Frontier
series not in production
Ended
Western
Seasons | 1
Episodes | 30
avg.Runtime | 30 min
First EP | 1955-09-25
Last EP | 1956-09-09
Overview
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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.
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California National Productions
NBC
Season List
season 1 || Season 1
Relesed on | 1955-09-25
1
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.
2
Tomas And The Widow
1955-10-02
3
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.
4
The Shame Of A Nation
1955-10-23
5
The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska
1955-10-30
6
The Suspects
1955-11-06
7
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.
8
Cattle Drive to Casper
1955-11-27
A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive
9
Romance of Poker Alice
1955-12-11
10
Ferdinand Meyer's Army
1955-12-18
11
The Long Road To Tucson
1955-12-25
12
The Texicans
1956-01-08
13
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.
14
The Ten Days Of John Leslie
1956-01-22
15
The Devil And Doctor O'Hara
1956-02-05
16
The Captivity Of Joe Long
1956-02-12
17
The Voyage Of Captain Castle
1956-02-19
18
Assassin
1956-03-04
19
The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek
1956-03-11
20
The Big Dry
1956-03-18
21
The Ballad Of Pretty Polly
1956-04-01
22
The Well
1956-04-08
23
Salt War
1956-04-22
24
Patrol
1956-04-29
25
A Somewhere Voice
1956-05-06
26
The Hunted
1956-05-13
27
Georgia Gold
1956-06-10
28
Out From Texas
1956-06-24
29
The Return Of Jubal Dolan
1956-08-26
30
The Hostage
1956-09-09
CAST
charactor: Narrator (voice)
Original: Walter Coy
Total EP: 30
charactor: Clay Allison
Original: Scott Forbes
Total EP: 4
charactor: Pauk
Original: Leo Gordon
Total EP: 3
charactor: Ness Fowler
Original: Jack Elam
Total EP: 2
charactor:
Original: James Best
Total EP: 2
charactor:
Original: Denver Pyle
Total EP: 2
charactor: Marshal
Original: Dabbs Greer
Total EP: 2
charactor:
Original: Addison Richards
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: John Bromfield
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Kenneth Tobey
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Frank Puglia
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Gloria Talbott
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: James Griffith
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Don Diamond
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Rodd Redwing
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Coleen Gray
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Lisa Gaye
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Trevor Bardette
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Herbert Heyes
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Tommy Kirk
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Joan Vohs
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Lee Erickson
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: J.M. Kerrigan
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Jeff Morrow
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Mike Connors
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Richard Crenna
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Dennis Moore
Total EP: 1
charactor: Kennicut
Original: Ray Teal
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Edward McNally
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Dorothy Adams
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Hayden Rorke
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Claude Akins
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Sean McClory
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Kasey Rogers
Total EP: 1
charactor: Sarah Garvey
Original: Beverly Garland
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Paul Richards
Total EP: 1
charactor: Indian
Original: Charles Stevens
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Helen Kleeb
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Tom Tryon
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Anna Navarro
Total EP: 1
CREW
“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” – Walt Disney