Bronco (1958)
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.
Seasons & Episode
Bronco tries to convince a city cousin that her interest in a dashing gunman is a bad idea.
As part of a scheme to uncover an insurrectionist group famous actor Edwin Booth pretends to share his relative James Wilkes Booth's hatred of the Union. But when irate townspeople try to kill the traitor, Bronco must protect the seeming turncoat.
Bronco falls hard for a pretty traveler, and only a bank robbery delays his rush to the altar.
Bronco keeps rival outlaw gangs from slaughtering each other so two young lovers can marry.
Bronco teams up with a silver-tongued Irishman to break up a robbery gang.
When a kid gets lucky in his first poker game and in a gunfight, enemies of his father see a chance to use him to win a dispute over grazing rights.
Bronco and the local sheriff try to figure out how a bitter ex-con is taking revenge for a Civil War disgrace.
Bronco sets himself up in the cattle business only to find that a local rancher is using his control of the only road to the market to kill off his competition.
Bronco leads a troop of mutinous soldiers into Indian territory to find a deserter, the father of the troop's ruthless lieutenant.
Bronco tracks an escaped bankrobber and meets up with an unusual nun.
Bronco's infatuation with a lady gambler distracts him from his army assignment to locate a missing fortune and a renegade Union solder.
Leading a group of bitter Confederate POWs west to fulfill their pledge to help the Union fight the Indians, Bronco is also in charge of a gold delivery headed to Mexico and a secret assignment from the murdered president Abraham Lincoln.
Bronco hires gunman Clay Farraday to help with a cattle drive, but when Clay falls for a scheming beauty Bronco has to try to talk his helper out of a shootout with Wild Bill Hickock.
Bronco helps a lovely duchess being chased by Mexican revolutionaries.
Bronco infiltrates anti-Union subversives in New Orleans with the help of an ex-slave and a lovely woman.
Bronco faces a kangaroo court intent on hanging him for his wartime activities as a Confederate spy.
Bronco has to sweet-talk two stubborn frontier men when one refuses to allow the construction of a dam on his land, provoking a journalist to write a story that causes an international incident.
Bronco has his wagon train marked for extinction by an ex-guerrilla leader.