Synopsis
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
Season 11E1Paper GunmanA 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.2E2Tomas And The Widow3E3A Stillness In WyomingA 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.4E4The Shame Of A Nation5E5The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska6E6The Suspects7E7King of the DakotasA 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.8E8Cattle Drive to CasperA young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive9E9Romance of Poker Alice10E10Ferdinand Meyer's Army11E11The Long Road To Tucson12E12The Texicans13E13Mother Of The BraveWhen 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.14E14The Ten Days Of John Leslie15E15The Devil And Doctor O'Hara16E16The Captivity Of Joe Long17E17The Voyage Of Captain Castle18E18Assassin19E19The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek20E20The Big Dry21E21The Ballad Of Pretty Polly22E22The Well23E23Salt War24E24Patrol25E25A Somewhere Voice26E26The Hunted27E27Georgia Gold28E28Out From Texas29E29The Return Of Jubal Dolan30E30The Hostage
Cast
