About this season
Shotgun Slade is an American western television series starring Scott Brady that aired seventy-eight episodes in syndication from October 24, 1959, until 1961. Created by Frank Gruber, the stories were written by John Berardino, Charissa Hughes, and Martin Berkeley. The series was filmed in Hollywood by Revue Studios. The pilot for Shotgun Slade aired earlier in 1959 on CBS's Schlitz Playhouse.
Episodes (16)
1. The Missing Train
Aired 24 October 1959
Slade is hired to locate a train car with $1 million in coins that disappeared into thin air.
2. The Salted Mine
5.0Aired 18 November 1959 • 30 min
Alice Batson hires Slade, a private detective, to determine whether she has been swindled in her purchase of a worthless mine. (Pilot for the series. This production appeared on Schlitz Playhouse of Stars)
3. Too Smart to Live
Aired 31 October 1959
4. Barbed Wire, Keep Out
Aired 5 November 1959
5. Mesa of Missing Men
Aired 16 November 1959
7. Freight Line
Aired 14 November 1959 • 30 min
A freight-liner needs to renew its contract in order to stay in business. Several accidents have put the renewal in jeopardy. Slade is called in to put a stop to the "accidents."
11. Treasure Trap
Aired 12 December 1959 • 30 min
28. A Flower for Jenny
Aired 29 April 1960 • 30 min
Slade serves as bodyguard to primadonna performer Jenny DuPree, who is receiving death threats and a dwindling number of roses from an assassin who bills himself as her "ultimate admirer."
30. Crossed Guns
Aired 13 May 1960 • 30 min
A hook-handed gunslinger nursing a grudge lures Slade to Grover's Bend for a showdown with his fast-drawing young protégé, Billy.
31. Sudden Death
Aired 20 May 1960 • 30 min
32. The Spanish Box
Aired 21 May 1960 • 30 min
33. Backtrack
Aired 28 May 1960 • 30 min
34. Ring of Death
Aired 3 June 1960 • 30 min
An unscrupulous young woman devises a cruel plan to cash in on her fiance's recent cattle sale. Scott Brady, Bethel Leslie, H.M. Wynant, Richard Crane.
36. A Flower on Boot Hill
Aired 11 June 1960 • 30 min
Two escaped convicts, a grieving woman, and a widowed doctor who faithfully lays flowers on his wife's grave are among the seemingly incongruous elements factoring into Slade's investigation of a baffling bank robbery.
37. The Charcoal Bullet
Aired 1 July 1960 • 30 min
An alcoholic drifter is the only witness to a bank robbery. Scott Brady. Eli: Ned Glass. Peggy: Jacqueline Holt.
38. Lost Gold
Aired 5 July 1960 • 30 min