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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)
1959
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.
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.
A gun stolen from a green police officer is used in a murder.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Morgan and Ferguson scramble to capture a bank robber who sends threatening notes and collects his loot utilizing unsuspecting messenger boys.
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.
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.
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.
High Fence
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.
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.
1958
The Fugitives
Morgan transports Matt Bonner to the federal penitentiary after he is sentenced to death for murdering three men during a hold-up attempt. His two accomplices, who are still at large, arrange for a gun to be delivered to him in prison and Bonner attempts to shoot his way out to the waiting getaway car.
A Band of mail-train thieves out on parole return to their criminal ways
A Deputy U.S. Marshal asks for a day off to discuss wedding plans with his fiancée and her parents and Marshal Morgan agrees to arrange for a change in the arraignment date of a pair of bank robbers to accommodate him. The crooks wont cooperate with the lawman's wedding plans by attempting to escape custody on two separate occasions.
Marshal Morgan and his men try to protect an escapee from behind the Iron Curtain from communist assassins sent to murder him.
When a Tuscon diamond dealer kills a robber in self defense, Frank doesn't buy his story and starts digging deeper.
Morgan's attempt to break up a narcotics ring has tragic consequences when one of his deputies is killed during a drug bust. The marshals manage to arrest two of the crooks, one of whom is persuaded to turn state's evidence. Before the man can testify, though, one of the gang's hitmen shoots him on the steps of the courthouse. Morgan hopes that the dying gangster will provide him a lead to track down the gang's leader.
When Deputy Johnson is accused of passing a bad check, Morgan discovers that a clever forger is creating false identities and passing bogus paper across Southern Arizona. With the help of the U.S. Postal Inspectors, the U.S. Marshal tries to bait a trap for the criminal.
A washed up boxer (Michael Landon) falls in with a pair of hoodlums.
News of a gold strike in Cochise County has the residents very excited, but Captain Joe Silva of the Apache Tribal Police is skeptical, the more so when a member of his tribe who tipped him is found murdered. Morgan learns from an old sourdough that the gold being displayed is the wrong color for an Arizona strike; he also checked the old mine recently to determine if there was any hope of finding profitable ore and struck it off as a waste of time and money. When the Sheriff learns of gold bars being stolen in Mexico, he suspects that the miners may be using the mine as a front for a gold smuggling operation
Two prisoners who escaped from a Utah penitentiary arrive in Tucson looking for an ex-convict who owes them $600. They stumbled upon a parolee working in the diner who divulges the information just as Marshal Morgan and a deputy walk into the restaurant, when both lawmen are wounded in the ensuing shootout. Morgan trails the men to the home of the ex-con where the escapees have taken the man's wife as a hostage.
A disturbed army recruit shoots two fellow soldiers and forces another soldier and his girlfriend to provide escape transportation. Marshal Morgan and his men attempt to rescue the hostages and capture the trainee before he can harm others.
Wealthy man receives a threatening letter demanding payment for the life of his daughter. This is the typical hostage situation except that the daughter is never actually kidnapped.
Two gunmen, escapees from Leavenworth Prison, hideout in a small Arizona town near the Arizona border after hiding their getaway car. As Marshal Morgan and his men close in, one of the criminals threatens his sister with scandal if she doesn't provide transportation to the Mexican border for he and his partner.
While being interviewed for a book about outstanding American lawmen, Marshal Morgan tells the author about how his grandfather, Dallas Stoudenmire, was picked at random to serve as to the town marshal of Dallas, Texas and was credited with bringing law and order to that wide open town in the latter half of the 19th Century.
An angry young man jumps bail in Utah and heads for his home in Arizona to the only person he trusts - his mother - who suffers a heart attack when she learns of his activities. Marshal Morgan promises her that he'll bring in her son alive, but this could prove to be a tall order after the young man goes on a crime spree that include running over a highway policeman and shooting a
An armored car containing over $300,000 is stolen in a robbery executed with military precision. Morgan is stymied when the truck disappears before hitting any of his roadblocks. His only clue is the burn a secretary receives when she accidentally grabs a car's hot tailpipe while hiding from bullets whizzing overhead
Marshal Morgan orders the arrest of Ed Martin based a tip that part of the loot from a bank robbery would be found in his desk. When a member of Martin's church pleads with Morgan to reopen the case, the lawman starts digging deeper into the alibis of the other possible perpetrators and uncovers interesting new evidence.
Apache and Pima Indian families accuse each other of rustling cattle from their respective ranches. The situation is exacerbated when a boy and girl from different tribes fall in love with each other. Marshal Morgan must find the culprits before an all-out range war breaks out with the two lovers caught in the crossfire.
A soldier breaks loose from U.S. Marshal custody. The soldier is an Indian and heads for the reservation, where Morgan must hunt him down.
Two men are talked into kidnapping Mary Jo by her husband, but think she's really a television/movie star and hold her for $50,000.
An escaped prisoner kidnaps a wealthy businessman's daughter and holds her for ransom.
When Frank and friend Chris go deer hunting, another hunter shoots Chris. Initially, the shooting appears to be an accident, but it quickly becomes apparent that something more sinister is going on.
A trio of criminals try to off one of their own but leave him paralyzed by the roadside. Later, Ferguson is kidnapped by the trio as they try to escape to Mexico.
John Bromfield
Sheriff Frank Morgan
Stan Jones
Deputy Harry Olson
Charles Bronson
Zenogalache a.k.a. Apache Kid
