by Bruce Eder
synopsis
Virginia City finds itself under siege from a group of highly organized juvenile delinquents, all guided by a disturbed young man (Bob Biheller) who calls himself Napoleon. Raised by his dissolute uncle (Woodrow Parfrey), a professor with a drinking problem, the boy knows his history well, and plans to terrorize the countryside in the course of making himself master of his "army" of delinquent teens. Standing in his way are the Cartwrights, who keep interfering with his plans -- and caught between the two sides is Donny (Michael Burns), a fatherless teenager, friend of Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene), and one of Napoleon's new recruits, who is tired of being treated like a boy by his mother but who also doesn't want to see anyone hurt.
