Bronco
Overview
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
Episodes
S01E02 Quest of the Thirty Dead
Bronco investigates a planned train wreck that killed one of his best friends.
S01E05 The Long Ride Back
Bronco Layne returns to his Texas hometown after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War, but faces the hostility of townspeople who believe he's a traitor and a murderer who killed his fiancé's brother.
S01E06 Trail to Taos
Bronco tracks down a gang robbing stagecoaches and goes undercover to catch them in the act.
S01E07 Brand of Courage
Bronco lands in the middle of a range war when he tries to help nuns whose possession of a cattle ranch is opposed by other ranchers in the area.
S01E08 Freeze-Out
Bronco is hired to guide a writer to a ghost town, but repeated attempts on both their lives reveals her true purpose: to find a man buried in a nearby glacier.
S01E09 The Baron of Broken Lance
Bronco leads a wagon train through the wilderness but the danger comes from within as an old war buddy provokes a local cattle baron when he brings along the man's runaway daughter.
S01E10 Payroll of the Dead
Major Damayer hires Bronco to guide him into Indian territory to make a request of Sitting Bull.
S01E11 Riding Solo
Bronco is suspected of being a killer when he arrives in a town just after a stagecoach robbery committed by an old friend.
S01E12 Borrowed Glory
Bronco gets involved in blackmail and murder when a killer tagets a friend whose Congressional Medal of Honor may have been wrongly won.
S01E13 The Silent Witness
Bronco is framed for murder when the ruthless Traxel brothers and gangleader Willis Turner sets him up for the murder of his best friend. Only the testimony of a mute child can rescue Bronco from...
S01E14 The Belles of Silver Flat
Bronco is saved from a hired gun by the quick draw of the Reverend Dave Clayton, arousing suspicions that the preacher is really a gunman.
S01E15 Backfire
Sheriff McKeever is killed when his scheme to restore his gunslinging youth fails, leaving deputy Bronco to discover who was behind the backfire.
S01E16 School for Cowards
Bronco is hired to teach at a military academy but ends up searching for a would-be killer after a cadet's realization that he's half-Sioux prompts an attempt on his life.
S01E17 Prairie Skipper
Bronco's hired as trail-boss for a cattle drive and runs into trouble with a flirtatious woman who seems to have multiple husbands.
S01E18 Shadow of a Man
Furious at being pulled into a payroll robbery and murder, Bronco goes looking for the loot and the culprit as a posse chases him.
S01E19 Hero of the Town
Bronco tries to solve the murder of the town's most popular man, found dead with Bronco's gun in his hand shortly after a bank robbery.
S01E20 Red Water North
Bronco agrees to deliver a riverboat for his friend Martha Chandler despite a ruthless businessman intent on stopping the cargo from reaching its destination and a blonde passenger with a mysterious agenda.
Cast
Ty Hardin
