Original title
Best of the West
Released
9/10/1981
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy, Western
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
22
An unwitting city slicker is made the marshal of a lawless town in this absurdist Western that pokes gentle but clever fun at the genre's stock plots and characters. Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982.
Sam arrives in town intending to run the general store, then runs into all kinds of trouble after turning down the protection racket.
Sam must face a prisoner's outlaw brothers after the sheriff who was taking him in becomes ill on his way through town.
The Square Deal Saloon's new cook is the Calico Kid; he has sworn to never again kill anything he can't eat.
Sam goes out on a limb and manages to save Tillman from a lynch mob, but at the trial, his mixed-up testimony has him back at the end of a rope.
Sam infiltrates an outlaw band to try to prove Tillman is innocent of cattle rustling.
Sam loses his badge in a special election to Tillman's squeaky-clean candidate.
Daniel is as surprised as anyone when a few innocent kisses lead to a shotgun wedding.
Laney is smitten with a smoothie who bids high for her at a social—but he turns out to be a low-down heel.
Elvira's die-hard Confederate father (Andy Griffith) stays at the Square Deal Saloon while he is in town. His wife is trying to patch things up with their daughter; she married a Yankee!
Sam and Tillman try hard to convince the railroad to come to Copper Creek.
Sam's image as a lawman quickly loses its edge after he manages to shoot himself in the leg; the jail collapsing around him doesn't help.
Sam doesn't pay attention to signs of discontent from Elvira until the day he comes home to finds her packed to leave.
Frog meets a woman who was recently jilted by her beau, but neither realizes he wants her back.
The reformed Calico Kid decides he wants to be a United States Marshal. But he lacks one qualification: a third-grade education.
Tillman has been kidnapped and the kidnappers are demanding a ransom, but the Copper Creek citizens have no intention of paying up.
Doc's mail-order bride has a vivid personality with a past to match it.
Elvira and her stepson explore an abandoned outlaw cave, unaware that it is booby-trapped to collapse.
Daniel's refusal to fight a relentless bully leads to Sam having to fight the bully's father.
Sam is handcuffed to his prisoner—a flirtatious female outlaw—for an overnight journey.
Elvira's former fiance' comes to town, intent on taking her away with him.
Sam receives an anonymous threatening note.
Sam and Tillman try to foil a holdup by holding a funeral for Frog; the coffin contains the $20,000 the thieves are after.
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