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COLLECTION · Series · 1958

Bronco

Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.

Source: TMDB
* 6.0 (8)WesternUnited States
Countries
United States
Studios
ABC
Runtime
60 min/ep
Age rating
TV-PG
Release
23/09/1958
Score
6.0 / 10 (8)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
20 episodes · 1958
Episode 1. The Besieged
1958-09-23 · 60 min

Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.

Episode 2. Quest of the Thirty Dead
1958-10-07 · 60 min

Bronco investigates a planned train wreck that killed one of his best friends.

Episode 3. The Turning Point
1958-10-21 · 60 min

Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.

Episode 4. Four Guns and a Prayer
1958-11-04 · 60 min

Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.

Episode 5. The Long Ride Back
1958-11-18 · 60 min

Bronco Layne returns to his Texas hometown after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War, but faces the hostility of townspeople who believe he's a traitor and a murderer who killed his fiancé's brother.

Episode 6. Trail to Taos
1958-12-02 · 60 min

Bronco tracks down a gang robbing stagecoaches and goes undercover to catch them in the act.

Episode 7. Brand of Courage
1958-12-16 · 60 min

Bronco lands in the middle of a range war when he tries to help nuns whose possession of a cattle ranch is opposed by other ranchers in the area.

Episode 8. Freeze-Out
1958-12-30 · 60 min

Bronco is hired to guide a writer to a ghost town, but repeated attempts on both their lives reveals her true purpose: to find a man buried in a nearby glacier.

Episode 9. The Baron of Broken Lance
1959-01-13 · 60 min

Bronco leads a wagon train through the wilderness but the danger comes from within as an old war buddy provokes a local cattle baron when he brings along the man's runaway daughter.

Episode 10. Payroll of the Dead
1959-01-27 · 60 min

Major Damayer hires Bronco to guide him into Indian territory to make a request of Sitting Bull.

Episode 11. Riding Solo
1959-02-10 · 60 min

Bronco is suspected of being a killer when he arrives in a town just after a stagecoach robbery committed by an old friend.

Episode 12. Borrowed Glory
1959-02-24 · 60 min

Bronco gets involved in blackmail and murder when a killer tagets a friend whose Congressional Medal of Honor may have been wrongly won.

Episode 13. The Silent Witness
1959-03-10 · 60 min

Bronco is framed for murder when the ruthless Traxel brothers and gangleader Willis Turner sets him up for the murder of his best friend. Only the testimony of a mute child can rescue Bronco from the gallows.

Episode 14. The Belles of Silver Flat
1959-03-24 · 60 min

Bronco is saved from a hired gun by the quick draw of the Reverend Dave Clayton, arousing suspicions that the preacher is really a gunman.

Episode 15. Backfire
1959-04-07 · 60 min

Sheriff McKeever is killed when his scheme to restore his gunslinging youth fails, leaving deputy Bronco to discover who was behind the backfire.

Episode 16. School for Cowards
1959-04-21 · 60 min

Bronco is hired to teach at a military academy but ends up searching for a would-be killer after a cadet's realization that he's half-Sioux prompts an attempt on his life.

Episode 17. Prairie Skipper
1959-05-05 · 60 min

Bronco's hired as trail-boss for a cattle drive and runs into trouble with a flirtatious woman who seems to have multiple husbands.

Episode 18. Shadow of a Man
1959-05-19 · 60 min

Furious at being pulled into a payroll robbery and murder, Bronco goes looking for the loot and the culprit as a posse chases him.

Episode 19. Hero of the Town
1959-06-02 · 60 min

Bronco tries to solve the murder of the town's most popular man, found dead with Bronco's gun in his hand shortly after a bank robbery.

Episode 20. Red Water North
1959-09-19 · 60 min

Bronco agrees to deliver a riverboat for his friend Martha Chandler despite a ruthless businessman intent on stopping the cargo from reaching its destination and a blonde passenger with a mysterious agenda.

Season 2
Season 2
20 episodes · 1959
Episode 1. Game at the Beacon Club
1959-09-22 · 60 min

Bronco unwittingly introduces a demure con artist to a rich man.

Episode 2. The Burning Spring
1959-10-06 · 60 min

Bronco relives a wartime experience while testifying in the trial of his would-be killer.

Episode 3. Bodyguard
1959-10-20 · 60 min

Bronco is hired as a bodyguard, but when he fails to keep the man alive, he's faced with a host of people confessing to the killing.

Episode 4. The Soft Answer
1959-11-03 · 60 min

Bronco intervenes when a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen threatens to become a slaughter due to the Quaker sheepman's refusal to use guns.

Episode 5. The Last Resort
1959-11-17 · 60 min

Bronco goes in search of the only man who can clear him of a murder charge, but must disguise himself when his quarry goes to ground in a lawless town known as a haven for criminals.

Episode 6. The Devil's Spawn
1959-12-01 · 60 min

Bushwhacked by an escaped convict, Bronco is saved by a local rancher and becomes involved in his feud with a neighboring family.

Episode 7. Flight from an Empire
1959-12-15 · 60 min

Bronco hires refugees from the fallen Maximillian empire, but has to contend with bandits who are convinced the mother and son know what happened to $5 million in missing gold.

Episode 8. Night Train to Denver
1959-12-29 · 60 min

Bronco accompanies a corpse to Denver and is accused when $100,000 is stolen from the railcar.

Episode 9. Shadow of Jesse James
1960-01-12 · 60 min

Bronco tries to break up the James gang by pressuring outlaw Cole Younger to give up Jesse, an indiscriminate killer.

Episode 10. Masquerade
1960-01-26 · 60 min

Bronco's attempt to reform four teenage would-be outlaws backfires when a violent gang cuts in on their planned gold heist.

Episode 11. Volunteers from Aberdeen
1960-02-09 · 60 min

Bronco tries to rescue a lovestruck friend from murder and robbery charges.

Episode 12. Every Man a Hero
1960-02-23 · 60 min

Bronco arrives at Ft. Monument in the wake of an Indian massacre, and slowly realizes the survivors are actually criminals masquerading as heroes.

Episode 13. Death of an Outlaw
1960-03-08 · 60 min

Bronco wins a range war with the help of Billy the Kid, but when the dust settles the outlaw is still wanted by the law and by bounty-hunter Pat Garrett.

Episode 14. The Human Equation
1960-03-22 · 60 min

Bronco finally talks an Army officer into sending the Osage to a fertile Wyoming territory, but a cholera epidemic and a hostile new commander threatens to destroy the plan.

Episode 15. Montana Passage
1960-04-05 · 60 min

Bronco fakes his own death, and assumes the identity of a colonist, in order to hunt down the outlaws who framed him for murder.

Episode 16. Legacy of Twisted Creek
1960-04-19 · 60 min

Bronco's attempt to capture a killer alive runs into a snag when a band of renegade Apaches set out to kill his prisoner in hopes of sparking an uprising.

Episode 17. Tangled Trail
1960-05-03 · 60 min

Bronco helps a small herder resists a brutal rancher and finds himself accused of murder when the man's unbalanced wife becomes a tool for the canny rancher.

Episode 18. La Rubia
1960-05-17 · 60 min

A beautiful woman double-crosses Bronco when she learns that the bandits who have taken them hostage have a fortune in gold hidden in a secret cache.

Episode 19. Winter Kill
1960-05-31 · 60 min

A vengeful mother swears to kill the prisoner Bronco and Marshal Sample are taking to the county jail.

Episode 20. End of a Rope
1960-06-14 · 60 min

Bronco finds himself on the gallows after he stumbles across an elaborate scheme to protect wanted fugitives from the law.

Season 3
Season 3
10 episodes · 1960
Episode 1. Mustangers
1960-10-17 · 60 min

Bronco is accused of murder when a young widow takes an interest in him.

Episode 2. Apache Treasure
1960-11-07 · 60 min

Bronco is framed for murder by a ruthless bounty hunter who kills and scalps Apaches.

Episode 3. Seminole War Pipe
1960-12-12 · 60 min

In order to rescue a Seminole princess, Bronco must reveal a government secret and his role in Civil War espionage.

Episode 4. Ordeal at Dead Tree
1961-01-02 · 60 min

Arrested as an accomplice to murder, Bronco breaks out of jail and goes after his supposed cronies.

Episode 5. The Invaders
1961-01-23 · 60 min

Bronco reluctantly works to help an outlaw rob a gold shipment, knowing that any disruption of the man's plans will result in the death of his hostage.

Episode 6. Buckbrier Trail
1961-02-20 · 60 min

Bronco races to keep a vengeful deserter from ambushing Marshal Kilgore and the prisoner he's taking to jail.

Episode 7. Yankee Tornado
1961-03-13 · 60 min

Bronco helps a young Teddy Roosevelt fight a rancher trying to drive the Indians off their land.

Episode 8. Manitoba Manhunt
1961-04-03 · 60 min

Bronco joins a Mountie and two U.S. Marshals to bring in a bank robber who might be his best friend and former commander.

Episode 9. Stage to the Sky
1961-04-24 · 60 min

Bronco faces a lynch mob when he tries to save a friend from the hatred of his own brother.

Episode 10. Guns of the Lawless
1961-05-08 · 60 min

Bronco helps a friend fight a rancher and his hired gunmen, a fight complicated by the friend's love for the rancher's daughter.

Season 4
Season 4
18 episodes · 1961
Episode 1. Cousin from Atlanta
1961-10-16 · 60 min

Bronco tries to convince a city cousin that her interest in a dashing gunman is a bad idea.

Episode 2. Prince of Darkness
1961-11-06 · 60 min

As part of a scheme to uncover an insurrectionist group famous actor Edwin Booth pretends to share his relative James Wilkes Booth's hatred of the Union. But when irate townspeople try to kill the traitor, Bronco must protect the seeming…

Episode 3. One Came Back
1961-11-27 · 60 min

Bronco falls hard for a pretty traveler, and only a bank robbery delays his rush to the altar.

Episode 4. Equalizer
1961-12-18 · 60 min

Bronco keeps rival outlaw gangs from slaughtering each other so two young lovers can marry.

Episode 5. Harrigan
1961-12-25 · 60 min

Bronco teams up with a silver-tongued Irishman to break up a robbery gang.

Episode 6. Beginner's Luck
1962-01-01 · 60 min

When a kid gets lucky in his first poker game and in a gunfight, enemies of his father see a chance to use him to win a dispute over grazing rights.

Episode 7. Ride the Whirlwind
1962-01-15 · 60 min

Bronco and the local sheriff try to figure out how a bitter ex-con is taking revenge for a Civil War disgrace.

Episode 8. Sure Thing
1962-01-22 · 60 min

Bronco sets himself up in the cattle business only to find that a local rancher is using his control of the only road to the market to kill off his competition.

Episode 9. Trail of Hatred
1962-02-05 · 60 min

Bronco leads a troop of mutinous soldiers into Indian territory to find a deserter, the father of the troop's ruthless lieutenant.

Episode 10. Rendezvous with a Miracle
1962-02-12 · 60 min

Bronco tracks an escaped bankrobber and meets up with an unusual nun.

Episode 11. Destinies West
1962-02-26 · 60 min

Bronco's infatuation with a lady gambler distracts him from his army assignment to locate a missing fortune and a renegade Union solder.

Episode 12. Last Letter
1962-03-05 · 60 min

Leading a group of bitter Confederate POWs west to fulfill their pledge to help the Union fight the Indians, Bronco is also in charge of a gold delivery headed to Mexico and a secret assignment from the murdered president Abraham Lincoln.

Episode 13. One Evening in Abilene
1962-03-19 · 60 min

Bronco hires gunman Clay Farraday to help with a cattle drive, but when Clay falls for a scheming beauty Bronco has to try to talk his helper out of a shootout with Wild Bill Hickock.

Episode 14. Until Kingdom Come
1962-03-26 · 60 min

Bronco helps a lovely duchess being chased by Mexican revolutionaries.

Episode 15. Moment of Doubt
1962-04-02 · 60 min

Bronco infiltrates anti-Union subversives in New Orleans with the help of an ex-slave and a lovely woman.

Episode 16. A Town That Lived and Died
1962-04-09 · 60 min

Bronco faces a kangaroo court intent on hanging him for his wartime activities as a Confederate spy.

Episode 17. Immovable Object
1962-04-16 · 60 min

Bronco has to sweet-talk two stubborn frontier men when one refuses to allow the construction of a dam on his land, provoking a journalist to write a story that causes an international incident.

Episode 18. Then the Mountains
1962-04-30 · 60 min

Bronco has his wagon train marked for extinction by an ex-guerrilla leader.

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Ty Hardin
Ty Hardin
Bronco Layne
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