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.
Bronco (Season 2)
Game at the Beacon Club (Episode 1)
Air date: 1959-09-22
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Bronco unwittingly introduces a demure con artist to a rich man.
The Burning Spring (Episode 2)
Air date: 1959-10-06
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Bronco relives a wartime experience while testifying in the trial of his would-be killer.
Bodyguard (Episode 3)
Air date: 1959-10-20
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
The Soft Answer (Episode 4)
Air date: 1959-11-03
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
The Last Resort (Episode 5)
Writer: Jack Laird
Air date: 1959-11-17
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
The Devil's Spawn (Episode 6)
Air date: 1959-12-01
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Bushwhacked by an escaped convict, Bronco is saved by a local rancher and becomes involved in his feud with a neighboring family.
Flight from an Empire (Episode 7)
Air date: 1959-12-15
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Night Train to Denver (Episode 8)
Air date: 1959-12-29
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Bronco accompanies a corpse to Denver and is accused when $100,000 is stolen from the railcar.
Shadow of Jesse James (Episode 9)
Air date: 1960-01-12
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Bronco tries to break up the James gang by pressuring outlaw Cole Younger to give up Jesse, an indiscriminate killer.
Masquerade (Episode 10)
Air date: 1960-01-26
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Bronco's attempt to reform four teenage would-be outlaws backfires when a violent gang cuts in on their planned gold heist.
Volunteers from Aberdeen (Episode 11)
Air date: 1960-02-09
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Bronco tries to rescue a lovestruck friend from murder and robbery charges.
Every Man a Hero (Episode 12)
Air date: 1960-02-23
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Bronco arrives at Ft. Monument in the wake of an Indian massacre, and slowly realizes the survivors are actually criminals masquerading as heroes.
Death of an Outlaw (Episode 13)
Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams
Air date: 1960-03-08
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
The Human Equation (Episode 14)
Air date: 1960-03-22
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Montana Passage (Episode 15)
Writer: Howard Browne
Air date: 1960-04-05
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Bronco fakes his own death, and assumes the identity of a colonist, in order to hunt down the outlaws who framed him for murder.
Legacy of Twisted Creek (Episode 16)
Air date: 1960-04-19
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Tangled Trail (Episode 17)
Air date: 1960-05-03
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
La Rubia (Episode 18)
Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams
Air date: 1960-05-17
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Winter Kill (Episode 19)
Air date: 1960-05-31
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A vengeful mother swears to kill the prisoner Bronco and Marshal Sample are taking to the county jail.
End of a Rope (Episode 20)
Air date: 1960-06-14
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Bronco finds himself on the gallows after he stumbles across an elaborate scheme to protect wanted fugitives from the law.
