The Loner (1965)
The Loner is an American western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, under the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble.
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Episode 1 - An Echo of Bugles
Release Date: 1965-09-18A swaggering gunfighter targets an aging Confederate veteran, and Colton steps in to deal with the bully.
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Episode 2 - The Vespers
Release Date: 1965-09-25Sworn to avenge his brother's death, a hoodlum comes gunning for a small town's local minister. When Colton arrives to warn his old friend and ex-soldier, he finds the man unwilling to resort to violence to protect himself and his pregnant wife.
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Episode 3 - The Lonely Galico Queen
Release Date: 1965-10-02A dance hall girl mistakes Colton for her mail-order bridegroom.
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Episode 4 - The Kingdom of McComb
Release Date: 1965-10-09Unable to perform the deed themselves, a group of religious colonists attempt to recruit Colton to kill a powerful landowner trying to evict them.
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Episode 5 - One of the Wounded
Release Date: 1965-10-16Colton tries to help a Union army veteran left mute and immobile by the psychological horrors of war.
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Episode 6 - The Flight of the Artic Tern
Release Date: 1965-10-23Colton becomes involved in a romantic triangle when he saves a friend's bride-to-be from a runaway horse.
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Episode 7 - Widow on the Evening Stage
Release Date: 1965-10-30Following the murder of a man during an Indian attack, Colton witnesses a town's prejudice towards the man's Indian widow.
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Episode 8 - The House Rules at Mrs. Wayne's
Release Date: 1965-11-06While trying to defend his wife's honor, a friend of Colton is killed... and Colton is torn between seeking justice and keeping his word to turn the other cheek.
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Episode 9 - The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing
Release Date: 1965-11-13Colton has second thoughts after accepting the position of deputy to the dubious sheriff of a sleepy Montana town.
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Episode 10 - The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove
Release Date: 1965-11-20Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by bigots.
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Episode 11 - Westward, the Shoemaker
Release Date: 1965-11-27When a well-intentioned immigrant is stripped of his nest egg in a rigged card game, Colton takes on the con artist.
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Episode 12 - The Oath
Release Date: 1965-12-04When a doctor proves to be as full of whiskey as he is of self-pity, Colton must perform an emergency appendectomy on a young gunfighter.
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Episode 13 - Hunt the Man Down
Release Date: 1965-12-11Colton is drafted to help a posse hunt down a seemingly harmless recluse.
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Episode 14 - Escort for a Dead Man
Release Date: 1965-12-18A man who deserted from the Army wants Colton to escort him back to his fort.
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Episode 15 - The Ordeal of Bud Windom
Release Date: 1965-12-25A murder suspect's son makes life difficult for Colton when the boy tries to clear his father's name.
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Episode 16 - To the West of Eden
Release Date: 1966-01-01While traveling across the desert to deliver horses to their new owner, Colton reluctantly agrees to escort a young woman across the arid land.
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Episode 17 - Mantrap
Release Date: 1966-01-08Colton becomes the target of an assassin when he is the sole witness to a robbery and murder.
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Episode 18 - A Little Stroll to the End of the Line
Release Date: 1966-01-15Colton neither likes nor respects the man he has been deputized to protect: a rabble-rousing preacher who fears death from an ex-convict.
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Episode 19 - The Trial in Paradise
Release Date: 1966-01-22Colton provides the defense in a kangaroo court trial of a former Union Army officer.
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Episode 20 - A Question of Guilt
Release Date: 1966-01-29In the darkness Colton kills an intruder, and discovers the man is an Army Lieutenant.
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Episode 21 - The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (1)
Release Date: 1966-02-05While a young gunman lies dying in a cave, a ruthless man waits outside hoping to get his hands on the boy's loot. (Part 1 of 2)
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Episode 22 - The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (2)
Release Date: 1966-02-12Following the late Johnny Sharp's instructions, Colton arranges for the four people closest to the gunman to meet at the undertaker's parlor. (Part 2 of 2)
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Episode 23 - Incident in the Middle Of Nowhere
Release Date: 1966-02-19Colton encounters a little girl riding his horse — which was stolen from Colton during the stagecoach robbery in which he was shot and left for dead.
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Episode 24 - Pick Me Another Time to Die
Release Date: 1966-02-26Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.
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Episode 25 - The Burden of the Badge
Release Date: 1966-03-05A group of reformed criminals deputize Colton to defend and protect them.
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Episode 26 - To Hang a Dead Man
Release Date: 1966-03-12Colton joins a sheriff in search of a town's destroyers.