⁣The Desperate Mission is a 1969 American television film directed by Earl Bellamy. The production was a joint project of 20th Century Fox Television, Montalban Enterprises Production, and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. The story is a fictionalization of the life of Joaquin Murrieta.

A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.

⁣Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette are back, and this time they’re dealing with some very modern thinking rustlers. These new criminals have taken up the latest technologies to outsmart the authorities, including shortwave radios and airplanes! Can Gene and Smiley get ‘em? You bet! Songs include "The West Aint What It Used To Be," "I Got the Heebie­Jeebie Blues," and "The Defective Detective from Brooklyn." Gene also gets romantic when he sings, "I Picked up the Trail when I Found You..."

⁣Billy breaks jail in Texas and travels to Sundown at the request of his friend Fuzzy. There he runs into Mort Slade who is after a mortgage held by banker Ainsley. Slade's men rob the bank and then incite a run on the bank knowing Ainsley does not have enough money.

⁣Hawkeye and Chingachgook find a young Irish girl, Bridget, alone in the woods. She is running away from a man named Stark who claims to own her.

⁣Ken Maynard and "Gabby" Hayes star in the film that introduced Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette.

⁣In the opening scene Roy as a boy philosophizes about marriage to his girl friend then sees his dad gunned down by bad guys who want to drive out the ranchers by cutting off their water.

⁣ When Morley has his own bank robbed, Tom tries to break it up. Mistaken for one of the gang, he is caught and sentenced to a chain gang. His girlfriend Peggy then sets out to prove his innocence.

⁣ Chief Black Wolf and his tribe are accused of breaking the treaty. It is up to Hawkeye and Chingachgook to clear them. Things are complicated by an inexperienced, by the book, young officer.

⁣Roy is a government man sent to solve a novel crime problem: a woman flirts with unsuspecting ranchers in order to get information from them which she passes on to her cattle-rustling gang.

An orphan boy in 1830's London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.

⁣In this wacky musical comedy, a shy nightclub pianist poses as a masked wrestler to win the heart of his band's beautiful vocalist (Dale Evans).

⁣Jim sets out after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.

⁣A tenderfoot from Mississippi travels to Diablo to visit his sister and loses his watch in a stagecoach robbery. The headstrong youth is soon telling everyone how to do their jobs - including questioning Lofty's search for the outlaws who robbed him and his sister's experienced ranch foreman about his business methods. The young man really bites off more than he can chew when he discovers the identity of the thieves and tries to bring in the entire outlaw gang single-handed.

⁣Hank Enos was running a local tungsten mine. After he breaks his leg, he recuperates at the the Broken Wheel Ranch. Joey and Hank catch some claim jumpers at the mine and Fury has to rescue them.

⁣ A young soldier is accused of stealing new breech loading rifles and selling them to the Indians. He is being tried for treason unless Hawkeye can discover the truth.

⁣Cowboy with a reputation as the fastest gun in Texas heads to Arizona to leave his past behind, but it keeps catching up to him.

⁣Hoping to buy land in the Mexican state of Texas, Jim Bowie visits Nacogdoches where he's arrested as a spy, flogged, and sentenced to death.

⁣The Newtons babysit Betsy, a spoiled young girl whose mother is marrying Jim's friend Bill. Betsy misses her dad, who was killed in the Korean War. Betsy's grief, anger, and hatred of Bill make her stay with the Newtons a trying time.

⁣Gabby Hayes tells us about a Plumber he once knew, then shows highlights from a Lash LaRue western.

⁣Billy, Fuzzy and Jeff interrupt a stagecoach robbery and discover that one of the passengers, the sheriff of Sage Valley was shot in the back by one of the other passengers. Upon arrival in Sage Valley Mayor Jed Harrison appoints Billy Sheriff to arrest the criminal mastermind Kansas Ed that turns out to be Billy's long lost brother.