Frontier
1955 · 1 season · 30 episodes · Ended · NBC
Western
TMDB 7.5 · 2 votes
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
- S01E01Paper Gunman1955-09-25
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 and a frock coat and creates a reputation for him as a formidable gunslinger by publishing embellished accounts of exploits.
- S01E02Tomas And The Widow1955-10-02
- S01E03A Stillness In Wyoming1955-10-16
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 faction kills one of the boys by mistake.
- S01E04The Shame Of A Nation1955-10-23
- S01E05The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska1955-10-30
- S01E06The Suspects1955-11-06
- S01E07King of the Dakotas1955-11-13
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.
- S01E08Cattle Drive to Casper1955-11-27
A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive
- S01E09Romance of Poker Alice1955-12-11
- S01E10Ferdinand Meyer's Army1955-12-18
- S01E11The Long Road To Tucson1955-12-25
- S01E12The Texicans1956-01-08
- S01E13Mother Of The Brave1956-01-15
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.
- S01E14The Ten Days Of John Leslie1956-01-22
- S01E15The Devil And Doctor O'Hara1956-02-05
- S01E16The Captivity Of Joe Long1956-02-12
- S01E17The Voyage Of Captain Castle1956-02-19
- S01E18Assassin1956-03-04
- S01E19The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek1956-03-11
- S01E20The Big Dry1956-03-18
- S01E21The Ballad Of Pretty Polly1956-04-01
- S01E22The Well1956-04-08
- S01E23Salt War1956-04-22
- S01E24Patrol1956-04-29
- S01E25A Somewhere Voice1956-05-06
- S01E26The Hunted1956-05-13
- S01E27Georgia Gold1956-06-10
- S01E28Out From Texas1956-06-24
- S01E29The Return Of Jubal Dolan1956-08-26
- S01E30The Hostage1956-09-09
