The Loner

๐Ÿ“Š Series Specifications

Network CBS
Episode Runtime ~26 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 26
Original Language EN

The Loner (1965)

Created by Rod Serling
โญ 3.1 / 5 (4 votes) ๐ŸŽฌ 1 Seasons ๐Ÿ“ผ 26 Episodes ๐Ÿท๏ธ Western ๐Ÿ“ก Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

The Loner is an American western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, under the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 An Echo of Bugles

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

E2 The Vespers

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.

E3 The Lonely Galico Queen

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

E4 The Kingdom of McComb

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

E5 One of the Wounded

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

E6 The Flight of the Artic Tern

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

E7 Widow on the Evening Stage

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

E8 The House Rules at Mrs. Wayne's

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.

E9 The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing

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

E10 The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove

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

E11 Westward, the Shoemaker

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

E12 The Oath

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.

E13 Hunt the Man Down

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

E14 Escort for a Dead Man

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

E15 The Ordeal of Bud Windom

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

E16 To the West of Eden

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

E17 Mantrap

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

E18 A Little Stroll to the End of the Line

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

E19 The Trial in Paradise

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

E20 A Question of Guilt

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

E21 The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (1)

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)

E22 The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (2)

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)

E23 Incident in the Middle Of Nowhere

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

E24 Pick Me Another Time to Die

Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.

E25 The Burden of the Badge

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

E26 To Hang a Dead Man

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