Gunslinger (TV series)

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.

This article is about the 1961 TV series. For other uses, see Gunslinger (disambiguation).

Gunslinger
Starring	Tony Young
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	CBS
Picture format	Black and white (1961)
Original release	February 9 – June 3, 1961

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
• Preston Foster as Captain Zachary Wingate
• Charles Gray as Pico McGuire
• Dee Pollock as Billy Urchin
• Midge Ware as Amby Hollister
• John M. Pickard as Sgt. Major Murdock

Guest stars

Roy Barcroft Henry Brandon Anthony Caruso Phyllis Coates Lloyd Corrigan Royal Dano Jim Davis Buddy Ebsen Jack Elam Gene Evans Jock Gaynor Ron Hagerthy Don C. Harvey Myron Healey Anne Helm John Hoyt

George Kennedy Sandy Kenyon Celia Lovsky Barbara Luna Jock Mahoney Stafford Repp Addison Richards William Schallert Jay Silverheels Quintin Sondergaard Fay Spain Harry Dean Stanton William Tannen Vaughn Taylor Rick Vallin

Episode #	Episode title	Original airdate	Episode Summary
1-1	"The Border Incident"	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.

External links

• Gunslinger on IMDb

References

• 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