Gunslinger (TV series)

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Gunslinger
Starring Tony Young
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes12
Production
Running time60 minutes
Original release
Network CBS
ReleaseFebruary 9 (1961-02-09) –
June 3, 1961 (1961-06-03)

Gunslinger is 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.

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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 .

Cast

Guest stars

Episode #Episode titleOriginal airdateEpisode Summary
1-1"The Buried People"February 9, 1961Cord goes undercover to hunt down a former medical officer charged with torturing and starving prisoners of war.
1-2"The Hostage Fort"February 16, 1961On assignment for the commandant of Fort Scott, prevents the populace of a neighboring community from lynching a man (Jack Elam) by turning him over to the Army.
1-3"Appointment in Cascabel"February 23, 1961Amby is kidnapped by a Mexican bandit who asks for a ransom that equals the price on his head.
1-4"The Zone"March 2, 1961A town caught in a border dispute between the United States and Mexico because of a shift in the flow of the Rio Grande becomes a zone for the lawless.
1-5"Rampage"March 16, 1961A former Confederate Army major escapes from military confinement at Fort Scott with U.S. Army uniforms, and uses them to outfit his own men.
1-6"The Recruit"March 23, 1961A lost shipment of Confederate Army silver bars spurs Cord on a hunt which ends in murder.
1-7"Road of the Dead"March 30, 1961Cord engages in a hunt for a killer he believes to be his own father.
1-8"Golden Circle"April 13, 1961A dangerous killer is released from prison in order to lead Cord to a large sum of currency stolen from the Union Army during the Civil War.
1-9"The Diehards"April 20, 1961An army patrol and several troopers are slain under mysterious circumstances.
1-10"Johnny Sergeant"May 4, 1961A community, irate over the rowdy off-duty activities of the military, helps convict an innocent Native American soldier of attacking a woman.
1-11"The Death of Yellow Singer"May 11, 1961A Navajo girl, turned over to the army for killing a Native American leader, would rather die than reveal the reasons for her act.
1-12"The New Savannah Story"May 18, 1961A group of Southern women, survivors of the Civil War, try to establish a cotton plantation in the Arizona territory.

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References

  1. ↑ "Tony Young". The Independent . April 9, 2002. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
  2. ↑ Lentz, Harris (May 4, 2006). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2005. McFarland. p. 299. ISBN   9780786424894 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Armstrong, Stephen (August 23, 2011). Andrew V. McLaglen: The Life and Hollywood Career. McFarland. p. 188. ISBN   9780786486700 – via Google Books.

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