Frontier

S01E28: Out From Texas

Overview

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.

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Episodes

S01E01 Paper Gunman

September 25, 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...

S01E02 Tomas And The Widow

October 2, 1955

S01E03 A Stillness In Wyoming

October 16, 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...

S01E04 The Shame Of A Nation

October 23, 1955

S01E05 The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska

October 30, 1955

S01E07 King of the Dakotas

November 13, 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.

S01E08 Cattle Drive to Casper

November 27, 1955
A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive

S01E09 Romance of Poker Alice

December 11, 1955

S01E10 Ferdinand Meyer's Army

December 18, 1955

S01E11 The Long Road To Tucson

December 25, 1955

S01E13 Mother Of The Brave

January 15, 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.

S01E14 The Ten Days Of John Leslie

January 22, 1956

S01E15 The Devil And Doctor O'Hara

February 5, 1956

S01E16 The Captivity Of Joe Long

February 12, 1956

S01E17 The Voyage Of Captain Castle

February 19, 1956

S01E19 The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek

March 11, 1956

S01E21 The Ballad Of Pretty Polly

April 1, 1956

S01E29 The Return Of Jubal Dolan

August 26, 1956

Cast

Walter Coy
Walter Coy
Narrator (voice)

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