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The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 - 1969 6.2 (8 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Western
Networks
ABC
Created By
Aaron Spelling

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Overview

The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series

Key Crew

Producer: Danny Thomas, Dick Clark, Aaron Spelling

Top Cast

Dack Rambo
Dack Rambo

Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan

Seasons

Season 1 (1967)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Ride the Long Trail
1967-09-08

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: A Bell for Jeff Sonnett
1967-09-15

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: A Grave for James Sonnett
1967-09-22

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: The Natural Way
1967-09-29

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Of Lasting Summers and Jim Sonnett
1967-10-06

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Message at Noon
1967-10-13

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: A Son for a Son
1967-10-20

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Meeting at Devil's Fork
1967-10-27

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: First Love
1967-11-03

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Favor
1967-11-10

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Ride the Man Down
1967-11-17

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: The Turkey Shoot
1967-11-24

Jeff wins a prize bull in a shooting contest.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: And a Killing Rode into Town
1967-12-01

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Find a Sonnett, Kill a Sonnett
1967-12-08

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Sunday in Paradise
1967-12-15

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: The Secret of Hangtown Mine
1967-12-22

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: The Hero
1967-12-29

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: What's in a Name?
1968-01-05

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: End of the Rope
1968-01-12

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: And He Shall Lead the Children
1968-01-19

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Look for the Hound Dog
1968-01-26

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: Stopover in a Troubled Town
1968-02-02

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Alone
1968-02-09

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: The Sins of the Father
1968-02-23

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: The Warriors
1968-03-01

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: A Fool and His Money
1968-03-08

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

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 (1968)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Reunion
1968-09-27

A young man rides into town and claims to be Jim Sonnett's long-lost son.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: The Trap
1968-10-04

Will and Jeff are arrested on trumpted up charges and forced to work on a chain gang, blasting a tunnel through a mountain for the railroad. Once there, the two find that any traveller passing through town has been bushwhacked and forced to work until they drop dead while the Sheriff and the Judge pocket the proceeds.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Chapter and Verse
1968-10-11

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Pariah
1968-10-18

The father of a little girl killed by a stray bullet during a gunfight with James Sonnett tries to exact revenge on Will and James' old friend Buck Cobb. The father goads Will into a gunfight by burning Buck's homestead to the ground.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Joby
1968-11-01

A peaceable small town begins to experience an unusual amount of fighting.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Straw Man
1968-11-08

Will and Jeff find a straw effigy of James Sonnett hanging in a town. A young widow has accused James of killing and robbing her husband but when Will does some digging, the real facts come to light.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: A Difference of Opinion
1968-11-15

Will & Jeff run into a couple of crooked lawmen who claim to have run Jim Sonnett out of town.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Home Free
1968-11-22

Will and Jeff try to help a man recently released from prison to get a new start with his wife and child. Unfortunately, others in the town aren't as willing to give the young man another chance, including an old friend of Will's from the Army.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Guilt
1968-11-29

Will and Jeff become unwittingly entangled in a senseless blood feud.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Meeting in a Small Town
1968-12-06

In a small Mexican border settlement, Will and Jeff encounter a bounty hunter gunning for Jim.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: The Fearless Man
1968-12-13

Jeff admires a seemingly fearless stranger with a dark secret.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Where There's Hope
1968-12-20

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Join the Army
1969-01-03

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Time Is the Rider
1969-01-10

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Robber's Roost
1969-01-17

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Trail's End
1969-01-31

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: A Town in Terror (1)
1969-02-07

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: A Town in Terror (2)
1969-02-14

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Jim Sonnett's Lady
1969-02-21

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: The Trial
1969-02-28

An accused man claims that James Sonnett's testimony can clear his name.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: One Angry Juror
1969-03-07

While Jeff lies sick with a fever in a hotel room, Will is forced into jury duty. A Swedish farmer is accused of murdering the son of a wealthy rancher but refuses to testify in his own defense. Will suspects that the case isn't as open and shut as it seems.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: The Sodbuster
1969-03-14

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: The Man Who Killed James Sonnett
1969-03-21

Will and Jeff disprove the premise of a play in which Jim Sonnett is killed. Will: Walter Brennan. Jeff: Dack Rambo. Morris: Jay Novello. Laurie: Joan Van Ark. Sheriff Devon: Robert F. Simon. Charlie: John Crawford.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: Three Stand Together
1969-09-15

Runtime: 30 min

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