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 (18)
1. Cousin from Atlanta
Aired 16 October 1961 • 60 min
Bronco tries to convince a city cousin that her interest in a dashing gunman is a bad idea.
2. Prince of Darkness
Aired 6 November 1961 • 60 min
As part of a scheme to uncover an insurrectionist group famous actor Edwin Booth pretends to share his relative James Wilkes Booth's hatred of the Union. But when irate townspeople try to kill the traitor, Bronco must protect the seeming turncoat.
3. One Came Back
Aired 27 November 1961 • 60 min
Bronco falls hard for a pretty traveler, and only a bank robbery delays his rush to the altar.
4. Equalizer
Aired 18 December 1961 • 60 min
Bronco keeps rival outlaw gangs from slaughtering each other so two young lovers can marry.
5. Harrigan
Aired 25 December 1961 • 60 min
Bronco teams up with a silver-tongued Irishman to break up a robbery gang.
6. Beginner's Luck
Aired 1 January 1962 • 60 min
When a kid gets lucky in his first poker game and in a gunfight, enemies of his father see a chance to use him to win a dispute over grazing rights.
7. Ride the Whirlwind
Aired 15 January 1962 • 60 min
Bronco and the local sheriff try to figure out how a bitter ex-con is taking revenge for a Civil War disgrace.
8. Sure Thing
Aired 22 January 1962 • 60 min
Bronco sets himself up in the cattle business only to find that a local rancher is using his control of the only road to the market to kill off his competition.
9. Trail of Hatred
Aired 5 February 1962 • 60 min
Bronco leads a troop of mutinous soldiers into Indian territory to find a deserter, the father of the troop's ruthless lieutenant.
10. Rendezvous with a Miracle
Aired 12 February 1962 • 60 min
Bronco tracks an escaped bankrobber and meets up with an unusual nun.
11. Destinies West
Aired 26 February 1962 • 60 min
Bronco's infatuation with a lady gambler distracts him from his army assignment to locate a missing fortune and a renegade Union solder.
12. Last Letter
Aired 5 March 1962 • 60 min
Leading a group of bitter Confederate POWs west to fulfill their pledge to help the Union fight the Indians, Bronco is also in charge of a gold delivery headed to Mexico and a secret assignment from the murdered president Abraham Lincoln.
13. One Evening in Abilene
Aired 19 March 1962 • 60 min
Bronco hires gunman Clay Farraday to help with a cattle drive, but when Clay falls for a scheming beauty Bronco has to try to talk his helper out of a shootout with Wild Bill Hickock.
14. Until Kingdom Come
Aired 26 March 1962 • 60 min
Bronco helps a lovely duchess being chased by Mexican revolutionaries.
15. Moment of Doubt
Aired 2 April 1962 • 60 min
Bronco infiltrates anti-Union subversives in New Orleans with the help of an ex-slave and a lovely woman.
16. A Town That Lived and Died
Aired 9 April 1962 • 60 min
Bronco faces a kangaroo court intent on hanging him for his wartime activities as a Confederate spy.
17. Immovable Object
Aired 16 April 1962 • 60 min
Bronco has to sweet-talk two stubborn frontier men when one refuses to allow the construction of a dam on his land, provoking a journalist to write a story that causes an international incident.
18. Then the Mountains
Aired 30 April 1962 • 60 min
Bronco has his wagon train marked for extinction by an ex-guerrilla leader.