Bronco (1958)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Besieged
Release Date: 1958-09-23Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.
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Episode 2 - Quest of the Thirty Dead
Release Date: 1958-10-07Bronco investigates a planned train wreck that killed one of his best friends.
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Episode 3 - The Turning Point
Release Date: 1958-10-21Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.
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Episode 4 - Four Guns and a Prayer
Release Date: 1958-11-04Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.
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Episode 5 - The Long Ride Back
Release Date: 1958-11-18Bronco 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.
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Episode 6 - Trail to Taos
Release Date: 1958-12-02Bronco tracks down a gang robbing stagecoaches and goes undercover to catch them in the act.
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Episode 7 - Brand of Courage
Release Date: 1958-12-16Bronco 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.
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Episode 8 - Freeze-Out
Release Date: 1958-12-30Bronco 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.
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Episode 9 - The Baron of Broken Lance
Release Date: 1959-01-13Bronco 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.
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Episode 10 - Payroll of the Dead
Release Date: 1959-01-27Major Damayer hires Bronco to guide him into Indian territory to make a request of Sitting Bull.
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Episode 11 - Riding Solo
Release Date: 1959-02-10Bronco is suspected of being a killer when he arrives in a town just after a stagecoach robbery committed by an old friend.
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Episode 12 - Borrowed Glory
Release Date: 1959-02-24Bronco gets involved in blackmail and murder when a killer tagets a friend whose Congressional Medal of Honor may have been wrongly won.
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Episode 13 - The Silent Witness
Release Date: 1959-03-10Bronco 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.
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Episode 14 - The Belles of Silver Flat
Release Date: 1959-03-24Bronco is saved from a hired gun by the quick draw of the Reverend Dave Clayton, arousing suspicions that the preacher is really a gunman.
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Episode 15 - Backfire
Release Date: 1959-04-07Sheriff McKeever is killed when his scheme to restore his gunslinging youth fails, leaving deputy Bronco to discover who was behind the backfire.
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Episode 16 - School for Cowards
Release Date: 1959-04-21Bronco 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.
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Episode 17 - Prairie Skipper
Release Date: 1959-05-05Bronco's hired as trail-boss for a cattle drive and runs into trouble with a flirtatious woman who seems to have multiple husbands.
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Episode 18 - Shadow of a Man
Release Date: 1959-05-19Furious at being pulled into a payroll robbery and murder, Bronco goes looking for the loot and the culprit as a posse chases him.
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Episode 19 - Hero of the Town
Release Date: 1959-06-02Bronco 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.
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Episode 20 - Red Water North
Release Date: 1959-09-19Bronco 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.