Gunslinger

📊 Series Specifications

Network CBS
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 12
Original Language EN
Creator Charles Marquis Warren

Gunslinger (1961)

Created by Charles Marquis Warren
⭐ 3.1 / 5 (3 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 12 Episodes 🏷️ Western, Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Gunslinger was a Western television series starring Tony Young that aired on the CBS television network from February 9 until May 18, 1961 on Thursdays from 9 to 10 p.m. EST. The series theme song was sung by Frankie Laine. Young played Cord, a young gunfighter who works undercover for the local army garrison commander, acting as a secret law enforcement agent in the territory. The series lasted for only twelve episodes. Gunslinger was the successor to Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 The Border Incident

Cord, working undercover for the army, hunts down a former officer charged with starving and torturing prisoners of war.

E2 The Hostage Fort
E3 Appointment In Cascabel

Fort Scott offers a reward for Mexican bandit Manuel Garcia, who kidnaps Amby and asks for ransom equal to what Fort Scott is offering.

E4 The Zone

The shifting Rio Grande around an island leaves ambiguity as to what nation — the US or Mexico — has authority. The lawless take advantage and stay.

E5 Rampage
E6 The Recruit

Missing Confederate silver puts Cord on the trail.

E7 Road of the Dead

The Army sends Cord and McGuire to investigate a case of mass death-by-drowning.

E8 Golden Circle

Cord is assigned to accompany Jed Spangler, who has just been released from Yuma prison. The authorities hope Jed will try to recover the loot he stole during the Civil War. Cord wants payback for a friend Jed killed.

E9 The Diehards

A patrol led by Murdock is ambushed and several are slain under murky circumstances. Cord decides to investigate.

E10 Johnny Sergeant
E11 The Death of Yellow Singer

After killing a Native American leader, a young Navajo woman refuses to defend herself.

E12 New Savannah

After the war, a group of Southern women attempt to establish a cotton plantation in the Arizona Territory.