Paradise

1. The News From St. Louis

Air Date: 1988-10-27

Unexpectedly, Ethan ends up being the custodian to his sister’s orphan children.

2. The Holstered Gun

Air Date: 1988-11-03

Ethan prepares to leave his years of gun fighting to dedicate his life to the new family and the ranch. Sadly, he has to fight once again against some outlaws

3. Founder's Day

Air Date: 1988-11-10

Amelia shots a bank robber and his family decides to make her pay.

4. Ghost Dance

Air Date: 1988-11-24

Ethan saves an Indian from an angry lynching mob.

5. Devil's Canyon

Air Date: 1988-12-01

While Ethan is attending his deceased herd, a trapper and his son seize Claire.

6. Stray Bullet

Air Date: 1988-12-08

Accidentally, during a gun fight Ethan injures Amelia.

7. The Promise

Air Date: 1988-12-15

On their way back home, a recently broken bridge makes Ethan, George, and Ben to take a new route.

8. Childhood's End

Air Date: 1988-12-29

A traveling bordello pays a visit to Ethan’s town.

9. A Private War

Air Date: 1989-01-05

10. Hard Choices

Air Date: 1989-01-12

A Texas Ranger comes to Paradise to bring Ethan back. Ethan at first thinks of running but changes his mind and decides to go with the man. However along the way Ethan tries to convince him that being with the children has changed him. And they're being attacked by men who want to get Ethan.

11. Crossroads

Air Date: 1989-01-26

Joseph joins a gang, but he is anxious about joining in a bank robbery.

12. The Traveler

Air Date: 1989-02-02

A stranger with amnesia is helped by Ehan and Amelia.

13. The Secret

Air Date: 1989-02-08

When Ethan discovers that Amelia might leave , he has to face his feelings for her.

14. A House Divided

Air Date: 1989-02-16

A band of outlaws take Amelia and the children hostage.

15. The Last Warrior

Air Date: 1989-02-23

Taylor's determination to protect his land causes a fight between a lumbering company and his ideals.

16. Vengeance

Air Date: 1989-03-16

Claire is involved with a man who is the son of one of Ethan’s adversaries he has been looking for.

17. A Matter of Honor (1)

Air Date: 1989-04-08

A gunman is hired by a man to keep Ethan away from his plans.

18. A Matter of Honor (2)

Air Date: 1989-04-15

As the water rights battle escalates, Ethan and Gideon prepare to fight.

19. Hour of the Wolf

Air Date: 1989-04-29

A wolf bites Ethan and Claire. John Taylor has to go to Reno to get a vaccine.

20. Treasure

Air Date: 1989-05-06

While Ben and George are looking for a treasure, two criminals pursue them.

21. Squaring Off

Air Date: 1989-05-13

Ethan defies a corrupt lawman to save the life of a Texas ranger.

22. Long Lost Lawson

Air Date: 1989-05-20

A businessperson seeks to eliminate the only obstacle between him and a big transaction: Ethan.

1. A Gather Of Guns

Air Date: 1989-09-10

When a man thinks Ethan knows the location of a fortune, he kidnaps him and takes him to a prison where no man has ever escaped from. Amelia turns to her estranged husband, Pierce for help. He takes her to see Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Pat Garrett who agree to help.

2. A Gathering of Guns (2)

Air Date: 1989-09-10

3. Common Good

Air Date: 1989-09-23

Wyatt Earp follows Ethan back home after the big escape. Without noticing it, a reporter also follows them looking for answers.

4. Dead Run

Air Date: 1989-10-07

The town needs a new marshal and Ethan is an obvious candidate, however, he does not want to do it; not even, if it costs him his ranch.

5. All the Pretty Little Horses

Air Date: 1989-10-14

Laid off miners decide to ambush Ethan and Amelia when they are heading to Virginia City to deposit $50.000.

6. Orphan Train

Air Date: 1989-10-28

A woman fights an implacable battle against the railroad she blames for the loss of her husband, son, and farm, not considering the cost to her and her surviving daughter.

7. The Burial Ground

Air Date: 1989-11-04

Ethan confronts the law to rescue a fugitive orphan who was taken away from his sister.

8. A Proper Stranger

Air Date: 1989-11-11

An old Indian warrior wants to bring peace between an old foe in the warpath and a member of the cavalry.

9. Boomtown

Air Date: 1989-11-18

Ethan has to find out who is robbing the graves in the local cemetery; while Amelia takes care of the children whom a beautiful girl she does not know is tutoring. The law also wants her.

10. The Return of Johnny Ryan

Air Date: 1989-12-02

The gold rush hits town and Ethan’s land is no exception. Paradise turns into a materialistic town.

11. The Plague

Air Date: 1989-12-09

Johnny Ryan fulfills his promise of returning to paradise and taking revenge on the person who humiliated him: Ethan Cord.

12. The Gates of Paradise

Air Date: 1990-01-06

Paradise is hit by an outbreak of smallpox and Ethan has to deal with George being infected by it.

13. Devil's Escort

Air Date: 1990-01-13

A symbolic drama centering on two strangers in Paradise: a black-clad equestrian with two grim appointments to keep before the New Year, and a simple youth left in the forest to fend for himself.

14. Dangerous Cargo

Air Date: 1990-01-20

A killer who is being escorted by Ethan back to Paradise for trial might never make it because other outlaws want him dead.

15. Till Death Do Us Part

Air Date: 1990-02-03

Ethan is offered a very well paying job but at the same time very dangerous. To deliver the opium that miners use to keep some Chinese workers more or less enslaved.

16. Avenging Angel

Air Date: 1990-02-10

Joseph's tomboy friend, Frankie, returns to Paradise, now sophisticatedly attired and married to a controlling, offensive judge who has the control to transfer Ethan to Texas on a murder warrant.

17. A Gathering of Guns

Air Date: 1990-02-17

Years ago, Ethan testified against a person. Now that person is the new town’s preacher who is a paroled murderer, claiming to have seen the light. Everyone in town is giving him a second chance, except for Ethan.

18. Shadow of a Doubt

Air Date: 1990-03-03

The sons of Ethan’s old pal, Gideon, volunteer them as guns in a range war.

19. The Coward

Air Date: 1990-04-07

Jerome, an obtuse and gentle man, faces a jury for the strangling of a girl who rejected him.

20. The Chase

Air Date: 1990-04-14

Ethan protects a young deserter wanted by the Army. He also protects him from an armed mother who accuses him of the death of her son.

21. Dust on the Wind

Air Date: 1990-04-28

A con woman visits Paradise and sells the town a trolley. She takes the townsfolk on a ride and while they are partying, she loots the place.

22. Dust on the Wind

Air Date: 1990-04-28

A mass exodus occurs in Paradise when Ethan and Amelia decide to close the mine.

1. Out of the Ashes

Air Date: 1991-01-04

Ethan and the children return to Paradise where Ethan is convinced to take on the role of town marshal. Ethan builds a new home for his family and he and Amelia become engaged. A new character, Dakota, arrives in town and decides to stay. He rubs Ethan the wrong way, but hits it off with Claire, much to her uncle's disdain.

2. The Bounty

Air Date: 1991-01-11

3. The Women

Air Date: 1991-01-25

4. Bad Blood

Air Date: 1991-02-01

5. The Valley of Death

Air Date: 1991-02-08

6. A Bullet Through the Heart

Air Date: 1991-02-15

7. See No Evil

Air Date: 1991-02-22

8. Birthright

Air Date: 1991-03-08

The Carroll children's father Robert returns and tells Ethan he wants custody of the kids. At first resistant, Ethan begins to feel the children might be safer living with their father, however neglectful he has been in the past, than with him. But it turns out Robert may have brought danger of his own into the children's lives.

9. A Study in Scarlet

Air Date: 1991-03-29

Paradise is thrown into a state of terror when a serial killer begins targeting the town's woman. Ethan must identify and catch the killer, who has set his sites on Claire.

10. The Search for K.C. Cavanaugh

Air Date: 1991-04-05

11. Shield of Gold

Air Date: 1991-04-12

12. Twenty-Four Hours

Air Date: 1991-05-03

This episode follows a day in the life of Marshal Ethan Allan Cord, who is considering giving up his badge and leaving Paradise. Over a period of ""twenty-four hours,"" Ethan must contend with a series of disputes between townspeople as well as at home. Spoiler: In the end, he decides to stick it out and remain in Paradise.

13. Unfinished Business

Air Date: 1991-06-14

Ethan learns that an old enemy of his is headed for Paradise looking to shoot it out. To protect the children, he sends them away on a trip, but they realize that something is wrong at home. As the gunfight nears, both Ethan (in Paradise) and the children (waiting at the train station) both reflect back to how they've become a family (via flashbacks to previous episodes). Spoiler: In the end, the children don't take the train and rush back to their uncle in Paradise. He has defeated the other gunfighter and he and the children are reunited.