About this season
Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955, to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and focuses on the hazards of the settlement of the American West. It was only the second anthology Western series in television history, having been preceded by Death Valley Days. Frontier aired premiered on September 25, 1955, and ran sporadically in its last five months. Walter Coy narrated the series and starred in occasional episodes, which are dramatizations based on actual events. The program was produced by Worthington Miner.
Episodes (30)
1. Paper Gunman
Aired 25 September 1955
A newspaper reporter determined to write articles about famous gunslingers finds that real gunmen are in short supply, so he decides to invent one. He buys a young man who hero-worships Clay Allison a holster and a frock coat and creates a reputation for him as a formidable gunslinger by publishing embellished accounts of exploits.
2. Tomas And The Widow
Aired 2 October 1955
3. A Stillness In Wyoming
Aired 16 October 1955
A range war breaks out between the cattle ranchers and the sheepherders in 19th Century Wyoming. The sons of the faction leaders meet and become friends, leading to tragedy when a hired killer of one faction kills one of the boys by mistake.
4. The Shame Of A Nation
Aired 23 October 1955
5. The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska
Aired 30 October 1955
6. The Suspects
Aired 6 November 1955
7. King of the Dakotas
Aired 13 November 1955
A French expatriate with a reputation as a duelist plans to create a cattle empire in the Dakota territory but runs into opposition from the ranchers he has mistreated.
8. Cattle Drive to Casper
Aired 27 November 1955
A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive
9. Romance of Poker Alice
Aired 11 December 1955
10. Ferdinand Meyer's Army
Aired 18 December 1955
11. The Long Road To Tucson
Aired 25 December 1955
12. The Texicans
Aired 8 January 1956
13. Mother Of The Brave
Aired 15 January 1956
When ranching proves unprofitable, the Horn family begins a long trek across Western plains enroute to their Native England, but fall prey to a band of Comanche Indians.
14. The Ten Days Of John Leslie
Aired 22 January 1956
15. The Devil And Doctor O'Hara
Aired 5 February 1956
16. The Captivity Of Joe Long
Aired 12 February 1956
17. The Voyage Of Captain Castle
Aired 19 February 1956
18. Assassin
Aired 4 March 1956
19. The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek
Aired 11 March 1956
20. The Big Dry
Aired 18 March 1956
21. The Ballad Of Pretty Polly
Aired 1 April 1956
22. The Well
Aired 8 April 1956
23. Salt War
Aired 22 April 1956
24. Patrol
Aired 29 April 1956
25. A Somewhere Voice
Aired 6 May 1956
26. The Hunted
Aired 13 May 1956
27. Georgia Gold
Aired 10 June 1956
28. Out From Texas
Aired 24 June 1956
29. The Return Of Jubal Dolan
Aired 26 August 1956
30. The Hostage
Aired 9 September 1956