As of July 2026, Centennial Season 1 aired in 1978 with 12 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Centennial Season 1

1978 12 Episodes Action & Adventure · Drama ⭐ 8/10

Right now you can watch Centennial Season 1 on streaming — and it moves faster than most of the genre's competition. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. 38 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Robert Conrad anchors the chaos with real screen presence. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

There is a reason Centennial Season 1 keeps coming up in conversation. Centennial Season 1 moves fast and earns its action sequences rather than just delivering them. Season 1 of Centennial includes 12 episodes. It aired from October 1978 to February 1979. This season stars Robert Conrad, Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Burr. Robert Conrad and Richard Chamberlain lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1978. The action sequences are expensive-looking without drawing attention to their own budget — they serve the story rather than interrupting it. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

The genre has a long history of front-loading its best moments — Centennial Season 1 is not one of those. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Robert Conrad anchors the chaos with real screen presence. Every set piece here is doing more than one job at once.

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🎬 Centennial Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
Only the Rocks Live Forever
1978-10-01
A feisty Quebec trapper meets Arapaho Chief Lame Beaver in his travels throughout the American West. Thus beginning a series of relationships that create a timeline of adventures from the late 1700's to the 20th century. On a trip to St. Louis to sell his wares, he encounters the wealthy silversmith...
E2
The Yellow Apron
1978-10-08
In spite of mounting tensions between the races, Pasquinel, McKeag and the Indians continue a profitable releationship in trading. Clay Basket bears Pasquinel two sons, Jacques and Marcel, while back in St. Louis, Lise gives birth to Pasquinel's daughter, Lisette. Pasquinel continues his obsessiv...
E3
The Wagon and the Elephant
1978-10-28
1845: In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, young Mennonite Levi Zendt heads out west with his bride-to-be Elly Zamm. On the wagon train and in St. Louis they meet young English writer Oliver Seccombe and Army Captain Maxwell Mercy - who is married to Lisette, Pasquinel's daughter. McKeag weds Clay Basket...
E4
For as Long as the Water Flows
1978-11-04
Driven by the grief over his wife's death, Levi boards himself up in the desolate cabin once used by McKeag and Pasquinel in their early trapping days. Clay Basket and McKeag soon send their daughter Lucinda to bring him to their home. Eventually, Levi and Lucinda fall in love and marry. Mean...
E5
The Massacre
1978-11-11
1861: War sweeps the country, the Civil War in the North and South, in the West the Pasquinel brothers, Jacques and Marcel are raiding and murdering soldiers and homesteaders. Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn, an officer in the Wyoming militia arrives in Centennial with intent on killing all Indians.
E6
The Longhorns
1978-12-03
Representing a group of British investors, Oliver Seccombe arrives in Centennial with money to start a cattle ranch. He hires John Skimmerhorn to get some men and launch a large cattle drive to the West's largest cattle ranch, the Venneford. Skimmerhorn hires R.J. Poteet, an experienced trail bos...
E7
The Shepherds
1978-12-10
The late 1800's, Hans Brumbaugh leads the farmers in the war against the wealthy ranchers and cattlemen led by Oliver Seccombe. Messmore Garrett settles in Centennial with thousands of sheep and more competition against the cattlemen. The new sheriff, Dumire can't stop the fight from both sides. Cha...
E8
The Storm
1979-01-14
Mervin Wendell, his wife Maude and son Philip, a theatrical / professional con man comes to Centennial. Jim Lloyd is in love with Levi Zendt's beautiful, but wild daughter Clemma and pursues her. Meanwhile, the British investors have sent Scottish accountant Finlay Perkin to the Venneford Ranch...
E9
The Crime
1979-01-21
The Wendells easily con the people of Centennial, while blackmailing Reverend Holly. The Wendell son, Philip idolizes Sheriff Dumire, who is investegating the disappearance and possible murder of a traveling businessman, carrying a briefcase full of money. Newly widowed Charlotte Seccombe, re...
E10
The Winds of Fortune
1979-01-28
Charlotte Seccombe and Jim Lloyd fall in love, while Zendt's troubled daughter Clemma returns. The notorious Pettis gang arrive for a showdown with Sheriff Dumire. Hans Brumbaugh's Japanese laborers quit him to follow after their own dreams of owning their own farms.
E11
The Winds of Death
1979-02-03
Early 1900's, Mervin Wendell has become a real estate tycoon by selling promises on land that barely produces any growth to young naive families from the East. While Charlotte Lloyd takes up the Mexican residents' cause at defending their rights.
E12
The Scream of Eagles
1979-02-04
1978: Historian Professor Lew Vernor and writer Sidney Enderman arrive to do a article on Centennial. Paul Garrett, the current owner of the Venneford Ranch and a direct descendant of Pasquinel, tells them the history of the town. Morgan Wendell, son of Philip is running for the newly formed o...

🎭 Cast of Centennial Season 1

Robert Conrad
Robert Conrad
Pasquinel
Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain
Alexander McKeag
Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr
James Clark
Sally Kellerman
Sally Kellerman
Lise Bockweiss
Barbara Carrera
Barbara Carrera
Clay Basket
Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna
Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn
Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence
Sam Purchas
Alex Karras
Alex Karras
Hans Brumbaugh
Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Redgrave
Charlotte Buckland Seccombe
Chad Everett
Chad Everett
Major Maxwell Mercy

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