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Season guide

The Young Riders: Season 2

22 episodes Premiered Sep 22, 1990
Previously on The Young Riders

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Young Riders Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (19): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Born to Hang

Sep 22, 1990

The riders try to recapture gold stolen from Stagecoach Sally, a woman spearheading a venture to send escaped slaves to Africa.

S2·E2 Core

Ghosts

Sep 29, 1990

The ""ghost"" of one of Teaspoon's victims returns for revenge.

S2·E3 Core

Dead Ringer

Oct 6, 1990

Hickok sets out to catch a vicious gunman impersonating him.

S2·E4 Core

Blood Moon

Oct 13, 1990

Fear of a cholera outbreak turns the citizens of Sweetwater into a mob intent on lynching a deaf-mute boy suspected of being the carrier.

S2·E5 Core

Pride and Prejudice

Oct 27, 1990

Buck finds Tompkins' long-missing wife and child assimilated into the Sioux tribe which took them.

S2·E6 Core

The Littlest Cowboy

Nov 3, 1990

Ike, bitter after being beaten by men who take advantage of his handicap, befriends Arthur, a terminally ill boy.

S2·E7 Core

Blood Money

Nov 10, 1990

The Kid catches Dyson, a would-be horse thief, who apparently hangs himself while in the custody of a corrupt marshal.

S2·E8 Core

Requiem for a Hero

Nov 17, 1990

Cody meets and learns from his doomed Old West hero Hezekiah Horn.

S2·E9 Core

Bad Company

Dec 1, 1990

Hickok leaves to become sheriff of the lawless town of Regrets, haoping to meet death quickly as retribution for accidentally killing a young woman during a gunfight.

S2·E10 Core

Star Light, Star Bright

Dec 15, 1990

At Chrismastime the riders believe they own half a gold mine as repayment for Hickok's kindness to old prospector Cyrus.

S2·E11 Core

The Play's the Thing

Dec 29, 1990

Cody considers joining a theater troupe, and unknowingly enters a ploat to assassinate a U.S. General.

S2·E12 Core

Judgement Day

Jan 5, 1991

Still affected by Hezekiah Horn's death, Cody seeks guidance from a preacher-vigilante.

S2·E13 Core

Kansas

Jan 12, 1991

Noah is taken into slavery when he tries to free his former teacher Calvin (Roundtree).

S2·E14 Core

The Peacemakers

Jan 19, 1991

Hickok falls for Alice, a woman from an ostracized religious group, and settles an old score with a gunfighter named Tyler.

S2·E15 Core

Daisy

Feb 2, 1991

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