COLLECTION · Series · 1957
Trackdown
Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
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* 6.9 (8)ActionAdventureWestern
Studios
CBS · Four Stars Productions
Runtime
30 min/ep
Release
04/10/1957
Score
6.9 / 10 (8)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
32 episodes · 1957
Episode 1. The Marple Brothers
1957-10-04 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 2. Law in Lampasas
1957-10-11 · 30 min
Hoby, passing through Lampasas, involves himself when the whole town seems intent on the legal lynching of what he thinks is an innocent man.
Episode 3. San Saba Incident
1957-10-18 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. Easton, Texas
1957-10-25 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 5. Like Father
1957-11-01 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 6. Sweetwater, Texas
1957-11-08 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 7. Alpine, Texas
1957-11-15 · 30 min
Hoby rides into Alpine, Texas looking for a friend. He finds instead a hatred for the Texas Rangers-- and the entire town sides against him to drive him out.
Episode 8. Self-Defense
1957-11-22 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 9. End of an Outlaw
1957-11-29 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 10. Look for the Woman
1957-12-06 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 11. The Town
1957-12-13 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 12. Man and Money
1957-12-27 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 13. The Reward
1958-01-03 · 30 min
Hoby tracks down a missing florist with a rare orchid, who may hold the key to missing bank money and three fugitive bank robbers.
Episode 14. The Farrand Story
1958-01-10 · 30 min
Hoby tracks the murderer of a married man who may have been ready to leave his wife for another woman.
Episode 15. Right of Way
1958-01-17 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 16. The Witness
1958-01-24 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 17. The Toll Road
1958-01-31
No synopsis
Episode 18. The Young Gun
1958-02-07
Hoby is dispatched to Del Rio to investigate a bank robbery. He poses as a criminal to trick one of the bank robbers to lead him to the the rest of the gang and the money.
Episode 19. The Wedding
1958-02-14
No synopsis
Episode 20. The Trail
1958-02-28 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 21. The Bounty Hunter
1958-03-07 · 30 min
Nick Adams and Michael Landon as bad-guy brothers
Episode 22. The Judge
1958-03-14 · 30 min
Hoby is forced to arrest the wild son of a local judge for murder, the kid telling him all the while he'll never stand trial.
Episode 23. The House
1958-03-21 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 24. The Boy
1958-03-28 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 25. The Pueblo Kid
1958-04-04 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 26. The Winter Boys
1958-04-11 · 30 min
Hoby has to nursemaid a witness from El Paso who's in hiding until the big murder trial in three weeks.
Episode 27. The Mistake
1958-04-18 · 30 min
Hoby gets on the bad side of town when he assists in freeing what he thinks is an innocent man. However, once acquitted, the killer admits his guilt only to the Ranger and makes his life much worse.
Episode 28. The Deal
1958-04-25 · 30 min
Hoby has to deal with a notorious outlaw/killer who is holding a runaway town boy for ransom.
Episode 29. The Jailbreak
1958-05-02 · 30 min
Hoby has to deal with a jailbreak-- except the cowboy doesn't leave-- he takes three hostages and tries to work a trade-- them for the Ranger!
Episode 30. The End of the World
1958-05-09 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 31. The Brothers
1958-05-16 · 30 min
Twins (both played by Steve McQueen) change identities to confuse Hoby.
Episode 32. The Governor
1958-05-23 · 30 min
Hoby has to contend with a murder in a small town the day before the arrival of the Governor for the dedication of a new school-- and the victim was an undercover Texas Ranger.
Season 2
39 episodes · 1958
Episode 1. Killer Take All
1958-09-05 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 2. Outlaw's Wife
1958-09-12 · 30 min
The town's women want Hoby to make an outlaw's wife (who just returned to Porter) leave town.
Episode 3. Chinese Cowboy
1958-09-19 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Set-Up
1958-09-26 · 30 min
Henrietta's new gentleman friend is only using her to setup an alibi for a bank robbery.
Episode 5. A Stone for Benny French
1958-10-03 · 30 min
Hoby tracks down Benny French who was the only member of the Morgan Larker gang who escaped from the bank robbery.
Episode 6. Trapped
1958-10-10 · 30 min
Hoby is held prisoner in a shack during a blizzard by the wife of husband and wife outlaws to care for her sick husband.
Episode 7. Matter of Justice
1958-10-17 · 30 min
One of the outlaws who held up the Butterfield stage depot has been caught and is awaiting trial and hanging. Hoby is called in to protect the town of Talpa. The prisoner claims his outlaw gang will kill the witnesses and destroy the town.
Episode 8. Tenner Smith
1958-10-24 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 9. The Avenger
1958-10-31 · 30 min
Lance Garth is accused of stealing the payroll from Banning Mining but he is shot and killed before the money is found.
Episode 10. The Schoolteacher
1958-11-07 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 11. Deadly Decoy
1958-11-14 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 12. Sunday's Child
1958-11-21 · 30 min
Gambler Joe Sunday comes to Porter with a court order to take possession of his baby daughter from her mother Cindy who plays the piano in the saloon. Hoby has to enforce the order over the objections of Henrietta and the whole town.
Episode 13. Day of Vengeance
1958-11-28 · 30 min
A young man seeks the person who killed his brother. The truth is not what he expected.
Episode 14. Three-Legged Fox
1958-12-05 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 15. The Kid
1958-12-12 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 16. Guilt
1958-12-19 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 17. Every Man a Witness
1958-12-26 · 30 min
Sheriff Alvin Fremont and a mob take prisoner Char Lopez out of jail and threaten to lynch him unless he confesses. The horse bolts and Lopez is hanged. Hoby is sent in to investigate who was responsible.
Episode 18. McCallin's Daughter
1959-01-02 · 30 min
Youngster Debby McCallin comes to town and asks Hoby to stop her father Bart McCallin from committing a robbery.
Episode 19. Bad Judgment
1959-01-28 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 20. Terror
1959-02-04 · 30 min
Doc Calhoun and Hoby deal with an outbreak of typhoid fever in town.
Episode 21. The Feud
1959-02-11 · 30 min
Elderly and dying Maude Turley has her boys bring her back to Porter to die and be buried next to her husband after being run out of town 17 years ago by the Corbett's. Hoby tries to keep the two families from killing each other.
Episode 22. The Samaritan
1959-02-18 · 30 min
Hoby finds a man on the trail with his leg caught in a bear trap and releases him. The man then knocks Hoby out, steals his horse and gun and leaves him caught in the bear trap.
Episode 23. The Gang
1959-02-25 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 24. The Threat
1959-03-04 · 30 min
A smiling stranger wearing a 3-piece suit and bowler hat barges into the bank manager's office carrying a package under his arm and threatens to blow the town of Porter off the face of the Earth in one hour unless he is given $10,000.
Episode 25. Hard Lines
1959-03-11 · 30 min
Joker Wells, who was a traitor with the Confederate Army, returns to his home town of Porter. Everybody wants Hoby to run him out of town, especially Ed Crow, who blames Joker for the loss of his arm in the war.
Episode 26. Fear
1959-03-18 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 27. Stranger in Town
1959-03-25 · 30 min
Henrietta Porter receives a letter from Harry Keller who was just released from prison warning the town of Porter to stay away from Hoby because Harry is coming to kill Hoby in revenge for killing his brother. Making things worse, Hoby…
Episode 28. The Protector
1959-04-01 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 29. False Witness
1959-04-08 · 30 min
A strange girl arrives in Porter and tells Hoby that she knows that Joe Corbett is innocent of murder even though he was convicted and sentenced to hang because she was a witness and saw somebody else do it.
Episode 30. The Trick
1959-04-15 · 30 min
Tully Saxon knocks on the door to Tenner Smith's office in the saloon. When Tenner opens the door, he is surprised to see someone he had not seen in 8 years. Tully tells Tenner he will kill him before he leaves town.
Episode 31. The Eyes of Jerry Kelso
1959-04-22 · 30 min
When traveling salesman Emanuel Brock is found shot to death in his hotel room, Hoby has to figure out who did it.
Episode 32. The Gift Horse
1959-04-29 · 30 min
Two old men (Zack and Levi) tell Ralph that they are his long lost uncles but Hoby thinks something about the two men rang sour.
Episode 33. The Vote
1959-05-06 · 30 min
A man and a woman came to Porter bringing with them the idea of "Give Women the Vote".
Episode 34. The Unwanted
1959-05-13 · 30 min
Hoby is called to the town of Glenville who are afraid that a group of religious people who moved in outside of town are practicing witchcraft and are causing bad luck.
Episode 35. Toss-Up
1959-05-20 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 36. Inquest
1959-09-02
Hoby is helping Sheriff Lee look into a murder. But the widow, the doctor and even the sheriff have motives with none helpful in finding the killer.
Episode 37. Back to Crawford
1959-09-09 · 30 min
Hoby returns home to Crawford to help his sister Nora after she sends him a telegram that somebody has been threatening her and because he gets a telegram from town drunk Fred Sales to come home quick because his sister is going to die.
Episode 38. Blind Alley
1959-09-16 · 30 min
Rufus Cole shoots Mike Hardesty off his horse on the trail. Hoby who had been trailing Rufus for six weeks comes along to save Mike but he has lost his sight.
Episode 39. Quiet Night in Porter
1959-09-23 · 30 min
Chad Winter, the owner of the general store, finds an old woman in his store after closing then two men walk in and shoot him. Hoby has to find out who killed him.
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