ABC. 60 min. Broadcast history: Tuesday, 7:30-8:30, Sept.
1958-Sept. 1960; Monday, 7:30-8:30, Oct. 1960-Aug. 1962.
Regular Cast: Ty Hardin (Bronco Layne).
Prernise: The Western series concerned the adventures of Bronco Layne, a former Confederate army captain, in Texas during the 1860s.

Notes: Bronco alternated with Sugarfoot during its first season and aired with Cheyenne during its second season. It alternated with Sugarfoot and Cheyenne during its third season and alternated with Cheyenne during its final season.

The Episodes

1 The Besieged. Sept. 23, 1958. GS: Claude Akins, Sue Randall, Jack Elam, Allen Case, Robert Warwick, Terry Rangno. The Cabot family are members of a religious sect that refuses to use violence. While en route to their home in California they are attacked by gunmen who have learned there is gold on the Cabot property. Bronco Layne tries to save the family from certain death.

2 Quest of the Thirty Dead. Oct. 7,1958. GS: Beverly Tyler, Ray Danton, Jay Novello, Tol Avery. A tragic train wreck takes the lives of 30 passengers, one of whom is a young man who was on his way to be married. On a tip from the man's grief-stricken fiancee, Bronco Layne sets out to learn who was responsible for the tragedy.

3 The Turning Point. Oct. 21,1958. GS: Scott Marlowe, R.G. Armstrong, Walter Coy. After Bronco Layne saves a notorious gunfighter from death by snake bite, the gunfighter swears he will go straight. But two of his outlaw cousins persist in pinning their crimes on him.

4 Four Guns and a Prayer. Nov. 4, 19 5 8. G S: Douglas Kennedy, Walter Barnes, Pamela Lincoln, John Hubbard, Gary Vinson. Bronco Layne is appointed marshal of a Texas town and tries to clear the town of the killers who control it. He hires several outside deputies in his efforts to get rid of the killers and then learns that the deputies are notorious gunslingers.

5 The Long Ride Back. Nov. 18,1958. GS: Mort Mills, Kathleen Crowley, Gerald Mohr, Paul Fix, Charles Fredericks. Bronco Layne, an ex-Confederate captain, returns to his home town and learns that the residents blame him for the death of his sweetheart's brother while Layne and the brother were held as Union prisoners. The man who accuses Layne of the crime is a man who served with them.

6 Trail to Taos. Dec. 2, 1958. GS: Joanne Gilbert, Ed Kemmer, Frank Ferguson, Ron Hayes. The Post Office departrnent hires Bronco Layne to track down a gang that has been stealing the U.S. mail from stagecoaches.

7 Brand of Courage. Dec. 16, 19 58. GS: Anna-Lisa, Cheerio Meredith. A group of nuns fight desperately to keep their convent from falling into the hands of unscrupulous cattlemen. Bronco, who has been befriended by the nuns after suffering gunshot wounds, takes up their cause.

8 Freeze-Out. Dec. 30, 1958. GS: Grace Raynor, James Drury, Douglas Dick. Bronco is hired by a beautiful girl to guide her to a ghost town in the mountains. Her pretext for making the trip is that she is writing a book. But after an attempt is made on the lives of both, Bronco is convinced that the girl is concealing her real purpose.

9 The Baron of Broken Lance. Jan. 13,1959. GS: William Reynolds, Shirley Knight, King Calder, Myron Healey, K.L. Smith, Betty Lynn. A young lady, the daughter of a cattle baron, runs away from home. With the help of Bronco Layne's friend Pete Loomis, she joins the wagon train that Bronco is leading through Wyoming. Layne has his hands full, however, when the girl's father and his henchmen attempt to kill Loomis.

10 Payroll of the Dead. Jan. 27,1959. GS: John Delmer, James Coburn, Robert Warwick. Otis Dameyer asks Bronco to be his guide for a mission into Indian territory. Dameyer says that the Army has assigned him to recover government money stolen during an Indian massacre. Bronco resists his offer, saying that both of them will be killed, but is finally persuaded to accept.

11 Riding Solo. Feb. 10, 1959. GS: Robert Lowery, Ray Teal, Will Wright, Anne Anderson. Arriving in the town of Deepwater, Bronco Layne finds that word has spread that he is a friend of a man named Mike Kirk and involved in a stagecoach holdup and murder.

12 Borrowed Glory. Feb. 24,1959. GS: Robert Vaughn, Andra Martin, Charles Cooper, William Reynolds. Bronco Layne, working as a deputy for Sheriff Lloyd Stover, learns that the sheriff lied about winning the Congressional Medal of Honor.

13 The Silent Witness. March 10, 1959. GS: Chris Alcaide, Russell Conway, Karl Davis, Karl Swenson. A man is killed, and Bronco Layne, who seems to have a motive, is accused of the crime.

14 The Belles of Silver Flat. March 24,1959. GS: Pernell Roberts, Vaughn Taylor, John Beradino. Doc Moody hires a gunman to kill Bronco Layne, but the fast gun of Rev. David Clayton saves Bronco's life. Moody decides to take advantage of the Reverend's skill with a gun.

15 Backfire. April 7,1959. GS: Barry Kelley, Troy Donahue, Don Beddoe, Jeff York, Joseph Holland, Carol Ohmart, Walter Coy, Kathleen O'Malley. Bronco Layne has taken a job as Sheriff Linc McKeever's deputy. After the sheriff is lured into a death trap and killed, Bronco sets out after the culprits.

16 School for Cowards. April 21,1959. GS: Tommy Andre, Jeanne Cooper, Michael Connors, Yvette Dugay, Barry Atwater. While he is teaching at a military academy, Bronco Layne becomes involved in a family problem. Someone has tried to kill young Jamie Reynolds, whose mother is an Indian.

17 Prairie Skipper. May 5, 1959. GS: Arleen Howell, Lorne Greene, Bing Russell, Stephen Chase, Hank Patterson, Carlos Romero, Mickey Simpson. Working as trail boss on a cattle drive, Bronco Layne encounters former Navy captain Amos Carr, and his young wife. Traveling by land is unfamiliar to Carr, who is using his nautical training to guide him across the prairie.

18 Shadow of a Man. May 19,1959. GS: Wayne Morris, Donald "Red" Barry, Rebecca Welles, George D. Wallace. Bronco Layne rescues a hobo from a pit of quicksand and then joins the man and his companion on their travels. When a stagecoach is robbed, the three are suspected of the crime.

19 Hero of the Town. June 2, 1959. GS: Lynn Bari, Ken Mayer, Karl Weber, Stephen Coit. Three masked men rob the local bank. When the confusion dies down, Tod Biggs is found dead holding Bronco Layne's gun in his hand. As Bronco attempts to clear his name, he finds his efforts hindered by Brigg's widow and the sheriff.

20 Red Water North. June 16, 1959. GS: Sarah Selby, Burt Douglas, Hugh Sanders, Dorothy Provine, Michael Forest, Karl Swenson, Kelly Thordsen. Cargo-ship pilot Matt Crane, a friend of Bronco Layne's, is killed by members of a rival concern. Bronco signs on as Crane's replacement, working for the widow of a man he killed in a gunfight.

Season Two

21 Game at the Beacon Club. Sept. 22,1959. GS: Patricia Crowley, Barry Kelley, Connie Hines, Gage Clarke. Bronco is introduced to San Francisco society and an exclusive card game. He in turn introduces a shy, card-playing schoolteacher into the game who surprises everyone.

22 The Burning Spring. Oct. 6,1959. GS: Rhodes Reason, Suzanne Lloyd, Berry Kroeger, Adam West, John Qualen, Raymond Bailey. Lt. John Stoddard shoots at Bronco and is put on trial for attempted murder. During the trial, Bronco tells of a Civil War encounter in which he, a Confederate captain, clashed with Stoddard, a Union major.

23 Bodyguard. Oct. 20, 1959. GS: Alan Hale, Jr., Alan Baxter. Bronco Layne was hired by Frank Kelton to protect him from Dan Flood. Kelton is killed, but suspicion can't fall on Flood. He was with Bronco at the time of the murder.

24 The Soft Answer. Nov. 3, 1959. GS: Ray Stricklyn, Leo Gordon. Bronco Layne and Billy the Kid are working in Harmony for sheep rancher Barnaby Spence. When cattleman Mike Ransom, tries to harm Spence, Bronco and Billy join forces to help their employer.

25 The Last Resort. Nov. 17,1959. GS: Kent Taylor, Marshall Thompson, Jean Allison, Ken Lynch, Vito Scotti. Carrying out a promise made to a dying man, Bronco Layne sets out to deliver some money to the notorious Billy Styles. Posing as an outlaw, Layne heads for a lawless town, hoping to find Styles there.

26 The Devil's Spawn. Dec. 1, 1959. GS: Troy Donahue, Mike Keene, Gary Vinson, Ray Teal. Bronco Layne is injured when a fleeing convict ambushes him. Taken in by the Donner family, Bronco learns that his assailant was one of the Donner boys.

27 Flight from an Empire. Dec. 15, 1959. GS: Karen Verne, Sasha Harden, Mary Tyler Moore, Barry Kelley. Bronco Layne comes to the aide of Ilse Von Weldenheim and her son Franz, who are being pursued by bandits.

28 Night Train to Denver. Dec. 29, 1959. GS: Brad Dexter, Myron Healey, Jacqueline McKeever, Robert Colbert. Bronco is guarding a body on a train to Denver. When a large sum of money is stolen from his railroad car, lie is held for the theft. But two strangers, Al Simon and Matt Larker, pay his bail. Then Simon and Larker demand that Bronco give them the money.

29 Shadow of Jesse James. Jan. 12, 1960. GS: James Coburn, Jeanne Cooper, Richard Coogan, William Forrest, L Stanford Jolley. In spite of Jesse James' senseless killing of innocent people, Cole Younger remains friendly with the notorious outlaw. Bronco Layne and Belle Starr attempt to get Younger to break off his friendship with James.

30 The Masquerade. Jan. 26, 1960. GS: Joel Grey, Chance Nesbitt, Jennifer West, Richard Evans, Rusty Lane, Frank Albertson, Clay Randolph, Paul Maxwell, Thad Swift. Bronco persuades four teenagers to postpone their holdup plans and take steady jobs. To keep them happy with their work Bronco pretends to go along with the plans for a bigger hoidup.

31 Volunteers from Aberdeen. Feb. 9,1960.GS: Robert Reed, Susan Morrow, Regis Toomey. When Tom Fuller hears than an old girl friend wants to see him, he hastily leaves the cattle drive and heads for town. Bronco follows to look after his friend, but it isn't long before Tom lands in jail.

32 Every Man a Hero. Feb. 23, 1960. GS: Patricia Barry, Simon Oakland. Arriving at Fort Monument, Bronco Layne and Amy Carter find that the fort has been attacked by Indians, leaving five survivors. One survivor refuses to discuss the attack and Bronco learns that all five were awaiting courtmartial.

33 Death of an Outlaw. March 8, 1960. GS: Stephen Joyce, Rhodes Reason, Alan Cailloul Miriam Colon, jean Allison. In a fight with cattle thieves, Bronco gets an assist from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. But later, when Bronco tries to bring Billy to trial, Garrett is far from helpful.

34 The Human Equation. March 22,1960. GS: Lawrence Dobkin, Herbert Rudley. To prevent an uprising, Bronco takes up the cause of the Osage Indians, restricted to an
area of poor farm land.

35 Montana Passage. April 5, 1960. GS: Mala Powers, Mari Blanchard, Charles Cooper, Rex Reason, Robert Colbert, Hugh Sanders. Bronco is accused of murder and needs freedom to prove his innocence. So he stages his own death, assumes a fake name, complete with a fake wife, and begins his investi gation.

36 Legacy of Twisted Creed. April 19,1960. GS: Gustavo Rojo, John Anderson, Richard Hale, Henry Brandon, Robert B. Williams, Billy M. Greene, Dick Rich, Larry Chance, Bill Mims, Mike Sargent. Bronco, pursuing a fugitive Apache, is out to get his man alive. But the Indian's own tribesmen are also on his trail, and are out to kill him.

37 Tangled Trail. May 3,1960. GS: Randy Stuart, Marc Lawrence, Arch Johnson, Bob Wiensko. Joe Russo has double trouble - Mark Tanner, whose hired guns have been terrorizing his ranch, and his wife Claire, who has been giving Bronco the eye.

38 La Rubia. May 1,7 1960. GS: Faith Domergue, Joan O'Brien, Rodolfo Acosta, Jack Mather, Carlos Romero, Fabrizio Mioni. An Indian attack on a stagecoach is foiled by the arrival of a Mexican bandit and his men, who take Brother Paul, Judith Castle and Bronco to their hideout. Then the leader offers the men freedom and announces his intention to marry the lady.

39 Winter Kill. May 31,1960. GS: Virginia Grey, John Litel, Richard Rust, Edgar Buchanan, Merry Anders. Kate Crowley and her son Jack think that Pop Owens killed the oldest Crowley boy, and they intend to hang him for it. When Bronco and a marshal interfere, the Crowleys turn on them.

40 End of a Rope. June 14, 1960. GS: Robert Colbert, James Lydon, Horace MacMahon, Melora Conway, Joan Marshall. Allan Brierly is killed in his darkroom. Bronco discovers a clue in a photographic plate.

Season Three

41 The Mustangers. Oct. 17,1960. GS: Mike Keene,
Whitney Blake, Robert Ridgely, Kenneth Tobey. Broke, Bronco signs on as a cowhand at Abner Shelton's ranch. Shortly afterwards, Shelton is killed.

42 Apache Treasure. Nov. 7,1960. GS: Mort Mills, Richard Hale, Buddy Ebsen, Chad Everett, Ed Prentiss. Bronco finds his mission of peace to the Apaches is falling flat. It is probably because a white man named Hickins is also making the rounds, killing Apaches and selling their scalps.

43 Seminole War Pipe. Dec. 12, 1960. GS: Robert Palmer, Anna Kashfi, Dean Fredericks, Robert Warwick, Don Wilbanks. Angry ranchers plan to hang an Indian couple. Bronco tries to calm the lynching party by relating a Civil War incident.

44 Ordeal at Dead Tree. Jan. 2, 1961. GS: Dorothy Neumann, Frank Ferguson, Merry Anders, Trent Dolan, Mary Newton, Lenmana Guerin. Marshal Bob Harrod believes Bronco is in cahoots with the murdering Welty gang, and jails in on suspicion of murder.

45 The Invaders. Jan. 23, 1961. GS: Gerald Mohr, Walter Sande, Shirley Knight, Joan Marshall, Gary Vinson. Outlaw Mace Tilsey holds Marshal Steve Durrock's daughter Molly as hostage, just to insure that the marshal won't stop his boys from having a good time in town.

46 The Buckbrier Trail. Feb. 20, 1961. GS: Michael Keep, Ray Damon, Mike Road, Paul Birch, Sandra Gale Bettin, Denver Pyle. Walter Ruick is in jail, awaiting trial for a local murder. But the townspeople are lynch crazy, and someone has to get Ruick out of town fast.

47 Yankee Tornado. March 13,1961. GS: Will Hutchins, Tristram Coffin, Peter Breck, Whitney Blake, John Alvin, Don Haggerty, Lee Van Cleef. Bronco and Sugarfoot suspect that the men hunting buffalo are killing more than they should. Young Theodore Roosevelt finds out from Bronco what is going on, and he decides to do something about it.

48 Manitoba Manhunt. April 3,1961. GS: Richard Garland, Jacqueline Beer, Felix Deebank. Bronco is asked to aid the Canadian Mounted Police in tracking down a bank robber who is heading for the wilds of western Canada. He is shocked to find that the fugitive's name is Dana Powell, his best friend.

49 Stage to the Sky. April 24, 1961. GS: Joan Mars hall, Kent Taylor, Bing Russell, Charles Fredericks, Ron Corsi. Townspeople discover that the money they donated to build a new church has been stolen. Word gets around that their pastor, Rev. Billy Rawlins, was once a gunfighter. Angry at their loss and relieved to find a scapegoat, the citizens decide to lynch Rawlins.

50 Guns of the Lawless. May 8, 1961. GS: Denver Pyle, Fred Beir, Morris Ankrum. More than a decade earlier, Joe Spain and Petrie Munger started a cattle ranch. They agreed that Munger could have half the cattle if he wanted to nullify the agreement. Now that things are going well, Munger want half his cattle, and half the land to keep them on.

Season Four

51 Cousin from Atlanta. Oct. 16, 1961. GS: Anne Helm, Evan McCord, Kaye Elhardt. While awaiting the stagecoach arrival of his teenage cousin Amanda Layne, Bronco hears a gunshot from Logan's bar. Inside, he finds young gunslinger Tommy Dancer sipping beer, and learns that Tommy has just shot a man.

52 The Prince of Darkness. Nov. 6,1961. GS: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Byron Keith, Donna Drew, John Howard, Denver Pyle, Keith Richards, Alan Reynolds. Although persecuted because his brother assassinated Lincoln, famed actor Edwin Booth responds to a call to aid his country. He joins Bronco Layne in trying to put down a rebellion started by former Confederate soldiers.

53 One Came Back. Nov. 27,1961. GS: Robert McQueeney, Karen Steele, John Ramondetta. A group of investors, seeking to buy up Mexican ranchland, ask Bronco to guide them across the border. He is unaware that the investors are wanted for bank robbery and murder.

54 The Equalizer. Dec. 18,1961. GS: Jack Nicholson, Steve Brodie, Sheldon Alman, Frank Albertson, Marie Windsor. All Bob Doolin and Ella Cassidy want to do is have a nice peaceful wedding. It is not going to be easy, though, because the Cassidy and Doolin gangs have been feuding for years.

55 The Harrigan. Dec. 25,1961. GS: Jack Cassidy, Kathie Browne, Sean McClory, Wright King, Dick Graf, Ken Lynch. Bronco and his pal Terrence Harrigan hire on as cowpunchers at the Miller brothers' ranch. But they soon discover that the ranch is just a front for an outlaw hideout.

56 Beginner's Luck. Jan. 1, 1962. GS: Hayden Rourke, Keith Richards, Buzz Martin, jean Willes. A group of cattlemen want the range land of homesteader Jim Gant. They figure they can get Gant's dander up by getting his son to draw on a professional gunfighter.

57 Ride the Whirlwind. Jan. 15,1962. GS: Vaughn Taylor, Willis Bouchey, Edward Platt, George Petrie, Robert G. Anderson, Chad Everett. Dr. Miles Gillis has just finished a seven-year prison stretch and is headed for Willow Springs, home of the four men whose efforts put Gillis behind bars. One of the men, Judge Fowler, doesn't think Gillis means any harm, but the others aren't so sure.

58 A Sure Thing. Jan. 22,1962. GS: Alan Hale, Jr., Mickey Simpson, Joan Taylor, Trevor Bardette. Bronco gets nothing but headaches when he wins a thousand head of cattle in a poker game.

59 Trail of Hatred. Feb. 5, 1962. GS: Kent Smith, Rian Garrick, Nina Shipman, James Griffith, Evan McCord. Cavalry lieutenant Steve Powell has been assigned the task of bringing back a deserter. Powell is grateful for this chance to clear his name - the deserter is Dana Powell, his father.

60 Rendezvous with a Miracle. Feb. 12,1962. GS: Gloria Talbott, Mabel Albertson, Rico Alaniz, Paul Fierro. An attractivc young woman named Valentine Ames, aboard the stagecoach bound for Santa Fe, doesn't know it but she is being followed. Her shadow happens to be Bronco, who's interest in her is anything but romantic.

61 Destinies West. Feb. 26,1962. GS: Kathleen Crowley, Robert McQueeney, Leo Gordon, Donald "Red" Barry. Bronco is helping the Army search for LeBrec, an outlaw who stole a million-dollar gold shipment. His mission is made more difficult when he meets and falls for Belle Siddons, LeBrec's cohort.

62 The Last Letter. March 5, 1962. GS: Ernest Sarracino, Robert J. Wilke, Evan McCord, Doye O'Dell, Patricia Crest, Robert Colbert, Jean Allison, Arthur Space, Vito Scotti, Ken Lynch. Mexican patriot Benito Juarez and his men are trying to oust French Emperor Maximilian from the throne of their country. Juarez needs money and Bronco volunteers to smuggle a shipment of gold into Mexico.

63 One Evening in Abilene. March 19, 1962. GS: Lisa Gaye, Jack Cassidy, Jered Barclay, Tony Young, Lee Van Cleef. Donna Coe brings the body of her fiance, Will Morley, to his
home town for burial. Morley was shot in Abilene by Marshal Bill Hickok, and Donna is obsessed with the thought of revenge.

64 Until Kingdom Come. March 26,1962. GS: Jacqueline Beer, Philip Carey. Bronco helps the Duchess Eugenia and Prince Philip find asylum from Mexican revolutionaries. The Duchess then must protect the crown jewels from a crooked sheriff and a former newspaperman who seek to steal them.

65 Moment of Doubt. April 2,1962. GS: Roxane Berard, Earl Hammond, Walter Brooke, Laurie Mitchell, Tol Avery, Doodles Weaver, Frank Wilcox, Bill Walker. Government officials suspect that a group of men are conspiring to overthrow the present administration by assassinating government officials. Bronco is dishonorably discharged from the Army in the hopes that he will be asked to join the conspiracy.

66 A Town That Lived and Died. April 9,1962. GS: Anna Capri, Jolene Brand, Robert Rockwell. A woman named Emily is writing an article on ghost towns, and needs Bronco for a guide.

67 The Immovable Object. April 16,1962. GS: William Fawcett, Mike Road, Maggie Pierce, George Neise, Bob Hogan, William Bell, J. Edward McKinley. Tom Christopher refuses to leave his home so that the Army can build a dam on the property. Old Tom says he will fight the whole U.S. Army before he will budge.

68 Then the Mountains. April 30, 1962. GS: Susan Seaforth, Gerald Mohr, Ken Mayer, James Best, Med Flory, Jim Boles. A horse trader sells Bronco several steeds, but it appears that he had an ulterior motive in doing business with Bronco - such as spying on him for a man called Bohannon.