Bronco (Season 1)

The Besieged (Episode 1)

Air date: 1958-09-23

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.

Quest of the Thirty Dead (Episode 2)

Air date: 1958-10-07

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: One of Bronco's best friends is killed in a train wreck. Bronco looks into it, and discovers that the "accident" was in fact not an accident at all; the train was deliberately sabotaged. An old Civil War friend may be responsible.

The Turning Point (Episode 3)

Air date: 1958-10-21

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.

Four Guns and a Prayer (Episode 4)

Air date: 1958-11-04

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.

The Long Ride Back (Episode 5)

Air date: 1958-11-18

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Trail to Taos (Episode 6)

Air date: 1958-12-02

Runtime: 60 min

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

Brand of Courage (Episode 7)

Air date: 1958-12-16

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Freeze-Out (Episode 8)

Air date: 1958-12-30

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

The Baron of Broken Lance (Episode 9)

Air date: 1959-01-13

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Payroll of the Dead (Episode 10)

Air date: 1959-01-27

Runtime: 60 min

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

Riding Solo (Episode 11)

Air date: 1959-02-10

Runtime: 60 min

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

Borrowed Glory (Episode 12)

Writer: Berne Giler

Air date: 1959-02-24

Runtime: 60 min

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

The Silent Witness (Episode 13)

Writer: Tom Gries

Air date: 1959-03-10

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

The Belles of Silver Flat (Episode 14)

Air date: 1959-03-24

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Backfire (Episode 15)

Air date: 1959-04-07

Runtime: 60 min

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

School for Cowards (Episode 16)

Air date: 1959-04-21

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Prairie Skipper (Episode 17)

Air date: 1959-05-05

Runtime: 60 min

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

Shadow of a Man (Episode 18)

Air date: 1959-05-19

Runtime: 60 min

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

Hero of the Town (Episode 19)

Air date: 1959-06-02

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Red Water North (Episode 20)

Writer: Dean Riesner

Air date: 1959-09-19

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.