
Trackdown
Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
Seasons
1. The Marple Brothers
Air Date: 1957-10-04
2. Law in Lampasas
Air Date: 1957-10-11
3. San Saba Incident
Air Date: 1957-10-18
4. Easton, Texas
Air Date: 1957-10-25
5. Like Father
Air Date: 1957-11-01
6. Sweetwater, Texas
Air Date: 1957-11-08
7. Alpine, Texas
Air Date: 1957-11-15
8. Self-Defense
Air Date: 1957-11-22
9. End of an Outlaw
Air Date: 1957-11-29
10. Look for the Woman
Air Date: 1957-12-06
11. The Town
Air Date: 1957-12-13
12. Man and Money
Air Date: 1957-12-27
13. The Reward
Air Date: 1958-01-03
14. The Farrand Story
Air Date: 1958-01-10
15. Right of Way
Air Date: 1958-01-17
16. The Witness
Air Date: 1958-01-24
17. The Toll Road
Air Date: 1958-01-31
18. The Young Gun
Air Date: 1958-02-07
Hoby is dispatched to Del Rio to investigate a bank robbery. He poses as a criminal to trick one of the bank robbers to lead him to the the rest of the gang and the money.
19. The Wedding
Air Date: 1958-02-14
20. The Trail
Air Date: 1958-02-28
21. The Bounty Hunter
Air Date: 1958-03-07
Nick Adams and Michael Landon as bad-guy brothers
22. The Judge
Air Date: 1958-03-14
Hoby is forced to arrest the wild son of a local judge for murder, the kid telling him all the while he'll never stand trial.
23. The House
Air Date: 1958-03-21
24. The Boy
Air Date: 1958-03-28
25. The Pueblo Kid
Air Date: 1958-04-04
26. The Winter Boys
Air Date: 1958-04-11
27. The Mistake
Air Date: 1958-04-18
28. The Deal
Air Date: 1958-04-25
Hoby has to deal with a notorious outlaw/killer who is holding a runaway town boy for ransom.
29. The Jailbreak
Air Date: 1958-05-02
Hoby has to deal with a jailbreak-- except the cowboy doesn't leave-- he takes three hostages and tries to work a trade-- them for the Ranger!
30. The End of the World
Air Date: 1958-05-09
31. The Brothers
Air Date: 1958-05-16
Twins (both played by Steve McQueen) change identities to confuse Hoby.
32. The Governor
Air Date: 1958-05-23
1. Killer Take All
Air Date: 1958-09-05
2. Outlaw's Wife
Air Date: 1958-09-12
The town's women want Hoby to make an outlaw's wife (who just returned to Porter) leave town.
3. Chinese Cowboy
Air Date: 1958-09-19
4. The Set-Up
Air Date: 1958-09-26
Henrietta's new gentleman friend is only using her to setup an alibi for a bank robbery.
5. A Stone for Benny French
Air Date: 1958-10-03
Hoby tracks down Benny French who was the only member of the Morgan Larker gang who escaped from the bank robbery.
6. Trapped
Air Date: 1958-10-10
Hoby is held prisoner in a shack during a blizzard by the wife of husband and wife outlaws to care for her sick husband.
7. Matter of Justice
Air Date: 1958-10-17
8. Tenner Smith
Air Date: 1958-10-24
9. The Avenger
Air Date: 1958-10-31
10. The Schoolteacher
Air Date: 1958-11-07
11. Deadly Decoy
Air Date: 1958-11-14
12. Sunday's Child
Air Date: 1958-11-21
Gambler Joe Sunday comes to Porter with a court order to take possession of his baby daughter from her mother Cindy who plays the piano in the saloon. Hoby has to enforce the order over the objections of Henrietta and the whole town.
13. Day of Vengeance
Air Date: 1958-11-28
A young man seeks the person who killed his brother. The truth is not what he expected.
14. Three-Legged Fox
Air Date: 1958-12-05
15. The Kid
Air Date: 1958-12-12
16. Guilt
Air Date: 1958-12-19
17. Every Man a Witness
Air Date: 1958-12-26
18. McCallin's Daughter
Air Date: 1959-01-02
Youngster Debby McCallin comes to town and asks Hoby to stop her father Bart McCallin from committing a robbery.
19. Bad Judgment
Air Date: 1959-01-28
20. Terror
Air Date: 1959-02-04
21. The Feud
Air Date: 1959-02-11
Elderly and dying Maude Turley has her boys bring her back to Porter to die and be buried next to her husband after being run out of town 17 years ago by the Corbett's. Hoby tries to keep the two families from killing each other.
22. The Samaritan
Air Date: 1959-02-18
23. The Gang
Air Date: 1959-02-25
24. The Threat
Air Date: 1959-03-04
A smiling stranger wearing a 3-piece suit and bowler hat barges into the bank manager's office carrying a package under his arm and threatens to blow the town of Porter off the face of the Earth in one hour unless he is given $10,000.
25. Hard Lines
Air Date: 1959-03-11
Joker Wells, who was a traitor with the Confederate Army, returns to his home town of Porter. Everybody wants Hoby to run him out of town, especially Ed Crow, who blames Joker for the loss of his arm in the war.
26. Fear
Air Date: 1959-03-18
27. Stranger in Town
Air Date: 1959-03-25
Henrietta Porter receives a letter from Harry Keller who was just released from prison warning the town of Porter to stay away from Hoby because Harry is coming to kill Hoby in revenge for killing his brother. Making things worse, Hoby doesn't even know what Keller looks like.
28. The Protector
Air Date: 1959-04-01
29. False Witness
Air Date: 1959-04-08
A strange girl arrives in Porter and tells Hoby that she knows that Joe Corbett is innocent of murder even though he was convicted and sentenced to hang because she was a witness and saw somebody else do it.
30. The Trick
Air Date: 1959-04-15
Tully Saxon knocks on the door to Tenner Smith's office in the saloon. When Tenner opens the door, he is surprised to see someone he had not seen in 8 years. Tully tells Tenner he will kill him before he leaves town.
31. The Eyes of Jerry Kelso
Air Date: 1959-04-22
When traveling salesman Emanuel Brock is found shot to death in his hotel room, Hoby has to figure out who did it.
32. The Gift Horse
Air Date: 1959-04-29
Two old men (Zack and Levi) tell Ralph that they are his long lost uncles but Hoby thinks something about the two men rang sour.
33. The Vote
Air Date: 1959-05-06
A man and a woman came to Porter bringing with them the idea of "Give Women the Vote".
34. The Unwanted
Air Date: 1959-05-13
35. Toss-Up
Air Date: 1959-05-20
36. Inquest
Air Date: 1959-09-02
Hoby is helping Sheriff Lee look into a murder. But the widow, the doctor and even the sheriff have motives with none helpful in finding the killer.
37. Back to Crawford
Air Date: 1959-09-09
Hoby returns home to Crawford to help his sister Nora after she sends him a telegram that somebody has been threatening her and because he gets a telegram from town drunk Fred Sales to come home quick because his sister is going to die.
38. Blind Alley
Air Date: 1959-09-16
Rufus Cole shoots Mike Hardesty off his horse on the trail. Hoby who had been trailing Rufus for six weeks comes along to save Mike but he has lost his sight.
39. Quiet Night in Porter
Air Date: 1959-09-23
Chad Winter, the owner of the general store, finds an old woman in his store after closing then two men walk in and shoot him. Hoby has to find out who killed him.
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Rating
6.4/10
Release Date
1957-10-04
Episodes
71 (2 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Four Stars Productions

CBS