Tales of Wells Fargo is an American Western television series starring Dale Robertson in 201 episodes that aired from 1957 to 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season, when it expanded to a full hour and switched from black-and-white to color. [1] [2]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Rank | Average viewership (in millions) | Run Time | Color | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||||||
| 1 | 14 | March 18, 1957 | July 8, 1957 | 3 | 14.8 [3] | 30 min | black & white | |
| 2 | 38 | September 9, 1957 | May 26, 1958 | 7 | 13.3 [4] | 30 min | black & white | |
| 3 | 39 | September 8, 1958 | June 15, 1959 | Not in top 30 | N/A | 30 min | black & white | |
| 4 | 37 | September 7, 1959 | May 30, 1960 | Not in top 30 | N/A | 30 min | black & white | |
| 5 | 39 | September 5, 1960 | July 10, 1961 | Not in top 30 | N/A | 30 min | black & white | |
| 6 | 34 | September 30, 1961 | June 2, 1962 | Not in top 30 | N/A | 60 min | color | |
Season 1 consisted of 30-minute episodes in black-and-white airing 8:30–9 p.m. on Monday nights. [1]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Thin Rope" | Leslie H. Martinson | N. B. Stone Jr. | March 18, 1957 | |
Featuring Chuck Connors. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Hasty Gun" | Leslie H. Martinson | Dwight Newton | March 25, 1957 | |
Featuring Rusty Lane. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Alder Gulch" | Allen H. Miner | Frank Gruber | April 8, 1957 | |
Featuring Lee Van Cleef. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Bounty" | George Waggner | George Slavin | April 15, 1957 | |
| 5 | 5 | "A Time to Kill" | Jerry Hopper | William Leicester | April 22, 1957 | |
| 6 | 6 | "Shotgun Messenger" | Lewis R. Foster | Sloan Nibley | May 7, 1957 | |
Featuring Michael Landon and Walter Sande. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Lynching" | Allen H. Miner | Story by : William Heuman Teleplay by : William F. Leicester | May 13, 1957 | |
Featuring Claude Akins. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Renegade Raiders" | George Waggner | William F. Leicester | May 20, 1957 | |
Featuring Denver Pyle. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Rio Grande" | Sidney Salkow | John K. Butler | June 3, 1957 | |
Featuring Russell Johnson. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Sam Bass" | Lewis R. Foster | Story by : Frank Gruber Teleplay by : Steve Fisher | June 10, 1957 | |
| 11 | 11 | "The Hijackers" | John English | N. B. Stone Jr. | June 17, 1957 | |
Featuring Jack Elam. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Stage to Nowhere" | Sidney Salkow | Steve Fisher | June 24, 1957 | |
Featuring Walter Coy. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Jesse James" | George Waggner | Dwight Newton | July 1, 1957 | |
| 14 | 14 | "The Silver Bullets" | Sidney Salkow | William F. Leicester & Frederic Lewis Fox | July 8, 1957 | |
Season 2 consisted of 30-minute episodes in black-and-white airing 8:30–9 p.m. on Monday nights. [1]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1 | "Belle Starr" | Earl Bellamy | Frank Gruber | September 9, 1957 | |
Featuring Jeanne Cooper as outlaw Belle Starr. | ||||||
| 16 | 2 | "Two Cartridges" | James Neilson | Story by : Stewart Edward White Teleplay by: William F. Leicester | September 16, 1957 | |
| 17 | 3 | "Apache Gold" | Earl Bellamy | Sam Peckinpah | September 23, 1957 | |
| 18 | 4 | "John Wesley Hardin" | Lewis R. Foster | Steve Fisher | September 30, 1957 | |
| 19 | 5 | "The Target" | Franklin Adreon | William F. Leicester | October 7, 1957 | |
Featuring Paul Henderson as Ike Clanton. | ||||||
| 20 | 6 | "The Feud" | Earl Bellamy | William F. Leicester | October 14, 1957 | |
| 21 | 7 | "Billy the Kid" | Earl Bellamy | Frank Gruber | October 21, 1957 | |
| 22 | 8 | "The Auction" | Earl Bellamy | Steve Fisher | October 28, 1957 | |
Featuring the first appearance of Edgar Buchanan as Bob Dawson. | ||||||
| 23 | 9 | "Hank (Chips)" | Earl Bellamy | Steve Fisher | November 4, 1957 | |
| 24 | 10 | "Man in the Box" | Earl Bellamy | Lewis R. Foster | November 11, 1957 | |
| 25 | 11 | "The Kid" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : Dwight Newton Teleplay by : Steve Fisher | November 18, 1957 | |
Featuring Michael Landon. | ||||||
| 26 | 12 | "The Barbary Coast" | Earl Bellamy | William F. Leicester | November 25, 1957 | |
| 27 | 13 | "Ride with the Killer" | Earl Bellamy | Dwight Newton | December 2, 1957 | |
| 28 | 14 | "The Inscrutable Man" | Earl Bellamy | Frank Gruber | December 9, 1957 | |
| 29 | 15 | "The General" | Earl Bellamy | Lee Loeb | December 16, 1957 | |
| 30 | 16 | "Laredo" | Earl Bellamy | Steve Fisher | December 23, 1957 | |
| 31 | 17 | "The Witness" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : Joel Murcott Teleplay by : William F. Leicester | December 30, 1957 | |
Featuring Will Wright. | ||||||
| 32 | 18 | "Doc Bell" | Earl Bellamy | William F. Leicester | January 7, 1958 | |
Featuring the first appearance of Edward Platt as Doc Bell. | ||||||
| 33 | 19 | "Stage West" | Earl Bellamy | Buckley Angell | January 13, 1958 | |
Featuring Darlene Fields and Stafford Repp. | ||||||
| 34 | 20 | "Hoss Tamer" | Earl Bellamy | Frank Gruber and L. Ron Hubbard | January 20, 1958 | |
Featuring Walter Coy. | ||||||
| 35 | 21 | "Hide Jumpers" | Earl Bellamy | Unknown | January 27, 1958 | |
| 36 | 22 | "The Walking Mountain" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : John Solon Teleplay by : N.B. Stone Jr. | February 3, 1958 | |
Featuring Claude Akins. | ||||||
| 37 | 23 | "Bill Longley" | Earl Bellamy | Martin Berkeley & Clark E. Reynolds | February 10, 1958 | |
Featuring Steve McQueen as gunfighter Bill Longley. | ||||||
| 38 | 24 | "The Prisoner" | Earl Bellamy | Steve Fisher | February 17, 1958 | |
Featuring Edgar Buchanan. | ||||||
| 39 | 25 | "Dr. Alice" | Earl Bellamy | Martin Berkeley & Clark E. Reynolds | February 23, 1958 | |
Featuring Diane Brewster. | ||||||
| 40 | 26 | "The Sooners" | Earl Bellamy | Martin Berkeley & Clark E. Reynolds | March 3, 1958 | |
| 41 | 27 | "Alias Jim Hardie" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : Robert Giles Teleplay by : Martin Berkeley & Clark E. Reynolds | March 10, 1958 | |
Featuring Phyllis Coates. | ||||||
| 42 | 28 | "The Johnny Ringo Story" | Earl Bellamy | William F. Leicester | March 17, 1958 | |
Featuring Paul Richards as outlaw Johnny Ringo. | ||||||
| 43 | 29 | "The Newspaper" | Earl Bellamy | Unknown | March 24, 1958 | |
Featuring Claire Du Brey. | ||||||
| 44 | 30 | "Special Delivery" | Earl Bellamy | Samuel A. Peeples | March 31, 1958 | |
| 45 | 31 | "Deadwood" | Boris Sagal | Martin Berkeley & Clark E. Reynolds | April 7, 1958 | |
| 46 | 32 | "The Gun" | Earl Bellamy | Samuel A. Peeples | April 14, 1958 | |
Featuring Jeanette Nolan. | ||||||
| 47 | 33 | "The Reward" | Earl Bellamy | Unknown | April 21, 1958 | |
| 48 | 34 | "The Pickpocket" | Earl Bellamy | D.D. Beauchamp | April 28, 1958 | |
| 49 | 35 | "Scapegoat" | Earl Bellamy | Unknown | May 5, 1958 | |
| 50 | 36 | "The Renegade" | Earl Bellamy | A.I. Bezzerides | May 12, 1958 | |
Featuring John Anderson. | ||||||
| 51 | 37 | "The Break" | Earl Bellamy | Samuel A. Peeples | May 19, 1958 | |
| 52 | 38 | "The Sniper" | Earl Bellamy | Frank Gruber | May 26, 1958 | |
Featuring Harold J. Stone and Olan Soule. | ||||||
Season 3 consisted of 30-minute episodes in black-and-white airing 8:30–9 p.m. on Monday nights. [1]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 1 | "The Gambler" | Earl Bellamy | Gene Reynolds & Dwight Newton | September 8, 1958 | |
| 54 | 2 | "The Manuscript" | Unknown | Unknown | September 15, 1958 | |
Featuring Edgar Buchanan. | ||||||
| 55 | 3 | "White Indian" | Earl Bellamy | Sid Harris & Betty Hopkins | September 22, 1958 | |
Featuring Neil Hamilton. | ||||||
| 56 | 4 | "The Golden Owl" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : Robert Giles Teleplay by : Martin Berkeley & Clarke E. Reynolds | September 29, 1958 | |
| 57 | 5 | "The Faster Gun" | Earl Bellamy | Samuel A. Peeples | October 6, 1958 | |
Jim Hardie is shot on duty by outlaw Johnny Reno (Tom Neal) and recovers, hoping to ignore his promotion and get back to stopping Reno's crime spree. | ||||||
| 58 | 6 | "Butch Cassidy" | Earl Bellamy | D.D. Beauchamp & Mary M. Beauchamp | October 13, 1958 | |
| 59 | 7 | "End of the Trail" | Earl Bellamy | Martin Berkeley & Clarke Reynolds | October 20, 1958 | |
| 60 | 8 | "A Matter of Honor" | Earl Bellamy | Paul Savage | November 3, 1958 | |
Featuring King Calder. | ||||||
| 61 | 9 | "The Most Dangerous Man" | Earl Bellamy | Samuel A. Peeples | November 10, 1958 | |
Featuring Claude Akins. | ||||||
| 62 | 10 | "The Gunfighter" | Earl Bellamy | Dwight Newton | November 17, 1958 | |
Featuring Lyle Bettger as John Wesley Hardin. | ||||||
| 63 | 11 | "The Deserter" | Earl Bellamy | Dwight Newton | November 24, 1958 | |
| 64 | 12 | "The Killer" | Earl Bellamy | Barney Slater | December 1, 1958 | |
Featuring Paul Fix and Paul Burke. | ||||||
| 65 | 13 | "The Counterfeiters" | Earl Bellamy | Martin Berkeley & Clarke Reynolds | December 8, 1958 | |
Featuring Milton Frome. | ||||||
| 66 | 14 | "Cow Town" | Earl Bellamy | N.B. Stone Jr. | December 15, 1958 | |
| 67 | 15 | "The Happy Tree" | Earl Bellamy | Samuel A. Peeples | December 22, 1958 | |
| 68 | 16 | "The Dealer" | Earl Bellamy | A.I. Bezzerides | December 29, 1958 | |
Featuring Vic Perrin. | ||||||
| 69 | 17 | "Showdown Trail" | Earl Bellamy | Martin Berkeley & Clarke Reynolds | January 5, 1959 | |
| 70 | 18 | "Luke Frazer" | Earl Bellamy | Thomas T. Flynn & Dwight Newton | January 12, 1959 | |
Featuring Wally Brown and John Dierkes. | ||||||
| 71 | 19 | "Wild Cargo" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : Steve Fisher Teleplay by : Dwight Newton | January 19, 1959 | |
| 72 | 20 | "The Cleanup" | Earl Bellamy | Martin Berkeley & Clarke Reynolds | January 26, 1959 | |
| 73 | 21 | "Fort Massacre" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : David Chandler Teleplay by : Dwight Newton and David Chandler | February 2, 1959 | |
| 74 | 22 | "The Town That Wouldn't Talk" | Earl Bellamy | Jack Laird & Wilton Schiller | February 9, 1959 | |
| 75 | 23 | "Lola Montez" | Earl Bellamy | Martin Berkeley & Clarke Reynolds | February 16, 1959 | |
Featuring Rita Moreno. | ||||||
| 76 | 24 | "The Branding Iron" | Earl Bellamy | A.I. Bezzerides & Dwight Newton | February 23, 1959 | |
Featuring Ann Rutherford. | ||||||
| 77 | 25 | "The House I Enter" | Earl Bellamy | William F. Leicester, Dwight Newton & Leslie Elizabeth Thomas | March 2, 1959 | |
Featuring Luana Patten. | ||||||
| 78 | 26 | "The Legacy" | Earl Bellamy | Dwight Newton | March 9, 1959 | |
| 79 | 27 | "The Rawhide Kid" | Earl Bellamy | Thomas T. Flynn & Samuel A. Peeples | March 16, 1959 | |
| 80 | 28 | "Toll Road" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : Ernest Haycox Teleplay by : Frank Bonham | March 23, 1959 | |
| 81 | 29 | "The Tired Gun" | Earl Bellamy | A.I. Bezzerides | March 30, 1959 | |
| 82 | 30 | "Terry" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : William F. Leicester Teleplay by : William F. Leicester & Dwight Newton | April 6, 1959 | |
| 83 | 31 | "The Last Stand" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : John W. Cunningham Teleplay by : Dwight Newton | April 13, 1959 | |
| 84 | 32 | "Bob Dawson" | Earl Bellamy | Steve Fisher | April 20, 1959 | |
Featuring Edgar Buchanan. | ||||||
| 85 | 33 | "The Tall Texan" | Sidney Salkow | Story by : D.D. Beauchamp & Mary M. Beauchamp Teleplay by : Dwight Newton, D.D. Beauchamp & Mary M. Beauchamp | April 27, 1959 | |
| 86 | 34 | "Doc Holliday" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : Robert Giles Teleplay by : Martin Berkeley & Clarke Reynolds | May 4, 1959 | |
| 87 | 35 | "Kid Curry" | David Lowell Rich | Story by : D.D. Beauchamp Teleplay by : D.D. Beauchamp & Dwight Newton | May 11, 1959 | |
Featuring Philip Pine as outlaw Kid Curry. | ||||||
| 88 | 36 | "The Little Man" | David Lowell Rich | Steve McNeil & Charles Smith | May 18, 1959 | |
Featuring Walter Burke and Read Morgan. | ||||||
| 89 | 37 | "The Daltons" | Sidney Salkow | Dwight Newton | May 25, 1959 | |
Featuring Jeanette Nolan. | ||||||
| 90 | 38 | "The Bounty Hunter" | Sidney Salkow | Dean Riesner | June 1, 1959 | |
Featuring Darryl Hickman. | ||||||
| 91 | 39 | "Clay Allison" | Sidney Salkow | Martin Berkeley & Clarke Reynolds | June 15, 1959 | |
Season 4 consisted of 30-minute episodes in black-and-white airing 8:30–9 p.m. on Monday nights. [1]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92 | 1 | "Young Jim Hardie" | Sidney Salkow | William Fay | September 7, 1959 | |
| 93 | 2 | "Desert Showdown" | Sidney Salkow | Samuel A. Peeples | September 14, 1959 | |
| 94 | 3 | "The Warrior's Return" | Sidney Salkow | William Fay | September 21, 1959 | |
Featuring Don Megowan. | ||||||
| 95 | 4 | "The Jackass" | Sidney Salkow | Borden Chase | September 28, 1959 | |
| 96 | 5 | "The Stage Line" | Sidney Salkow | James Brooks, Frank Gruber & Gene Reynolds | October 5, 1959 | |
Featuring James Franciscus. | ||||||
| 97 | 6 | "The Train Robbery" | Sidney Salkow | Martin Berkeley | October 12, 1959 | |
| 98 | 7 | "Double Reverse" | David Lowell Rich | Fred Freiberger | October 19, 1959 | |
Featuring Judith Evelyn and Denver Pyle. | ||||||
| 99 | 8 | "Tom Horn" | Sidney Salkow | Heck Allen | October 26, 1959 | |
| 100 | 9 | "The Quiet Village" | David Lowell Rich | Charles Smith | November 2, 1959 | |
| 101 | 10 | "Home Town" | David Lowell Rich | Borden Chase | November 16, 1959 | |
Featuring Ben Cooper. | ||||||
| 102 | 11 | "End of a Legend" | David Lowell Rich | Samuel A. Peeples | November 23, 1959 | |
| 103 | 12 | "The Return of Doc Bell" | David Lowell Rich | Story by : William F. Leicester; Teleplay by : Charles B. Smith | November 30, 1959 | |
Featuring Edward Platt and Jack Ging. | ||||||
| 104 | 13 | "Woman with a Gun" | David Lowell Rich | Dean Riesner | December 7, 1959 | |
| 105 | 14 | "Long Odds" | Sidney Salkow | David Lang | December 14, 1959 | |
| 106 | 15 | "Wanted: Jim Hardie" | Sidney Salkow | Martin Berkeley | December 21, 1959 | |
| 107 | 16 | "Relay Station" | Sidney Salkow | Frank Gruber | December 28, 1959 | |
Featuring Lori Nelson and James Westerfield. | ||||||
| 108 | 17 | "Cole Younger" | Sidney Salkow | Clay Fisher | January 4, 1960 | |
Featuring Royal Dano as Cole Younger. | ||||||
| 109 | 18 | "The Easterner" | Sidney Salkow | N.B. Stone Jr. | January 11, 1960 | |
| 110 | 19 | "The Governor's Visit" | Sidney Salkow | Borden Chase | January 18, 1960 | |
Featuring Mari Blanchard and Wendell Holmes. | ||||||
| 111 | 20 | "The Journey" | Sidney Salkow | Fred Freiberger | January 25, 1960 | |
Featuring Robert Cornthwaite and Coleen Gray. | ||||||
| 112 | 21 | "The Canyon" | Sidney Salkow | Edmund Morris | February 1, 1960 | |
| 113 | 22 | "Red Ransom" | Sidney Salkow | Dean Riesner | February 8, 1960 | |
Featuring Frank de Kova. | ||||||
| 114 | 23 | "The English Woman" | Sidney Salkow | Fred Freiberger | February 15, 1960 | |
Featuring Frank Ferguson. | ||||||
| 115 | 24 | "Forty-Four Forty" | Sidney Salkow | Borden Chase | February 29, 1960 | |
| 116 | 25 | "The Late Mayor Brown" | Sidney Salkow | James Brooks, William Fay & Frank Gruber | March 7, 1960 | |
Featuring Gail Kobe and John Stephenson. | ||||||
| 117 | 26 | "Black Trail" | Sidney Salkow | Robert Giles & Charles Smith | March 21, 1960 | |
| 118 | 27 | "The Great Bullion Robbery" | Sidney Salkow | Frank Gruber & David Lang | March 21, 1960 | |
| 119 | 28 | "The Outlaw's Wife" | Sidney Salkow | Martin Berkeley | March 28, 1960 | |
| 120 | 29 | "The Town" | Sidney Salkow | Frank Gruber | April 4, 1960 | |
Featuring Mary Webster. | ||||||
| 121 | 30 | "The Trading Post" | Sidney Salkow | James Brooks, Frank Gruber & Gene Reynolds | April 11, 1960 | |
| 122 | 31 | "Dead Man's Street" | Sidney Salkow | William Fay | April 18, 1960 | |
| 123 | 32 | "Threat of Death" | Sidney Salkow | David Lang | April 25, 1960 | |
| 124 | 33 | "Dealer's Choice" | Sidney Salkow | Bill S. Ballinger & George Waggner | May 2, 1960 | |
| 125 | 34 | "Pearl Hart" | Sidney Salkow | Frank Gruber | May 9, 1960 | |
Featuring Beverly Garland as outlaw Pearl Hart. | ||||||
| 126 | 35 | "Vasquez" | Sidney Salkow | James Brooks, Frank Gruber & Gene Reynolds | May 16, 1960 | |
| 127 | 36 | "Kid Brother" | Sidney Salkow | Bill S. Ballinger and William Fay | May 23, 1960 | |
| 128 | 37 | "Man for the Job" | Sidney Salkow | J.K. Tucker | May 30, 1960 | |
All episodes in black-and-white
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 129 | 1 | "Day of Judgement" | Louis King | Barney Slater | September 5, 1960 | |
Featuring John Dehner. | ||||||
| 130 | 2 | "Angry Town" | Louis King | Peter Germano | September 5, 1960 | |
| 131 | 3 | "Doc Dawson" | Gene Fowler Jr. | Steve Fisher & Frank Price | September 19, 1960 | |
Featuring Edgar Buchanan. | ||||||
| 132 | 4 | "The Kinfolk" | Gene Fowler Jr. | Mark Hanna & Louis L'Amour | September 26, 1960 | |
Featuring Richard Jaeckel. | ||||||
| 133 | 5 | "A Study in Petticoats" | Gene Fowler Jr. | Mark Hanna | October 17, 1960 | |
Featuring Whitney Blake and Diane Jergens. | ||||||
| 134 | 6 | "All That Glitters" | Gene Fowler Jr. | Steven Thornley | October 24, 1960 | |
| 135 | 7 | "Run for the River" | Gene Fowler Jr. | Peter Germano | November 7, 1960 | |
| 136 | 8 | "Leading Citizen" | Gene Fowler Jr. | Barney Slater | November 14, 1960 | |
Featuring Robert Middleton. | ||||||
| 137 | 9 | "The Killing of Johnny Lash" | Lawrence Doheny | Mark Rodgers | November 21, 1960 | |
Featuring Anne Helm as Nellie Bly. | ||||||
| 138 | 10 | "The Wade Place" | Lawrence Doheny | Louis L'Amour & Charles A. Wallace | November 28, 1960 | |
| 139 | 11 | "Jeff Davis' Treasure" | Frank McDonald | Unknown | December 5, 1960 | |
Featuring John Dehner and Leo Gordon. | ||||||
| 140 | 12 | "The Bride and the Bandit" | Frank McDonald | Louis L'Amour & Paul Gangelin | December 12, 1960 | |
Featuring Dabbs Greer and Virginia Christine. | ||||||
| 141 | 13 | "Escort to Santa Fe" | Frank McDonald | Ken Pettus | December 19, 1960 | |
Featuring Stephen Chase. | ||||||
| 142 | 14 | "Frightened Witness" | Frank McDonald | James Brooks, Frank Gruber and Dwight Newton | December 26, 1960 | |
Featuring John Milford and Penny Edwards. | ||||||
| 143 | 15 | "The Border Renegade" | Frank McDonald | Barney Slater | January 2, 1961 | |
| 144 | 16 | "Captain Scoville" | Frank McDonald | Louis L'Amour & Paul Gangelin | January 9, 1961 | |
Featuring DeForest Kelley. | ||||||
| 145 | 17 | "The Has-Been" | James P. Yarbrough | Story by : Louis L'Amour Teleplay by : Charles A. Wallace | January 16, 1961 | |
| 146 | 18 | "Town Against a Man" | James P. Yarbrough | Peter Germano | January 23, 1961 | |
| 147 | 19 | "The Barefoot Bandit" | Lewis R. Foster | Lewis R. Foster | January 30, 1961 | |
| 148 | 20 | "The Hand That Shook the Hand" | William Witney | Cyril Hume | February 6, 1961 | |
Featuring Vito Scotti and Claude Akins. | ||||||
| 149 | 21 | "The Washburn Girl" | William Witney | Charles A. Wallace & Rudy Makoul | February 13, 1961 | |
| 150 | 22 | "The Diamond Dude" | Lewis R. Foster | Barney Slater | February 27, 1961 | |
Featuring James Millhollin and Robert Middleton. | ||||||
| 151 | 23 | "A Show for Silver Lode" | Richard Bartlett | Story by : Leo Gordon & Paul Leslie Peil Teleplay by : Charles A. Wallace | March 6, 1961 | |
Featuring Patrice Wymore. | ||||||
| 152 | 24 | "Fraud" | Richard Bartlett | Story by : Mark Rodgers Teleplay by : Paul Gangelin | March 13, 1961 | |
Featuring Sue Ane Langdon and Steve Brodie. | ||||||
| 153 | 25 | "Stage from Yuma" | Lewis R. Foster | Barney Slater | March 20, 1961 | |
Featuring Joan Evans. | ||||||
| 154 | 26 | "Prince Jim" | Richard Bartlett | Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer | March 27, 1961 | |
Featuring Gina Gillespie. | ||||||
| 155 | 27 | "The Remittance Man" | William Witney | Paul Gangelin | April 3, 1961 | |
Featuring Yvonne Craig. | ||||||
| 156 | 28 | "The Jealous Man" | William Witney | Peter Germano | April 10, 1961 | |
Featuring Faith Domergue and Ed Nelson. | ||||||
| 157 | 29 | "Something Pretty" | James P. Yarbrough | Paul Gangelin & Carl M. Onspaugh | April 17, 1961 | |
| 158 | 30 | "Lady Trouble" | James P. Yarbrough | Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer | April 24, 1961 | |
Featuring Josephine Hutchinson and Robert Armstrong. | ||||||
| 159 | 31 | "Moment of Glory" | Lewis R. Foster | Lewis R. Foster | May 1, 1961 | |
| 160 | 32 | "The Lobo" | William Witney | Charles A. Wallace | May 8, 1961 | |
Featuring Jim Davis. | ||||||
| 161 | 33 | "Rifles for Red Hand" | William Witney | Ken Pettus | May 15, 1961 | |
| 162 | 34 | "Gunman's Revenge" | Lewis R. Foster | Lewis R. Foster | May 22, 1961 | |
Featuring Harry Carey Jr. and Chuck Connors. | ||||||
| 163 | 35 | "The Repentant Outlaw" | James H. Brown | Cyril Hume | May 29, 1961 | |
Featuring Edgar Buchanan. | ||||||
| 164 | 36 | "A Quiet Little Town" | James H. Brown | Steven Thornley | June 5, 1961 | |
Featuring John Dehner. | ||||||
| 165 | 37 | "Bitter Vengeance" | R.G. Springsteen | Charles A. Wallace | June 12, 1961 | |
Featuring Nina Shipman and Phyllis Coates. | ||||||
| 166 | 38 | "John Jones" | R.G. Springsteen | Paul Gangelin | June 26, 1961 | |
Featuring Donna Martell and Warren Oates. | ||||||
| 167 | 39 | "The Dowry" | Lewis R. Foster | James Brooks, Lewis R. Foster & Frank Gruber | July 10, 1961 | |
Featuring Lisa Gaye and Alan Napier. | ||||||
All episodes now hour-long, and in color
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 168 | 1 | "Casket 7.3" | Jerry Hopper | Milton S. Gelman & Frank Gruber | September 30, 1961 | |
The series changes focus somewhat and is often set around life on and around Jim Hardie's ranch, with a more central cast of characters as well: William Demarest joins the series with this episode as Jeb Haine, Hardie's foreman; Jack Ging as Beau McCloud; and Virginia Christine as Ovie, the former owner of the ranch and Hardie's neighbor. Also introduced here in supporting roles are Mary Jane Saunders and Lory Patrick as Ovie's daughters Mary Gee and Tina. | ||||||
| 169 | 2 | "The Dodger" | R.G. Springsteen | Jack Turley & Frank Gruber | October 7, 1961 | |
Featuring Philip Carey and Claude Akins. | ||||||
| 170 | 3 | "Treasure Coach" | R.G. Springsteen | Milton Geiger, Milton S. Gelman & Frank Gruber | October 14, 1961 | |
Featuring Robert Vaughn and J. Pat O'Malley. | ||||||
| 171 | 4 | "Death Raffle" | William F. Claxton | Milton S. Gelman, Jack Turley & Frank Gruber | October 21, 1961 | |
| 172 | 5 | "Tanoa" | R.G. Springsteen | Kay Lenard, Jess Carneol & Lewis R. Foster | October 28, 1961 | |
Featuring Rodolfo Acosta and Iron Eyes Cody. | ||||||
| 173 | 6 | "Mr. Mute" | William F. Claxton | Robert C. Dennis, Milton S. Gelman & Charles A. Wallace | November 4, 1961 | |
Featuring Lyle Bettger. | ||||||
| 174 | 7 | "Jeremiah" | R.G. Springsteen | Barney Slater, Milton S. Gelman & Frank Gruber | November 11, 1961 | |
| 175 | 8 | "A Fistful of Pride" | R.G. Springsteen | Sam Ross & Frank Gruber | November 18, 1961 | |
| 176 | 9 | "Defiant at the Gate" | R.G. Springsteen | Anthony Lawrence & Frank Gruber | November 25, 1961 | |
| 177 | 10 | "Man of Another Breed" | William F. Claxton | Richard Newman & Frank Gruber | December 2, 1961 | |
Featuring Debra Paget and Robert Middleton. | ||||||
| 178 | 11 | "Kelly's Clover Girls" | R.G. Springsteen | Jack Turley & Frank Gruber | December 9, 1961 | |
| 179 | 12 | "A Killing in Calico" | William F. Claxton | Story by : Lynn Mitchell Teleplay by : Jack Turley | December 16, 1961 | |
Featuring Dean Jones. | ||||||
| 180 | 13 | "New Orleans Trackdown" | R.G. Springsteen | Peter Germano | December 23, 1961 | |
Featuring Marjorie Bennett, Valentin de Vargas and Tina Louise. Jack Ging's final episode, as his character is transferred to the New Orleans office. | ||||||
| 181 | 14 | "Trackback" | R.G. Springsteen | Ed Adamson & Frank Gruber | December 30, 1961 | |
Featuring Richard Rust and Leo Gordon. | ||||||
| 182 | 15 | "Moneyrun" | Francis D. Lyon | Sam Ross | January 6, 1962 | |
Featuring Michael Ansara. | ||||||
| 183 | 16 | "Return to Yesterday" | Harry Harris | Ken Trevey | January 13, 1962 | |
Featuring Dianne Foster | ||||||
| 184 | 17 | "Reward for Gain" | Francis D. Lyon | Milton S. Gelman | January 20, 1962 | |
Featuring John Doucette and John Anderson. | ||||||
| 185 | 18 | "Assignment in Gloribee" | R.G. Springsteen | Anthony Lawrence & Frank Gruber | January 27, 1962 | |
| 186 | 19 | "Incident at Crossbow" | Stuart Heisler | William R. Cox | February 3, 1962 | |
| 187 | 20 | "Portrait of Teresa" | R.G. Springsteen | Al C. Ward & Frank Gruber | February 10, 1962 | |
Featuring Simon Oakland. | ||||||
| 188 | 21 | "Hometown Doctor" | Sidney Lanfield | Milton S. Gelman, Jerry Adelman & Peter Germano | February 17, 1962 | |
| 189 | 22 | "The Traveler" | R.G. Springsteen | Al C. Ward | February 24, 1962 | |
Featuring Jack Warden. | ||||||
| 190 | 23 | "Winter Storm" | William Witney | Dick Nelson | March 3, 1962 | |
Featuring Dan Duryea and R.G. Armstrong. | ||||||
| 191 | 24 | "Chauncey" | R.G. Springsteen | Frank Gruber & Ellis Marcus | March 17, 1962 | |
| 192 | 25 | "Who Lives by the Gun" | William Witney | Albert Aley | March 24, 1962 | |
| 193 | 26 | "To Kill a Town" | R.G. Springsteen | Al C. Ward | March 31, 1962 | |
| 194 | 27 | "End of a Minor God" | Christian Nyby | David P. Harmon | April 7, 1962 | |
Featuring Walter Coy and William Schallert. | ||||||
| 195 | 28 | "Remember the Yazoo" | R.G. Springsteen | Ellis Marcus | April 14, 1962 | |
| 196 | 29 | "The Angry Sky" | Christian Nyby | Al C. Ward | April 21, 1962 | |
Featuring Arch Johnson and Fay Spain | ||||||
| 197 | 30 | "Royal Maroon" | R.G. Springsteen | Al C. Ward & Harry Freem | April 28, 1962 | |
Featuring Kathleen Crowley. | ||||||
| 198 | 31 | "The Gold Witch" | William Witney | Story by : Dick Nelson & Irving J. McCarthy Teleplay by : Dick Nelson | May 5, 1962 | |
| 199 | 32 | "Don't Wake a Tiger" | R.G. Springsteen | David P. Harmon | May 12, 1962 | |
| 200 | 33 | "The Wayfarers" | William Witney | Frank Price | May 19, 1962 | |
| 201 | 34 | "Vignette of a Sinner" | William Witney | Al C. Ward | June 2, 1962 | |
Featuring Jeff Morrow, Joyce Taylor, and Edward Platt as Doc Bell. Jim Hardie falls in love with a woman engaged to be married in the final episode of the series. | ||||||
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It centered on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Between 1962 and 1965, it was renamed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Hitchcock himself directed only 18 episodes during its run.
Your Hit Parade was an American radio and television music program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1953 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television. It was sponsored by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes. During its 24-year run, the show had 19 orchestra leaders and 52 singers or groups.
The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats. The program's current title, The Wonderful World of Disney, was used from 1969 to 1979 and again from 1991 onward. The program moved among the Big Three television networks in its first four decades, but has aired on ABC since 1997.
Nick at Nite is an American nighttime programming block on the basic cable channel Nickelodeon. The programming broadcasts from prime time to late night. The block initially consisted of syndicated sitcoms and films from the 1950s to the 1970s. Nick at Nite gradually shifted its programming to primarily airing sitcoms as recent as the mid-1990s to the 2010s.
The "Friday night death slot" or "Friday evening death slot" is a perceived graveyard slot in American television. It implies that a television program in the United States scheduled on Friday evenings is likely to be canceled.
The NBC Monday Movie was a television anthology series of films that debuted on February 4, 1963. It was referred to as Monday Night at the Movies prior to the mid-1980s. Contrary to popular contemporary belief, the corporate initials, "NBC", were, at first, not part of the official title for the network's anthologies of old movies, and would not be for years to come. Thus, in 1964, when the show was transferred by the network's programming executives to Wednesday nights, it became Wednesday Night at the Movies. And in 1965, when the program moved to Tuesdays, it became Tuesday Night at the Movies. It would remain there until 1969. The name would henceforth change depending on whichever night of the week the program aired. Moreover, by 1968, there was once again a weekly Monday Night at the Movies on the air. It ran until 1997.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is the first Western television series written for adults. It premiered four days before Gunsmoke on September 6, 1955. Two weeks later came the Clint Walker western Cheyenne. The series is loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour, black-and-white program aired for six seasons on ABC from 1955 to 1961, with Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
Lux Video Theatre is an American television anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1957. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
Cheyenne is an American Western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1962. The show was the first hour-long Western, and was the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Bros. original series produced by William T. Orr.
The following is the 1957–58 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1957 through March 1958. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1956–57 season.
The 1955–56 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1955 through March 1956. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1954–55 season.
Tales of Wells Fargo is an American Western television series starring Dale Robertson in 201 episodes that aired from 1957 to 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season, when it expanded to a full hour and switched from black-and-white to color.
The following is the 1956–57 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1956 through March 1957. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1955–56 season.
Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the original radio version and known, in full, as The Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, is a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts. Ford Theatre was named for its sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, which had an earlier success with its concert music series, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour (1934–42).
The 2007–08 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the prime time hours from September 2007 to August 2008. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2006–07 season. The schedule was affected by the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. After that, the next disruption to the networks' primetime schedules would not occur until the 2020–21 season, whose network schedules were affected by the suspension of film and television productions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Movie 4 is a television program that aired at various times, but predominantly weekday afternoons, on various television stations on channel 4, including WNBC-TV in New York City from 1956 to 1974. WNBC's program aired top-rank first-run movies and other future classics from Hollywood, as well as foreign films. As with other movie shows of 90-minute length, films that ran longer were often divided into two parts.