Frontier
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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Production
Seasons
1. Paper Gunman
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. Tomas And The Widow
3. A Stillness In Wyoming
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. The Shame Of A Nation
5. The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska
6. The Suspects
7. King of the Dakotas
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. Cattle Drive to Casper
A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive
9. Romance of Poker Alice
10. Ferdinand Meyer's Army
11. The Long Road To Tucson
12. The Texicans
13. Mother Of The Brave
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. The Ten Days Of John Leslie
15. The Devil And Doctor O'Hara
16. The Captivity Of Joe Long
17. The Voyage Of Captain Castle
18. Assassin
19. The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek
20. The Big Dry
21. The Ballad Of Pretty Polly
22. The Well
23. Salt War
24. Patrol
25. A Somewhere Voice
26. The Hunted
27. Georgia Gold
28. Out From Texas
29. The Return Of Jubal Dolan
30. The Hostage
Cast
Walter Coy
Narrator (voice)
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