Frontier (1955)
Synopsis
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.
Network
NBC
Episodes
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.
Tomas And The Widow
No description available.
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.
The Shame Of A Nation
No description available.
The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska
No description available.
The Suspects
No description available.
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.
Cattle Drive to Casper
A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive
Romance of Poker Alice
No description available.
Ferdinand Meyer's Army
No description available.
The Long Road To Tucson
No description available.
The Texicans
No description available.
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.
The Ten Days Of John Leslie
No description available.
The Devil And Doctor O'Hara
No description available.
The Captivity Of Joe Long
No description available.
The Voyage Of Captain Castle
No description available.
Assassin
No description available.
The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek
No description available.
The Big Dry
No description available.
The Ballad Of Pretty Polly
No description available.
The Well
No description available.
Salt War
No description available.
Patrol
No description available.
A Somewhere Voice
No description available.
The Hunted
No description available.
Georgia Gold
No description available.
Out From Texas
No description available.
The Return Of Jubal Dolan
No description available.
The Hostage
No description available.
Cast
Details
Original Title
Frontier
Status
Ended
Seasons
1
Episodes
30
Production
California National Productions, NBC
