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Frontier

Frontier

1955 • 7.5 • Western • 30m
US • English

Writers: Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin

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.

Cast

Episodes

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Paper Gunman

E1

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.

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Tomas And The Widow

E2
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A Stillness In Wyoming

E3

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.

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The Shame Of A Nation

E4
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The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska

E5
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The Suspects

E6
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King of the Dakotas

E7

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.

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Cattle Drive to Casper

E8

A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive

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Romance of Poker Alice

E9
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Ferdinand Meyer's Army

E10
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The Long Road To Tucson

E11
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The Texicans

E12
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Mother Of The Brave

E13

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.

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The Ten Days Of John Leslie

E14
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The Devil And Doctor O'Hara

E15
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The Captivity Of Joe Long

E16
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The Voyage Of Captain Castle

E17
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Assassin

E18
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The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek

E19
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The Big Dry

E20
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The Ballad Of Pretty Polly

E21
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The Well

E22
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Salt War

E23
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Patrol

E24
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A Somewhere Voice

E25
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The Hunted

E26
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Georgia Gold

E27
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Out From Texas

E28
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The Return Of Jubal Dolan

E29
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The Hostage

E30