Bronco

1h

Western

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.

Episodes

Cast

The Besieged

1. The Besieged

1h

23rd Sep 1958

Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.

Quest of the Thirty Dead

2. Quest of the Thirty Dead

1h

7th Oct 1958

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

The Turning Point

3. The Turning Point

1h

21st Oct 1958

Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.

Four Guns and a Prayer

4. Four Guns and a Prayer

1h

4th Nov 1958

Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.

The Long Ride Back

5. The Long Ride Back

1h

18th Nov 1958

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 fiancé's brother.

Trail to Taos

6. Trail to Taos

1h

2nd Dec 1958

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

Brand of Courage

7. Brand of Courage

1h

16th Dec 1958

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

8. Freeze-Out

1h

30th Dec 1958

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

9. The Baron of Broken Lance

1h

13th Jan 1959

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

10. Payroll of the Dead

1h

27th Jan 1959

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

Riding Solo

11. Riding Solo

1h

10th Feb 1959

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

12. Borrowed Glory

1h

24th Feb 1959

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

13. The Silent Witness

1h

10th Mar 1959

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

14. The Belles of Silver Flat

1h

24th Mar 1959

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

15. Backfire

1h

7th Apr 1959

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

16. School for Cowards

1h

21st Apr 1959

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

17. Prairie Skipper

1h

5th May 1959

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

18. Shadow of a Man

1h

19th May 1959

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

19. Hero of the Town

1h

2nd Jun 1959

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

20. Red Water North

1h

19th Sep 1959

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.

First air date

23rd Sep 1958

Last air date

30th Apr 1962

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks