About this season
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.
Episodes (20)
1. The Besieged
Aired 23 September 1958 • 60 min
Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.
2. Quest of the Thirty Dead
Aired 7 October 1958 • 60 min
Bronco investigates a planned train wreck that killed one of his best friends.
3. The Turning Point
Aired 21 October 1958 • 60 min
Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.
4. Four Guns and a Prayer
Aired 4 November 1958 • 60 min
Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.
5. The Long Ride Back
Aired 18 November 1958 • 60 min
Bronco Layne returns to his Texas hometown after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War, but faces the hostility of townspeople who believe he's a traitor and a murderer who killed his fiancé's brother.
6. Trail to Taos
Aired 2 December 1958 • 60 min
Bronco tracks down a gang robbing stagecoaches and goes undercover to catch them in the act.
7. Brand of Courage
Aired 16 December 1958 • 60 min
Bronco lands in the middle of a range war when he tries to help nuns whose possession of a cattle ranch is opposed by other ranchers in the area.
8. Freeze-Out
Aired 30 December 1958 • 60 min
Bronco is hired to guide a writer to a ghost town, but repeated attempts on both their lives reveals her true purpose: to find a man buried in a nearby glacier.
9. The Baron of Broken Lance
Aired 13 January 1959 • 60 min
Bronco leads a wagon train through the wilderness but the danger comes from within as an old war buddy provokes a local cattle baron when he brings along the man's runaway daughter.
10. Payroll of the Dead
Aired 27 January 1959 • 60 min
Major Damayer hires Bronco to guide him into Indian territory to make a request of Sitting Bull.
11. Riding Solo
Aired 10 February 1959 • 60 min
Bronco is suspected of being a killer when he arrives in a town just after a stagecoach robbery committed by an old friend.
12. Borrowed Glory
Aired 24 February 1959 • 60 min
Bronco gets involved in blackmail and murder when a killer tagets a friend whose Congressional Medal of Honor may have been wrongly won.
13. The Silent Witness
Aired 10 March 1959 • 60 min
Bronco is framed for murder when the ruthless Traxel brothers and gangleader Willis Turner sets him up for the murder of his best friend. Only the testimony of a mute child can rescue Bronco from the gallows.
14. The Belles of Silver Flat
Aired 24 March 1959 • 60 min
Bronco is saved from a hired gun by the quick draw of the Reverend Dave Clayton, arousing suspicions that the preacher is really a gunman.
15. Backfire
Aired 7 April 1959 • 60 min
Sheriff McKeever is killed when his scheme to restore his gunslinging youth fails, leaving deputy Bronco to discover who was behind the backfire.
16. School for Cowards
Aired 21 April 1959 • 60 min
Bronco is hired to teach at a military academy but ends up searching for a would-be killer after a cadet's realization that he's half-Sioux prompts an attempt on his life.
17. Prairie Skipper
Aired 5 May 1959 • 60 min
Bronco's hired as trail-boss for a cattle drive and runs into trouble with a flirtatious woman who seems to have multiple husbands.
18. Shadow of a Man
Aired 19 May 1959 • 60 min
Furious at being pulled into a payroll robbery and murder, Bronco goes looking for the loot and the culprit as a posse chases him.
19. Hero of the Town
Aired 2 June 1959 • 60 min
Bronco tries to solve the murder of the town's most popular man, found dead with Bronco's gun in his hand shortly after a bank robbery.
20. Red Water North
Aired 19 September 1959 • 60 min
Bronco agrees to deliver a riverboat for his friend Martha Chandler despite a ruthless businessman intent on stopping the cargo from reaching its destination and a blonde passenger with a mysterious agenda.