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 - Cousin from Atlanta
Release Date: 1961-10-16Bronco tries to convince a city cousin that her interest in a dashing gunman is a bad idea.
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Episode 2 - Prince of Darkness
Release Date: 1961-11-06As part of a scheme to uncover an insurrectionist group famous actor Edwin Booth pretends to share his relative James Wilkes Booth's hatred of the Union. But when irate townspeople try to kill the traitor, Bronco must protect the seeming turncoat.
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Episode 3 - One Came Back
Release Date: 1961-11-27Bronco falls hard for a pretty traveler, and only a bank robbery delays his rush to the altar.
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Episode 4 - Equalizer
Release Date: 1961-12-18Bronco keeps rival outlaw gangs from slaughtering each other so two young lovers can marry.
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Episode 5 - Harrigan
Release Date: 1961-12-25Bronco teams up with a silver-tongued Irishman to break up a robbery gang.
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Episode 6 - Beginner's Luck
Release Date: 1962-01-01When a kid gets lucky in his first poker game and in a gunfight, enemies of his father see a chance to use him to win a dispute over grazing rights.
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Episode 7 - Ride the Whirlwind
Release Date: 1962-01-15Bronco and the local sheriff try to figure out how a bitter ex-con is taking revenge for a Civil War disgrace.
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Episode 8 - Sure Thing
Release Date: 1962-01-22Bronco sets himself up in the cattle business only to find that a local rancher is using his control of the only road to the market to kill off his competition.
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Episode 9 - Trail of Hatred
Release Date: 1962-02-05Bronco leads a troop of mutinous soldiers into Indian territory to find a deserter, the father of the troop's ruthless lieutenant.
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Episode 10 - Rendezvous with a Miracle
Release Date: 1962-02-12Bronco tracks an escaped bankrobber and meets up with an unusual nun.
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Episode 11 - Destinies West
Release Date: 1962-02-26Bronco's infatuation with a lady gambler distracts him from his army assignment to locate a missing fortune and a renegade Union solder.
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Episode 12 - Last Letter
Release Date: 1962-03-05Leading a group of bitter Confederate POWs west to fulfill their pledge to help the Union fight the Indians, Bronco is also in charge of a gold delivery headed to Mexico and a secret assignment from the murdered president Abraham Lincoln.
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Episode 13 - One Evening in Abilene
Release Date: 1962-03-19Bronco hires gunman Clay Farraday to help with a cattle drive, but when Clay falls for a scheming beauty Bronco has to try to talk his helper out of a shootout with Wild Bill Hickock.
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Episode 14 - Until Kingdom Come
Release Date: 1962-03-26Bronco helps a lovely duchess being chased by Mexican revolutionaries.
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Episode 15 - Moment of Doubt
Release Date: 1962-04-02Bronco infiltrates anti-Union subversives in New Orleans with the help of an ex-slave and a lovely woman.
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Episode 16 - A Town That Lived and Died
Release Date: 1962-04-09Bronco faces a kangaroo court intent on hanging him for his wartime activities as a Confederate spy.
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Episode 17 - Immovable Object
Release Date: 1962-04-16Bronco has to sweet-talk two stubborn frontier men when one refuses to allow the construction of a dam on his land, provoking a journalist to write a story that causes an international incident.
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Episode 18 - Then the Mountains
Release Date: 1962-04-30Bronco has his wagon train marked for extinction by an ex-guerrilla leader.