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 (39)
1. Killer Take All
Aired 5 September 1958 • 30 min
2. Outlaw's Wife
Aired 12 September 1958 • 30 min
The town's women want Hoby to make an outlaw's wife (who just returned to Porter) leave town.
3. Chinese Cowboy
Aired 19 September 1958 • 30 min
4. The Set-Up
Aired 26 September 1958 • 30 min
Henrietta's new gentleman friend is only using her to setup an alibi for a bank robbery.
5. A Stone for Benny French
Aired 3 October 1958 • 30 min
Hoby tracks down Benny French who was the only member of the Morgan Larker gang who escaped from the bank robbery.
6. Trapped
Aired 10 October 1958 • 30 min
Hoby is held prisoner in a shack during a blizzard by the wife of husband and wife outlaws to care for her sick husband.
7. Matter of Justice
Aired 17 October 1958 • 30 min
One of the outlaws who held up the Butterfield stage depot has been caught and is awaiting trial and hanging. Hoby is called in to protect the town of Talpa. The prisoner claims his outlaw gang will kill the witnesses and destroy the town.
8. Tenner Smith
Aired 24 October 1958 • 30 min
9. The Avenger
Aired 31 October 1958 • 30 min
Lance Garth is accused of stealing the payroll from Banning Mining but he is shot and killed before the money is found.
10. The Schoolteacher
Aired 7 November 1958 • 30 min
11. Deadly Decoy
Aired 14 November 1958 • 30 min
12. Sunday's Child
Aired 21 November 1958 • 30 min
Gambler Joe Sunday comes to Porter with a court order to take possession of his baby daughter from her mother Cindy who plays the piano in the saloon. Hoby has to enforce the order over the objections of Henrietta and the whole town.
13. Day of Vengeance
Aired 28 November 1958 • 30 min
A young man seeks the person who killed his brother. The truth is not what he expected.
14. Three-Legged Fox
Aired 5 December 1958 • 30 min
15. The Kid
Aired 12 December 1958 • 30 min
16. Guilt
Aired 19 December 1958 • 30 min
17. Every Man a Witness
Aired 26 December 1958 • 30 min
Sheriff Alvin Fremont and a mob take prisoner Char Lopez out of jail and threaten to lynch him unless he confesses. The horse bolts and Lopez is hanged. Hoby is sent in to investigate who was responsible.
18. McCallin's Daughter
Aired 2 January 1959 • 30 min
Youngster Debby McCallin comes to town and asks Hoby to stop her father Bart McCallin from committing a robbery.
19. Bad Judgment
Aired 28 January 1959 • 30 min
20. Terror
Aired 4 February 1959 • 30 min
Doc Calhoun and Hoby deal with an outbreak of typhoid fever in town.
21. The Feud
Aired 11 February 1959 • 30 min
Elderly and dying Maude Turley has her boys bring her back to Porter to die and be buried next to her husband after being run out of town 17 years ago by the Corbett's. Hoby tries to keep the two families from killing each other.
22. The Samaritan
Aired 18 February 1959 • 30 min
Hoby finds a man on the trail with his leg caught in a bear trap and releases him. The man then knocks Hoby out, steals his horse and gun and leaves him caught in the bear trap.
23. The Gang
Aired 25 February 1959 • 30 min
24. The Threat
Aired 4 March 1959 • 30 min
A smiling stranger wearing a 3-piece suit and bowler hat barges into the bank manager's office carrying a package under his arm and threatens to blow the town of Porter off the face of the Earth in one hour unless he is given $10,000.
25. Hard Lines
Aired 11 March 1959 • 30 min
Joker Wells, who was a traitor with the Confederate Army, returns to his home town of Porter. Everybody wants Hoby to run him out of town, especially Ed Crow, who blames Joker for the loss of his arm in the war.
26. Fear
Aired 18 March 1959 • 30 min
27. Stranger in Town
Aired 25 March 1959 • 30 min
Henrietta Porter receives a letter from Harry Keller who was just released from prison warning the town of Porter to stay away from Hoby because Harry is coming to kill Hoby in revenge for killing his brother. Making things worse, Hoby doesn't even know what Keller looks like.
28. The Protector
Aired 1 April 1959 • 30 min
29. False Witness
Aired 8 April 1959 • 30 min
A strange girl arrives in Porter and tells Hoby that she knows that Joe Corbett is innocent of murder even though he was convicted and sentenced to hang because she was a witness and saw somebody else do it.
30. The Trick
Aired 15 April 1959 • 30 min
Tully Saxon knocks on the door to Tenner Smith's office in the saloon. When Tenner opens the door, he is surprised to see someone he had not seen in 8 years. Tully tells Tenner he will kill him before he leaves town.
31. The Eyes of Jerry Kelso
Aired 22 April 1959 • 30 min
When traveling salesman Emanuel Brock is found shot to death in his hotel room, Hoby has to figure out who did it.
32. The Gift Horse
Aired 29 April 1959 • 30 min
Two old men (Zack and Levi) tell Ralph that they are his long lost uncles but Hoby thinks something about the two men rang sour.
33. The Vote
Aired 6 May 1959 • 30 min
A man and a woman came to Porter bringing with them the idea of "Give Women the Vote".
34. The Unwanted
Aired 13 May 1959 • 30 min
Hoby is called to the town of Glenville who are afraid that a group of religious people who moved in outside of town are practicing witchcraft and are causing bad luck.
35. Toss-Up
Aired 20 May 1959 • 30 min
36. Inquest
Aired 2 September 1959
Hoby is helping Sheriff Lee look into a murder. But the widow, the doctor and even the sheriff have motives with none helpful in finding the killer.
37. Back to Crawford
Aired 9 September 1959 • 30 min
Hoby returns home to Crawford to help his sister Nora after she sends him a telegram that somebody has been threatening her and because he gets a telegram from town drunk Fred Sales to come home quick because his sister is going to die.
38. Blind Alley
Aired 16 September 1959 • 30 min
Rufus Cole shoots Mike Hardesty off his horse on the trail. Hoby who had been trailing Rufus for six weeks comes along to save Mike but he has lost his sight.
39. Quiet Night in Porter
Aired 23 September 1959 • 30 min
Chad Winter, the owner of the general store, finds an old woman in his store after closing then two men walk in and shoot him. Hoby has to find out who killed him.