Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
Trackdown (Season 2)
Killer Take All (Episode 1)
Air date: 1958-09-05
Runtime: 30 min
Outlaw's Wife (Episode 2)
Air date: 1958-09-12
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The town's women want Hoby to make an outlaw's wife (who just returned to Porter) leave town.
Chinese Cowboy (Episode 3)
Air date: 1958-09-19
Runtime: 30 min
The Set-Up (Episode 4)
Writer: John Robinson
Air date: 1958-09-26
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Henrietta's new gentleman friend is only using her to setup an alibi for a bank robbery.
A Stone for Benny French (Episode 5)
Air date: 1958-10-03
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Hoby tracks down Benny French who was the only member of the Morgan Larker gang who escaped from the bank robbery.
Trapped (Episode 6)
Air date: 1958-10-10
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Hoby is held prisoner in a shack during a blizzard by the wife of husband and wife outlaws to care for her sick husband.
Matter of Justice (Episode 7)
Air date: 1958-10-17
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: One of the outlaws who held up the Butterfield stage depot has been caught and is awaiting trial and hanging. Hoby is called in to protect the town of Talpa. The prisoner claims his outlaw gang will kill the witnesses and destroy the town.
Tenner Smith (Episode 8)
Air date: 1958-10-24
Runtime: 30 min
The Avenger (Episode 9)
Air date: 1958-10-31
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Lance Garth is accused of stealing the payroll from Banning Mining but he is shot and killed before the money is found.
The Schoolteacher (Episode 10)
Air date: 1958-11-07
Runtime: 30 min
Deadly Decoy (Episode 11)
Air date: 1958-11-14
Runtime: 30 min
Sunday's Child (Episode 12)
Air date: 1958-11-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Gambler Joe Sunday comes to Porter with a court order to take possession of his baby daughter from her mother Cindy who plays the piano in the saloon. Hoby has to enforce the order over the objections of Henrietta and the whole town.
Day of Vengeance (Episode 13)
Air date: 1958-11-28
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A young man seeks the person who killed his brother. The truth is not what he expected.
Three-Legged Fox (Episode 14)
Air date: 1958-12-05
Runtime: 30 min
The Kid (Episode 15)
Air date: 1958-12-12
Runtime: 30 min
Guilt (Episode 16)
Air date: 1958-12-19
Runtime: 30 min
Every Man a Witness (Episode 17)
Air date: 1958-12-26
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Sheriff Alvin Fremont and a mob take prisoner Char Lopez out of jail and threaten to lynch him unless he confesses. The horse bolts and Lopez is hanged. Hoby is sent in to investigate who was responsible.
McCallin's Daughter (Episode 18)
Air date: 1959-01-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Youngster Debby McCallin comes to town and asks Hoby to stop her father Bart McCallin from committing a robbery.
Bad Judgment (Episode 19)
Air date: 1959-01-28
Runtime: 30 min
Terror (Episode 20)
Air date: 1959-02-04
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Doc Calhoun and Hoby deal with an outbreak of typhoid fever in town.
The Feud (Episode 21)
Air date: 1959-02-11
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Elderly and dying Maude Turley has her boys bring her back to Porter to die and be buried next to her husband after being run out of town 17 years ago by the Corbett's. Hoby tries to keep the two families from killing each other.
The Samaritan (Episode 22)
Air date: 1959-02-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Hoby finds a man on the trail with his leg caught in a bear trap and releases him. The man then knocks Hoby out, steals his horse and gun and leaves him caught in the bear trap.
The Gang (Episode 23)
Air date: 1959-02-25
Runtime: 30 min
The Threat (Episode 24)
Writer: John Robinson
Air date: 1959-03-04
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A smiling stranger wearing a 3-piece suit and bowler hat barges into the bank manager's office carrying a package under his arm and threatens to blow the town of Porter off the face of the Earth in one hour unless he is given $10,000.
Hard Lines (Episode 25)
Air date: 1959-03-11
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Joker Wells, who was a traitor with the Confederate Army, returns to his home town of Porter. Everybody wants Hoby to run him out of town, especially Ed Crow, who blames Joker for the loss of his arm in the war.
Fear (Episode 26)
Air date: 1959-03-18
Runtime: 30 min
Stranger in Town (Episode 27)
Air date: 1959-03-25
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Henrietta Porter receives a letter from Harry Keller who was just released from prison warning the town of Porter to stay away from Hoby because Harry is coming to kill Hoby in revenge for killing his brother. Making things worse, Hoby doesn't even know what Keller looks like.
The Protector (Episode 28)
Air date: 1959-04-01
Runtime: 30 min
False Witness (Episode 29)
Air date: 1959-04-08
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A strange girl arrives in Porter and tells Hoby that she knows that Joe Corbett is innocent of murder even though he was convicted and sentenced to hang because she was a witness and saw somebody else do it.
The Trick (Episode 30)
Air date: 1959-04-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Tully Saxon knocks on the door to Tenner Smith's office in the saloon. When Tenner opens the door, he is surprised to see someone he had not seen in 8 years. Tully tells Tenner he will kill him before he leaves town.
The Eyes of Jerry Kelso (Episode 31)
Writer: John Robinson
Air date: 1959-04-22
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: When traveling salesman Emanuel Brock is found shot to death in his hotel room, Hoby has to figure out who did it.
The Gift Horse (Episode 32)
Air date: 1959-04-29
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Two old men (Zack and Levi) tell Ralph that they are his long lost uncles but Hoby thinks something about the two men rang sour.
The Vote (Episode 33)
Air date: 1959-05-06
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A man and a woman came to Porter bringing with them the idea of "Give Women the Vote".
The Unwanted (Episode 34)
Air date: 1959-05-13
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Hoby is called to the town of Glenville who are afraid that a group of religious people who moved in outside of town are practicing witchcraft and are causing bad luck.
Toss-Up (Episode 35)
Air date: 1959-05-20
Runtime: 30 min
Inquest (Episode 36)
Air date: 1959-09-02
Overview: Hoby is helping Sheriff Lee look into a murder. But the widow, the doctor and even the sheriff have motives with none helpful in finding the killer.
Back to Crawford (Episode 37)
Writer: Robert Culp
Air date: 1959-09-09
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Hoby returns home to Crawford to help his sister Nora after she sends him a telegram that somebody has been threatening her and because he gets a telegram from town drunk Fred Sales to come home quick because his sister is going to die.
Blind Alley (Episode 38)
Air date: 1959-09-16
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Rufus Cole shoots Mike Hardesty off his horse on the trail. Hoby who had been trailing Rufus for six weeks comes along to save Mike but he has lost his sight.
Quiet Night in Porter (Episode 39)
Air date: 1959-09-23
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Chad Winter, the owner of the general store, finds an old woman in his store after closing then two men walk in and shoot him. Hoby has to find out who killed him.
