The Young Riders: Season 02 (1990)

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Season Two of The Young Riders finds a few changes of personnel around and about the Pony Express station run by crusty old Teaspoon Hunter (Anthony Zerbe in pre-Civil War Sweetwater, Wyoming. Youthful riders The Kid (Ty Miller, Billy Cody (Stephen Baldwin, Jimmy Hickok (Josh Brolin, Ike McSawain (Travis Fine), and Buck Cross (Gregg Rainwater) are still delivering the mail despite obstacles far more daunting that sleet, snow and hail; likewise, the service's sole female member Lou McCloud (Yvonne Suhor) is still disguising herself as a boy for the sake of convenience, though by this time The Kid has tumbled to her secret and has fallen in love with her. New to the service is a freeborn black teenager named Noah Dixon (Don Franklin); also joining the cast is the station's enigmatic new cook Rachel Dunn (Claire Wren), replacing the previous season's Emma Shannon, who has run off with amorous Marshal Sam Cain. Highlight this season include revelations about Teaspoon's unsavory past; the Riders' efforts to fight a cholera epidemic, and to save an innocent man from lynching in the process; Jimmy Hickok's brief tenure as sheriff in a wide-open town, where he half-hopes to be killed for accidentally causing the death of a young woman; and the end of the trail for local storekeeper William Tompkins' (Don Collier) search for his wife and child, kidnapped years earlier by the Sioux. In an intriguing bit of casting, onetime Bonanza regular Pernell Roberts appears as the burned-out idol of the impressionable Billy Cody; and later on, Richard Roundtree of Shaft fame shows up as the mentor of Noah Dixon, determined to save his former pupil from being sold into slavery. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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