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.
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
- Tony Young as Cord[1]
- Preston Foster as Captain Zachary Wingate
- Charles Gray as Pico McGuire
- Dee Pollock as Billy Urchin[2][3]
- Midge Ware as Amby Hollister
- John M. Pickard as Sgt. Major Murdock
Guest stars
| Episode # | Episode title | Original airdate | Episode Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-1 | "The Buried People" | February 9, 1961 | Cord goes undercover to hunt down a former medical officer charged with torturing and starving prisoners of war. |
| 1-2 | "The Hostage Fort" | February 16, 1961 | On 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, 1961 | Amby is kidnapped by a Mexican bandit who asks for a ransom that equals the price on his head. |
| 1-4 | "The Zone" | March 2, 1961 | A 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, 1961 | A 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, 1961 | A lost shipment of Confederate Army silver bars spurs Cord on a hunt which ends in murder. |
| 1-7 | "Road of the Dead" | March 30, 1961 | Cord engages in a hunt for a killer he believes to be his own father. |
| 1-8 | "Golden Circle" | April 13, 1961 | A 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, 1961 | An army patrol and several troopers are slain under mysterious circumstances. |
| 1-10 | "Johnny Sergeant" | May 4, 1961 | A 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, 1961 | A 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, 1961 | A group of Southern women, survivors of the Civil War, try to establish a cotton plantation in the Arizona territory. |
References
- ^ "Tony Young". The Independent. April 9, 2002. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
- ^ Lentz, Harris (May 4, 2006). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2005. McFarland. p. 299. ISBN 9780786424894 – via Google Books.
- ^ Armstrong, Stephen (August 23, 2011). Andrew V. McLaglen: The Life and Hollywood Career. McFarland. p. 188. ISBN 9780786486700 – via Google Books.
Bibliography
- McNeil, Alex. Total Television (1996). New York: Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows (1999). New York: Ballantine Books ISBN 0-345-42923-0
External links
- Gunslinger at IMDb
