Not Rated | 26min | Adventure, Western, TV Series | Episode aired 10 January 1956
An evil medicine man holds the tribe's chief captive while plotting a new Indian war against the territory's ranchers.
Director: George Archainbaud
Writers: Samuel Newman, Richard Morgan
Stars: Champion, Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon
An evil medicine man holds the tribe's chief captive while plotting a new Indian war against the territory's ranchers.
Director: George Archainbaud
Writers: Samuel Newman, Richard Morgan
Stars: Champion, Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon
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00:00Champion the Wonder Horse! Champion the Wonder Horse!
00:11Like a streak of lightning flashing across the sky.
00:14Like a swiftest arrow whizzing from a bow.
00:17Like a mighty cannonball he seems to fly.
00:21You'll hear about him everywhere you go.
00:25The time will come when everyone will know the name of...
00:28Champion the Wonder Horse!
00:58Thunder Sky! Chuka!
01:20We are friends and brothers?
01:22Always. Welcome.
01:28There is big trouble coming.
01:30Peace no longer sits in the teepees of my people.
01:33What kind of trouble?
01:34My brother knows Longhorn, our medicine man.
01:37Longhorn is not my brother.
01:39He talks war against the white man.
01:41But you're the chief. The tribe follows your counsel.
01:45Longhorn has won an evil power.
01:47He has found a kachina.
01:49A kachina? What's that?
01:51Long, long ago, my people prayed to bad gods.
01:55A kachina was their sign.
01:57Longhorn tells it is a war sign.
01:59He tells it is a sign we must fight the white man
02:02or the old gods will come back and destroy us.
02:05My braves believe him. They fear the old magic.
02:08What does this kachina look like?
02:10It is a skull. Older than the mountains.
02:13Like a horse, but not a horse.
02:15Well, if this is the only thing that gives Longhorn power,
02:18can't you take it from him?
02:19He hides it in the cave where he found it.
02:22We search, but there are many caves.
02:24We cannot find the right one.
02:26My people must not take the war path.
02:28It's too late to drive off the white man.
02:30We must learn to live in peace.
02:32I come to my white brother
02:34because I know he is the Indian's friend.
02:36My brother can help.
02:38How, Thundersky?
02:39Bring in Bluecoats.
02:40Cavalry? It's that bad?
02:42My people hear my words, but Longhorn's power grows.
02:46The ground will run with blood if Bluecoats do not come.
02:50All right, I'll telegraph the territorial government right away
02:53and tell them of the kachina and the danger.
02:55The danger is great.
02:57To my people.
03:16Come on.
03:35Come on, Thundersky.
03:36Chuka.
03:42Come on, champ.
03:46Come on.
03:52Uncle Sandy, what's the matter with Thundersky and Chuka?
03:55They wouldn't even stop to talk to me.
03:58Well, they're worried, and it looks like we all have reason to be worried.
04:01I'll tell you as soon as I finish this telegram.
04:16Come on.
04:47Here it is.
04:52Get it.
04:55Get it.
05:11Ricky, Thundersky and Chuka haven't heard from for two days since they left here.
05:15Do you think Longhorn...
05:16I know what Longhorn's doing.
05:18The telegram came from the government.
05:20Are they sending cavalry?
05:22Send cavalry on the stage.
05:24Listen to this.
05:26Order to investigate matter of kachina arriving Friday's stage, Baxter.
05:30Well, that's today.
05:32Who's Baxter?
05:33I don't know, unless they're sending some officer to make sure it's serious.
05:36One officer won't help.
05:38No, not even a full colonel.
05:40Look, you go hitch up the buckboard and go meet the stage.
05:42I've got to try and find out what happened to Thundersky and Chuka.
05:45Right away, Uncle Sandy.
06:02Whoa!
06:13Whoa!
06:24The stage is in.
06:26But there's no officer.
06:28Wait here, Rebel.
06:31Excuse me, mister.
06:33Was there a colonel or maybe even a major on the stage?
06:36There was not.
06:38And perhaps you can tell me who and where Mr. Sandy North is.
06:43Is your name Baxter?
06:45See here, young man.
06:46I don't like your tone of voice.
06:48I am Professor Simeon Baxter.
06:50Professor?
06:51Oh, yes.
06:52Professor Simeon Baxter.
06:54Professor Simeon Baxter.
06:56I don't like your tone of voice.
06:58I am Professor Simeon Baxter.
07:00Professor?
07:01But we said for soldiers.
07:03I told them.
07:04I told them at the Capitol.
07:06Indian uprisings are not stopped by a paleontologist.
07:12Sandy North, my uncle.
07:14You better explain to him.
07:26Oh, no.
07:56Whoa!
08:06Cam!
08:17What is it?
08:18Seems to me it's obviously a horse.
08:21I can't explain it right now.
08:23A horse like this, it means there's something wrong that he wants me to see.
08:32You'll have to excuse me, Professor.
08:34It may have something to do with the Indian trouble.
08:37What am I to do?
08:38Just stay here.
08:39I'll leave Rebel with you.
08:41Rebel, you stay.
08:53Let's go.
09:01Those who doubt power of Kachina
09:03will think again when Pawnee take Chuka to camp.
09:06Make horse go.
09:08Wait!
09:10Kali, it's Longhorn and Chuka.
09:14Shoot to frighten filthy boy.
09:16We are not ready for final step till war council meet.
09:24Go on, Cam.
09:38Enough.
09:53Fire!
10:24How is he, Uncle Sandy?
10:27Well, he's going to be all right, but he'll need help.
10:29Where's the buckboard?
10:30Down on the road.
10:31Get it and we'll take him to the ranch.
10:33Come on, Cam.
10:40And so, when your message arrived, they decided to send me.
10:43Because you said the opposite of what I said.
10:46You said you were going to take me to the ranch.
10:49And so, when your message arrived, they decided to send me.
10:52Because you said the uprising was based on finding an ancient skull.
10:56And I happened to be a paleontologist.
10:58Excuse me, Professor.
11:00What's that?
11:01A student of fossils, historic and prehistoric.
11:04A specialist, you might say, in the significance of old bones.
11:08Well, that might be a big help if we could ever find the Kachina.
11:11But I thought I made it clear to them
11:13that we're in trouble if we don't get army protection.
11:19Well, they've stranded him.
11:23It's all right now, Chuka. You're safe.
11:27Is that a representation of the Kachina?
11:30Yeah, it must be.
11:32Then I think I know what it is.
11:34A rare find and a most exciting one.
11:37The skull of a Marapus ungulate.
11:39Well, that's something I never heard of.
11:41It's an animal with a body like a bear, three-toed, clawed feet,
11:44and a head much like a horse.
11:46Gosh, Professor, there's nothing like that around here.
11:49Well, there was 17 million years ago.
11:53And aside from the immediate problem,
11:55a prize of great scientific interest.
11:58Nobody knows where to look for it, though.
12:00Are you sure it's in the cave where the medicine man found it?
12:03Thundersky said it was.
12:05Then with a bit of luck, I could possibly find that cave.
12:09You could? How?
12:11By looking for a rock structure that matches the time the beast existed.
12:15Professor, if there's even an outside chance of your finding this thing,
12:18your scientific knowledge might save more lives than the cavalry
12:21by stopping this uprising before it begins.
12:23You tell us where to look and we'll find it.
12:26Very well.
12:28All you have to do is to find strata, or rock layers,
12:32of the Miocenic period of the Cenozoic era, huh?
12:35Gosh, Professor, whatever that means,
12:38you're the only one that understands it.
12:40I should like to help,
12:42but I'm not sure I'm physically fit for the effort.
12:47Longhorn!
12:50It's all right now, Chuca. I told you you're safe.
12:54Ricky.
12:56Sandy.
12:59Where is Thundersky?
13:01In the cave of the Cochina.
13:03Longhorn took us prisoner.
13:06Well, my father would not call a war council.
13:09Longhorn branded me
13:11with the sign of the Cochina
13:13to make him suffer for me.
13:16My father did not give in.
13:18He will never call our people to war.
13:21And for this, Longhorn will kill him.
13:24Not if we get to that cave in time.
13:26Well, if they took you to the cave, you must know where it is.
13:29No.
13:31They did not let me see it.
13:33And at the end, Longhorn hit me.
13:36I remember nothing.
13:38Professor, if Longhorn kills Thundersky,
13:41there will be war, and nothing can stop it
13:43except your scientific knowledge.
13:45Very well.
13:47Whenever you're ready, Mr. North, we'll look for the cave.
13:50Thanks, Professor.
13:55Is Chuca alive?
13:57Longhorn answer no question.
13:59You call war council, you go free.
14:02You have my answer.
14:04We must live in peace with the white man.
14:06I hate white man.
14:08Old God's much stronger than him.
14:10Our tribe know.
14:12They ready to follow him.
14:13No, Longhorn, not yet.
14:15If that were so, you wouldn't ask me to call a war council.
14:19They will follow me when they see Old God
14:21have give me your scalp to hang before my teepee,
14:24and scalp of Chuca.
14:25I will give up my life, and my son's life,
14:28rather than lead our people to their death.
14:30Our people will live, but you will die.
14:33You will die when flame burn low as my knife.
14:37Chuca die too.
14:38Then Chuca is alive.
14:40He die soon.
14:41Then brains of Amy, and cochina of Old God.
15:04Well, I guess it's no use, Chuca.
15:06The white medicine man thinks this is the right ground.
15:09This may be the right ground,
15:10but we've covered an awful lot of territory
15:12without finding the cave.
15:15Uncle Sandy!
15:17Ricky, over here!
15:19Let's go, champ!
15:29Professor Baxter's sure now.
15:31He says this ridge is honeycombed with caves
15:33where the cochina could have been buried.
15:35Did you find the entrance?
15:36No, but he says...
15:38I will see what Red will find.
15:45He says that we should watch for anything that might be a cave,
15:48even a little one.
15:49Sandy!
15:50Ricky!
15:55Redwell's found something.
15:57Maybe only prairie dog.
16:02That might be an entrance.
16:03Yeah, a prairie dog burrow.
16:05We'll take a look.
16:06Well, I have to go back to Professor Baxter.
16:09Redwell sure is excited about something.
16:21Redwell, I'm surprised it's you,
16:23not known to Marapa Zungulate from an ordinary steerbone.
16:26Say, you tell the professor Chuca and I
16:28to crawl in any hole big enough to hold us if we find one.
16:31All right.
16:58Let's go.
17:18They haven't had any luck yet, Professor.
17:20I have found something that may lead to a maze of caves.
17:24Gosh.
17:25A cochina cave, maybe?
17:27I have to explore it.
17:29Well, it's pretty small.
17:31I'd better go in first.
17:32Decidedly not.
17:34There may be an element of risk,
17:36and I must inspect the strata on the interior.
17:38Well, maybe I should get Uncle Sandy.
17:40Not yet.
17:41Let us make sure first.
17:43Take it down here.
17:51Oh, Ricky, give me my pickaxe.
17:54Will you please?
18:00Ah, thank you.
18:05Look out, Professor!
18:08Professor!
18:14Professor!
18:27Professor!
18:53Keep pulling, champ!
18:54Keep pulling!
18:58Professor Baxter!
19:01Hold it there, champ!
19:12Are you all right, Professor?
19:14I think so.
19:16I just struck my head.
19:28Look, champ, there's a rock away.
19:30But I want to sit back.
19:32There's nothing to do but find where this tunnel leads.
19:36There's nothing to do but find where this tunnel leads.
19:58Thundersky!
20:00It's here.
20:01A priceless specimen of the Barapas ungulate.
20:04We can get Thundersky loose.
20:06Come on, Professor.
20:10Where's the brother?
20:11But where's Sandy?
20:12He's looking for you, too, on the other side of the ridge.
20:15Is Long gone around?
20:17No, but he will return.
20:18Then we'd better get out of here fast.
20:20Who's the stranger?
20:21Professor Baxter.
20:22He showed us where to find the cave.
20:24Oh, yes.
20:25How did you do, Thundersky?
20:26Excuse me, please.
20:29One!
20:30The white stranger believe in kachina, too?
20:32No, it's not a kachina to him.
20:34It's something else.
20:36Professor, we've got to try to get out right away.
20:39Yes, of course.
20:40But where is the cave entrance?
20:42Slowly, my friend.
20:43The entrance is behind that stone ridge.
20:45And there will be guards outside, and we are not armed.
20:48But does not matter now.
20:49We have the symbol of power.
20:51And besides, your friend Longhorn would scarcely dare attack a representative of the government.
20:57I don't know about Longhorn.
20:59The devil has entered into his spirit.
21:01He will dare anything.
21:02Well spoken, Thundersky.
21:05Longhorn dare anything.
21:07But he hear you.
21:08Grab pale-faced old kachina.
21:10I warned you the government sent me.
21:12Listen well, Thundersky.
21:14You ask for blue coats.
21:16White father send one old man.
21:18Now kachina give him to me.
21:20You want more proof of power of kachina over white man?
21:23It was not a kachina.
21:25Our people will believe.
21:27Look at flame.
21:31Your time now, Thundersky.
21:33You call war council?
21:34No.
21:35Then you will be first sacrifice to old god in many moons.
21:55Up there.
22:01Go, go, go.
22:14You know, something has happened to Ricky, Joker.
22:17Tracks.
22:18Ricky and Professor.
22:21You know, that rock is covering what might be an entrance.
22:28Perhaps Rebel has found something.
22:30Well, I hope it's not another shinbone.
22:46Longhorn's men, Sandy.
22:48This might be our break, Joker.
23:01More.
23:02Quick.
23:08Doom of Thundersky is doomed to traitor of his people.
23:12The kachina will tell me what old god wish to do with pale faced enemies.
23:30No.
23:31Longhorn inside.
23:32He would hear.
23:38Charge him, champ.
23:39You stay here.
23:40Come on, Rebel.
24:00It's champ.
24:31Uncle.
24:51Rebel.
24:53Watch him.
24:55He just made it in time, Uncle Sandy.
24:58Now we are safe from that kachina.
25:01Where is it?
25:02I had to use it as a weapon.
25:04Great loss to science.
25:06Unless I can restore it.
25:09My father.
25:10All is well now, Joker.
25:25Champion!
25:26The Wonder Horse!
25:28Champion!
25:29The Wonder Horse!
25:35Like a streak of lightning flashing across the sky.
25:38Like the swiftest arrow whizzing from a bow.
25:41Like a mighty cannon ball he seems to fly.
25:45You'll hear about him everywhere you go.
25:49The time will come when everyone will know the name of Champion!
25:54The Wonder Horse!
25:56Champion!
25:57The Wonder Horse!