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Frontier

1955 7.5

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.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Paper Gunman

    1955-09-25

    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.

  2. 2

    Tomas And The Widow

    1955-10-02
  3. 3

    A Stillness In Wyoming

    1955-10-16

    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.

  4. 4

    The Shame Of A Nation

    1955-10-23
  5. 5

    The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska

    1955-10-30
  6. 6

    The Suspects

    1955-11-06
  7. 7

    King of the Dakotas

    1955-11-13

    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.

  8. 8

    Cattle Drive to Casper

    1955-11-27

    A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive

  9. 9

    Romance of Poker Alice

    1955-12-11
  10. 10

    Ferdinand Meyer's Army

    1955-12-18
  11. 11

    The Long Road To Tucson

    1955-12-25
  12. 12

    The Texicans

    1956-01-08
  13. 13

    Mother Of The Brave

    1956-01-15

    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.

  14. 14

    The Ten Days Of John Leslie

    1956-01-22
  15. 15

    The Devil And Doctor O'Hara

    1956-02-05
  16. 16

    The Captivity Of Joe Long

    1956-02-12
  17. 17

    The Voyage Of Captain Castle

    1956-02-19
  18. 18

    Assassin

    1956-03-04
  19. 19

    The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek

    1956-03-11
  20. 20

    The Big Dry

    1956-03-18
  21. 21

    The Ballad Of Pretty Polly

    1956-04-01
  22. 22

    The Well

    1956-04-08
  23. 23

    Salt War

    1956-04-22
  24. 24

    Patrol

    1956-04-29
  25. 25

    A Somewhere Voice

    1956-05-06
  26. 26

    The Hunted

    1956-05-13
  27. 27

    Georgia Gold

    1956-06-10
  28. 28

    Out From Texas

    1956-06-24
  29. 29

    The Return Of Jubal Dolan

    1956-08-26
  30. 30

    The Hostage

    1956-09-09

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