Colt .45 — Season 3
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 (28)
1. Queen of Dixie
Aired 4 October 1959 • 30 min
A counterfeiting ring makes things hot for Chris on a gambling boat
2. The Reckoning
Aired 11 October 1959 • 30 min
Chris is after killers in the desert. Father Knox: Jack Mather. Hicks: Joe di Reda. Gibson: Buzz Martin.
3. The Devil's Godson
Aired 18 October 1959 • 30 min
Adam West plays Doc Holliday, baiting a trap for a killer.
4. The Rival Gun
Aired 25 October 1959 • 30 min
Hunting a missing shipment, Chris clashes with a man who sells guns to hostile Indians
5. The Hothead
Aired 1 November 1959 • 30 min
Troy Donahue plays a bank clerk framed by outlaws.
6. A Legend of Buffalo Bill
Aired 8 November 1959 • 30 min
Chris meets Buffalo Bill and writer Ned Buntline (Lindsay Workman)---and a gang of hijackers.
7. Yellow Terror
Aired 15 November 1959 • 30 min
Colt uses panic about a yellow-fever epidemic to find a murderer.
8. Tar and Feathers
Aired 22 November 1959 • 30 min
Chris is assigned to protect a French diplomat touring the West.
9. Alias Mr. Howard
Aired 6 December 1959 • 30 min
Sam's on the trail of an outlaw but he doesn't know it's Jesse James.
10. Calamity
Aired 13 December 1959 • 30 min
Colt escorts a woman doctor and smallpox vaccine to Deadwood during an Indian uprising.
11. Under False Pretenses
Aired 10 January 1960 • 30 min
Sam, after the pair who robbed a stagecoach, finds one of them on the trail---dead. Mills: Tim Graham. Julie: Suzanne Lloyd. Cliff: Jack Hogan.
12. Impasse
Aired 31 January 1960 • 30 min
Sam and a soldier are carrying a military payroll and mistakenly turn it over to three bandits disguised as cavalry troopers. They set out to retrieve the money and catch the bandits.
13. Arizona Anderson
Aired 14 February 1960 • 30 min
Posing as a gambler, Sam puts on the pressure to locate stolen Government money.
14. The Cause
Aired 28 February 1960 • 30 min
Sam has to cope with Mexican rebels to retrieve a renegade colonel for the Government.
15. Phantom Trail
Aired 13 March 1960 • 30 min
The Colt boys work to nab cattle rustlers---with Sam posing as a killer eager to kill Chris.
16. Breakthrough
Aired 27 March 1960 • 30 min
Chris tries to stop highwaymen from taking a gold-laden stagecoach.
17. Chain of Command
Aired 5 April 1960 • 30 min
Colt risks a court-martial when he refuses to follow orders. Colt: Wayde Preston.
18. Alibi
Aired 12 April 1960 • 30 min
While Chris investigates an alleged murderer's innocence, the prisoner disappears.
19. Absent Without Leave
Aired 19 April 1960 • 30 min
A colonel accuses his lieutenant son of cowardice.
20. Strange Encounter
Aired 26 April 1960 • 30 min
Escorting two killers to jail, Chris comes upon injured men---and one of his prisoners is a doctor.
21. Trial by Rope
Aired 3 May 1960 • 30 min
Chris takes on a woman whose word is judge and jury combined.
22. The Gandy Dancers
Aired 10 May 1960 • 30 min
Sam's latest cause: helping immigrant workers who are being blackmailed by outlaws.
23. Martial Law
Aired 17 May 1960 • 30 min
A gambler and Sam can't seem to come to terms on Sam's crusade to clean up the town.
24. Attack
Aired 24 May 1960 • 30 min
The Sioux own ore-rich land - but miners are determined to take it over.
25. Bounty List
Aired 31 May 1960 • 30 min
Sam and a bounty hunter are after the same men. Sam wants them alive, but the bounty hunter just wants the cash.
26. Appointment in Agoura
Aired 7 June 1960 • 30 min
The Sanger family vows revenge on Ben Thompson after he shoots the youngest member in self defense. It's up to the Colt cousins to protect him and defuse the situation.
27. Showdown at Goldtown
Aired 14 June 1960 • 30 min
A paroled ex-convict is to drive a gold-laden stage---which his enemy plans to rob.
28. The Trespasser
Aired 21 June 1960 • 30 min
Mike O'Tara is determined to avenge the murder, by a soldier, of his Indian wife.