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
A swaggering gunfighter targets an aging Confederate veteran, and Colton steps in to deal with the bully.
Episode 2
Sworn 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.
Episode 3
A dance hall girl mistakes Colton for her mail-order bridegroom.
Episode 4
Unable to perform the deed themselves, a group of religious colonists attempt to recruit Colton to kill a powerful landowner trying to evict them.
Episode 5
Colton tries to help a Union army veteran left mute and immobile by the psychological horrors of war.
Episode 6
Colton becomes involved in a romantic triangle when he saves a friend's bride-to-be from a runaway horse.
Episode 7
Following the murder of a man during an Indian attack, Colton witnesses a town's prejudice towards the man's Indian widow.
Episode 8
While 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.
Episode 9
Colton has second thoughts after accepting the position of deputy to the dubious sheriff of a sleepy Montana town.
Episode 10
Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by bigots.
Episode 11
When a well-intentioned immigrant is stripped of his nest egg in a rigged card game, Colton takes on the con artist.
Episode 12
When 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.
Episode 13
Colton is drafted to help a posse hunt down a seemingly harmless recluse.
Episode 14
A man who deserted from the Army wants Colton to escort him back to his fort.
Episode 15
A murder suspect's son makes life difficult for Colton when the boy tries to clear his father's name.
Episode 16
While traveling across the desert to deliver horses to their new owner, Colton reluctantly agrees to escort a young woman across the arid land.
Episode 17
Colton becomes the target of an assassin when he is the sole witness to a robbery and murder.
Episode 18
Colton neither likes nor respects the man he has been deputized to protect: a rabble-rousing preacher who fears death from an ex-convict.
Episode 19
Colton provides the defense in a kangaroo court trial of a former Union Army officer.
Episode 20
In the darkness Colton kills an intruder, and discovers the man is an Army Lieutenant.
Episode 21
While 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)
Episode 22
Following 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)
Episode 23
Colton 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.
Episode 24
Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.
Episode 25
A group of reformed criminals deputize Colton to defend and protect them.
Episode 26
Colton joins a sheriff in search of a town's destroyers.
