The Loner
The Loner
TV ShowEnded

The Loner

5.7 / 10
1965
1 season
26 episodes
Western

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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The Loner with Lloyd Bridges - Three clips

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.An Echo of Bugles

    18-09-196526m

    A swaggering gunfighter targets an aging Confederate veteran, and Colton steps in to deal with the bully.

  • Ep 2

    2.The Vespers

    25-09-196526m

    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 unwillin...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Lonely Galico Queen

    02-10-196526m

    A dance hall girl mistakes Colton for her mail-order bridegroom.

  • Ep 4

    4.The Kingdom of McComb

    09-10-196526m

    Unable to perform the deed themselves, a group of religious colonists attempt to recruit Colton to kill a powerful landowner trying to evict them.

  • Ep 5

    5.One of the Wounded

    16-10-196526m

    Colton tries to help a Union army veteran left mute and immobile by the psychological horrors of war.

  • Ep 6

    6.The Flight of the Artic Tern

    23-10-196526m

    Colton becomes involved in a romantic triangle when he saves a friend's bride-to-be from a runaway horse.

  • Ep 7

    7.Widow on the Evening Stage

    30-10-196526m

    Following the murder of a man during an Indian attack, Colton witnesses a town's prejudice towards the man's Indian widow.

  • Ep 8

    8.The House Rules at Mrs. Wayne's

    06-11-196526m

    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.

  • Ep 9

    9.The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing

    13-11-196526m

    Colton has second thoughts after accepting the position of deputy to the dubious sheriff of a sleepy Montana town.

  • Ep 10

    10.The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove

    20-11-196526m

    Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by bigots.

  • Ep 11

    11.Westward, the Shoemaker

    27-11-196526m

    When a well-intentioned immigrant is stripped of his nest egg in a rigged card game, Colton takes on the con artist.

  • Ep 12

    12.The Oath

    04-12-196526m

    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.

  • Ep 13

    13.Hunt the Man Down

    11-12-196526m

    Colton is drafted to help a posse hunt down a seemingly harmless recluse.

  • Ep 14

    14.Escort for a Dead Man

    18-12-196526m

    A man who deserted from the Army wants Colton to escort him back to his fort.

  • Ep 15

    15.The Ordeal of Bud Windom

    25-12-196526m

    A murder suspect's son makes life difficult for Colton when the boy tries to clear his father's name.

  • Ep 16

    16.To the West of Eden

    01-01-196626m

    While traveling across the desert to deliver horses to their new owner, Colton reluctantly agrees to escort a young woman across the arid land.

  • Ep 17

    17.Mantrap

    08-01-196626m

    Colton becomes the target of an assassin when he is the sole witness to a robbery and murder.

  • Ep 18

    18.A Little Stroll to the End of the Line

    15-01-196626m

    Colton neither likes nor respects the man he has been deputized to protect: a rabble-rousing preacher who fears death from an ex-convict.

  • Ep 19

    19.The Trial in Paradise

    22-01-196626m

    Colton provides the defense in a kangaroo court trial of a former Union Army officer.

  • Ep 20

    20.A Question of Guilt

    29-01-196626m

    In the darkness Colton kills an intruder, and discovers the man is an Army Lieutenant.

  • Ep 21

    21.The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (1)

    05-02-196626m

    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)

  • Ep 22

    22.The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (2)

    12-02-196626m

    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)

  • Ep 23

    23.Incident in the Middle Of Nowhere

    19-02-196626m

    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.

  • Ep 24

    24.Pick Me Another Time to Die

    26-02-196626m

    Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.

  • Ep 25

    25.The Burden of the Badge

    05-03-196626m

    A group of reformed criminals deputize Colton to defend and protect them.

  • Ep 26

    26.To Hang a Dead Man

    12-03-196626m

    Colton joins a sheriff in search of a town's destroyers.

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