Colt .45 — Season 1
A Lightning Bolt When He Drew That Colt
About this season
Colt .45 is an American Western series which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960. Christopher Colt was apparently a gun salesman but was in fact a government agent tracking down notorious bad guys. The half-hour program is loosely based on the 1950 Warner Bros. film of the same name, starring Randolph Scott. Colt .45 was part of the William T. Orr-produced array of westerns which Warner produced for ABC in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Episodes (26)
1. Judgment Day
Aired 18 October 1957 • 30 min
Gun salesman Christopher Colt arrives in Cottonwood, Arizona, ready to sell his new line of guns, but a young missionary gets on his case for helping contribute to the culture of violence in the west.
2. A Time to Die
Aired 25 October 1957 • 30 min
Escorting a prisoner across the desert, Chris is waylaid by the outlaw's cohorts. Now it's a fight for survival when he finds himself without a horse, food or water.
3. The $3,000 Dollar Bullet
Aired 1 November 1957 • 30 min
A wanted man Chris is after gets shot down in a saloon after he shoots another man. Three men then try to claim the reward for the criminal. Chris pretends to be the dead man's friend, but things get tense when someone in town recognizes him.
4. Gallows at Granite Gap
Aired 8 November 1957 • 30 min
Chris captures the notorious outlaw The Comanche Kid in Granite Gap. The townspeople are bound and determined to hang him, but an elderly woman believes that the Kid is her long-long son.
5. Small Man
Aired 15 November 1957 • 30 min
Chris finds a seemingly mild mannered tenderfoot who always wins when he finds himself in a gunfight.
6. Final Payment
Aired 22 November 1957 • 30 min
When the government finds itself in a case of fraud, Chris goes undercover in an attempt to find the culprits and to expose their plot.
7. One Good Turn
Aired 29 November 1957 • 30 min
When bandits raid and terrorize a small Mexican village, Chris comes to help quell the attacks of violence and terror.
8. Last Chance
Aired 6 December 1957 • 30 min
While on a hunting trip with a fellow lawman, Chris encounters a woman who claims to have been a witness to a murder.
9. Young Gun
10.0Aired 13 December 1957 • 30 min
A young man buys a gun from Chris. The only problem with that is he soon learns that the boy is out for retribution against the man who killed his father during a bank job.
10. Rebellion
Aired 20 December 1957 • 30 min
While checking into a secessionist plot, Chis find very little until he finds a mysterious symbol on a Mexican peso, his only clue.
11. The Gypsies
Aired 27 December 1957 • 30 min
Chris attempts to smooth things out between a Lawman and his girlfriend when she runs off with a Gypsy leader.
12. Sign in the Sand
Aired 3 January 1958 • 30 min
Chris joins forces with a government agent to guard an Army payroll shipment.
13. Mirage
Aired 10 January 1958 • 30 min
Chris once again finds himself helping a small Mexican village from Army renegade raiders.
14. Blood Money
Aired 17 January 1958 • 30 min
Chris finds himself in a tight spot when an outlaw agrees to turn himself in provided the reward money goes to his girlfriend who needs the money for a procedure to save her life.
15. Dead Reckoning
Aired 24 January 1958 • 30 min
To learn about a huge robbery plot, Chris goes undercover as an outlaw in hopes of infiltrating the suspected gang.
16. Decoy
Aired 31 January 1958 • 30 min
Mexican outlaws raid cargoes of federal firearms.
17. Rare Specimen
Aired 7 February 1958 • 30 min
Undercover government agent Chris Colt is wounded during a train robbery. A woman passenger uses a piece of needlework to patch up his bullet-torn jacket, and this piece of fabric provides a valuable clue later on.
18. Mantrap
Aired 14 February 1958 • 30 min
A government agent brings down outlaws with help from the celebrated Colt revolver that his father invented.
19. Ghost Town
Aired 21 February 1958 • 30 min
Directed by Lee Sholem and Written by Nelson Nye Lee Sholem and James Gunn
20. The Golden Gun
Aired 28 February 1958 • 30 min
Frank Wilson, a notorious gunfighter, arrives in town to see his son, who has changed his name because he's ashamed of his father. It's not long before Frank Sr. is forced to kill a challenger in a gunfight, after which he collapses. It turns out that he's terminally ill and hasn't long to live, and has come to town to leave his son a golden gun and a map to the spot where he has hidden %50,000 in stolen loot.
21. Circle of Fear
Aired 7 March 1958 • 30 min
Chris is forced to be the hero when a stagecoach is attacked by Indians.
22. Split Second
Aired 14 March 1958 • 30 min
Turned into a vicious gunslinger by his wife's murder, a marshal finds the killer.
23. Point of Honor
Aired 21 March 1958 • 30 min
Chris mistakes a female doctor for an outlaw.
24. The Deserters
Aired 28 March 1958 • 30 min
Chris Colt trails a number of deserters from an Army post to learn why they deserted.
25. The Manbuster
Aired 4 April 1958 • 30 min
A bitter young man is tempted to become an outlaw, then he unknowingly aids Chris colt in his search for a gang of bank robbers.
26. Long Odds
Aired 11 April 1958 • 30 min
Chris helps a dismissed sheriff clear his name.