The Apple Dumpling Gang

Set in the year 1879, a slick gambler named Russell Donovan (Bill Bixby) arrives to town and finds himself duped into taking care of a trio of orphans. Donovan arranged a marriage with the stagecoach driver Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale (Susan Clark) so they could keep custody of the Bradley children. Donovan and Dusty keep the children as they use the reward money for Stillwell's arrest to buy a farm and on their way a reformed Amos and Theodore catches up with the newfound family asking for work as farmhands.