The Iron Horse
The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse

1966 2 Seasons 47 Episodes ⭐ 7.0 Western

The Iron Horse is an American Western television series that appeared on ABC from 1966 to 1968 and featured Dale Robertson as fictional gambler-turned-railroad baron Ben Calhoun. Costars included Gary Collins, Robert Random and Ellen Burstyn.

The Iron Horse is an American Western television series that appeared on ABC from 1966 to 1968 and featured Dale Robertson as fictional gambler-turned-railroad baron Ben Calhoun. Costars included Gary Collins, Robert Random and Ellen Burstyn.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Rail Runs West

Ben Calhoun sells a herd of horses, uses the proceeds to get into a poker game, and wins the BPS&D railroad. He learns t

EP 2

The Dynamite Driver

Calhoun is under contract to deliver a herd of cattle, but a ruthless opponent of his is determined that he not succeed,

EP 3

High Devil

Calhoun's attempts s to acquire a right of way from a said to be merciless woman killer are complicated by the woman's d

EP 4

Right of Way Through Paradise

Calhoun's plans to obtain a right of way through the town of Paradise are jeopardized by four Confederate former comrade

EP 5

The Pride of the Bottom of the Barrel

When starving Apaches leave their reservation in search of food, and encounter a brutal Cavalry commander, Ben seeks a p

EP 6

Broken Gun

A gunslinger turned traveling salesman seeks revenge against the bushwhacker who crippled his drawing hand.

EP 7

Cougar Man

Calhoun decides to go into the rugged Apache country hills for a fight to the death against Cougar Man, an Apache who ha

EP 8

War Cloud

Calhoun must transport an Army unit which has captured the renegade Sioux chief War Cloud and is bringing him to stand t

EP 9

No Wedding Bells for Tony

Calhoun arrives in a small town to attend the wedding of an old friend. But he can find no trace of the man, and everyon

EP 10

The Man from New Chicago

After Dave is captured and forced to work in a town of outlaw forced laborers, Calhoun decides to infiltrate it in the h

EP 11

Explosion at Waycrossing

One of Ben's trains is robbed of $50,000 and the thief is to be hanged for the crime. Deciding the sentence is unjust, B

EP 12

Through Ticket to Gunsight

After a boiler on the train blows, Calhoun offers to refund all the passengers, but a headstrong woman is determined to

EP 13

Town Full of Fear

Ben needs the right of way for his railroad in a near ghost town. But a dark secret is being kept by the last of the cit

EP 14

Big Deal

Despite Calhoun's best efforts at providing security while a millionaire industrialist and his wife are on the train, a

EP 15

A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man

Calhoun learns from Dave and Barnabas that all of the railroad's crew has been lured away by the promise of gold from a

EP 16

Hellcat

After Calhoun rescues a headstrong young Indian woman from two buffalo hunters who were abusing her, he asks her to be h

EP 17

Welcome for the General

As Calhoun rides on the train with General Sherman on his tour, Dave, Barnabas, and the entire population of one of the

EP 18

The Pembrooke Blood

Ben Calhoun gets to end of beating line alive, then is invited for a last dinner before being shot. Ben wins his life ba

EP 19

Volcano Wagon

A cave-in traps Nils, another crewman, and a little boy in a tunnel. While Dave and others work to dig them out, Calhoun

EP 20

The Bridge at Forty-Mile

A man who sold lumber to Calhoun's railroad has disappeared, and his brother thus refuses to unload the lumber unless an

EP 21

Shadow Run

At a stop in town, Calhoun is forced to shoot a man. Unaware of who he is, two men then hire him to kill---Ben Calhoun.

EP 22

Banner with a Strange Device

While the train is stopped in the town of Banner, where Calhoun is making a major business deal with town founder Big Ji

EP 23

Appointment with an Epitaph

Six people from a stagecoach board Calhoun's train, all in fear for their lives after being followed for miles by a noto

EP 24

The Red Tornado

Calhoun finds an eight-year-old Arapaho boy alive as the only survivor of a battle with the Shoshone. He wants to bring

EP 25

Decision at Sundown

With Calhoun away, the train is taken over by a group of ruthless outlaws who demand that Dave turn over a large fortune

EP 26

The Passenger

Calhoun is under orders from President Grant himself to safely transport Pierre Le Druc, an associate of Mexico's depose

EP 27

The Execution

When Calhoun's railroad is given the contract to haul for a mining company, it effectively puts the owner of the old coa

EP 28

Death by Triangulation

Calhoun wins a high stakes poker game against outlaw gambler Dan Patrick. But Patrick says he does not have the money on

EP 29

The Golden Web

Ben Calhoun is forced into a business transaction with conman Preston Webb. When he joins fellow grifter Helen Garth int

EP 30

Sister Death

Calhoun learns that he is transporting three female prisoners to Kansas City, and that one of them is the only witness a

EP 1

Diablo

A horse race is actually being used as a plot to defraud the people of Scalplock and in so doing destroy Calhoun's good

EP 2

Consignment, Betsy the Boiler

Calhoun outbids his old nemesis Sam McGinty in an auction for a new boiler which both men need. But shortly afterward, t

EP 3

Gallows for Bill Pardew

Barnabas identifies his coworker and friend Billy Pardew as the killer of a store clerk, though only on the basis of his

EP 4

Five Days to Washtiba

Calhoun's acquisition of a right-of-way for the railroad is threatened when he takes the side of allowing a band of Indi

EP 5

The Silver Bullet

Bounty hunter McCoy will stop at nothing to capture a murderer. Dave faces a dilemma, knowing the man's location but hav

EP 6

Grapes of Grass Valley

Ben puts himself in the center of a conflict when he decides to help French monks establish a vineyard. But trapper Ike

EP 7

Leopards Try, But Leopards Can't

A bounty hunter arrives in Scalplock to start a new life. But he becomes interested in Julie and can think of only one o

EP 8

The Return of Hode Avery

Ben has trouble to deal with when Hode Avery, a bad sort from the war, arrives in Scalplock. Plus rancher Clay Hennings

EP 9

Four Guns to Scalplock

Calhoun realizes that four members of an outlaw gang have surreptitiously boarded the train. But he decides to not let t

EP 10

Steel Chain to a Music Box

Young Frank Wyatt is accidentally shot in a fight with Barnabas, who thought he was behaving improperly with a young wom

EP 11

Six Hours to Sky High

The BPS&D's telegrapher plans to assist his three brothers in dynamiting the railroad and robbing the payroll it's carry

EP 12

T Is for Traitor

Although Calhoun discovers that the man who saved Julie and Barnabas from ambush is a former railroad engineer branded a

EP 13

Dealer's Choice

Ben decides it's payback time when he encounters two card sharps who swindled him out of $10,000 for a worthless hill. B

EP 14

Wild Track

The ownership of a luxurious railway car is disputed so Ben takes possession of it even though it contains passengers. H

EP 15

Death Has Two Faces

Calhoun is puzzled as to why two mortal enemies, a man and a woman, are refusing to sell him a right-of-way for the rail

EP 16

The Prisoners

A dying marshal deputizes Dave (who in turn also deputizes Calhoun) to transport his prisoner to Doan's Junction to be t

EP 17

Dry Run to Glory

Victor Lamphier has a grudge against alcoholic Billy Joe, whose father is a rich rancher. Victor hijacks Ben's train to

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