Lawman
Lawman
TV ShowEnded

Lawman

5.6 / 10
1958
4 seasons
156 episodes
Western

Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.The Deputy

    05-10-195830m

    In this pilot episode, Dan Troop takes over in Laramie after the previous marshal is killed. His first job is to bring in the marshal's killer, and in the process he gains a fine d...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Prisoner

    12-10-195830m

    In a tribute to High Noon, a man comes into town, looking for a fight. When he kills a man, he is arrested. Johnny gets lessons from Dan on how to handle a prisoner

  • Ep 3

    3.The Joker

    19-10-195830m

    Dan and Johnny try to capture a prisoner, who tells Johnny that he is his father. Dan is shocked when Johnny turns in his badge, saying he has bad blood and won't make a good lawm...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Oath

    26-10-195830m

    While Dan and Johnny are taking a killer to be hanged and a doctor to prison to serve a term, they come upon a stranded stagecoach with various passengers who need help. While hel...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Outcast

    02-11-195830m

    Bob Ford, who shot Jesse James in the back, comes to Laramie, where Dan and Johnny must protect him from mob mentality in some who feel Jesse James was a hero (although Dan seems t...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Jury

    09-11-195830m

    A new saloon is opened in Laramie by Kate Wilson, who has had several scrapes with the law, but is always acquitted by the all-male jurors due to serious flirting on her part. Whe...

  • Ep 7

    7.Wanted

    16-11-195830m

    Fallon, a ruthless bounty hunter, brings in a body of a wanted man and collects the reward from Dan, who knew him elsewhere and doesn't like him. After being told to leave town, Fa...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Badge

    23-11-195830m

    Johnny puts his badge on the line when he bets Dan that his life long friend, Bill Anderson, is a good guy - and the only one in his family. Bill has trouble through some misunder...

  • Ep 9

    9.Bloodline

    30-11-195830m

    Luke Saint is a old codger who has a fast draw for a son named Matt. Matt has a reputation, which Luke likes to feed. On the way into Laramie, Matt is ambushed, shot and told he...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Intruders

    07-12-195830m

    A Chinese girl is the only one willing to testify after her husband is killed by a couple of men extorting money from the Chinese mine workers outside of town. Although the two me...

  • Ep 11

    11.Short Straw

    14-12-195830m

    Upset that Dan refuses to recind a 10 p.m. curfew he's put on all the saloons in town, the three saloon owners draw straws to see who gets the 'short straw'. That man is the one w...

  • Ep 12

    12.Lady in Question

    21-12-1958

    When Johnny McKay's old sweetheart comes to town, she is followed by her lover who goads Johnny into a gunfight. Johnny kills him, but the man's gun is missing when Johnny returns...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Master

    28-12-195830m

    Dan's pleased to hear his old mentor is in town, but he and Johnny are disappointed to find out he's there to help the Cattleman's Association to run off homesteaders, a problem Da...

  • Ep 14

    14.The Outsider

    04-01-1959

    Rene LeBeau is a half-breed Indian woman who lives on a ranch with her Sioux mother after her father dies, and the cattlemen in the area are trying to run her off. Intolerance cau...

  • Ep 15

    15.The Captives

    11-01-1959

    Jack McCall, who murdered Wild Bill Hickok, ends up in Laramie, holed up in Johnny's ailing 'Uncle' Jess' cabin. When Johnny shows up with the doctor, they are held captive. Then...

  • Ep 16

    16.The Encounter

    18-01-1959

    While going to arrest two men for murder, Dan is mauled by a bear. A woman saves him and takes him to her cabin, but he doesn't know she's the sister of one of the wanted men. S...

  • Ep 17

    17.The Brand Release

    25-01-195930m

    A wounded Ben Greene is accused of stealing cattle. He insists that he bought them legally, and his brand release is at his cabin. The men who accuse him are unsavory characters...

  • Ep 18

    18.The Runaway

    01-02-195930m

    Ben Steed is a soldier who wants to be a writer. His father, an army colonel, wants him to stay in the army. The son leaves, but not with the intent to desert as much as to get a...

  • Ep 19

    19.Warpath

    08-02-195930m

    The buffalo hunters, led by Tom Cardigan, are persecuting little Billy Bright in the saloon because he used to be married to a Shoshone Indian. The Shoshone are on the warpath bec...

  • Ep 20

    20.The Gunman

    15-02-195925m

    Reformed gunfighter Kurt Monroe comes into Laramie to meet his fiancee, Lucy, on the stage. But when the stage comes in without her, his resolve to stay on the straight and narrow...

  • Ep 21

    21.The Big Hat

    22-02-195930m

    Big Hat Anderson and Lily Keats are married, and Frank Tate, the newspaper editor, is given the grooms 'big hat' to wear. As he leaves the saloon, he is shot and killed. Dan must...

  • Ep 22

    22.The Chef

    01-03-195930m

    Hans is a chef wanting to open up his own restaurant, but the Youngs keep him bound to a contract they have with him. Dan helps him get out of it in an unusual (but legal) way, in...

  • Ep 23

    23.The Posse

    08-03-195930m

    A posse is formed to find a suspected murderer, and a gunslinger is included in the posse. The other citizens object, but he turns out to be the only one willing to help Dan prote...

  • Ep 24

    24.The Visitor

    15-03-195930m

    Jamie was left with the Welches to raise after his father, Jack Rollins, went to prison. Jack is out, and back to reclaim his son.

  • Ep 25

    25.Battle Scar

    22-03-195930m

    A military man has a breakdown and finally reveals the truth about a war battle: he let people believe he had been a hero, when instead he was court-martialed for deserting his men...

  • Ep 26

    26.The Gang

    29-03-195930m

    The Hayes gang is riding into Laramie, and one of the riders, Clay, is coming in to warn Dan. In a rare show of Dan's background, we learn Clay is his brother, that they both love...

  • Ep 27

    27.The Souvenir

    05-04-195930m

    When Dan and Johnny both draw and fire on an escaped convicted killer's brother, Dan takes the credit for it in order to protect Johnny and draw out the other 2 brothers. But when...

  • Ep 28

    28.The Young Toughs

    12-04-195930m

    Three young toughs cause trouble for Johnny while he's left in charge while Dan goes out of town. Finally, he's forced into a shoot out with all three of them, just as Dan gets ba...

  • Ep 29

    29.Riding Shotgun

    19-04-195930m

    Larry DeLong is a reformed criminal who is now employed as a shotgun rider on the stageline. When his former gang robs the stage on which he's riding, and the driver is killed, th...

  • Ep 30

    30.The Journey

    26-04-195930m

    Dan starts on a journey in response to a telegram asking for his help in another town. When he gets there, no one seems to know anything about why he was summoned. Dan must solve...

  • Ep 31

    31.The Huntress

    03-05-195930m

    When stage robbers kill Loma Williams' brother, she becomes a one-woman vigilante force. After one of the men tells her where she can find the other one, she kills him. Then she...

  • Ep 32

    32.The Return

    10-05-195930m

    Dan helps a man released from prison to make the right decision between the girl that he loves and going back to his old gang.

  • Ep 33

    33.The Senator

    17-05-195930m

    Dan and Johnny must stop an assassination attempt on the Senator, who is supposed to stop in Laramie on the midnight train.

  • Ep 34

    34.The Ring

    24-05-195930m

    Dan sets a trap for a murderer after a young woman is found killed in Laramie.

  • Ep 35

    35.The Bandits

    31-05-195930m

    After Ches Ryan's pay is docked, he retaliates by robbing the payroll. As he escapes, he passes through a town plagued with an illness. He comes across a young woman and her litt...

  • Ep 36

    36.The Wayfarer

    07-06-1959

    Doc Holliday is in Laramie, and Dan would like to see him go. He is hanging around, however, for a woman due on the stagecoach, and he won't go until she gets there.

  • Ep 37

    37.The Conclave

    14-06-195930m

    One member of a gang planning to rob a stage gets drunk while in Laramie and subsequently is jailed. He offers to tell Dan the scheme for some whiskey. Then, Dan has to try to fo...

  • Ep 38

    38.Red Ransom

    21-06-195930m

    After Sioux Chief Red Horse's son is murdered, he holds Johnny hostage and tells Dan he will kill Johnny in the morning unless Dan can find the killer.

  • Ep 39

    39.The Friend

    28-06-1959

    While Dan is gone (again), Johnny runs across an old friend in town, not knowing he has joined a gang planning on robbing the bank of Laramie. When his friend, Buck Harmon, finds...

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