S01E01 Paper Gunman
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...
Frontier
S01E07: King of the Dakotas
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.
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.
Episodes
S01E02 Tomas And The Widow
S01E03 A Stillness In Wyoming
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
S01E05 The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska
S01E06 The Suspects
S01E07 King of the Dakotas
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
A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive
S01E09 Romance of Poker Alice
S01E10 Ferdinand Meyer's Army
S01E11 The Long Road To Tucson
S01E12 The Texicans
S01E13 Mother Of The Brave
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
S01E15 The Devil And Doctor O'Hara
S01E16 The Captivity Of Joe Long
S01E17 The Voyage Of Captain Castle
S01E18 Assassin
S01E19 The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek
S01E20 The Big Dry
S01E21 The Ballad Of Pretty Polly
S01E22 The Well
S01E23 Salt War
S01E24 Patrol
S01E25 A Somewhere Voice
S01E26 The Hunted
S01E27 Georgia Gold
S01E28 Out From Texas
S01E29 The Return Of Jubal Dolan
S01E30 The Hostage
Cast
Walter Coy
Narrator (voice)
