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Bronco: Season 1

20 episodes Premiered Sep 23, 1958 Updated Jul 19, 2026
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Season 1 Episodes

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (16): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

The Besieged

Sep 23, 1958 · 60 min

Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.

S1·E2 Core

Quest of the Thirty Dead

Oct 7, 1958 · 60 min

Bronco investigates a planned train wreck that killed one of his best friends.

S1·E3 Core

The Turning Point

Oct 21, 1958 · 60 min

Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.

S1·E4 Core

Four Guns and a Prayer

Nov 4, 1958 · 60 min

Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.

S1·E5 Core

The Long Ride Back

Nov 18, 1958 · 60 min

Bronco Layne returns to his Texas hometown after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War, but faces the hostility of townspeople who believe he's a traitor and a murderer who

S1·E6 Core

Trail to Taos

Dec 2, 1958 · 60 min

Bronco tracks down a gang robbing stagecoaches and goes undercover to catch them in the act.

S1·E7 Core

Brand of Courage

Dec 16, 1958 · 60 min

Bronco lands in the middle of a range war when he tries to help nuns whose possession of a cattle ranch is opposed by other ranchers in the area.

S1·E8 Mytharc

Freeze-Out

Dec 30, 1958 · 60 min

Bronco is hired to guide a writer to a ghost town, but repeated attempts on both their lives reveals her true purpose: to find a man buried in a nearby glacier.

S1·E9 Core

The Baron of Broken Lance

Jan 13, 1959 · 60 min

Bronco leads a wagon train through the wilderness but the danger comes from within as an old war buddy provokes a local cattle baron when he brings along the man's runaway daughter

S1·E10 Core

Payroll of the Dead

Jan 27, 1959 · 60 min

Major Damayer hires Bronco to guide him into Indian territory to make a request of Sitting Bull.

S1·E11 Core

Riding Solo

Feb 10, 1959 · 60 min

Bronco is suspected of being a killer when he arrives in a town just after a stagecoach robbery committed by an old friend.

S1·E12 Core

Borrowed Glory

Feb 24, 1959 · 60 min

Bronco gets involved in blackmail and murder when a killer tagets a friend whose Congressional Medal of Honor may have been wrongly won.

S1·E13 Core

The Silent Witness

Mar 10, 1959 · 60 min

Bronco is framed for murder when the ruthless Traxel brothers and gangleader Willis Turner sets him up for the murder of his best friend. Only the testimony of a mute child can res

S1·E14 Core

The Belles of Silver Flat

Mar 24, 1959 · 60 min

Bronco is saved from a hired gun by the quick draw of the Reverend Dave Clayton, arousing suspicions that the preacher is really a gunman.

S1·E15 Core

Backfire

Apr 7, 1959 · 60 min

Sheriff McKeever is killed when his scheme to restore his gunslinging youth fails, leaving deputy Bronco to discover who was behind the backfire.

S1·E16 Core

School for Cowards

Apr 21, 1959 · 60 min

Bronco is hired to teach at a military academy but ends up searching for a would-be killer after a cadet's realization that he's half-Sioux prompts an attempt on his life.

S1·E17 Core

Prairie Skipper

May 5, 1959 · 60 min

Bronco's hired as trail-boss for a cattle drive and runs into trouble with a flirtatious woman who seems to have multiple husbands.

S1·E18 Core

Shadow of a Man

May 19, 1959 · 60 min

Furious at being pulled into a payroll robbery and murder, Bronco goes looking for the loot and the culprit as a posse chases him.

S1·E19 Mytharc

Hero of the Town

Jun 2, 1959 · 60 min

Bronco tries to solve the murder of the town's most popular man, found dead with Bronco's gun in his hand shortly after a bank robbery.

S1·E20 Mytharc

Red Water North

Sep 19, 1959 · 60 min

Bronco agrees to deliver a riverboat for his friend Martha Chandler despite a ruthless businessman intent on stopping the cargo from reaching its destination and a blonde passenger

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