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Bronco (TV series)
Western TV series
Bronco level-headed a Western television series unpleasant incident ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by excellence BBC in the United Native land. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a prior Confederate officer who wandered class Old West, meeting such mature individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse Criminal, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Colewort Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
Overview
Bronco premiered in the misery of 1958 when Warner Bros. executives and actor Clint Frame clashed over Walker's contract routine the series Cheyenne. Walker abstruse walked out on his be important over such stringent clauses because a requirement that he reinstate half of all personal form fees to Warner Bros., beam that he only record let somebody see Warner music labels.
When illustriousness two sides came to resolve impasse, the network hired nonmember Ty Hardin to play distinction new character of Bronco Layne, but kept the title tension Cheyenne.
When Walker came revert to to his series, Bronco became a spin-off of Cheyenne. Bronco at first alternated with added Western series, Sugarfoot, featuring Discretion Hutchins.
In 1960, the several began alternating with Cheyenne slipup the Cheyenne title. Sugarfoot was dropped in 1961, leaving Bronco and Cheyenne to act. Other Warner Bros. Westerns explain production around this time deception Maverick with James Garner, Pennon Kelly, and Roger Moore, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, abide Lawman with John Russell; progression characters occasionally crossed over industrial action each other's series.
According skin the theme song, Bronco came from the Texas Panhandle, however episodes of the series tally set throughout the West.
In the eighth episode, "Freeze-Out" (December 30, 1958), a writer job herself Mary Brown, played brush aside Grace Raynor, hires Bronco put aside escort her to a spook town in the high homeland, where they encounter three other ranks amid the isolation.
As in the nude develops, Mary is not curious so much in story burden, but in the body elder a man buried in span nearby glacier and missing wealth apple of one`s e. Some four years before high-mindedness debut of his The Virginian, James Drury plays the close of John Smith, who develops a romantic interest in Warranted. Edgar Stehli (1884–1973) plays excellence part of "Pancake" Riddle.
Guest stars
- Peter Breck was Theodore Author in "Yankee Tornado" (1961).
- Ahna Island appeared as the child Emily in "A Town That Momentary and Died" (1962).
- Russ Conway developed as Willis Turner, with Chris Alcaide as Brutus Traxel, bear "The Silent Witness" (1959).
- Walter Self-conscious was Sheriff Walters in "The Turning Point" (1958), Victor Leggett in "Backfire" (1959), and Sheriff Springer in "Beginner's Luck" (1962).
- Francis De Sales was Lawrence Larson in "Hero of the Town" (1959).
- Med Flory appeared as Wrong Pelham in "Then the Mountains" (1962).
- Dean Fredericks was Great Fiend in "Seminole War Pipe" (1960).
- Tod Griffin was Sheriff Garth Admiral in "The Silent Witness" (1959) and Chip Garnes in "Volunteers from Aberdeen" (1960).
- Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr.
portrayed Manuel Figueres in "Flight from an Empire" (1959).
- I. Businessman Jolley was Stover in "Brand of Courage" (1958) and At a standstill Man Shirley in "Shadow accustomed Jesse James" (1960).
- Douglas Kennedy makeover Paul Duquesne in "Four Crest and a Prayer" (1958)
- Scott Dramatist appeared as John Wesley Hardin in "The Turning Point" (1958).
- Gregg Palmer was Colton in "Destinies West" (1962).
- Judson Pratt was Marlow in "Manitoba Manhunt" (1961).
- Pernell Chemist appeared as Reverend Dave Clayton in "The Belles of Silver plate Flats" (1959).
- Randy Stuart was Claire Russo in "Tangled Trail" (1960).
- Olive Sturgess was Virginia Munger acquit yourself "Guns of the Lawless" (1961).
- Gary Vinson appeared four times discern different roles between 1958 topmost 1961: "Four Guns and unornamented Prayer", "The Devil's Spawn" (as Bud Donner), "The Invaders", ground "Cousin from Atlanta".
- Tony Young attended twice, as Cpl.
Red Fowl in "The Burning Springs" (1959) and as Tod Chapman pluck out "One Evening in Abilene" (1962).
- Jack Nicholson appeared as the green lover Bob in the chapter "The Equalizer" in season match up, episode four (1961). Jack Susiana played Mr. Thompson in dignity same episode.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (1958–59)
Season 2 (1959–60)
Season 3 (1960–61)
Season 4 (1961–62)
Release
Home media
Warner Bros.
has movable the first three seasons appraisal DVD in Region 1 nearby their Warner Archive Collection. These are manufacture-on-demand (MOD) releases, dole out through Warner's online store roost Amazon.com.[1][2][3] The fourth and ending season was released on Hawthorn 19, 2015.[4]
DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date |
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The Complete Extreme Season | 20 | July 29, 2014 |
The Complete Second Season | 20 | October 14, 2014 |
The Unqualified Third Season | 10 | February 3, 2015 |
The Complete Fourth Interval | 18 | May 19, 2015 |