Shotgun Slade

📊 Series Specifications

Network Network Broadcast
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 2
Total Episodes 17
Original Language EN
Creator Frank Gruber

Shotgun Slade (1959)

Created by Frank Gruber
⭐ 3.1 / 5 (5 votes) 🎬 2 Seasons 📼 17 Episodes 🏷️ Western 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Shotgun Slade is an American western television series starring Scott Brady that aired seventy-eight episodes in syndication from October 24, 1959, until 1961. Created by Frank Gruber, the stories were written by John Berardino, Charissa Hughes, and Martin Berkeley. The series was filmed in Hollywood by Revue Studios. The pilot for Shotgun Slade aired earlier in 1959 on CBS's Schlitz Playhouse.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 The Missing Train

Slade is hired to locate a train car with $1 million in coins that disappeared into thin air.

E2 The Salted Mine

Alice Batson hires Slade, a private detective, to determine whether she has been swindled in her purchase of a worthless mine. (Pilot for the series. This production appeared on Schlitz Playhouse of Stars)

E3 Too Smart to Live
E4 Barbed Wire, Keep Out
E5 Mesa of Missing Men
E7 Freight Line

A freight-liner needs to renew its contract in order to stay in business. Several accidents have put the renewal in jeopardy. Slade is called in to put a stop to the "accidents."

E11 Treasure Trap
E28 A Flower for Jenny

Slade serves as bodyguard to primadonna performer Jenny DuPree, who is receiving death threats and a dwindling number of roses from an assassin who bills himself as her "ultimate admirer."

E30 Crossed Guns

A hook-handed gunslinger nursing a grudge lures Slade to Grover's Bend for a showdown with his fast-drawing young protégé, Billy.

E31 Sudden Death
E32 The Spanish Box
E33 Backtrack
E34 Ring of Death

An unscrupulous young woman devises a cruel plan to cash in on her fiance's recent cattle sale. Scott Brady, Bethel Leslie, H.M. Wynant, Richard Crane.

E36 A Flower on Boot Hill

Two escaped convicts, a grieving woman, and a widowed doctor who faithfully lays flowers on his wife's grave are among the seemingly incongruous elements factoring into Slade's investigation of a baffling bank robbery.

E37 The Charcoal Bullet

An alcoholic drifter is the only witness to a bank robbery. Scott Brady. Eli: Ned Glass. Peggy: Jacqueline Holt.

E38 Lost Gold
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