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Trackdown
Overview
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.
Top Cast
Robert Culp
Seasons
Season 1 (1957)
No overview available.
32 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Marple Brothers
1957-10-04Episode 2: Law in Lampasas
1957-10-11Episode 3: San Saba Incident
1957-10-18Episode 4: Easton, Texas
1957-10-25Episode 5: Like Father
1957-11-01Episode 6: Sweetwater, Texas
1957-11-08Episode 7: Alpine, Texas
1957-11-15Episode 8: Self-Defense
1957-11-22Episode 9: End of an Outlaw
1957-11-29Episode 10: Look for the Woman
1957-12-06Episode 11: The Town
1957-12-13Episode 12: Man and Money
1957-12-27Episode 13: The Reward
1958-01-03Episode 14: The Farrand Story
1958-01-10Episode 15: Right of Way
1958-01-17Episode 16: The Witness
1958-01-24Episode 17: The Toll Road
1958-01-31Episode 18: The Young Gun
1958-02-07Hoby 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.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 19: The Wedding
1958-02-14Episode 20: The Trail
1958-02-28Episode 21: The Bounty Hunter
1958-03-07Nick Adams and Michael Landon as bad-guy brothers
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 22: The Judge
1958-03-14Hoby 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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 23: The House
1958-03-21Episode 24: The Boy
1958-03-28Episode 25: The Pueblo Kid
1958-04-04Episode 26: The Winter Boys
1958-04-11Episode 27: The Mistake
1958-04-18Episode 28: The Deal
1958-04-25Hoby has to deal with a notorious outlaw/killer who is holding a runaway town boy for ransom.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 29: The Jailbreak
1958-05-02Hoby 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!
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 30: The End of the World
1958-05-09Episode 31: The Brothers
1958-05-16Twins (both played by Steve McQueen) change identities to confuse Hoby.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 32: The Governor
1958-05-23
Season 2 (1958)
No overview available.
39 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Killer Take All
1958-09-05Episode 2: Outlaw's Wife
1958-09-12The town's women want Hoby to make an outlaw's wife (who just returned to Porter) leave town.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 3: Chinese Cowboy
1958-09-19Episode 4: The Set-Up
1958-09-26Henrietta's new gentleman friend is only using her to setup an alibi for a bank robbery.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 5: A Stone for Benny French
1958-10-03Hoby tracks down Benny French who was the only member of the Morgan Larker gang who escaped from the bank robbery.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 6: Trapped
1958-10-10Hoby is held prisoner in a shack during a blizzard by the wife of husband and wife outlaws to care for her sick husband.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 7: Matter of Justice
1958-10-17Episode 8: Tenner Smith
1958-10-24Episode 9: The Avenger
1958-10-31Episode 10: The Schoolteacher
1958-11-07Episode 11: Deadly Decoy
1958-11-14Episode 12: Sunday's Child
1958-11-21Gambler 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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 13: Day of Vengeance
1958-11-28A young man seeks the person who killed his brother. The truth is not what he expected.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 14: Three-Legged Fox
1958-12-05Episode 15: The Kid
1958-12-12Episode 16: Guilt
1958-12-19Episode 17: Every Man a Witness
1958-12-26Episode 18: McCallin's Daughter
1959-01-02Youngster Debby McCallin comes to town and asks Hoby to stop her father Bart McCallin from committing a robbery.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 19: Bad Judgment
1959-01-28Episode 20: Terror
1959-02-04Episode 21: The Feud
1959-02-11Elderly 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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 22: The Samaritan
1959-02-18Hoby finds a man on the trail with his leg caught in a bear trap and releases him. The man then knocks Hoby out, steals his horse and gun and leaves him caught in the bear trap.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 23: The Gang
1959-02-25Episode 24: The Threat
1959-03-04A 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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 25: Hard Lines
1959-03-11Joker 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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 26: Fear
1959-03-18Episode 27: Stranger in Town
1959-03-25Henrietta 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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 28: The Protector
1959-04-01Episode 29: False Witness
1959-04-08A 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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 30: The Trick
1959-04-15Tully 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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 31: The Eyes of Jerry Kelso
1959-04-22When traveling salesman Emanuel Brock is found shot to death in his hotel room, Hoby has to figure out who did it.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 32: The Gift Horse
1959-04-29Two old men (Zack and Levi) tell Ralph that they are his long lost uncles but Hoby thinks something about the two men rang sour.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 33: The Vote
1959-05-06A man and a woman came to Porter bringing with them the idea of "Give Women the Vote".
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 34: The Unwanted
1959-05-13Episode 35: Toss-Up
1959-05-20Episode 36: Inquest
1959-09-02Hoby 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.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 37: Back to Crawford
1959-09-09Hoby 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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 38: Blind Alley
1959-09-16Rufus 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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 39: Quiet Night in Porter
1959-09-23Chad 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.
Runtime: 30 min
