Frontier
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.
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Season 1
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Paper Gunman
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
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A Stillness In Wyoming
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.
Oct 16, 1955 -
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The Shame Of A Nation
Oct 23, 1955 -
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The Founding Of Omaha, Nebraska
Oct 30, 1955 -
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The Suspects
Nov 6, 1955 -
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King of the Dakotas
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.
Nov 13, 1955 · 30m -
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Cattle Drive to Casper
A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive
Nov 27, 1955 -
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Romance of Poker Alice
Dec 11, 1955 -
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Ferdinand Meyer's Army
Dec 18, 1955 -
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The Long Road To Tucson
Dec 25, 1955 -
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The Texicans
Jan 8, 1956 -
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Mother Of The Brave
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.
Jan 15, 1956 -
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The Ten Days Of John Leslie
Jan 22, 1956 -
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The Devil And Doctor O'Hara
Feb 5, 1956 -
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The Captivity Of Joe Long
Feb 12, 1956 -
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The Voyage Of Captain Castle
Feb 19, 1956 -
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Assassin
Mar 4, 1956 -
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The Hanging At Thunder Butte Creek
Mar 11, 1956 -
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The Big Dry
Mar 18, 1956 · 30m -
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The Ballad Of Pretty Polly
Apr 1, 1956 -
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The Well
Apr 8, 1956 -
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Salt War
Apr 22, 1956 -
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Patrol
Apr 29, 1956 -
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A Somewhere Voice
May 6, 1956 -
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The Hunted
May 13, 1956 -
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Georgia Gold
Jun 10, 1956 -
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Out From Texas
Jun 24, 1956 -
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The Return Of Jubal Dolan
Aug 26, 1956 -
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The Hostage
Sep 9, 1956