Black Saddle
1959 - 1960
Client: Travers
10th January 1959Episode 1
No overview available.Client: Meade
17th January 1959Episode 2
No overview available.Client: McQueen
24th January 1959Episode 3
No overview available.Client: Dawes
31st January 1959Episode 4
Culhane is investigating the death of Ben Dawes, a wealthy middle-aged bachelor who took a mail-order bride.Client: Starkey
7th February 1959Episode 5
June Starkey arrives in town to ask Culhane to find her missing husband.Client: Tagger
14th February 1959Episode 6
No overview available.Client: Robinson
21st February 1959Episode 7
No overview available.Client: Martinez
7th March 1959Episode 8
No overview available.Client: Northrup
14th March 1959Episode 9
Ty Northrup, ex-lawman turned renegade, and his wife arrive in Latigo, but Marshal Gib Scott orders them out of town. Mrs. Northrup is unable to travel, and Clay Culhane tries to talk Scott into allowing them to stay until the woman is well enought to move on.Client: Steele
21st March 1959Episode 10
Lawyer Clay Culhane agrees to defend Bill Steele, one of three men being held by Marshal Gib Scott for robbery.Client: Mowery
28th March 1959Episode 11
No overview available.Client: Braun
4th April 1959Episode 12
A recluse hires Clay Culhane to obtain an injunction keeping trespassers off his property. While attending to this matter, the lawyer is startled by an encounter with a famous general who is believed to have died heroically.Client: Banks
11th April 1959Episode 13
Teenager Dick Banks maintains an interest in guns in spite of his father's opposition. Clay Culhane, who sees a similarity to the start of his own career as a gunfighter, befriends the youth.Client: Jessup
18th April 1959Episode 14
Rancher Lon Jessup is charged with robbery and murder by two Chicago detectives. Jessup tells Clay Culhane that he was involved in a robbery but had nothing to do with the murder.Client: Frome
25th April 1959Episode 15
No overview available.Client: Nelson
2nd May 1959Episode 16
Culhane runs into two brawling men, each of whom claims he's a lawman and that the other is his prisoner.Client: Neal Adams
9th May 1959Episode 17
An injured man, Neal Adams, arrives in Latigo and tells his friend Clay Culhane that he is being unjustly hunted. Clay learns that Adams is a wanted man and his pursuer is a bounty hunter.Client: Brand
16th May 1959Episode 18
No overview available.Client: Reynolds
23rd May 1959Episode 19
Jealousy causes misfortune between two females and one greedy gambler.Client: Vardon
30th May 1959Episode 20
No overview available.Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane.
For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.
