Trackdown

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.

WesternAction & Adventure

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

CBS