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. Game at the Beacon Club
Aired 22 September 1959 • 60 min
Bronco unwittingly introduces a demure con artist to a rich man.
2. The Burning Spring
Aired 6 October 1959 • 60 min
Bronco relives a wartime experience while testifying in the trial of his would-be killer.
3. Bodyguard
Aired 20 October 1959 • 60 min
Bronco is hired as a bodyguard, but when he fails to keep the man alive, he's faced with a host of people confessing to the killing.
4. The Soft Answer
Aired 3 November 1959 • 60 min
Bronco intervenes when a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen threatens to become a slaughter due to the Quaker sheepman's refusal to use guns.
5. The Last Resort
Aired 17 November 1959 • 60 min
Bronco goes in search of the only man who can clear him of a murder charge, but must disguise himself when his quarry goes to ground in a lawless town known as a haven for criminals.
6. The Devil's Spawn
Aired 1 December 1959 • 60 min
Bushwhacked by an escaped convict, Bronco is saved by a local rancher and becomes involved in his feud with a neighboring family.
7. Flight from an Empire
Aired 15 December 1959 • 60 min
Bronco hires refugees from the fallen Maximillian empire, but has to contend with bandits who are convinced the mother and son know what happened to $5 million in missing gold.
8. Night Train to Denver
Aired 29 December 1959 • 60 min
Bronco accompanies a corpse to Denver and is accused when $100,000 is stolen from the railcar.
9. Shadow of Jesse James
Aired 12 January 1960 • 60 min
Bronco tries to break up the James gang by pressuring outlaw Cole Younger to give up Jesse, an indiscriminate killer.
10. Masquerade
Aired 26 January 1960 • 60 min
Bronco's attempt to reform four teenage would-be outlaws backfires when a violent gang cuts in on their planned gold heist.
11. Volunteers from Aberdeen
Aired 9 February 1960 • 60 min
Bronco tries to rescue a lovestruck friend from murder and robbery charges.
12. Every Man a Hero
Aired 23 February 1960 • 60 min
Bronco arrives at Ft. Monument in the wake of an Indian massacre, and slowly realizes the survivors are actually criminals masquerading as heroes.
13. Death of an Outlaw
Aired 8 March 1960 • 60 min
Bronco wins a range war with the help of Billy the Kid, but when the dust settles the outlaw is still wanted by the law and by bounty-hunter Pat Garrett.
14. The Human Equation
Aired 22 March 1960 • 60 min
Bronco finally talks an Army officer into sending the Osage to a fertile Wyoming territory, but a cholera epidemic and a hostile new commander threatens to destroy the plan.
15. Montana Passage
Aired 5 April 1960 • 60 min
Bronco fakes his own death, and assumes the identity of a colonist, in order to hunt down the outlaws who framed him for murder.
16. Legacy of Twisted Creek
Aired 19 April 1960 • 60 min
Bronco's attempt to capture a killer alive runs into a snag when a band of renegade Apaches set out to kill his prisoner in hopes of sparking an uprising.
17. Tangled Trail
Aired 3 May 1960 • 60 min
Bronco helps a small herder resists a brutal rancher and finds himself accused of murder when the man's unbalanced wife becomes a tool for the canny rancher.
18. La Rubia
Aired 17 May 1960 • 60 min
A beautiful woman double-crosses Bronco when she learns that the bandits who have taken them hostage have a fortune in gold hidden in a secret cache.
19. Winter Kill
Aired 31 May 1960 • 60 min
A vengeful mother swears to kill the prisoner Bronco and Marshal Sample are taking to the county jail.
20. End of a Rope
Aired 14 June 1960 • 60 min
Bronco finds himself on the gallows after he stumbles across an elaborate scheme to protect wanted fugitives from the law.