Bronco

1958 - 1962

The Besieged

23rd September 1958

Episode 1

Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.

Quest of the Thirty Dead

7th October 1958

Episode 2

Bronco investigates a planned train wreck that killed one of his best friends.

The Turning Point

21st October 1958

Episode 3

Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.

Four Guns and a Prayer

4th November 1958

Episode 4

Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.

The Long Ride Back

18th November 1958

Episode 5

Bronco 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 fiancÃ©'s brother.

Trail to Taos

2nd December 1958

Episode 6

Bronco tracks down a gang robbing stagecoaches and goes undercover to catch them in the act.

Brand of Courage

16th December 1958

Episode 7

Bronco 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.

Freeze-Out

30th December 1958

Episode 8

Bronco 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.

The Baron of Broken Lance

13th January 1959

Episode 9

Bronco 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.

Payroll of the Dead

27th January 1959

Episode 10

Major Damayer hires Bronco to guide him into Indian territory to make a request of Sitting Bull.

Riding Solo

10th February 1959

Episode 11

Bronco is suspected of being a killer when he arrives in a town just after a stagecoach robbery committed by an old friend.

Borrowed Glory

24th February 1959

Episode 12

Bronco gets involved in blackmail and murder when a killer tagets a friend whose Congressional Medal of Honor may have been wrongly won.

The Silent Witness

10th March 1959

Episode 13

Bronco 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.

The Belles of Silver Flat

24th March 1959

Episode 14

Bronco is saved from a hired gun by the quick draw of the Reverend Dave Clayton, arousing suspicions that the preacher is really a gunman.

Backfire

Episode 15

Sheriff McKeever is killed when his scheme to restore his gunslinging youth fails, leaving deputy Bronco to discover who was behind the backfire.

School for Cowards

21st April 1959

Episode 16

Bronco 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.

Prairie Skipper

Episode 17

Bronco's hired as trail-boss for a cattle drive and runs into trouble with a flirtatious woman who seems to have multiple husbands.

Shadow of a Man

Episode 18

Furious at being pulled into a payroll robbery and murder, Bronco goes looking for the loot and the culprit as a posse chases him.

Hero of the Town

Episode 19

Bronco 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.

Red Water North

19th September 1959

Episode 20

Bronco 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.

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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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