Cimarron Strip/The Legend of Jud Starr

The Legend of Jud Starr
Season 1, Episode 2
Airdate	September 14, 1967
Production Number	0702
Written by	Richard Fielder
Directed by	Vincent McEveety
← 1x01 Journey to a Hanging	1x03 → Broken Wing
Cimarron Strip — Season One

Guest Starring: Darren McGavin (Jud Starr), Barbara Luna (Roseanne Todd), Beau Bridges (Billy Joe Shaw), Richard Anderson Captain Bragg), Roy Jenson (Bloody Bob Agnew), Kelly Thordsen (Moose O'Hare), Percy Helton (Ezra Jones), Ford Rainey (Marshall Tillman), Warren Vanders (Ham Kaylor), Rex Holman (Snake Dobbs), Allen Jaffe (Luke Barfoot), Ken Renard (Chief Henry Youngblood), Boyd "Red" Morgan (Beans Prouty), Charles Horvath (Hangman), Roy Barcroft (Lawman), Ed McCready (Corporal), Ken Del Conte (Bart Green), Scott Hale (Sam), Lew Brown (Deputy), Al Wyatt (Cal Dunaway), Glen Randall, Jr. (Tucker), Jack Braddock (Sheriff), Reggie Parton (First Deputy), Tom McDonough (Second Deputy), Dean Smith (Third Deputy)

Plot Overview

Jud Starr is an outlaw made infamous by the newspapers when he robbed an army payroll of $80,000 which he hid before being arrested. Crown and Francis are delivering prisoners to the county jail and Starr is about to be hanged when his gang free him from the hangman's noose and begins a law breaking rampage over the entire Cimarron Strip.

Upon discovering that Starr and his gang are using the Cherokee Outlet as a place of refuge. Starr has kidnapped his old girlfriend, a half-breed of a Cherokee Mother and a circuit riding preacher, intending to marry her to become part of the tribe by taking her back to a Cherokee village promising the Indians a new life.

With the army refusing to act fearing an uprising Marshal Jim Crown, MacGregor, and Francis set out to track the gang down. Knowing that all the odds are against them as Judd is protected by Indians and his own men wanting a share of the $80,000 Crown gets help from an unexpected source when the legend of Jud Starr begins to unravel.

Trivia

The Show

Jack Braddock returns later in the series as a regular to play Fabrizio the bartender of the Wayfarer's Inn.