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 - Game at the Beacon Club
Release Date: 1959-09-22Bronco unwittingly introduces a demure con artist to a rich man.
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Episode 2 - The Burning Spring
Release Date: 1959-10-06Bronco relives a wartime experience while testifying in the trial of his would-be killer.
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Episode 3 - Bodyguard
Release Date: 1959-10-20Bronco 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.
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Episode 4 - The Soft Answer
Release Date: 1959-11-03Bronco intervenes when a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen threatens to become a slaughter due to the Quaker sheepman's refusal to use guns.
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Episode 5 - The Last Resort
Release Date: 1959-11-17Bronco 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.
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Episode 6 - The Devil's Spawn
Release Date: 1959-12-01Bushwhacked by an escaped convict, Bronco is saved by a local rancher and becomes involved in his feud with a neighboring family.
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Episode 7 - Flight from an Empire
Release Date: 1959-12-15Bronco 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.
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Episode 8 - Night Train to Denver
Release Date: 1959-12-29Bronco accompanies a corpse to Denver and is accused when $100,000 is stolen from the railcar.
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Episode 9 - Shadow of Jesse James
Release Date: 1960-01-12Bronco tries to break up the James gang by pressuring outlaw Cole Younger to give up Jesse, an indiscriminate killer.
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Episode 10 - Masquerade
Release Date: 1960-01-26Bronco's attempt to reform four teenage would-be outlaws backfires when a violent gang cuts in on their planned gold heist.
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Episode 11 - Volunteers from Aberdeen
Release Date: 1960-02-09Bronco tries to rescue a lovestruck friend from murder and robbery charges.
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Episode 12 - Every Man a Hero
Release Date: 1960-02-23Bronco arrives at Ft. Monument in the wake of an Indian massacre, and slowly realizes the survivors are actually criminals masquerading as heroes.
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Episode 13 - Death of an Outlaw
Release Date: 1960-03-08Bronco 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.
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Episode 14 - The Human Equation
Release Date: 1960-03-22Bronco 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.
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Episode 15 - Montana Passage
Release Date: 1960-04-05Bronco fakes his own death, and assumes the identity of a colonist, in order to hunt down the outlaws who framed him for murder.
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Episode 16 - Legacy of Twisted Creek
Release Date: 1960-04-19Bronco'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.
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Episode 17 - Tangled Trail
Release Date: 1960-05-03Bronco 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.
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Episode 18 - La Rubia
Release Date: 1960-05-17A 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.
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Episode 19 - Winter Kill
Release Date: 1960-05-31A vengeful mother swears to kill the prisoner Bronco and Marshal Sample are taking to the county jail.
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Episode 20 - End of a Rope
Release Date: 1960-06-14Bronco finds himself on the gallows after he stumbles across an elaborate scheme to protect wanted fugitives from the law.