Mackenzie's Raiders Full Episodes 35 - Captured in Mexico
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Fugitive war criminal
Kenneth Jackman captures two of Mackenzie's raiders and holds them prisoner in his
Mexican hideout. One of the prisoners escapes and makes his way back to
Fort Clark, prompting Col. Mackenzie to ride south in search of both Jackman and the still-imprisoned trooper. Jackman's scouts spot the search party and spring to the attack. Col. Mackenzie leads a hell-for-leather charge into the renegade hideout.
About Mackenzie's Raiders:
Set at
Fort Clark, Texas in the year 1873, this was the story US
4th Cavalry officer
Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie (
Richard Carlson) who formed a band of raiders to battle bandits and outlaws who attacked settlements along the
Rio Grande river between
Mexico and the US.
Mackenzie organized his raiders under a secret communiqué from
President US Grant who wanted to "Bring law and order back to
Texas" and "Make the border region "a fit place for
Americans to live!"
Soldiers interacting with Colonel Mackenzie included:
Richard Carlson as Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie
George Gilbreth as
Lieutenant Tom Paxon
Craig Duncan as
Sergeant Banfield
Riley Hill as Sergeant
Fife
Dennis Moore as Sergeant Teal B
Charles Boaz as
Corporal Dixon
Rand Brooks as Corporal
Brown
Doug McClure as Corporal
Adam Davis
Jim
Bridges as
Private Lewis
Michael Vandever as
Young Trooper
Morris Ankrum as
Raider
Kenneth
Alton as Raider
Louis Jean Heydt as Raider
Brett King as Raider
Art Gilmore as
Narrator
Here is a list of some of Colonel Mackenzie's engagements with hostile forces along the Mexican
Border:
Col. Mackenzie captures
Indian Chief Monitu, but when armed gunslingers attack, Mackenzie and Monitu join forces to save each others lives.
Col. Mackenzie attack marauders who have been killing
Cavalry convoys with
Gatling gun fire.
Col. Mackenzie thwarts the plan of a crooked
Indian agent who encourages
Indian braves on the reservation to rob and terrorize the region.
Col. Mackenzie uses signaling mirrors to communicate across the distance to defeat bandits ambushing ammunition convoys going to the
Mexican government.
Col. Mackenzie's rescues a general's daughter who was taken hostage by a bandit who escaped from Fort Clark.
Col. Mackenzie's capture of an infamous outlaw motivates the man's brother to take a Mexican official hostage to exchange for his brother.
Col. Mackenzie is captured by a Mexican forces when discovered illegally crossing
International borders between
American and Mexico. Although caught, he never reveals his activities were directed by the
US president.
Col Mackenzie holds back Texans who want to invade Mexico during the unrest after the fall of
Maximillian.
Col. Mackenzie thwarts the plans of gunmen who steal medical supplies needed to cure Cholera.
Col. Mackenzie inadvertently offends sacred tribal law when he comes to the aid of an
Indian left to die in the desert.
Col. Mackenzie infiltrates a band of renegades posing as soldiers who are raiding army supply wagons and killing settlers near Fort Clark in Texas
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Col. Mackenzie surreptitiously returns a white boy raised as an
Apache back to the Indian lifestyle that he prefers.
Col. Mackenzie thwarts a plan of outlaws to take over a ranch the is now on Mexican soil due to a
Hurricane changing the course of the river.
Col. Mackenzie comes to the rescue of a town where a land grabber is killing off ranchers and buying up auctioned properties at rock bottom prices.
Col. Mackenzie is confronted with a disgruntled rancher who resents a plan to teach
Indians how to farm on land he wanted.
Col. Mackenzie is ordered into Mexico to capture a former general who wants to overthrow Mexico and attack the US.
Col. Mackenzie must stop a revenge motivated scalping party put together by a grieving rancher whose son was killed by renegade
Apaches.
Col. Mackenzie is confronted with a revenge scheme from a man whom Mackenzie had court-martialed years ago.
Col. Mackenzie must rescue a captured news reporter who threatens to reveal Mackenzie's secret
Presidential mandate.
Col. Mackenzie uses photographic evidence to uncover a murderer and stop a potential range war brewing over the preference of long-horned verses short-horned cattle.
Col. Mackenzie enters Mexico to capture outlaws using their headquarters as a staging ground to attack Texas stagecoaches.
Col. Mackenzie must bring down a gunman and lawyer who are taking control of
Brackettville, the town next to Fort Clark.
Col. Mackenzie uses dynamite to return water horded by a rancher who wants to create his own empire.
Col. Mackenzie is attacked by
Comanche's encouraged by the defeat of
Custer at
Little Big Horn.
Col. Mackenzie must protect a survey party planning a national road through Texas by a rancher and his renegade supporters.
Col. Mackenzie tracks down a renegade ex-Army
Major responsible for an
Indian massacre who is on a killing spree.