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Thu, Oct 5, 1961
Travis hires Toby Mills, an alcoholic who was once a great lion tamer, to work for the circus. The show's current big cat tamer, who is as brutal to his employees and wife as he is to his animals, takes pleasure in tormenting the man for his past failures, ultimately leading to a fateful confrontation in cage with an angry lion.
Thu, Oct 12, 1961
The land leased for a week's worth of circus performances turns out to be owned by the estranged husband and son of Casey Thompson's star attraction - female sharpshooter. Bonnie's mixed emotions about seeing her child nearly causes disaster when she shoots her assistant by accident during a performance.
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Thu, Oct 19, 1961
When outlaws steal the circus' receipts and beat Casey Thompson in the process, Ben Travis mounts the nearest horse, a highly trained Lippizan stallion and sets off in hot pursuit. When the horse is killed in the effort, Travis commences a search to find a suitable replacement for the stallion's lovely trainer.
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Thu, Oct 26, 1961
The circus troupe turns on Casey Thompson when he dismisses the physician he has just hired, a Dr. Sam Applewhite, immediately after learning that "he" was actually a woman doctor. When one of his performers cracks her skull, Dr. Sam proves her worth by performing an emergency operation to save the young woman's life.
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Thu, Nov 16, 1961
Desperate to get an elephant, Casey Thompson travels far into the hinterlands to pick up a pachyderm he purchased from another wilderness circus went out of business. Upon arrival he discovers an additional expense he hadn't counted on - the elephant was almost literally eating the livery stable owner out of house and home. Unable to meet the feed bill, Casey and the livery stable owner must travel across to hostile territory on the beast to obtain the necessary funds to pay off his debt.
Thu, Nov 23, 1961
Casey and Ben decide to journey to sunny California for the circus' winter quarters. They must get across the mountain passes before they are trapped by the first snow of winter, but their journey is hindered by ranchers who try to hire their men and horse thieves who run off their stock.
Thu, Nov 30, 1961
The Thompson and Travis Circus arrives in the remote town of Purgatory, hoping to play before hundreds of miners. The town appears to be devoid of potential customers, though, and when Travis and Gentry make a play for a pretty girl, her suspicious brother and his men capture the two men and force them to join the enslaved Chinese laborers forced to work in a nearby mine.
Thu, Dec 7, 1961
Thompson discovers the circus' remaining food supply has been tainted when his tightrope walker is struck down by food poisoning. Two weeks in any direction from the nearest point of resupply, the showmen must become buffalo hunters and come into conflict with white men with competing interests and Indians led by Quannah Parker who want the buffalo for their own needs.