Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.
Black Saddle (Season 1)
Client: Travers (Episode 1)
Writer: John McGreevey
Air date: 1959-01-10
Client: Meade (Episode 2)
Writer: John McGreevey
Air date: 1959-01-17
Client: McQueen (Episode 3)
Writer: Robert Libott
Air date: 1959-01-24
Client: Dawes (Episode 4)
Writer: John McGreevey
Air date: 1959-01-31
Overview: Culhane is investigating the death of Ben Dawes, a wealthy middle-aged bachelor who took a mail-order bride.
Client: Starkey (Episode 5)
Writer: Robert Libott
Air date: 1959-02-07
Overview: June Starkey arrives in town to ask Culhane to find her missing husband.
Client: Tagger (Episode 6)
Writer: Frederick Louis Fox
Air date: 1959-02-14
Client: Robinson (Episode 7)
Writer: Jack Jacobs
Air date: 1959-02-21
Client: Martinez (Episode 8)
Writer: John Tucker Battle
Air date: 1959-03-07
Client: Northrup (Episode 9)
Writer: John McGreevey
Air date: 1959-03-14
Overview: Ty Northrup, ex-lawman turned renegade, and his wife arrive in Latigo, but Marshal Gib Scott orders them out of town. Mrs. Northrup is unable to travel, and Clay Culhane tries to talk Scott into allowing them to stay until the woman is well enought to move on.
Client: Steele (Episode 10)
Writer: Rod Peterson
Air date: 1959-03-21
Overview: Lawyer Clay Culhane agrees to defend Bill Steele, one of three men being held by Marshal Gib Scott for robbery.
Client: Mowery (Episode 11)
Writer: Frederick Louis Fox
Air date: 1959-03-28
Client: Braun (Episode 12)
Writer: John McGreevey
Air date: 1959-04-04
Overview: A recluse hires Clay Culhane to obtain an injunction keeping trespassers off his property. While attending to this matter, the lawyer is startled by an encounter with a famous general who is believed to have died heroically.
Client: Banks (Episode 13)
Writer: Antony Ellis
Air date: 1959-04-11
Overview: Teenager Dick Banks maintains an interest in guns in spite of his father's opposition. Clay Culhane, who sees a similarity to the start of his own career as a gunfighter, befriends the youth.
Client: Jessup (Episode 14)
Writer: Stuart Jerome
Air date: 1959-04-18
Overview: Rancher Lon Jessup is charged with robbery and murder by two Chicago detectives. Jessup tells Clay Culhane that he was involved in a robbery but had nothing to do with the murder.
Client: Frome (Episode 15)
Writer: Frederick Louis Fox
Air date: 1959-04-25
Client: Nelson (Episode 16)
Writer: John McGreevey
Air date: 1959-05-02
Overview: Culhane runs into two brawling men, each of whom claims he's a lawman and that the other is his prisoner.
Client: Neal Adams (Episode 17)
Writer: Ken Kolb
Air date: 1959-05-09
Overview: An injured man, Neal Adams, arrives in Latigo and tells his friend Clay Culhane that he is being unjustly hunted. Clay learns that Adams is a wanted man and his pursuer is a bounty hunter.
Client: Brand (Episode 18)
Writer: Joseph Stone
Air date: 1959-05-16
Client: Reynolds (Episode 19)
Writer: John McGreevey
Air date: 1959-05-23
Overview: Jealousy causes misfortune between two females and one greedy gambler.
Client: Vardon (Episode 20)
Writer: Frederick Louis Fox
Air date: 1959-05-30
Seasons
Episodes 20
Episodes 24