Bronco
Bronco
TV ShowEnded

Bronco

5.9 / 10
1958
4 seasons
68 episodes
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.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Besieged

    23-09-195860m

    Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.

  • Ep 2

    2.Quest of the Thirty Dead

    07-10-195860m

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

  • Ep 3

    3.The Turning Point

    21-10-195860m

    Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.

  • Ep 4

    4.Four Guns and a Prayer

    04-11-195860m

    Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.

  • Ep 5

    5.The Long Ride Back

    18-11-195860m

    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...

  • Ep 6

    6.Trail to Taos

    02-12-195860m

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

  • Ep 7

    7.Brand of Courage

    16-12-195860m

    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.

  • Ep 8

    8.Freeze-Out

    30-12-195860m

    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.

  • Ep 9

    9.The Baron of Broken Lance

    13-01-195960m

    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...

  • Ep 10

    10.Payroll of the Dead

    27-01-195960m

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

  • Ep 11

    11.Riding Solo

    10-02-195960m

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

  • Ep 12

    12.Borrowed Glory

    24-02-195960m

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

  • Ep 13

    13.The Silent Witness

    10-03-195960m

    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 res...

  • Ep 14

    14.The Belles of Silver Flat

    24-03-195960m

    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.

  • Ep 15

    15.Backfire

    07-04-195960m

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

  • Ep 16

    16.School for Cowards

    21-04-195960m

    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.

  • Ep 17

    17.Prairie Skipper

    05-05-195960m

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

  • Ep 18

    18.Shadow of a Man

    19-05-195960m

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

  • Ep 19

    19.Hero of the Town

    02-06-195960m

    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.

  • Ep 20

    20.Red Water North

    19-09-195960m

    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...

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