Frontier
Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955, to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and focuses on the hazards of the settlement of the American West. It was only the second anthology Western series in television history, having been preceded by Death Valley Days. Frontier aired premiered on September 25, 1955, and ran sporadically in its last five months. Walter Coy narrated the series and starred in occasional episodes, which are dramatizations based on actual events. The program was produced by Worthington Miner.
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- Ep 1
1.Paper Gunman
25-09-1955A newspaper reporter determined to write articles about famous gunslingers finds that real gunmen are in short supply, so he decides to invent one. He buys a young man who hero-wor...
- Ep 2
2.Tomas And The Widow
02-10-1955 - Ep 3
3.A Stillness In Wyoming
16-10-1955A range war breaks out between the cattle ranchers and the sheepherders in 19th Century Wyoming. The sons of the faction leaders meet and become friends, leading to tragedy when a...
- Ep 4
4.The Shame Of A Nation
23-10-1955 - Ep 5
5.The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska
30-10-1955 - Ep 6
6.The Suspects
06-11-1955 - Ep 7
7.King of the Dakotas
13-11-1955A French expatriate with a reputation as a duelist plans to create a cattle empire in the Dakota territory but runs into opposition from the ranchers he has mistreated.
- Ep 8
8.Cattle Drive to Casper
27-11-1955A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive
- Ep 9
9.Romance of Poker Alice
11-12-1955 - Ep 10
10.Ferdinand Meyer's Army
18-12-1955 - Ep 11
11.The Long Road To Tucson
25-12-1955 - Ep 12
12.The Texicans
08-01-1956 - Ep 13
13.Mother Of The Brave
15-01-1956When ranching proves unprofitable, the Horn family begins a long trek across Western plains enroute to their Native England, but fall prey to a band of Comanche Indians.
- Ep 14
14.The Ten Days Of John Leslie
22-01-1956 - Ep 15
15.The Devil And Doctor O'Hara
05-02-1956 - Ep 16
16.The Captivity Of Joe Long
12-02-1956 - Ep 17
17.The Voyage Of Captain Castle
19-02-1956 - Ep 18
18.Assassin
04-03-1956 - Ep 19
19.The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek
11-03-1956 - Ep 20
20.The Big Dry
18-03-1956 - Ep 21
21.The Ballad Of Pretty Polly
01-04-1956 - Ep 22
22.The Well
08-04-1956 - Ep 23
23.Salt War
22-04-1956 - Ep 24
24.Patrol
29-04-1956 - Ep 25
25.A Somewhere Voice
06-05-1956 - Ep 26
26.The Hunted
13-05-1956 - Ep 27
27.Georgia Gold
10-06-1956 - Ep 28
28.Out From Texas
24-06-1956 - Ep 29
29.The Return Of Jubal Dolan
26-08-1956 - Ep 30
30.The Hostage
09-09-1956
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