Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955, to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and focuses on the hazards of the settlement of the American West. It was only the second anthology Western series in television history, having been preceded by Death Valley Days. Frontier aired premiered on September 25, 1955, and ran sporadically in its last five months. Walter Coy narrated the series and starred in occasional episodes, which are dramatizations based on actual events. The program was produced by Worthington Miner.
Frontier (Season 1)
Paper Gunman (Episode 1)
Air date: 1955-09-25
Overview: A newspaper reporter determined to write articles about famous gunslingers finds that real gunmen are in short supply, so he decides to invent one. He buys a young man who hero-worships Clay Allison a holster and a frock coat and creates a reputation for him as a formidable gunslinger by publishing embellished accounts of exploits.
Tomas And The Widow (Episode 2)
Air date: 1955-10-02
A Stillness In Wyoming (Episode 3)
Air date: 1955-10-16
Overview: A range war breaks out between the cattle ranchers and the sheepherders in 19th Century Wyoming. The sons of the faction leaders meet and become friends, leading to tragedy when a hired killer of one faction kills one of the boys by mistake.
The Shame Of A Nation (Episode 4)
Air date: 1955-10-23
The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska (Episode 5)
Air date: 1955-10-30
The Suspects (Episode 6)
Air date: 1955-11-06
King of the Dakotas (Episode 7)
Air date: 1955-11-13
Overview: A French expatriate with a reputation as a duelist plans to create a cattle empire in the Dakota territory but runs into opposition from the ranchers he has mistreated.
Cattle Drive to Casper (Episode 8)
Air date: 1955-11-27
Overview: A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive
Romance of Poker Alice (Episode 9)
Air date: 1955-12-11
Ferdinand Meyer's Army (Episode 10)
Air date: 1955-12-18
The Long Road To Tucson (Episode 11)
Air date: 1955-12-25
The Texicans (Episode 12)
Air date: 1956-01-08
Mother Of The Brave (Episode 13)
Air date: 1956-01-15
Overview: When ranching proves unprofitable, the Horn family begins a long trek across Western plains enroute to their Native England, but fall prey to a band of Comanche Indians.
The Ten Days Of John Leslie (Episode 14)
Air date: 1956-01-22
The Devil And Doctor O'Hara (Episode 15)
Air date: 1956-02-05
The Captivity Of Joe Long (Episode 16)
Air date: 1956-02-12
The Voyage Of Captain Castle (Episode 17)
Air date: 1956-02-19
Assassin (Episode 18)
Air date: 1956-03-04
The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek (Episode 19)
Air date: 1956-03-11
The Big Dry (Episode 20)
Air date: 1956-03-18
The Ballad Of Pretty Polly (Episode 21)
Air date: 1956-04-01
The Well (Episode 22)
Air date: 1956-04-08
Salt War (Episode 23)
Air date: 1956-04-22
Patrol (Episode 24)
Air date: 1956-04-29
A Somewhere Voice (Episode 25)
Air date: 1956-05-06
The Hunted (Episode 26)
Air date: 1956-05-13
Georgia Gold (Episode 27)
Air date: 1956-06-10
Out From Texas (Episode 28)
Air date: 1956-06-24
The Return Of Jubal Dolan (Episode 29)
Air date: 1956-08-26
The Hostage (Episode 30)
Air date: 1956-09-09
Seasons
Episodes 30