Season 1

Season 1 (1965)


Episodes: 26

Star Cast: Lloyd Bridges ,



Episodes List

Ep.1 An Echo of Bugles

Air Date: 1965-09-18

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

Ep.2 The Vespers

Air Date: 1965-09-25

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 unwilling to resort to violence to protect himself and his pregnant wife.

Ep.3 The Lonely Galico Queen

Air Date: 1965-10-02

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

Ep.4 The Kingdom of McComb

Air Date: 1965-10-09

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 One of the Wounded

Air Date: 1965-10-16

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

Ep.6 The Flight of the Artic Tern

Air Date: 1965-10-23

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

Ep.7 Widow on the Evening Stage

Air Date: 1965-10-30

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

Ep.8 The House Rules at Mrs. Wayne's

Air Date: 1965-11-06

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 The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing

Air Date: 1965-11-13

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

Ep.10 The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove

Air Date: 1965-11-20

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

Ep.11 Westward, the Shoemaker

Air Date: 1965-11-27

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

Ep.12 The Oath

Air Date: 1965-12-04

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 Hunt the Man Down

Air Date: 1965-12-11

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

Ep.14 Escort for a Dead Man

Air Date: 1965-12-18

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

Ep.15 The Ordeal of Bud Windom

Air Date: 1965-12-25

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

Ep.16 To the West of Eden

Air Date: 1966-01-01

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 Mantrap

Air Date: 1966-01-08

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

Ep.18 A Little Stroll to the End of the Line

Air Date: 1966-01-15

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 The Trial in Paradise

Air Date: 1966-01-22

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

Ep.20 A Question of Guilt

Air Date: 1966-01-29

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

Ep.21 The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (1)

Air Date: 1966-02-05

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 The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (2)

Air Date: 1966-02-12

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 Incident in the Middle Of Nowhere

Air Date: 1966-02-19

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 Pick Me Another Time to Die

Air Date: 1966-02-26

Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.

Ep.25 The Burden of the Badge

Air Date: 1966-03-05

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

Ep.26 To Hang a Dead Man

Air Date: 1966-03-12

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