman
Season 1, episode 6
W: Earl W. Wallace   D: Bernard McEveety

With Laraine Stephens (Seba Alcott), Jim Davis (Marshal Pullman), Tom Reese (Sheriff), Michael Bell (Dub Dailey), Francine York (Jenny), Ty Hardin (Tom Kurd), Paul Brinegar (Yoder), Bill Quinn (Doctor).
A convicted criminal claims to know the whereabouts of the Baudine brothers' sister.

November 24, 1976: Welcome To America, Jade Snow
Season 1, episode 7
W: Anthony Lawrence   D: Bernard McEveety

With Gary Collins (Sheriff Bradley), Irene Yah-Ling Sun (China), Jerry Douglas (Jensen), George Lazenby (Sydney), Frank Aletter (Pierson), Jason Wingreen (Brannon).
A mining concern imports Chinese strikebreakers to a town festering with labor unrest.

December 1, 1976: The Longest Drive (1)
Season 1, episode 8
W: Katharyn Powers, Michael Michaelian   D: Bernard McEveety

With Dan O'Herlihy (Matthew Hatcher), Keenan Wynn (Cooler), Woody Strode (Tucker), Erik Estrada (Santos), John Rubinstein (Wakely), Gary Lockwood (Walter Lucas).
A hapless rancher gets unexpected help from the Baudine brothers when they muster a motley group of drovers for what seems to be a jinxed cattle drive through the badlands.

December 8, 1976: The Longest Drive (2)
Season 1, episode 9
W: Katharyn Powers, Michael Michaelian   D: Bernard McEveety

With Dan O'Herlihy (Matthew Hatcher), Keenan Wynn (Cooler), Woody Strode (Tucker), Erik Estrada (Santos), John Rubinstein (Wakely), Gary Lockwood (Walter Lucas).
A determined but jinxed rancher pushes his cattle drive despite the death of a drover, the threat of Indian attack, mechanical breakdowns and lack of water.

December 22, 1976: Portrait Of A Gunfighter
Season 1, episode 10
W: Ron Bishop   D: Jerry London

With John Ireland (Jack Bell), Andrew Stevens (Minter), Frank Marth (Sheriff Coe), Bob Hastings (Ed Claiborne), Ivor Francis (Nielson), Morgan Brittany (Annabelle).
Quentin Baudine teaches a young orphan boy to use a gun in self-defense, then comes to regret it when the youth turns into a cold-blooded gunman.

December 29, 1976: The Freight Train Rescue
Season 1, episode 11
W: Sean Baine   D: Michael O'Herlihy

With Alan Fudge (Ira Butler), Monte Markham (Nelson Story), Bruce M. Fischer (Dooley), Jack Hogan (Billy McGraff).
The Beaudine brothers and a well-meaning freightman come to the aid of a party of surveyors who were set upon by a gang of border bandits, only to become pinned down by the same outlaws. (Last show of the series.)


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