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The Adventures of Champion

Season 1 1955 - 1956
TV-Y

  • 1955-09-23T23:30:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 12h (26 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Western, Family
The Adventures of Champion follow a wild stallion named Champion, who remarkably becomes friends with a young boy named Ricky North.The show followed the boy and the horse as they went on crazy adventures in the Southern West during the late 1800s.

26 episodes

Series Premiere

1955-09-23T23:30:00Z

1x01 The Saddle Tramp

Series Premiere

1x01 The Saddle Tramp

  • 1955-09-23T23:30:00Z30m

A down-on-luck prospector and spinner of tall tales helps Ricky capture a gang of rustlers.

1955-09-30T23:30:00Z

1x02 Crossroad Trail

1x02 Crossroad Trail

  • 1955-09-30T23:30:00Z27m

A young ranch hand nearly falls in with bad companions until Ricky is blinded from a fall sustained when fleeing the two men and needs his assistance.

1955-10-07T23:30:00Z

1x03 Salted Ground

1x03 Salted Ground

  • 1955-10-07T23:30:00Z26m

Ricky and Sandy try to prevent a gullible general store owner from being fleeced by a couple of con men trying to sell a salted mine.

1955-10-15T23:30:00Z

1x04 The Medicine Man Mystery

1x04 The Medicine Man Mystery

  • 1955-10-15T23:30:00Z26m

Sandy investigates Ricky's wild tale of a medicine show operator who he saw stuff a small boy into a box. The Norths learn that Doc Terwilliger, the show's owner, is a ventriloquist who uses his dummy, Wilbur, to draw in crowds. A trio of jewel thieves find Wilbur fascinating as well, since their leader hid the gems from his latest heist in the dummy's stomach.

1955-10-22T23:30:00Z

1x05 Lost River

1x05 Lost River

  • 1955-10-22T23:30:00Z30m

In a drought, Ricky and Sandy search for a legendary lost river. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Edna Holland.

1955-10-29T23:30:00Z

1x06 Renegade Stallion

1x06 Renegade Stallion

  • 1955-10-29T23:30:00Z26m

The sheriff blames Champion for the trampling of a prospector. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Francis McDonald, William Tannen, Chris Alcaide, Ewing Mitchell, Rex Lease.

1955-11-06T00:30:00Z

1x07 Canyon of Wanted Men

1x07 Canyon of Wanted Men

  • 1955-11-06T00:30:00Z30m

A horse trader tries to dupe Sandy North. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, George J. Lewis.

1955-11-09T00:30:00Z

1x08 Challenge of the West

1x08 Challenge of the West

  • 1955-11-09T00:30:00Z30m

Ricky tries to prove that an outlaw's son wasn't responsible for a robbery at Sandy's ranch.

1955-11-16T00:30:00Z

1x09 The Outlaw's Secret

1x09 The Outlaw's Secret

  • 1955-11-16T00:30:00Z30m

A thief confesses to a stage robbery---and implicates a banker. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Howard J. Negley, Leonard Penn.

1955-11-23T00:30:00Z

1x10 Hangman's Noose

1x10 Hangman's Noose

  • 1955-11-23T00:30:00Z26m

When a crooked ranch foreman discovers oil on a neighboring spread, he plots with a businessman to grab the property by killing one rancher and framing the other for the crime. When Ricky stumbles upon a pair of oil-soaked boots near the murder scene, he becomes the target for the real killers.

1955-11-30T00:30:00Z

1x11 King of the Rodeo

1x11 King of the Rodeo

  • 1955-11-30T00:30:00Z30m

Ricky and Sandy try to rescue Champ from a carnival owner who has captured the horse and uses him as an attraction, offering a large prize to anyone who can ride him.

1955-12-07T00:30:00Z

1x12 A Bugle for Ricky

1x12 A Bugle for Ricky

  • 1955-12-07T00:30:00Z26m

Ricky soon finds a use for his new musical instrument - signaling for help using a cavalry bugle call when he is trapped in a barn by outlaws.

1955-12-14T00:30:00Z

1x13 The Stone Heart

1x13 The Stone Heart

  • 1955-12-14T00:30:00Z30m

Ricky tries to help a wounded prisoner who was forced to participate in a jail break and becomes the target of the rest of the gang of counterfeiters.

1955-12-21T00:30:00Z

1x14 The Deer Hunters

1x14 The Deer Hunters

  • 1955-12-21T00:30:00Z26m

Ricky tries to rescue a fawn from a snare and incurs the trappers' wrath. The men are trying to provide meat for a railroad construction crew but are wiping out the native game in the process. Ricky, Sandy and an Eastern conservationist try to convince the railroad construction boss to find a new source of meat for his men.

1955-12-28T00:30:00Z

1x15 The Golden Hoax

1x15 The Golden Hoax

  • 1955-12-28T00:30:00Z30m

When Champion discovers that a gang of stagecoach robbers stash their loot in an abandoned mineshaft, Ricky and Sandy try to apprehend the gang.

1956-01-04T00:30:00Z

1x16 Johnny, Hands Up

1x16 Johnny, Hands Up

  • 1956-01-04T00:30:00Z26m

Ricky and Sandy come to the assistance of a young lawman who is being held responsible for the mistakes of his predecessor.

1956-01-11T00:30:00Z

1x17 Black Kachina

1x17 Black Kachina

  • 1956-01-11T00:30:00Z26m

An evil medicine man holds the tribe's chief captive while plotting a new Indian war against the territory's ranchers.

1956-01-18T00:30:00Z

1x18 Mystery Mountain

1x18 Mystery Mountain

  • 1956-01-18T00:30:00Z30m

When a naive Easterner is duped into performing gold assays for a swindler, Ricky and Sandy come to the rescue.

1956-01-27T00:30:00Z

1x19 Rails West

1x19 Rails West

  • 1956-01-27T00:30:00Z26m

Ricky and Sandy persuade a railroad line to bypass the range where Champion and his remuda live, but removing prospectors who try to claim the same valley after stumbling onto what they think is gold-bearing rock proves a tougher nut to crack.

1956-02-03T00:30:00Z

1x20 The Real Unfriendly Ghost

1x20 The Real Unfriendly Ghost

  • 1956-02-03T00:30:00Z25m

Ricky and Sandy search for a missing politician in a ghost town and encounter one eccentric living resident and, apparently, a lively dead one, too.

1x21 Andrew and the Deadly Double

  • 1956-02-14T00:30:00Z26m

Mary Jane, Ricky's young neighbor, is upset when she learns that Uncle Andrew, her newly appointed guardian, plans to sell the ranch she lives on and force her to move East with him. While Ricky and Sandy try to convince the Easterner of the virtues of ranch life, Mary Jane learns that the man is an impostor and is taken captive by a crooked land-grabbing lawyer.

1956-02-15T00:30:00Z

1x22 Bad Men of the Valley

1x22 Bad Men of the Valley

  • 1956-02-15T00:30:00Z26m

An ex-convict trying to go straight and his pretty wife buy the ranch next to the North's. He has a chance meeting with his former gang members who threaten his wife if he doesn't cooperate with their bank robbing scheme. Ricky, Champ and Rebel help the young man bring his former confederates to justice.

1956-02-25T00:30:00Z

1x23 The Return of Red Cloud

1x23 The Return of Red Cloud

  • 1956-02-25T00:30:00Z30m

When a Indian chief who has just returned to his tribe is framed for murder, Ricky and Sandy try to prove his innocence before this followers go on the warpath.

1956-02-28T00:30:00Z

1x24 Brand of the Lawless

1x24 Brand of the Lawless

  • 1956-02-28T00:30:00Z26m

An outlaw who has escaped from custody joins his old gang and plans his next robbery - a rich bank that's not too far away. With a posse pursuing them, the gang leader decides to pick up a grubstake from his law-abiding sister by blackmailing her.

1956-03-04T00:30:00Z

1x25 The Die-Hards

1x25 The Die-Hards

  • 1956-03-04T00:30:00Z26m

Rebel is hurt by a Porcupine and Ricky gets help for him from a new Southern Doctor who just arrived in town. However, persistent prejudices for Southerners that linger long after the civil war, engender hatred and turmoil for the Doctor and his Wife to endure until the prejudiced perpetrator's gunshot wound is treated by the doctor.

Season Finale

1956-03-04T00:30:00Z

1x26 Calhoun Rides Again

Season Finale

1x26 Calhoun Rides Again

  • 1956-03-04T00:30:00Z30m

An old cowboy returns to visit Ricky and Sandy and help them round up a gang of desperadoes.

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