Bronco

A former confederate soldier wanders the old west, and meets such famous characters as Jesse James, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Genre: Western

Cast:Ty Hardin , Robert Colbert , Clyde Howdy , Mike Road , Morris Ankrum , Barry Kelley , Denver Pyle , Gary Vinson , Mickey Simpson , Don 'Red' Barry , Charles Fredericks , I. Stanford Jolley , Harry Strang , Charles Stevens , Mike Ragan , John Truax , Gerald Mohr , Joan Marshall

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Besieged

Mon, Sep 22, 1958

Bronco hears gunfire while riding. He spots a family headed for California being attacked by a band of gunmen. The family is not firing back so he helps assuming they are out of ammo but they are Quakers who do not believe in fighting.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Quest of the Thirty Dead

Mon, Oct 6, 1958

One of Bronco's best friends is killed in a train wreck. Bronco looks into it, and discovers that the "accident" was in fact not an accident at all; the train was deliberately sabotaged. An old Civil War friend may be responsible.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Turning Point

Mon, Oct 20, 1958

Bronco discovers that the man whose life he just saved is in reality a notorious gunfighter after they decided to homestead together near Plainview. Bronco supports him as he tries to live down his reputation with the local citizens.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Four Guns and a Prayer

Mon, Nov 3, 1958

Bronco takes the job of Sheriff at Cottonwood not realizing that the Garnet brothers have taken over resulting in several murders. Bronco is forced to ask for help from several gunfighters in order to save the town but there is resistance.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Long Ride Back

Mon, Nov 17, 1958

When Bronco comes back to his home town after having fought for the South in the Civil War, he finds that not only do many people in town consider him a traitor, but they also think he's a murderer who killed the brother of his fiancé.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Trail to Taos

Mon, Dec 1, 1958

A gang of bandits and Apaches have been robbing stagecoaches and wagon trains including massacring the victims in some cases. Bronco goes undercover for the Postal Service hoping to catch them in the act and find who is behind it.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Brand of Courage

Mon, Dec 15, 1958

After being shot, Bronco comes to the aid of a group of nuns who have a cattle ranch and are about to touch off a range war with neighboring cattlemen who don't want them to sell their cattle in order to drive up the price.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Freeze-Out

Mon, Dec 29, 1958

A writer hires Bronco to take her to the ghost town Basin City. It is at a high altitude near an abandoned gold mine and a glacier. Once there they run into three other men. They are there for reasons that put her and Bronco in danger.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Baron of Broken Lance

Mon, Jan 12, 1959

Trouble brews when Bronco is leading a wagon train through the wilderness. It seems that an old army buddy of his is on the train, and he's brought along the runaway daughter of a powerful cattle rancher, who doesn't like it one bit.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Payroll of the Dead

Mon, Jan 26, 1959

A stranded and isolated Bronco is hired by an army officer who rescues Bronco to take him to Sitting Bull's camp, where he has a request to make of the Indian leader. He is under orders to recover a payroll stolen by the Sioux in a raid.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Riding Solo

Mon, Feb 9, 1959

Bronco arrives in a small town right after a stagecoach robbery in which a man has been killed. Suspicion immediately falls upon him, and what he doesn't know is that the robbery was actually committed by an old friend of his.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Borrowed Glory

Mon, Feb 23, 1959

Bronco finds himself involved in blackmail and murder when he takes a job as deputy with a war hero who rescued him from a lynching. He discovers the man who won the Congressional Medal of Honor during the war may in fact not deserve it.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Silent Witness

Mon, Mar 9, 1959

The outlaw Traxel brothers and gang leader Willis Turner murder Bronco's best friend and then frame him for the crime. The only thing that can save him is the testimony of a young girl who knows that Bronco didn't do it--but she's a mute.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ The Belles of Silver Flat

Mon, Mar 23, 1959

Bronco hired as shotgun by the Silver Flats bank is saved from certain death at the hands of a gunfighter by the quick wits of Rev. Dave Clayton, which leads to the confirmation that the preacher may not be exactly who he says he is.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Backfire

Mon, Apr 6, 1959

Bronco is a deputy under Sheriff McKeever who has a reputation for having cleaned up Two Pines in the past but his age is showing. When he is killed after a bank robbery, Bronco's investigation leads him to some surprising conclusions.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ School for Cowards

Mon, Apr 20, 1959

Bronco gets a position teaching cadets at a military academy, but his job turns from instructor to investigator when a cadet runs away after learning he is half-Sioux and Bronco thinks his life may be threaten by a future stepfather.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Prairie Skipper

Mon, May 4, 1959

Bronco, hired on as trail boss on a cattle drive, tries to avoid outside problems. However, his troubles grow when he is forced to help a naval officer and comes up against a seductive woman who seems to have more than one husband.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Shadow of a Man

Mon, May 18, 1959

Outraged at becoming unwittingly implicated in a payroll robbery and murder, Bronco sets out to find the inside person who can clear him and bring back the money. He doesn't have a whole lot of time, however, as he is being hunted.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Hero of the Town

Mon, Jun 1, 1959

A bank clerk in Dusty Flats is found dead after a $10,000 bank robbery--with Bronco's gun in his hand and Bronco knocked out. Bronco is branded a coward and the clerk a hero so Bronco tries to find the three men responsible on his own.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Red Water North

Fri, Sep 18, 1959

Bronco is hired to deliver a riverboat to his friend Martha Chandler. He hasn't counted, though, on a ruthless businessman who doesn't want the ship to complete the trip, and a beautiful blonde passenger who has her own agenda.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Game at the Beacon Club

Mon, Sep 21, 1959

Bronco introduces a pretty young girl to a wealthy older man, not knowing that the girl is actually a con artist out to fleece the man and his friends of everything she can get. Bronco finds himself in the middle of the situation.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ The Burning Springs

Mon, Oct 5, 1959

Bronco rides into a town and finds himself confronted by a man from his past who shoots him. While testifying at the court martial of the man who tried to kill him, Bronco finds himself reliving his experiences during the Civil War.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Bodyguard

Mon, Oct 19, 1959

Bronco is hired to protect Frank Kelton by sticking with Dan Flood who is threatening to kill him, but when Kelton is killed, Bronco finds himself with no shortage of suspects - a whole string of people confess to killing him.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Soft Answer

Mon, Nov 2, 1959

Cattlemen and sheep men are in dispute over grazing. Bronco doesn't want to get involved but has to step in before a range war breaks out, mainly because Billy the Kid wants to back the sheep men who refuse to use guns in the fight.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Last Resort

Mon, Nov 16, 1959

Pursued by Marshall Gaffney for a robbery he did not commit, Bronco rides to the town of "Last Resort" - a hideout for outlaws on the Mexican border. There Bronco hopes to clear his name by finding the real robber who framed him.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Devil's Spawn

Mon, Nov 30, 1959

Ambushed and shot by an escaped prisoner, Bronco is saved by a rancher, but finds himself drawn into the rancher's feud with a nearby family. Bronco is there to arrest the prisoner who is the brother of the rancher who helped him.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Flight from an Empire

Mon, Dec 14, 1959

Bronco rescues and hires a mother and son who are refugees from the fallen empire of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, but he soon discovers that bandits who believe the two know where $5 million in gold is buried are after them.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Night Train to Denver

Mon, Dec 28, 1959

Bronco accompanies a corpse for $25 by train to Denver. On the same train is a friend escorting $100,000 plus a pretty blonde. At the end of the trip he finds himself in jail for stealing the money and then forced to find it by two men.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Shadow of Jesse James

Mon, Jan 11, 1960

U.S. Deputy Marshal Bronco who knows Jesse James from the Civil War is given the task of finding him. Bronco tries to convince Cole Younger, a member of the infamous James gang, to turn over Jesse James, who is a heartless killer.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Masquerade

Mon, Jan 25, 1960

Bronco's undercover efforts to turn four teenage wanna-be outlaws he caught is interrupted when a violent gang of outlaws decides to rob the same gold shipment. When the sheriff is killed, the town threatens to lynch Bronco for it.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Volunteers from Aberdeen

Mon, Feb 8, 1960

Bronco is working undercover on a cattle drive as a Pinkerton man looking for a man. Bronco's lovesick friend is up on robbery and murder charges, of which he isn't guilty, and Bronco has to clear his name and unmask the real killer.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Every Man a Hero

Mon, Feb 22, 1960

Bronco, an Army Scout, arrives at Ft. Monument escorting the commander's wife not long after an Indian massacre has taken place leaving five enlisted men. He soon begins to suspect that the "survivors" aren't quite what they seem to be.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Death of an Outlaw

Mon, Mar 7, 1960

Bronco as ramrod for John Tunstall gets involved in a range war and is helped by outlaw Billy the Kid. However, after everything is settled, Billy still remains a wanted outlaw and is being pursued by bounty hunter Sheriff Pat Garrett.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ The Human Equation

Mon, Mar 21, 1960

After a cholera outbreak, Bronco is finally able to convince an army officer to send the Osage Indians to a fertile reservation in Wyoming before his death from the disease. But a hostile new commander may torpedo his efforts.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Montana Passage

Mon, Apr 4, 1960

In order to find the outlaws who framed him for murder, Bronco fakes his own death and takes the identity of a colonist. He joins a steamboat of other settlers one of whom nearly exposes him until she realizes he might be innocent.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Legacy of Twisted Creek

Mon, Apr 18, 1960

Bronco's after a killer and intends to bring him back alive, but a band of renegade Apaches plans to kill his prisoner in order to foment an Indian uprising while several whites are hoping he fails to start a war with the Apaches.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Tangled Trail

Mon, May 2, 1960

Bronco comes to the aid of the small rancher Joe Russo up against a brutal cattle baron to collect a debt owed Bronco. He winds up accused of murder when the cattle baron uses the herder's mentally unbalanced wife to get at him.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ La Rubia

Mon, May 16, 1960

Bronco riding shotgun on a stage when it is attacked by Apaches is wounded. He is forced into dangerous intrigue involving a Mexican bandit who rescues them, a treacherous blonde girl who is a passenger and a cache of hidden gold.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Winter Kill

Mon, May 30, 1960

Marshal Sample and Bronco are escorting a prisoner to the county jail they rescued from a lynching, but their job may be hampered by a vengeful mother who has sworn to kill the prisoner. When Sample is killed, Bronco must take over.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ End of a Rope

Mon, Jun 13, 1960

Deputy US Marshal Bronco chases an escaped prisoner from Montana to New Mexico. After a friend is murdered, He discovers a complicated scheme to protect outlaws on the run, and winds up sentenced to the gallows himself.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The Mustangers

Sun, Oct 16, 1960

Bronco takes a job herding cattle cars, working for an arrogant boss who has a beautiful and flirtatious younger wife. During a fight, the boss falls off the train, and Bronco is blamed, but the man's body can't be found.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Apache Treasure

Sun, Nov 6, 1960

Army scout Bronco is to find out who's been killing and scalping Apache men, woman, and children. The chief's brother was among the last victims, and Bronco must find the guilty parties before the peace treaty is broken and war breaks out.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Seminole War Pipe

Sun, Dec 11, 1960

To save two Seminole friends, man and wife, from a lynching by former Confederates, Bronco tells them the story of how they tried to help the South in the war by bringing Jefferson Davis' peace offering to their chief in Florida.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Ordeal at Dead Tree

Sun, Jan 1, 1961

A bank is robbed and a teller killed. The four brothers responsible knock out Bronco and make it look like he was involved. He is arrested but escapes when lynch talk gets out of control and heads with the sheriff to find the real robbers.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Invaders

Sun, Jan 22, 1961

Bronco rides into Peaceful to see his Army friend Marshal Durrock and his daughter Molly. He finds himself the acting Marshal when the Tilsey gang kidnaps Molly threatening to kill her unless they have free reign to steal a gold shipment.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ The Buckbrier Trail

Sun, Feb 19, 1961

Bronco has been requested to transport a prisoner to Santa Fe for trial for robbery and murder while a decoy goes on the stage. He loses sealed instructions for an emergency which occurs when a victim's relatives attack them.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Yankee Tornado

Sun, Mar 12, 1961

Bronco is hunting meat for the railroad in Montana working for Henry Paddock. After a fight over a bear with Theodore Roosevelt, they come to respect each other. Bronco soon realizes Roosevelt is right that his bosses are up to something.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Manitoba Manhunt

Sun, Apr 2, 1961

Deputy U.S. Marshal Bronco is asked to go with two marshals to Canada to identify a wanted man - his commanding officer in the war. In Canada they meet with the RCMP who help find the man. However, questions arise about his two partners.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Stage to the Sky

Sun, Apr 23, 1961

Bronco stops the lynching of a friend who went from gunfighter to minister. The money he raised for a new church was stolen so the parishioners with some encouragement think he stole it. Bronco soon discovers who he thinks really did it.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Guns of the Lawless

Sun, May 7, 1961

Bronco finds the owners of the Rocking Chair ranch, Gil Groves and Petrie Munger, have split the ranch allowing a feud to develop. Munger has hired a sadistic gunman, who beats Bronco and Groves' foreman leaving them in the desert to die.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ The Cousin from Atlanta

Sun, Oct 15, 1961

Sheriff Bronco welcomes his pretty young cousin Amanda from Atlanta hoping to find more excitement. Unfortunately one of the things she finds exciting is a young gunman who has his own devious plans for the town's upcoming social event.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Prince of Darkness

Sun, Nov 5, 1961

Bronco and actor Edwin Booth, brother of President Lincoln's assassin, work undercover by pretending to be hostile to America so as to infiltrate a group that is plotting to overthrow the government at the request of President Grant.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ One Came Back

Sun, Nov 26, 1961

Bronco hires on as a guide to three men and a woman who claim to be starting a business in another town. Actually they are a gang of robbers who have already killed one Pinkerton agent, and are now being pursued by another.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ The Equalizer

Sun, Dec 17, 1961

Bronco is assigned to keep the peace between feuding outlaws Butch Cassidy and Billy Doolin as they - and their gangs - visit the town of Painted Rock for the wedding of Cassidy's niece and Doolin's brother but others take advantage.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ The Harrigan

Sun, Dec 24, 1961

Bronco and hard-drinking Irishman Terrence Harrigan are fired after the wagon they were guarding is attacked, drivers killed and the gold shipment stolen. Both Harrigan and Bronco decide to fight the gang responsible by infiltrating it.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Beginner's Luck

Sun, Dec 31, 1961

Bronco finds himself involved in a feud between ranchers Matt Wigram and Jim Gant and the friction between Gant and his son, who is anxious to get out on his own and prove himself independent of his father. Bronco tries to protect the son.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Ride the Whirlwind

Sun, Jan 14, 1962

Dr. Miles Gillis is returning home from prison after sending warnings the four men who sent him to prison are going to die. Convicted of treason for treating rebels, he is a friend of Bronco and one of the men threatened - the sheriff.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ A Sure Thing

Sun, Jan 21, 1962

Bronco wins a 1000 cattle in poker. However, when he tries to bring them to market, he runs into one rancher who charges him outrageous fees for grazing them and another who won't let Bronco cross his property to take the cattle to market.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Trail of Hatred

Sun, Feb 4, 1962

Bronco, an Army scout, is sent on a secret mission with a young cavalry officer who is bringing back a deserter and the money he stole ten years ago to face punishment. What's more, the deserter is the officer's father.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Rendezvous with a Miracle

Sun, Feb 11, 1962

Deputy Bronco Layne is trailing Marshal Hank Barton who is hoping Valerie Ames will lead him to Mike Bestor, $50,000 and the bandit Rico Cardido who stole it. A stage accident kills the Marshal and Valerie to assume the identity of a nun.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Destinies West

Sun, Feb 25, 1962

Bronco is working undercover to find a Confederate guerrilla who stole $1,000,000 in gold bullion. His first lead is shot and dies but a clue he left leads Bronco to the guerrilla's home, Bonnetville, and a beautiful dealer.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ The Last Letter

Sun, Mar 4, 1962

Bronco is to lead a group of wagons into Mexico with farm implements as a cover for $1,000,000 in gold to support the Mexicans against the French. He has recruited a group of reconstructed rebels for the trip and there are surprises.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ One Evening in Abilene

Sun, Mar 18, 1962

Bronco is leading a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas, a town torn apart by the Civil War. One of his drovers, a young ex-Confederate, gets into continuous trouble over his past, and a woman hopes to use him to get revenge on Marshal Hickok.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ Until Kingdom Come

Sun, Mar 25, 1962

Bronco has been hired to protect Prince Philip and his caretaker who have crossed over from Mexico into the U.S.A. A Mexican wants them for revenge in the killing of his brother while others are after them for the $1 million in jewels.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ Moment of Doubt

Sun, Apr 1, 1962

Captain Bronco Layne is given a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Army, but it's part of a plan to get him into a ring of conspirators who are plotting to assassinate top government officials so they can take it over.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ A Town That Lived and Died

Sun, Apr 8, 1962

A young woman who claims to be writing an article on western ghost towns hires Bronco as a guide to a ghost town he knows. When they arrive, he finds himself surrounded by men from the town wanting revenge for his work during the war.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ The Immovable Object

Sun, Apr 15, 1962

Bronco working for the Army Engineers finds himself involved in trying to move one last settler out of a basin that is to be flooded to make a lake. The man and his granddaughter start a worldwide riot when a reporter tells their story.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ Then the Mountains

Sun, Apr 29, 1962

Bronco leads a group of ex-rebels from Virginia. They are near Fort Bridger and old feelings surface when an Army patrol stops them looking for a deserter suspected of robbing and murdering a sutler in an area known to be unsafe.