List of Paradise episodes

Ethan Allen Cord, a single gunman, is asked by his dying sister to take care of her four young children.

Ethan gives up on his guns and decides to try ranching. Three new troublemakers arrive to the town.

Amelia shoots and kills a bank robber. Ben accidentally kills a rabbit while playing with Ethan's gun.

John Taylor is the target of a lynch mob.

Claire is kidnapped by a mountain man and his son.

Ethan accidentally shoots Amelia.

Ethan and the boys are stranded in the desert at Christmas.

Claire befriends a young girl who has been sold into prostitution.
Note: Milla Jovovich as Katie

The mine manager sets out to buy up the town's businesses.

Wanted for murder in Texas, Ethan must decide whether to take the children and run or turn himself in.

Joseph considers joining a gang of outlaws.

Ethan and Amelia befriend a traveler who's lost his memory but slowly realizes that he was hired to kill Ethan.

With no cooperation from the townspeople, Ethan tries to uncover the truth behind a murder.

Robbers seize the hotel and threaten to kill the people.

John Taylor attempts to stop a lumber company from building a road over land he claims is his.

Ethan is blinded by hatred.

A rancher starts a range war when he hires a notorious gunslinger.
Notes: Chuck Connors as Gideon McKay

Ethan sobers up the gunslinger, who turns on Ethan in the water-rights war against the small ranchers.
Notes: Chuck Connors as Gideon McKay

Claire is bitten by a rabid wolf.

John Taylor tells the boys a story about a buried treasure. They find a map and strike out in search of the treasure. Claire and Joseph soon follow looking for them. Ethan and Amelia have to cut short a planned romantic get away to look for the kids.

Ethan rescues the Texas Ranger who once rescued him, but enrages the police chief who framed the Ranger.

Amelia's husband returns and stirs up trouble.

Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and other famous gunfighters join forces to break Ethan out of a New Mexico prison.
Notes: Johnny Crawford as Doug McKay

After a prison escape, Ethan is followed home by Wyatt Earp and by a reporter who wants to know the reason.

Ethan temporarily acts as marshal after Deputy Charlie is humiliated by a famous outlaw.
Notes: First appearance of Craig Bierko as Johnny Ryan.

Laid-off miners ambush Ethan and Amelia, who are on their way to Virginia City to deposit some great amount of money.

A woman seeks revenge on the railroad.

A brother and sister are separated when an orphan train comes through town.

After escaping the reservation, Chief Black Cloud returns with his tribe to his ancestral home, Paradise.
Notes: Nick Ramus as Chief Black Cloud

A live-in school teacher threatens Ethan and Amelia's courtship.
Notes: Crystal Bernard as the Teacher

Ben, George and Wade find gold on the ranch.

Johnny Ryan, the killer whose gang once sprang him from the Paradise jail, returns for revenge against Ethan.
Notes: Second appearance of Craig Bierko as Johnny Ryan.

The town comes down with smallpox.

Two strangers arrive to Paradise. First is an equestrian who has two grim appointments to keep before the New Year. The second - a simple youngster left in the forest.
Notes: First appearance of Patrick Labyorteaux as Jerome. Jerry Hardin as Uncle Peter

Ethan escorts dangerous criminal Dan Bishop to Paradise for trial.

Ethan helps guard opium shipments for the mine. The kids have a house guest named Edith.

Joseph's friend Frances is married to an abusive judge.

Ethan and Claire butt heads when a convicted murderer comes to town as the new minister.

Doug McKay gets Ethan involved in a range war without his knowledge. Amelia and Claire disapprove of it. Ethan is torn between helping his friend and measuring up to Amelia and Claire's expectations.
Notes: Chuck Connors as Gideon McKay, Johnny Crawford as Doug McKay

Jerome is on trial for the strangling of a young woman named Colleen.
Notes: Second appearance of Patrick Labyorteaux as Jerome

Ethan harbors a young deserter wanted by the Army for cowardice and by a mother who blames him for her son's death.
Notes: Matthew Laborteaux as Sam Devitt, K.T. Oslin as Lenore

Amelia encourages the town to invest in a trolley company that swindles the town. Ben and George build a flying machine.

Ethan and Amelia begin to make wedding plans. An explosion at the mine causes numerous deaths.

Paradise is booming thanks to a new copper mine.
Notes: Robert Fuller as the Marshal

Ethan pursues a murderer with the unwanted help of a bounty hunter. George struggles with his reading, and Ben faces a bully at school.

Ethan and Dakota go after a gang who tried to rob the Paradise bank. John Taylor is shot and needs Joseph to extract the bullet.

After yet another assassination attempt, Ethan finally travels to Texas to stand trial for murder.

Amelia is left with doubts when Ethan has to leave the wedding ceremony to go after a gang.

A drifter named Wick is suspected of murder.
Notes: To keep the chronological order, this episode should be watched after "The Bounty" (3.02).

Amelia and John Taylor send for a specialist when some of the Paradise residents come down with a mysterious illness.

The children's father, a gambler hoping to regain his inheritance rights, challenges Ethan for custody.

Ethan tries to determine who is responsible for a sudden series of murders.

Ethan catches a notorious woman outlaw and brings her back to stand trial for murder.

As the town marshal, Ethan is placed in a difficult position when his best friend John Taylor steals a museum exhibit and refuses to return it.

After going days without sleep, Ethan begins to wonder if his job as marshal is worth the petty aggravations.
Notes: Nicollette Sheridan as Lily

A vengeful gunfighter, Dan Bridges, comes after Ethan.