Bronco

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.

Creators and Cast

Creators

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Cast

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Ty Hardin

Episodes

Season 1

20 episodes

S1 E1 · The Besieged

1958-09-23

Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.

S1 E2 · Quest of the Thirty Dead

1958-10-07

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

S1 E3 · The Turning Point

1958-10-21

Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.

S1 E4 · Four Guns and a Prayer

1958-11-04

Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.

S1 E5 · The Long Ride Back

1958-11-18

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.

S1 E6 · Trail to Taos

1958-12-02

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

S1 E7 · Brand of Courage

1958-12-16

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.

S1 E8 · Freeze-Out

1958-12-30

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.

S1 E9 · The Baron of Broken Lance

1959-01-13

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.

S1 E10 · Payroll of the Dead

1959-01-27

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

S1 E11 · Riding Solo

1959-02-10

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

S1 E12 · Borrowed Glory

1959-02-24

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

S1 E13 · The Silent Witness

1959-03-10

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.

S1 E14 · The Belles of Silver Flat

1959-03-24

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.

S1 E15 · Backfire

1959-04-07

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

S1 E16 · School for Cowards

1959-04-21

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.

S1 E17 · Prairie Skipper

1959-05-05

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

S1 E18 · Shadow of a Man

1959-05-19

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

S1 E19 · Hero of the Town

1959-06-02

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.

S1 E20 · Red Water North

1959-09-19

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.

Season 2

20 episodes

S2 E1 · Game at the Beacon Club

1959-09-22

Bronco unwittingly introduces a demure con artist to a rich man.

S2 E2 · The Burning Spring

1959-10-06

Bronco relives a wartime experience while testifying in the trial of his would-be killer.

S2 E3 · Bodyguard

1959-10-20

Bronco is hired as a bodyguard, but when he fails to keep the man alive, he's faced with a host of people confessing to the killing.

S2 E4 · The Soft Answer

1959-11-03

Bronco intervenes when a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen threatens to become a slaughter due to the Quaker sheepman's refusal to use guns.

S2 E5 · The Last Resort

1959-11-17

Bronco goes in search of the only man who can clear him of a murder charge, but must disguise himself when his quarry goes to ground in a lawless town known as a haven for criminals.

S2 E6 · The Devil's Spawn

1959-12-01

Bushwhacked by an escaped convict, Bronco is saved by a local rancher and becomes involved in his feud with a neighboring family.

S2 E7 · Flight from an Empire

1959-12-15

Bronco hires refugees from the fallen Maximillian empire, but has to contend with bandits who are convinced the mother and son know what happened to $5 million in missing gold.

S2 E8 · Night Train to Denver

1959-12-29

Bronco accompanies a corpse to Denver and is accused when $100,000 is stolen from the railcar.

S2 E9 · Shadow of Jesse James

1960-01-12

Bronco tries to break up the James gang by pressuring outlaw Cole Younger to give up Jesse, an indiscriminate killer.

S2 E10 · Masquerade

1960-01-26

Bronco's attempt to reform four teenage would-be outlaws backfires when a violent gang cuts in on their planned gold heist.

S2 E11 · Volunteers from Aberdeen

1960-02-09

Bronco tries to rescue a lovestruck friend from murder and robbery charges.

S2 E12 · Every Man a Hero

1960-02-23

Bronco arrives at Ft. Monument in the wake of an Indian massacre, and slowly realizes the survivors are actually criminals masquerading as heroes.

S2 E13 · Death of an Outlaw

1960-03-08

Bronco wins a range war with the help of Billy the Kid, but when the dust settles the outlaw is still wanted by the law and by bounty-hunter Pat Garrett.

S2 E14 · The Human Equation

1960-03-22

Bronco finally talks an Army officer into sending the Osage to a fertile Wyoming territory, but a cholera epidemic and a hostile new commander threatens to destroy the plan.

S2 E15 · Montana Passage

1960-04-05

Bronco fakes his own death, and assumes the identity of a colonist, in order to hunt down the outlaws who framed him for murder.

S2 E16 · Legacy of Twisted Creek

1960-04-19

Bronco's attempt to capture a killer alive runs into a snag when a band of renegade Apaches set out to kill his prisoner in hopes of sparking an uprising.

S2 E17 · Tangled Trail

1960-05-03

Bronco helps a small herder resists a brutal rancher and finds himself accused of murder when the man's unbalanced wife becomes a tool for the canny rancher.

S2 E18 · La Rubia

1960-05-17

A beautiful woman double-crosses Bronco when she learns that the bandits who have taken them hostage have a fortune in gold hidden in a secret cache.

S2 E19 · Winter Kill

1960-05-31

A vengeful mother swears to kill the prisoner Bronco and Marshal Sample are taking to the county jail.

S2 E20 · End of a Rope

1960-06-14

Bronco finds himself on the gallows after he stumbles across an elaborate scheme to protect wanted fugitives from the law.

Season 3

10 episodes

S3 E1 · Mustangers

1960-10-17

Bronco is accused of murder when a young widow takes an interest in him.

S3 E2 · Apache Treasure

1960-11-07

Bronco is framed for murder by a ruthless bounty hunter who kills and scalps Apaches.

S3 E3 · Seminole War Pipe

1960-12-12

In order to rescue a Seminole princess, Bronco must reveal a government secret and his role in Civil War espionage.

S3 E4 · Ordeal at Dead Tree

1961-01-02

Arrested as an accomplice to murder, Bronco breaks out of jail and goes after his supposed cronies.

S3 E5 · The Invaders

1961-01-23

Bronco reluctantly works to help an outlaw rob a gold shipment, knowing that any disruption of the man's plans will result in the death of his hostage.

S3 E6 · Buckbrier Trail

1961-02-20

Bronco races to keep a vengeful deserter from ambushing Marshal Kilgore and the prisoner he's taking to jail.

S3 E7 · Yankee Tornado

1961-03-13

Bronco helps a young Teddy Roosevelt fight a rancher trying to drive the Indians off their land.

S3 E8 · Manitoba Manhunt

1961-04-03

Bronco joins a Mountie and two U.S. Marshals to bring in a bank robber who might be his best friend and former commander.

S3 E9 · Stage to the Sky

1961-04-24

Bronco faces a lynch mob when he tries to save a friend from the hatred of his own brother.

S3 E10 · Guns of the Lawless

1961-05-08

Bronco helps a friend fight a rancher and his hired gunmen, a fight complicated by the friend's love for the rancher's daughter.

Season 4

18 episodes

S4 E1 · Cousin from Atlanta

1961-10-16

Bronco tries to convince a city cousin that her interest in a dashing gunman is a bad idea.

S4 E2 · Prince of Darkness

1961-11-06

As part of a scheme to uncover an insurrectionist group famous actor Edwin Booth pretends to share his relative James Wilkes Booth's hatred of the Union. But when irate townspeople try to kill the traitor, Bronco must protect the seeming turncoat.

S4 E3 · One Came Back

1961-11-27

Bronco falls hard for a pretty traveler, and only a bank robbery delays his rush to the altar.

S4 E4 · Equalizer

1961-12-18

Bronco keeps rival outlaw gangs from slaughtering each other so two young lovers can marry.

S4 E5 · Harrigan

1961-12-25

Bronco teams up with a silver-tongued Irishman to break up a robbery gang.

S4 E6 · Beginner's Luck

1962-01-01

When a kid gets lucky in his first poker game and in a gunfight, enemies of his father see a chance to use him to win a dispute over grazing rights.

S4 E7 · Ride the Whirlwind

1962-01-15

Bronco and the local sheriff try to figure out how a bitter ex-con is taking revenge for a Civil War disgrace.

S4 E8 · Sure Thing

1962-01-22

Bronco sets himself up in the cattle business only to find that a local rancher is using his control of the only road to the market to kill off his competition.

S4 E9 · Trail of Hatred

1962-02-05

Bronco leads a troop of mutinous soldiers into Indian territory to find a deserter, the father of the troop's ruthless lieutenant.

S4 E10 · Rendezvous with a Miracle

1962-02-12

Bronco tracks an escaped bankrobber and meets up with an unusual nun.

S4 E11 · Destinies West

1962-02-26

Bronco's infatuation with a lady gambler distracts him from his army assignment to locate a missing fortune and a renegade Union solder.

S4 E12 · Last Letter

1962-03-05

Leading a group of bitter Confederate POWs west to fulfill their pledge to help the Union fight the Indians, Bronco is also in charge of a gold delivery headed to Mexico and a secret assignment from the murdered president Abraham Lincoln.

S4 E13 · One Evening in Abilene

1962-03-19

Bronco hires gunman Clay Farraday to help with a cattle drive, but when Clay falls for a scheming beauty Bronco has to try to talk his helper out of a shootout with Wild Bill Hickock.

S4 E14 · Until Kingdom Come

1962-03-26

Bronco helps a lovely duchess being chased by Mexican revolutionaries.

S4 E15 · Moment of Doubt

1962-04-02

Bronco infiltrates anti-Union subversives in New Orleans with the help of an ex-slave and a lovely woman.

S4 E16 · A Town That Lived and Died

1962-04-09

Bronco faces a kangaroo court intent on hanging him for his wartime activities as a Confederate spy.

S4 E17 · Immovable Object

1962-04-16

Bronco has to sweet-talk two stubborn frontier men when one refuses to allow the construction of a dam on his land, provoking a journalist to write a story that causes an international incident.

S4 E18 · Then the Mountains

1962-04-30

Bronco has his wagon train marked for extinction by an ex-guerrilla leader.