About this season
Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
Episodes (32)
1. The Marple Brothers
Aired 4 October 1957 • 30 min
2. Law in Lampasas
Aired 11 October 1957 • 30 min
Hoby, passing through Lampasas, involves himself when the whole town seems intent on the legal lynching of what he thinks is an innocent man.
3. San Saba Incident
Aired 18 October 1957 • 30 min
4. Easton, Texas
Aired 25 October 1957 • 30 min
5. Like Father
Aired 1 November 1957 • 30 min
6. Sweetwater, Texas
Aired 8 November 1957 • 30 min
7. Alpine, Texas
Aired 15 November 1957 • 30 min
Hoby rides into Alpine, Texas looking for a friend. He finds instead a hatred for the Texas Rangers-- and the entire town sides against him to drive him out.
8. Self-Defense
Aired 22 November 1957 • 30 min
9. End of an Outlaw
Aired 29 November 1957 • 30 min
10. Look for the Woman
Aired 6 December 1957 • 30 min
11. The Town
Aired 13 December 1957 • 30 min
12. Man and Money
Aired 27 December 1957 • 30 min
13. The Reward
Aired 3 January 1958 • 30 min
Hoby tracks down a missing florist with a rare orchid, who may hold the key to missing bank money and three fugitive bank robbers.
14. The Farrand Story
Aired 10 January 1958 • 30 min
Hoby tracks the murderer of a married man who may have been ready to leave his wife for another woman.
15. Right of Way
Aired 17 January 1958 • 30 min
16. The Witness
Aired 24 January 1958 • 30 min
17. The Toll Road
Aired 31 January 1958
18. The Young Gun
Aired 7 February 1958
Hoby is dispatched to Del Rio to investigate a bank robbery. He poses as a criminal to trick one of the bank robbers to lead him to the the rest of the gang and the money.
19. The Wedding
Aired 14 February 1958
20. The Trail
Aired 28 February 1958 • 30 min
21. The Bounty Hunter
Aired 7 March 1958 • 30 min
Nick Adams and Michael Landon as bad-guy brothers
22. The Judge
Aired 14 March 1958 • 30 min
Hoby is forced to arrest the wild son of a local judge for murder, the kid telling him all the while he'll never stand trial.
23. The House
Aired 21 March 1958 • 30 min
24. The Boy
Aired 28 March 1958 • 30 min
25. The Pueblo Kid
Aired 4 April 1958 • 30 min
26. The Winter Boys
Aired 11 April 1958 • 30 min
Hoby has to nursemaid a witness from El Paso who's in hiding until the big murder trial in three weeks.
27. The Mistake
Aired 18 April 1958 • 30 min
Hoby gets on the bad side of town when he assists in freeing what he thinks is an innocent man. However, once acquitted, the killer admits his guilt only to the Ranger and makes his life much worse.
28. The Deal
Aired 25 April 1958 • 30 min
Hoby has to deal with a notorious outlaw/killer who is holding a runaway town boy for ransom.
29. The Jailbreak
Aired 2 May 1958 • 30 min
Hoby has to deal with a jailbreak-- except the cowboy doesn't leave-- he takes three hostages and tries to work a trade-- them for the Ranger!
30. The End of the World
Aired 9 May 1958 • 30 min
31. The Brothers
Aired 16 May 1958 • 30 min
Twins (both played by Steve McQueen) change identities to confuse Hoby.
32. The Governor
Aired 23 May 1958 • 30 min
Hoby has to contend with a murder in a small town the day before the arrival of the Governor for the dedication of a new school-- and the victim was an undercover Texas Ranger.