The Guns of Will Sonnett

📊 Series Specifications

Network ABC
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 3
Total Episodes 51
Original Language EN

The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967)

Created by Aaron Spelling
⭐ 3.3 / 5 (10 votes) 🎬 3 Seasons 📼 51 Episodes 🏷️ Western 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Ex-cavalry scout and gunfighter Will Sonnett and his grandson, Jeff, search the West for Will's son—and Jeff's father—Jim Sonnett, a former lawman and gunslinger, who has avoided seeing his son in order to keep him away from the assortment of killers and bounty hunters who are after him.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Ride the Long Trail

A travelling show arrives in town, claiming to have guns from famous gunslingers. Of particular interest to young Jeff Sonnett is a gun that supposedly belonged to his infamous father, James. Never having known his father, Jeff convinces his grandfather, Will, to help him find his father, no matter how long it takes. The first stop is a small town where the Sonnetts find a man who lost an arm in a gunfight with James Sonnett and is looking for revenge on anyone with the name Sonnett.

E2 A Bell for Jeff Sonnett

An up and coming gunslinger who puts a small bell on his belt for each person he's killed wants to add the Sonnett name to his reputation.

E3 A Grave for James Sonnett

Will and Jeff find a grave marked for James Sonnett in a small Mexican town. James had been protecting the town from bandits,a job that his son and father decide to finish. In the end, it turns out that the grave was only a ruse to throw the bandits off the trail of a wounded James Sonnett, so the search continues.

E4 The Natural Way

Will and Jeff sign on as deputies in order to come to the aid of a wounded sheriff.

E5 Of Lasting Summers and Jim Sonnett

Will and Jeff go to Wyoming to see whether a man scheduled to hang is really Jim Sonnett.

E6 Message at Noon

When Will and Jeff realize Jim is only a day's ride away, they send an urgent wire to convince him to wait for them.

E7 A Son for a Son

Jeff is wounded in a gunfight and taken in by a family who share a dark secret: one of their sons was killed by James Sonnett. After framing Will for theft, the Father plans to kill Jeff as soon as he can hold a gun. The distraught Mother has other ideas, wanting to keep Jeff as her own son.

E8 Meeting at Devil's Fork

A bounty hunter takes Jeff and Will prisoner to lure Jim Sonnett to Devil's Fork.

E9 First Love

When Will and Jeff land in jail, a beautiful woman puts up the bail and asks them to stay in town.

E10 The Favor

Will and Jeff stumble upon a wounded man in a ghost town saloon.

E11 Ride the Man Down

A sheriff rounds up a possee to hunt down Jim Sonnett after a dying bank robber wrongly names the gunslinger as his accomplice.

E12 The Turkey Shoot

Jeff wins a prize bull in a shooting contest.

E13 And a Killing Rode into Town

Will and Jeff encounter a woman who claims to be Jeff's mother.

E14 Find a Sonnett, Kill a Sonnett

When two vengeful brothers take Jeff hostage, Will convinces an old friend to impersonate Jim Sonnett.

E15 Sunday in Paradise

Will helps an old friend convince townspeople to finance and build a house of worship.

E16 The Secret of Hangtown Mine

The Sonnets visit a ranch looking for information about Jim, but they uncover a murder instead.

E17 The Hero

After two bank robbers wound Will, Jeff pursues them into Apache country.

E18 What's in a Name?

Will and Jeff encounter a man who claims to be Will Sonnett.

E19 End of the Rope

Will and Jeff race to Waco, where Jim Sonnett stands trial for murder.

E20 And He Shall Lead the Children

Will and Jeff unwittingly stumble upon an outlaw's mountain cabin.

E21 Look for the Hound Dog

Will pleads Jeff's case after a lynch mob accuses the boy of murdering a storekeeper.

E22 Stopover in a Troubled Town

A woman working in a saloon needs the Sonnetts' help when her father decides to come for a visit.

E23 Alone

Will arranges to meet Jeff in a ghost town saloon, but he ends up getting caught in a hail of rifle bullets instead.

E24 The Sins of the Father

Jeff starts to fall for a young woman who claims that James Sonnett is the father of her infant son.

E25 The Warriors

Will goes undercover for the Cavalry to help stop a gunrunner from selling rifles that may start a new Indian war.

E26 A Fool and His Money

Will & Jeff help an old friend pretend to be a rich rancher in order to impress his mail order bride.

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