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Season 1

  • S01E01 An Echo of Bugles

    • September 18, 1965
    • CBS

    A swaggering gunfighter targets an aging Confederate veteran, and Colton steps in to deal with the bully.

  • S01E02 The Vespers

    • September 25, 1965
    • CBS

    Sworn to avenge his brother's death, a hoodlum comes gunning for a small town's local minister. When Colton arrives to warn his old friend and ex-soldier, he finds the man unwilling to resort to violence to protect himself and his pregnant wife.

  • S01E03 The Lonely Galico Queen

    • October 2, 1965
    • CBS

    A dance hall girl mistakes Colton for her mail-order bridegroom.

  • S01E04 The Kingdom of McComb

    • October 9, 1965
    • CBS

    Unable to perform the deed themselves, a group of religious colonists attempt to recruit Colton to kill a powerful landowner trying to evict them.

  • S01E05 One of the Wounded

    • October 16, 1965
    • CBS

    Colton tries to help a Union army veteran left mute and immobile by the psychological horrors of war.

  • S01E06 The Flight of the Artic Tern

    • October 23, 1965
    • CBS

    Colton becomes involved in a romantic triangle when he saves a friend's bride-to-be from a runaway horse.

  • S01E07 Widow on the Evening Stage

    • October 30, 1965
    • CBS

    Following the murder of a man during an Indian attack, Colton witnesses a town's prejudice towards the man's Indian widow.

  • S01E08 The House Rules at Mrs. Wayne's

    • November 6, 1965
    • CBS

    While trying to defend his wife's honor, a friend of Colton is killed... and Colton is torn between seeking justice and keeping his word to turn the other cheek.

  • S01E09 The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing

    • November 13, 1965
    • CBS

    Colton has second thoughts after accepting the position of deputy to the dubious sheriff of a sleepy Montana town.

  • S01E10 The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove

    • November 20, 1965
    • CBS

    Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by bigots.

  • S01E11 Westward, the Shoemaker

    • November 27, 1965
    • CBS

    When a well-intentioned immigrant is stripped of his nest egg in a rigged card game, Colton takes on the con artist.

  • S01E12 The Oath

    • December 4, 1965
    • CBS

    When a doctor proves to be as full of whiskey as he is of self-pity, Colton must perform an emergency appendectomy on a young gunfighter.

  • S01E13 Hunt the Man Down

    • December 11, 1965
    • CBS

    Colton is drafted to help a posse hunt down a seemingly harmless recluse.

  • S01E14 Escort for a Dead Man

    • December 18, 1965
    • CBS

    A man who deserted from the Army wants Colton to escort him back to his fort.

  • S01E15 The Ordeal of Bud Windom

    • December 25, 1965
    • CBS

    A murder suspect's son makes life difficult for Colton when the boy tries to clear his father's name.

  • S01E16 To the West of Eden

    • January 1, 1966
    • CBS

    While traveling across the desert to deliver horses to their new owner, Colton reluctantly agrees to escort a young woman across the arid land.

  • S01E17 Mantrap

    • January 8, 1966
    • CBS

    Colton becomes the target of an assassin when he is the sole witness to a robbery and murder.

  • S01E18 A Little Stroll to the End of the Line

    • January 15, 1966
    • CBS

    Colton neither likes nor respects the man he has been deputized to protect: a rabble-rousing preacher who fears death from an ex-convict.

  • S01E19 The Trial in Paradise

    • January 22, 1966
    • CBS

    Colton provides the defense in a kangaroo court trial of a former Union Army officer.

  • S01E20 A Question of Guilt

    • January 29, 1966
    • CBS

    In the darkness Colton kills an intruder, and discovers the man is an Army Lieutenant.

  • S01E21 The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (1)

    • February 5, 1966
    • CBS

    While a young gunman lies dying in a cave, a ruthless man waits outside hoping to get his hands on the boy's loot. (Part 1 of 2)

  • S01E22 The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (2)

    • February 12, 1966
    • CBS

    Following the late Johnny Sharp's instructions, Colton arranges for the four people closest to the gunman to meet at the undertaker's parlor. (Part 2 of 2)

  • S01E23 Incident in the Middle Of Nowhere

    • February 19, 1966
    • CBS

    Colton encounters a little girl riding his horse — which was stolen from Colton during the stagecoach robbery in which he was shot and left for dead.

  • S01E24 Pick Me Another Time to Die

    • February 26, 1966
    • CBS

    Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.

  • S01E25 The Burden of the Badge

    • March 5, 1966
    • CBS

    A group of reformed criminals deputize Colton to defend and protect them.

  • S01E26 To Hang a Dead Man

    • March 12, 1966
    • CBS

    Colton joins a sheriff in search of a town's destroyers.