About this season
The Loner is an American western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, under the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble.
Episodes (26)
1. An Echo of Bugles
Aired 18 September 1965 • 26 min
A swaggering gunfighter targets an aging Confederate veteran, and Colton steps in to deal with the bully.
2. The Vespers
Aired 25 September 1965 • 26 min
Sworn to avenge his brother's death, a hoodlum comes gunning for a small town's local minister. When Colton arrives to warn his old friend and ex-soldier, he finds the man unwilling to resort to violence to protect himself and his pregnant wife.
3. The Lonely Galico Queen
Aired 2 October 1965 • 26 min
A dance hall girl mistakes Colton for her mail-order bridegroom.
4. The Kingdom of McComb
Aired 9 October 1965 • 26 min
Unable to perform the deed themselves, a group of religious colonists attempt to recruit Colton to kill a powerful landowner trying to evict them.
5. One of the Wounded
Aired 16 October 1965 • 26 min
Colton tries to help a Union army veteran left mute and immobile by the psychological horrors of war.
6. The Flight of the Artic Tern
Aired 23 October 1965 • 26 min
Colton becomes involved in a romantic triangle when he saves a friend's bride-to-be from a runaway horse.
7. Widow on the Evening Stage
Aired 30 October 1965 • 26 min
Following the murder of a man during an Indian attack, Colton witnesses a town's prejudice towards the man's Indian widow.
8. The House Rules at Mrs. Wayne's
Aired 6 November 1965 • 26 min
While trying to defend his wife's honor, a friend of Colton is killed... and Colton is torn between seeking justice and keeping his word to turn the other cheek.
9. The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing
Aired 13 November 1965 • 26 min
Colton has second thoughts after accepting the position of deputy to the dubious sheriff of a sleepy Montana town.
10. The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove
Aired 20 November 1965 • 26 min
Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by bigots.
11. Westward, the Shoemaker
Aired 27 November 1965 • 26 min
When a well-intentioned immigrant is stripped of his nest egg in a rigged card game, Colton takes on the con artist.
12. The Oath
Aired 4 December 1965 • 26 min
When a doctor proves to be as full of whiskey as he is of self-pity, Colton must perform an emergency appendectomy on a young gunfighter.
13. Hunt the Man Down
Aired 11 December 1965 • 26 min
Colton is drafted to help a posse hunt down a seemingly harmless recluse.
14. Escort for a Dead Man
Aired 18 December 1965 • 26 min
A man who deserted from the Army wants Colton to escort him back to his fort.
15. The Ordeal of Bud Windom
Aired 25 December 1965 • 26 min
A murder suspect's son makes life difficult for Colton when the boy tries to clear his father's name.
16. To the West of Eden
Aired 1 January 1966 • 26 min
While traveling across the desert to deliver horses to their new owner, Colton reluctantly agrees to escort a young woman across the arid land.
17. Mantrap
Aired 8 January 1966 • 26 min
Colton becomes the target of an assassin when he is the sole witness to a robbery and murder.
18. A Little Stroll to the End of the Line
Aired 15 January 1966 • 26 min
Colton neither likes nor respects the man he has been deputized to protect: a rabble-rousing preacher who fears death from an ex-convict.
19. The Trial in Paradise
Aired 22 January 1966 • 26 min
Colton provides the defense in a kangaroo court trial of a former Union Army officer.
20. A Question of Guilt
Aired 29 January 1966 • 26 min
In the darkness Colton kills an intruder, and discovers the man is an Army Lieutenant.
21. The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (1)
Aired 5 February 1966 • 26 min
While a young gunman lies dying in a cave, a ruthless man waits outside hoping to get his hands on the boy's loot. (Part 1 of 2)
22. The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (2)
Aired 12 February 1966 • 26 min
Following the late Johnny Sharp's instructions, Colton arranges for the four people closest to the gunman to meet at the undertaker's parlor. (Part 2 of 2)
23. Incident in the Middle Of Nowhere
Aired 19 February 1966 • 26 min
Colton encounters a little girl riding his horse — which was stolen from Colton during the stagecoach robbery in which he was shot and left for dead.
24. Pick Me Another Time to Die
Aired 26 February 1966 • 26 min
Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.
25. The Burden of the Badge
Aired 5 March 1966 • 26 min
A group of reformed criminals deputize Colton to defend and protect them.
26. To Hang a Dead Man
Aired 12 March 1966 • 26 min
Colton joins a sheriff in search of a town's destroyers.