Death Valley Days (1952)

Name: Death Valley Days
Genre: Western
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Dale Robertson

Western

Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975. The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.

IMDb rating: 7.5 (1,310 votes)
Episode average: 7.8 ↑ +0.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 18
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 18 seasons indexed

Cast

Dale Robertson Self - Host

Seasons

Season 1 (1952)

7.69 avg 18 episodes 7.8 → 8.5 25 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	How Death Valley Got Its Name	7.8	123
2	She Burns Green	7.8	90
3	The Death Valley Kid	7.8	72
4	The Lost Pegleg Mine	7.4	75
5	The Little Bullfrog Nugget	6.7	79
6	Self Made Man	7.9	61
7	The Chivaree	7.1	60
8	The Little Dressmaker of Bodie	7.5	73
9	Cynthy's Dream Dress	7.7	66
10	The Rival Hash Houses	8.0	64
11	The Lady with the Blue Silk Umbrella	7.9	62
12	Swamper Ike	8.2	64
13	The Bell of San Gabriel	7.7	63
14	Claim Jumpin' Jennie	7.9	61
15	The Bandits of Panamint	7.5	60
16	Sego Lilies	7.2	89
17	Little Oscar's Millions	7.8	64
18	Land of the Free	8.5	72

Season 2 (1953)

7.79 avg 18 episodes 8.1 → 7.9 25 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Diamond Babe	8.1	71
2	Little Washington	7.0	85
3	Solomon in All His Glory	7.9	61
4	Which Side of the Fence	7.6	45
5	Whirlwind Courtship	7.2	51
6	Dear Teacher	8.1	82
7	One in a Hundred	7.9	55
8	Little Papeete	7.2	54
9	Lotta Crabtree	8.1	66
10	Yaller	7.8	47
11	The Twelve Pound Nugget	7.7	52
12	Jimmy Dayton's Treasure	7.7	55
13	Snowshoe Thompson	8.3	72
14	Husband Pro-Tem	7.3	60
15	The Kickapoo Run	8.6	64
16	Sixth Sense	8.2	64
17	The Rainbow Chaser	7.7	59
18	Mr. Godiva	7.9	60

Season 3 (1954)

7.70 avg 18 episodes 6.9 → 7.6 25 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Saint's Portrait	6.9	57
2	11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong	7.8	55
3	Halfway Girl	7.5	50
4	Black Bart The PO8	8.0	57
5	The Light on the Mountain	8.1	55
6	To Big Charlie from Little Charlie	8.2	59
7	Sequoia	8.0	57
8	Lola Montez	6.3	55
9	The Big Team Rolls	8.1	55
10	Death and Taxes	7.9	62
11	Riggs and Riggs	7.3	54
12	Million Dollar Wedding	8.4	66
13	Love 'Em and Leave 'Em	7.6	53
14	The Seventh Day	7.7	53
15	The Mormon's Grindstone	8.0	50
16	Death Valley Scotty	7.8	53
17	The Crystal Gazer	7.4	53
18	I Am Joaquin	7.6	49

Season 4 (1955)

7.83 avg 21 episodes 8.2 → 7.9 25 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Reno	8.2	50
2	The Valencia Cake	7.1	50
3	A Killing in Diamonds	7.6	45
4	The Homeliest Man in Nevada	8.2	58
5	Miracle of the Sea Gulls	7.7	52
6	Wildcat's First Piano	8.5	48
7	California's First Ice Man	8.5	48
8	The Hangman Waits	8.2	47
9	Gold Is Where You Find It	8.1	46
10	The Man Who'd Bet on Anything	7.6	46
11	The Baron of Arizona	7.2	50
12	Nevada's Plymouth Rock	7.7	42
13	The Hoodoo Mine	8.2	50
14	Mr. Bigfoot	7.6	51
15	Escape	7.8	54
16	Two Bits	7.9	56
17	Bill Bottle's Birthday	7.7	50
18	The Sinbuster	7.9	47
19	Pay Dirt	8.0	45
20	The Longest Beard in the World	6.9	44
21	Emperor Norton	7.9	43

Season 5 (1956)

7.48 avg 17 episodes 8.1 → 7.8 25 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Faro Bill's Layout	8.1	49
2	The Bear Flag	7.3	45
3	Pat Garrett's Side of It	6.7	47
4	The Hidden Treasure of Cucamonga	7.3	47
5	Loggerheads	7.2	44
6	The Rose of Rhyolite	6.8	44
7	The Last Letter	7.4	108
8	Year of Destiny	7.5	51
9	Mercer Girl	7.6	46
10	California's Paul Revere	7.8	42
11	The Trial of Red Haskell	7.8	43
12	The Washington Elm	7.5	44
13	The Rosebush of Tombstone	8.1	49
14	The Luck of the Irish	7.4	49
15	Lady Engineer	7.1	41
16	Train of Events	7.7	44
17	The Man Who Was Never Licked	7.8	39

Season 6 (1957)

7.64 avg 25 episodes 7.2 → 7.6 25 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Gold Rush in Reverse	7.2	45
2	Camel Train	8.0	45
3	California's First Schoolmarm	7.5	38
4	Arsenic Springs	7.1	44
5	Fifty Years a Mystery	8.2	46
6	Fifteen Paces to Fame	7.2	40
7	The Calico Dog	7.8	43
8	Rough and Ready	7.5	42
9	The Last Bad Man	7.1	35
10	The Greatest Scout of All	7.0	41
11	Empire of Youth	7.5	39
12	Wheel of Fortune	8.2	40
13	Man on the Run	7.0	37
14	Birth of a Boom	7.7	36
15	Yankee Pirate	7.6	40
16	Ten in Texas	7.6	46
17	Auto Intoxication	7.8	48
18	Two-Gun Nan	7.8	46
19	Cockeyed Charlie Parkhurst	8.3	44
20	The Great Amulet	7.6	40
21	The Telescope Eye	8.0	43
22	The Mystery of Suicide Gulch	8.4	39
23	The Big Rendezvous	7.7	43
24	The Girl Who Walked with a Giant	7.5	39
25	Jerkline Jitters	7.6	37

Season 7 (1957)

7.69 avg 33 episodes 8.0 → 8.5 25 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Head of the House	8.0	47
2	The Capture	7.7	41
3	Ship of No Return	7.1	41
4	The Moving Out of Minnie	8.2	49
5	The Red Flannel Shirt	7.4	47
6	Big Liz	8.5	46
7	Thorn of the Rose	7.9	42
8	The Jackass Mail	7.9	44
9	Perilous Cargo	8.1	39
10	The Gambler and the Lady	7.8	42
11	Quong Kee	7.9	34
12	Old Gabe	8.1	47
13	The Gunsmith	7.4	45
14	A Piano Goes West	7.6	40
15	A Bullet for the Captain	7.4	37
16	A Town Is Born	7.8	41
17	Sailor on a Horse	6.9	43
18	Gold Lake	7.4	39
19	Wheelbarrow Johnny	7.8	51
20	Stagecoach Spy	8.0	50
21	Eruption at Volcano	7.2	40
22	Price of a Passport	7.5	40
23	Pioneer Circus	7.6	44
24	The Invaders	6.8	42
25	The Blonde King	7.2	40
26	The Newspaper That Went to Jail	7.8	39
27	Old Blue	8.1	38
28	Perilous Refuge	7.5	35
29	The Talking Wire	7.6	41
30	RX: Slow Death	8.5	44
31	Half a Loaf	7.2	39
32	Valley of Danger	7.3	34
33	Forty Steps to Glory	8.5	43

Season 8 (1959)

8.03 avg 38 episodes 7.4 → 8.6 25 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Olvera	7.4	37
2	"Gates Ajar" Morgan	7.5	41
3	Sam Kee and Uncle Sam	8.3	38
4	The Grand Duke	8.2	37
5	Fair Exchange	7.6	35
6	The Scalpel and the Gun	7.8	34
7	Indian Emily	7.8	40
8	Hang 'Em High	7.8	40
9	Tribal Justice	7.9	37
10	The Little Trooper	8.6	43
11	Ten Feet of Nothing	8.6	44
12	Lady of the Press	8.5	39
13	The Reluctant Gun	8.3	42
14	His Brother's Keeper	8.1	41
15	The Devil's Due	7.9	36
16	Money to Burn	8.1	38
17	Dogs of the Mist	7.8	36
18	A Wedding Dress	8.5	35
19	Shadows on the Window	7.7	34
20	The Battle of Mokelumne Hill	7.9	34
21	The Strangers	7.4	34
22	Goodbye Five Hundred Pesos	7.6	34
23	Forbidden Wedding	7.4	38
24	One Man Tank	8.2	37
25	The Man on the Road	8.0	43
26	The Man Everyone Hated	8.0	37
27	The General Who Disappeared	8.0	40
28	The Million Dollar Pants	8.7	42
29	Pirates of San Francisco	8.1	35
30	A Woman's Rights	7.8	38
31	Eagle in the Rocks	8.3	38
32	Cap'n Pegleg	8.1	42
33	Emma Is Coming	8.2	38
34	Human Sacrifice	7.8	40
35	Pete Kitchen's Wedding Night	7.8	38
36	Mission to the Mountains	8.1	42
37	The Great Lounsberry Scoop	8.6	43
38	Somewhere in the Vultures	8.6	38

Season 9 (1960)

7.94 avg 30 episodes 8.1 → 8.3 25 min avg

Rebound

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pamela's Oxen	8.1	45
2	Splinter Station	8.2	44
3	Queen of the High Graders	7.9	41
4	Devil's Bar	7.5	36
5	Learnin' at Dirty Devil	7.8	33
6	Yankee Confederate	7.5	39
7	The Gentle Sword	7.9	36
8	Extra Guns	8.1	49
9	The White Healer	7.8	36
10	The Wind at Your Back	8.1	37
11	3-7-77	8.0	38
12	A Girl Named Virginia	8.2	44
13	City of Widows	7.7	34
14	The Young Gun	8.2	34
15	The Lady Was an M.D.	8.1	42
16	The Salt War	7.0	35
17	The Madstone	7.2	38
18	Deadline at Austin	7.7	43
19	South of Horror Flats	8.1	43
20	Gamble with Death	8.3	39
21	White Gold	8.5	42
22	Dead Man's Tale	7.5	40
23	Who's Fer Divide?	7.9	39
24	Dangerous Crossing	7.8	36
25	Death Ride	8.2	28
26	Loophole	8.3	34
27	The Red Petticoat	8.0	33
28	The Stolen City	8.1	38
29	General Without a Cause	8.1	33
30	The Deserters	8.3	37

Season 10 (1961)

7.95 avg 26 episodes 7.8 → 7.2 25 min avg

Bad finale

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Queen of Spades	7.8	36
2	The Holdup-Proof Safe	8.0	30
3	Lieutenant Bungle	7.7	34
4	The Third Passenger	7.8	36
5	Trial by Fear	8.0	34
6	Alias James Stuart	8.0	36
7	Storm Over Truckee	8.0	35
8	The Treasure of Elk Creek Canyon	8.4	37
9	A Bullet for the D.A.	7.8	34
10	The Watch	7.7	40
11	Miracle at Boot Hill	7.5	31
12	The Truth Teller	8.0	35
13	A Sponge Full of Vinegar	8.4	33
14	Experiment in Fear	8.1	33
15	Miracle at Whiskey Gulch	8.1	38
16	Feud at Dome Rock	8.0	31
17	Justice at Jackson Creek	7.7	34
18	Preacher with a Past	7.5	32
19	Abel Duncan's Dying Wish	8.1	34
20	Matter of Honor	8.4	40
21	The Breaking Point	7.9	41
22	Girl with a Gun	7.8	38
23	Way Station	8.3	34
24	The Unshakable Man	8.5	35
25	Showdown at Kamaaina Flats	8.0	34
26	La Tules	7.2	32

Season 11 (1962)

8.18 avg 26 episodes 7.9 → 8.3 25 min avg

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Hangtown Fry	7.9	37
2	The $275,000 Sack of Flour	8.1	36
3	Suzie	8.2	50
4	Fort Bowie: Urgent	7.9	38
5	The Hat That Wore the West	8.8	49
6	The Last Shot	8.6	45
7	To Walk with Greatness	7.9	55
8	The Grass Man	7.9	53
9	Davy's Friend	7.5	52
10	Bloodline	8.4	38
11	The Vintage Years	8.1	36
12	The Private Mint of Clark, Gruber and Co.	8.7	48
13	Loss of Faith	7.9	41
14	Pioneer Doctor	8.3	37
15	Stubborn Mule Hill	7.6	37
16	A Gun Is Not a Gentleman	8.4	45
17	The Lion of Idaho	8.3	36
18	The Debt	8.1	33
19	The Train and Lucy Tutaine	8.5	43
20	Grotto of Death	8.8	42
21	Diamond Jim Brady	7.6	40
22	Phantom Procession	7.9	38
23	With Honesty and Integrity	8.2	41
24	Coffin for a Coward	8.4	41
25	Shadow of Violence	8.4	48
26	The Melancholy Gun	8.3	43

Season 12 (1963)

7.79 avg 26 episodes 7.6 → 7.7 25 min avg

Season 12 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Thar She Blows	7.6	49
2	Measure of a Man	7.8	45
3	A Kingdom for a Horse	8.4	56
4	Diamond Field Jack	8.4	41
5	Deadly Decision	7.4	50
6	The Man Who Died Twice	7.1	42
7	The Holy Terror	7.9	39
8	The Peacemaker	7.6	45
9	Three Minutes to Eternity	7.7	51
10	The Red Ghost of Eagle Creek	7.3	37
11	Graydon's Charge	8.0	50
12	Little Cayuse	8.1	47
13	The Wooing of Perilous Pauline	7.2	47
14	Sixty-Seven Miles of Gold	8.3	36
15	The Paper Dynasty	7.9	41
16	The Westside of Heaven	7.9	37
17	The Hastings Cut-off	7.8	38
18	Law of the Round Tent	7.9	39
19	The Bigger They Are	7.9	42
20	The Last Stagecoach Robbery	7.1	48
21	A Book of Spanish Grammar	7.8	36
22	Trial at Belle's Springs	8.0	35
23	After the OK Corral	8.2	36
24	The Quiet and the Fury	8.0	40
25	See the Elephant and Hear the Owl	7.6	36
26	The Streets of El Paso	7.7	33

Season 13 (1964)

7.76 avg 26 episodes 7.6 → 7.7 25 min avg

Season 13 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Honor the Name Dennis Driscoll	7.6	53
2	The Lucky Cow	7.4	53
3	Big John and the Rainmaker	7.7	46
4	From the Earth, a Heritage	7.4	50
5	The Other White Man	8.0	52
6	The Hero of Fort Halleck	7.6	50
7	The Left Hand Is Damned	7.0	54
8	There Was Another Dalton Brother	7.7	52
9	Tribute to the Dog	8.6	82
10	The $25,000 Wager	8.0	48
11	A Bargain Is for Keeping	7.8	48
12	Peter the Hunter	8.0	51
13	Paid in Full	7.9	38
14	A Bell for Volcano	7.7	42
15	The Trouble with Taxes	8.4	46
16	The Race at Cherry Creek	7.6	44
17	Death in the Desert	7.0	43
18	Raid on the San Francisco Mint	7.8	50
19	Magic Locket	8.0	50
20	The Battle of San Francisco Bay	7.6	60
21	The Wild West's Biggest Train Holdup	7.5	54
22	No Gun Behind His Badge	7.8	75
23	Fighting Sky Pilot	8.3	51
24	The Journey	7.8	50
25	Kate Melville and the Law	7.9	50
26	Birthright	7.7	45

Season 14 (1965)

7.61 avg 26 episodes 8.2 → 7.5 25 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 14 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Temporary Warden	8.2	63
2	Captain Dick Mine	7.4	44
3	The Lawless Have Laws	7.9	57
4	The Great Turkey War	7.6	45
5	The Rider	7.8	46
6	Traveling Trees	7.9	46
7	No Place for a Lady	7.1	52
8	A City Is Born	6.8	54
9	The Book	8.0	56
10	Mrs. Romney and the Outlaws	8.0	39
11	Dry Water Sailors	8.1	46
12	Devil's Gate	7.6	49
13	The Red Shawl	7.4	45
14	A Picture of a Lady	8.2	48
15	Canary Harris vs. the Almighty	7.5	44
16	The Fastest Nun in the West	6.4	45
17	The Fight San Francisco Never Forgot	7.8	43
18	The Courtship of Carrie Huntington	8.0	50
19	Water Bringer	7.3	43
20	Crullers at Sundown!	7.4	44
21	Hugh Glass Meets the Bear	7.2	47
22	The Firebrand	7.3	41
23	The Hat That Huldah Wore	7.4	44
24	The Four Dollar Law Suit	8.8	55
25	An Organ for Brother Brigham	7.3	40
26	Lady of the Plains	7.5	54

Season 15 (1966)

7.67 avg 26 episodes 7.3 → 8.4 25 min avg

Season 15 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Day All Marriages Were Cancelled	7.3	46
2	The Solid Gold Cavity	7.5	44
3	The Resurrection of Deadwood Dick	8.5	46
4	Brute Angel	7.9	44
5	A Sense of Justice	6.7	40
6	The Lady and the Sourdough	8.0	43
7	The Kid from Hell's Kitchen	7.8	47
8	Samaritans--Mountain Style	7.5	44
9	One Fast Injun	7.5	46
10	The Jolly Roger and Wells Fargo	7.6	43
11	The Hero of Apache Pass	7.8	43
12	The Gypsy	7.4	42
13	A Calamity Called Jane	7.6	45
14	Doc Holliday's Gold Bars	8.1	43
15	Silver Tombstone	8.1	46
16	The Man Who Didn't Want Gold	7.5	38
17	Halo for a Badman	7.2	50
18	A Wrangler's Last Ride	7.2	44
19	The Man Who Wouldn't Die	7.6	34
20	The Saga of Dr. Davis	7.5	40
21	Major Horace Bell	7.8	39
22	The Day They Stole the Salamander	7.4	39
23	Siege at Amelia's Kitchen	8.4	54
24	Solid Foundation	7.2	37
25	Along Came Mariana	8.0	44
26	A Man Called Abraham	8.4	46

Season 16 (1967)

7.62 avg 26 episodes 7.2 → 6.8 25 min avg

Season 16 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Shanghai Kelly's Birthday Party	7.2	49
2	Chicken Bill	7.4	43
3	Let My People Go	7.4	38
4	The Lone Grave	8.0	37
5	The Girl Who Walked the West	7.7	45
6	The Informer Who Cried	7.6	44
7	Spring Rendezvous	7.8	45
8	Lost Sheep in Trinidad	7.3	34
9	The Saga of Sadie Orchard	7.5	39
10	The Indiana Girl	7.7	48
11	Prince of the Oyster Pirates	7.6	46
12	The Friend	8.1	47
13	The Great Diamond Mines	7.4	48
14	Count Me In, Count Me Out	7.3	37
15	Dress for a Desert Girl	7.8	51
16	Britta Goes Home	7.6	41
17	Bread on the Desert	7.7	43
18	Green Is the Color of Gold	8.4	44
19	Out of the Valley of Death	7.8	37
20	The Gold Mine on Main Street	8.2	45
21	A Friend Indeed	7.8	40
22	The Thirty-Caliber Town	6.9	41
23	The Other Side of the Mountain	7.8	40
24	By the Book	7.8	42
25	The Pieces of the Puzzle	7.6	42
26	Tall Heart, Short Temper	6.8	37

Season 17 (1968)

7.71 avg 26 episodes 8.1 → 7.5 25 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 17 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Secret of the Black Prince	8.1	38
2	The Leprechaun of Last Chance Gulch	7.9	40
3	Ton of Tin	8.3	39
4	The Sage Hen	7.8	49
5	The Other Cheek	8.2	47
6	A Mule... Like the Army's Mule	7.8	40
7	Lottie's Legacy	7.6	41
8	Lady with a Past	8.1	57
9	A Shortcut Through Tombstone	7.4	42
10	Up the Chimney	7.3	29
11	The World's Greatest Swimming Horse	8.1	41
12	Ten Day Millionaires	7.8	39
13	A Restless Man	7.9	43
14	A Gift	7.1	37
15	Solomon's Glory	7.5	33
16	The Understanding	7.6	41
17	Long Night at Fort Lonely	7.8	44
18	Here Stands Bailey	8.2	47
19	Angel of Tombstone	7.0	37
20	A Full House	6.8	34
21	How to Beat a Badman	7.3	33
22	A Key for the Fort	8.1	39
23	Drop Out	6.9	32
24	The Oldest Law	8.2	38
25	Lucia Darling and the Ostrich	8.1	36
26	Jimmy Dayton's Bonanza	7.5	40

Season 18 (1969)

7.70 avg 26 episodes 7.8 → 7.4 25 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 18 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Taming of Trudy Bell	7.8	39
2	Tracy's Triumph	8.1	37
3	Old Stape	6.9	43
4	The Tenderfoot	7.3	41
5	Biscuits and Billy, the Kid	8.0	47
6	Son of Thunder	8.0	41
7	The Lady Doctor	7.2	33
8	The Great Pinto Bean Gold Hunt	7.7	37
9	The Visitor	8.1	34
10	The King of Uvalde Road	7.4	40
11	The Mezcla Man	8.0	41
12	Pioneer Pluck	7.2	42
13	Simple Question of Justice	7.6	34
14	The Wizard of Aberdeen	8.0	37
15	The Dragon of Gold Hill	7.3	40
16	The Biggest Little Post Office in the World	7.6	42
17	A Saint of Travelers	7.3	30
18	Talk to Me, Charley	7.9	38
19	Amos and the Black Bull	7.1	32
20	The Man Who Planted Gold in California	8.0	33
21	The Solid Gold Pie	8.2	32
22	A Gift from Father Tapis	7.8	37
23	Clum's Constabulary	8.6	33
24	The Contract	7.6	38
25	The Duke of Tombstone	8.2	39
26	Early Candle Lighten	7.4	39