Episodes cast for
"The Americans" (1961) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1
Year: 1961

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Harper's Ferry

23 January 1961
The Canfield family finds itself split down the middle after the Civil War breaks out when Confederate forces attack the Union arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

Season 1, Episode 2: Rebellion at Blazing Rock

30 January 1961

Season 1, Episode 3: The Regular

6 February 1961
A regular-army sergeant is given the job of delivering badly needed guns to a volunteer unit. However, when he sees how badly trained the unit's soldiers are and how inexperienced its captain is, he refuses to complete the mission.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Rebellious Rose

13 February 1961

Season 1, Episode 5: On to Richmond

20 February 1961
Ben is having trouble with his soldiers, who are volunteers and not regular troops. They only signed up for a short time and don't take the war particularly seriously. In addition, Ben's captain his getting on his case because he believes a big battle is brewing and he doesn't want to fight it with ill-disciplined and unmotivated troops.

Season 1, Episode 6: Half Moon Road

27 February 1961
Jeff is taken deep into the back country on a potentially dangerous mission--recruiting sharpshooters for the Confederate army from among the reclusive and suspicious backwoods people.

Season 1, Episode 7: Reconnaissance

6 March 1961
A Union force is camped at Harper's Ferry, and Jeff is assigned to sneak through their lines to gather information. He discovers that his brother Ben is among the soldiers stationed there.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Escape

13 March 1961
Col. Fry and Ben are captured and sent to the Confederate POW camp at Libby Prison, where they get a taste of the harsh treatment meted out to prisoners by the camp commandant, Maj. Turner.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Guerrillas

20 March 1961
A band of guerrillas lays siege to a town that has been torn apart by the war.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Invaders

27 March 1961
After a Union force takes over a Confederate town, its captain orders the Confederate flag taken down. Outraged, an elderly resident of the town fires at him.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Gun

3 April 1961
Jeff is given the task of taking a unit out to capture as many Union cannons as he can, because the South is in desperate need of artillery.

Season 1, Episode 12: The Sentry

10 April 1961
Three men are picked to cross over enemy lines in Harper's Ferry and sabotage an important railroad trestle that will be used by a train supplying Union troops with much-needed ammunition.

Season 1, Episode 13: The Bounty Jumpers

17 April 1961
Ben goes undercover to gather evidence on a criminal ring that has its members enlist in the army for the monetary incentives, then smuggles them out of the camp once they've been paid.

Season 1, Episode 14: Long Way Back

24 April 1961
A group of Missour farmers capture Jeff, and he realizes the only hope he has of surviving is to escape.

Season 1, Episode 15: The War Between the States

1 May 1961
Ben finds himself in a quandary when his best friend falls for a Confederate girl.

Season 1, Episode 16: The Coward

8 May 1961
A soldier convicted of cowardice under fire and sentenced to death has his execution delayed. However, two of the soldiers in his company are determined to see the sentence carried out, even if they have to do it themselves.

Season 1, Episode 17: The Inquisitors

15 May 1961
Congress wants answers as to why the Battle of Ball's Bluff turned so disastrous, and a very angry Union officer believes he has them.