Frontier

7.530m19551 season

Western

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.

Cast

Walter Coy

Narrator (voice)

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Episodes

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Paper Gunman

1955-09-25

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.

Tomas And The Widow

1955-10-02

A Stillness In Wyoming

1955-10-16

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.

The Shame Of A Nation

1955-10-23

The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska

1955-10-30

The Suspects

1955-11-06

King of the Dakotas

1955-11-13

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.

Cattle Drive to Casper

1955-11-27

A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive

Romance of Poker Alice

1955-12-11

Ferdinand Meyer's Army

1955-12-18

The Long Road To Tucson

1955-12-25

The Texicans

1956-01-08

Mother Of The Brave

1956-01-15

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.

The Ten Days Of John Leslie

1956-01-22

The Devil And Doctor O'Hara

1956-02-05

The Captivity Of Joe Long

1956-02-12

The Voyage Of Captain Castle

1956-02-19

Assassin

1956-03-04

The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek

1956-03-11