The Loner (Season 1)

An Echo of Bugles (Episode 1)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1965-09-18

Runtime: 26 min

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

The Vespers (Episode 2)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1965-09-25

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: 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.

The Lonely Galico Queen (Episode 3)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1965-10-02

Runtime: 26 min

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

The Kingdom of McComb (Episode 4)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1965-10-09

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: Unable to perform the deed themselves, a group of religious colonists attempt to recruit Colton to kill a powerful landowner trying to evict them.

One of the Wounded (Episode 5)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1965-10-16

Runtime: 26 min

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

The Flight of the Artic Tern (Episode 6)

Air date: 1965-10-23

Runtime: 26 min

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

Widow on the Evening Stage (Episode 7)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1965-10-30

Runtime: 26 min

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

The House Rules at Mrs. Wayne's (Episode 8)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1965-11-06

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: 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.

The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing (Episode 9)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1965-11-13

Runtime: 26 min

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

The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove (Episode 10)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1965-11-20

Runtime: 26 min

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

Westward, the Shoemaker (Episode 11)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1965-11-27

Runtime: 26 min

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

The Oath (Episode 12)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1965-12-04

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: 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.

Hunt the Man Down (Episode 13)

Air date: 1965-12-11

Runtime: 26 min

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

Escort for a Dead Man (Episode 14)

Writer: Robert Lewin

Air date: 1965-12-18

Runtime: 26 min

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

The Ordeal of Bud Windom (Episode 15)

Air date: 1965-12-25

Runtime: 26 min

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

To the West of Eden (Episode 16)

Writer: Ed Adamson

Air date: 1966-01-01

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: While traveling across the desert to deliver horses to their new owner, Colton reluctantly agrees to escort a young woman across the arid land.

Mantrap (Episode 17)

Air date: 1966-01-08

Runtime: 26 min

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

A Little Stroll to the End of the Line (Episode 18)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1966-01-15

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: Colton neither likes nor respects the man he has been deputized to protect: a rabble-rousing preacher who fears death from an ex-convict.

The Trial in Paradise (Episode 19)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1966-01-22

Runtime: 26 min

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

A Question of Guilt (Episode 20)

Air date: 1966-01-29

Runtime: 26 min

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

The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (1) (Episode 21)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1966-02-05

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: 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)

The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (2) (Episode 22)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1966-02-12

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: 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)

Incident in the Middle Of Nowhere (Episode 23)

Air date: 1966-02-19

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: 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.

Pick Me Another Time to Die (Episode 24)

Writer: Ed Adamson

Air date: 1966-02-26

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.

The Burden of the Badge (Episode 25)

Air date: 1966-03-05

Runtime: 26 min

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

To Hang a Dead Man (Episode 26)

Air date: 1966-03-12

Runtime: 26 min

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