While this sounds like a western, THE SHERIFF OF COCHISE was a contemporary police drama set in Cochise County, AZ. Sheriff Frank Morgan was eventually promoted to U.S. Marshall and given the entire state of Arizona to keep under control (the series title would subsequently change to U.S. MARSHAL and remain in syndication until 1960)
Episodes Season Season 2 · 0/39 Season 1 · 0/39 0/39 watched · 1959
S02E01 Ghost Town 1959-10-10 30m
Morgan and Ferguson track a pair of murderous escaped convicts to a desert ghost town where they're holding the wife of a cellmate as a hostage. more
S02E02 Anything for a Friend 1959-10-17 30m
Convinced of his friend's innocence, a friend disguised as a minister switches places with a suspect accused of mail robbery and murder and allows him to escape. While Marshal Morgan's men search for the escapee, another man who was implicated in the crime is found recently shot to death along with mail sack containing part of the loot. more
S02E03 Episode 3 1959-10-24 30m
S02E04 Trigger Happy 1959-10-31 30m
A gun stolen from a green police officer is used in a murder. more
S02E05 Episode 5 1959-11-07 30m
S02E06 Ambush 1959-11-14 30m
Morgan and Ferguson search for a missing deputy who had been sent to arrest a fugitive believed to be living in a tiny mountain community, but find the local constable uncooperative and the townspeople hostile. more
S02E07 The Tarnished Star 1959-11-21 30m
S02E08 One of the Ten Most Wanted 1959-11-28 30m
S02E09 Episode 9 1959-12-05 30m
S02E10 The Assassins 1959-12-12 30m
S02E11 Episode 11 1959-12-19 30m
S02E12 Honeymoon 1959-12-26 30m
Upon learning his fiancée has a fatal illness, a convict escapes from Leavenworth Penitentiary and engages in a one-man crime wave in an effort to marry her before she dies. more
S02E13 Episode 13 1960-01-02 30m
S02E14 The Triple Cross 1960-01-09 30m
Ex-insurance investigator Sykes reports to Marshal Morgan that he's pursuing a crook who stole $100,000 in a bungled payout that cost Sykes his job. Suspiciously, that crook is soon found dead along the roadside with the money missing. more
S02E15 Shortcut to Hell 1960-01-16 30m
S02E16 Nine O'Clock Pickup 1960-01-23 30m
Marshals Morgan and Ferguson are called in to investigate the murder of a postman and the theft of a sack of mail from his truck. The only clue to the crime is a broken bottle the killer drove over as he fled the scene of the crime. The lawmen find the shredded tire at a nearby gas station, but are curious why the operator is reluctant to assist in their investigation. more
S02E17 Episode 17 1960-03-12 30m
S02E18 Episode 18 1960-03-12 30m
S02E19 Episode 19 1960-03-12 30m
S02E20 Death and Taxes 1960-01-30 30m
When a beautiful blonde who had approached Morgan about receiving a reward for providing information about tax evasion is found dead, the Marshal and his deputies investigate the owners of an import/export business who had been investigated previously for failure to pay their taxes. more
S02E21 Episode 21 1960-03-12 30m
S02E22 Episode 22 1960-03-12 30m
S02E23 Kill or Be Killed 1960-02-06 30m
A federal witness is murdered in New Mexico. When the suspects are spotted in Arizona, Marshal Morgan mobilizes his men to track the pair. One of the killers is captured in a garage, but the other, an oily ladies' man, hides out a remote farm and woos its pretty, but gullible, owner. more
S02E24 Paper Bullets 1960-02-13 30m
Morgan and Ferguson scramble to capture a bank robber who sends threatening notes and collects his loot utilizing unsuspecting messenger boys. more
S02E25 Backfire 1960-02-20 30m
Trio of hoodlums work with an inside man to steal the company gold. They immediately murder the inside man to prevent any linkage to him. The plan backfires when Morgan has a portrait reconstructed which establishes the link to the dead man. more
S02E26 The Man Who Never Was 1960-02-27 30m
An elderly man strikes a woman who crossed the street in front of her, seriously injuring her. The driver insists that she was with a man, but she insists she was alone. Marshal Morgan is interested in the man who disappeared because he believes the other pedestrian was the woman's husband, who is wanted for murder and robbery in Chicago. more
S02E27 Destination Nowhere 1960-03-05 30m
When a truck carrying top secret missile parts disappears en route to a military base, Marshal Morgan and Deputy Ferguson join the search. During their investigation, they encounter an eccentric Englishman, an old country store operator who doubles as town constable and justice of the peace, a pair of wary café operators and an all-night gas station operator with something to hide. more
S02E28 Episode 28 1960-03-12 30m
S02E29 Episode 29 1960-03-19 30m
S02E30 Episode 30 1960-03-26 30m
S02E31 Episode 31 1960-04-02 30m
S02E32 Episode 32 1960-04-09 30m
S02E33 High Fence 1960-04-16 30m
High Fence more
S02E34 Episode 34 1960-04-23 30m
S02E35 All's Not Gold That Glitters 1960-04-30 30m
An old geezer known for being in debt suddenly shows up with a big wad of cash. He claims he struck gold but he actually found a stolen bank stash. When the robbers come looking for their stash, it's up to Morgan to save the old man. more
S02E36 Episode 36 1960-05-07 30m
S02E37 Episode 37 1960-05-14 30m
S02E38 Episode 38 1960-05-21 30m
S02E39 Shoot to Kill 1960-05-28 30m
The owner of a diner spots Carl 'Mad Dog' Robinette, a criminal wanted dead-or-alive in his restaurant and reports the fact to the police. When the crook is arrested he threatens revenge upon the café owner; when he escapes custody shortly thereafter he carries out that threat by taking the restaurateur, his wife and lovely daughter captive. more 
