Frontier
CreatorMorton S. Fine
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.
Seasons
1
Episodes
30
Country
United States
Status
Ended
Cast
Walter Coy
Narrator (voice) · 30 eps
Scott Forbes
Clay Allison · 4 eps
Leo Gordon
Lou · 3 eps
Dabbs Greer
Ray · 2 eps
Jack Elam
Ness Fowler · 2 eps
Richard Devon
Hesse · 2 eps
Denver Pyle
Eben · 2 eps
Jack Kelly
· 2 eps
James Best
· 2 eps
Jan Merlin
Clay Chandler · 2 eps
Joan Hotchkis
Ellen Landry · 2 eps
John Dehner
Yancy · 1 eps
Richard Crenna
· 1 eps
Raymond Bailey
Prosecutor · 1 eps
Richard Boone
Everett Brayer · 1 eps
Beverly Garland
Sarah Garvey · 1 eps
Lisa Gaye
· 1 eps
Claude Akins
· 1 eps
Ray Teal
Kennicut · 1 eps
Gloria Talbott
· 1 eps
James Griffith
· 1 eps
Mike Connors
· 1 eps
Coleen Gray
· 1 eps
Sean McClory
· 1 eps
Willis Bouchey
Vance Landry · 1 eps
Hayden Rorke
· 1 eps
Tommy Kirk
· 1 eps
Stafford Repp
Juryman · 1 eps
Alan Hale Jr.
Kane · 1 eps
Kenneth Tobey
· 1 eps
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Episode Guide
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
