Shotgun Slade

5.7

1959•30m

Shotgun Slade is an American western television series starring Scott Brady that aired seventy-eight episodes in syndication from October 24, 1959, until 1961. Created by Frank Gruber, the stories were written by John Berardino, Charissa Hughes, and Martin Berkeley. The series was filmed in Hollywood by Revue Studios. The pilot for Shotgun Slade aired earlier in 1959 on CBS's Schlitz Playhouse.

Available For Free On

Seasons

16 Episodes • Premiered 1959

1. The Missing Train

Slade is hired to locate a train car with $1 million in coins that disappeared into thin air.

2. The Salted Mine

5.0

Alice Batson hires Slade, a private detective, to determine whether she has been swindled in her purchase of a worthless mine. (Pilot for the series. This production appeared on Schlitz Playhouse of Stars)

3. Too Smart to Live

4. Barbed Wire, Keep Out

5. Mesa of Missing Men

7. Freight Line

A freight-liner needs to renew its contract in order to stay in business. Several accidents have put the renewal in jeopardy. Slade is called in to put a stop to the "accidents."

11. Treasure Trap

28. A Flower for Jenny

Slade serves as bodyguard to primadonna performer Jenny DuPree, who is receiving death threats and a dwindling number of roses from an assassin who bills himself as her "ultimate admirer."

30. Crossed Guns

A hook-handed gunslinger nursing a grudge lures Slade to Grover's Bend for a showdown with his fast-drawing young protégé, Billy.

31. Sudden Death

32. The Spanish Box

33. Backtrack

34. Ring of Death

An unscrupulous young woman devises a cruel plan to cash in on her fiance's recent cattle sale. Scott Brady, Bethel Leslie, H.M. Wynant, Richard Crane.

36. A Flower on Boot Hill

Two escaped convicts, a grieving woman, and a widowed doctor who faithfully lays flowers on his wife's grave are among the seemingly incongruous elements factoring into Slade's investigation of a baffling bank robbery.