⁣A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family ties and murder!

⁣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.

⁣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..."

⁣Pat and Stoney travel to Wyoming to oversee a land opening and end up playing nursemaid to a pair of identical twin pranksters and a kooky Chinese cook. Meanwhile, a trio of outlaws are pursuing the twins seeking information they possess.

⁣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.

⁣An Easterner inherits a cattle ranch, only to discover that thousands of cattle have been stolen. He secretly signs on as a hired hand at his own ranch to discover who's stealing them.

⁣ Annie and Tagg try to prove the innocence of aging circus sharpshooter Snowy Kringle, who has been arrested for stealing an Army payroll.

⁣Rustlers hit the Broken Wheel Ranch. Pete and Joey try and rescue Fury, but Fury ends up rescuing them.

⁣John Martin is a government agent working under cover. Leading citizen Morgan calls in gunman Galt who blows Martin's cover.

⁣Joe Dawson, foreman at a ranch in San Saba, asks his old friend Cisco to come and help them catch a gang of cattle rustlers. When the leader of the gang hears of this, he orders two of his henchmen to kill Joe and blame the murder on Cisco. Cisco and Pancho have to keep away from the sheriff at the same as they are searching for the gang and the missing cattle.

⁣A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.

⁣Kalmus is after the freight contract held by Summers. When his gang kill Summers, Tex and Duke step in to help Madge keep the freight line going. When they foil the gang's further attempts, Kalmus gets the Judge to jail the two.

⁣Into the vast swamplands and only a few steps ahead of the bloodhounds, an escaped convict is aided by a honky-tonk dancer.

⁣ Counterfeit bills are being printed in Canada and shipped across the border hidden in blocks of ice. When the counterfeiters force engraver Bronson to make a new plate, he inscribes a tiny help message on it. Renfrew catches a henchman who has one of the new bills. A magnifying glass lets him read the message and he heads out alone to round up the counterfeiters.

⁣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.

⁣When a retired colonel discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down a Confederate Monument , he begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.

⁣Feuding fathers deal with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother!

⁣ Shady sheepherder Jeb Drummond and his sons are grazing their herds on the Ponderosa. Ben tells them to get off the property, but the Drummonds have a different idea and take Adam hostage.

⁣An old cowboy returns to visit Ricky and Sandy and help them round up a gang of desperadoes.

⁣A retired gunman trying to live a peaceful life in Diablo is threatened by the brothers of a man he killed.