Episode 1
Game at the Beacon Club
1h
Bronco unwittingly introduces a demure con artist to a rich man.
Episode credits
Directed by Arthur LubinGuest stars Pat Crowley, Connie Hines, Harry Strang, Barry Kelley
TV series
Bronco
1958TV-PG4 seasons6.0 / 10
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
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Checked Sep 2, 2026
Bronco premiered September 23, 1958. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
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Episode 2
The Burning Spring
1h
Bronco relives a wartime experience while testifying in the trial of his would-be killer.
Episode credits
Directed by Lee SholemGuest stars Rhodes Reason, John Qualen, Berry Kroeger, Raymond Bailey, Adam West
Episode 3
Bodyguard
1h
Bronco is hired as a bodyguard, but when he fails to keep the man alive, he's faced with a host of people confessing to the killing.
Episode credits
Directed by Lee SholemGuest stars Catherine McLeod, Alan Baxter, Yvonne Craig
Episode 4
The Soft Answer
1h
Bronco intervenes when a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen threatens to become a slaughter due to the Quaker sheepman's refusal to use guns.
Episode credits
Guest stars Ray Stricklyn, Joseph Ruskin, Mike Road, Robert Colbert, Leo Gordon
Episode 5
The Last Resort
1h
Bronco goes in search of the only man who can clear him of a murder charge, but must disguise himself when his quarry goes to ground in a lawless town known as a haven for criminals.
Episode credits
Directed by Lee SholemWritten by Jack LairdGuest stars Marshall Thompson, Kent Taylor, Vito Scotti, Arthur Space
Episode 6
The Devil's Spawn
1h
Bushwhacked by an escaped convict, Bronco is saved by a local rancher and becomes involved in his feud with a neighboring family.
Episode credits
Directed by Lee SholemGuest stars Troy Donahue, Gary Vinson, Ray Teal, George Mitchell
Episode 7
Flight from an Empire
1h
Bronco hires refugees from the fallen Maximillian empire, but has to contend with bandits who are convinced the mother and son know what happened to $5 million in missing gold.
Episode credits
Guest stars Kaaren Verne, Mary Tyler Moore, Albert Carrier, Barry Kelley, Don 'Red' Barry
Episode 8
Night Train to Denver
1h
Bronco accompanies a corpse to Denver and is accused when $100,000 is stolen from the railcar.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie GoodwinsGuest stars Brad Dexter, Myron Healey, Robert Colbert
Episode 9
Shadow of Jesse James
1h
Bronco tries to break up the James gang by pressuring outlaw Cole Younger to give up Jesse, an indiscriminate killer.
Episode credits
Directed by Leslie GoodwinsGuest stars William Forrest, James Coburn, Richard Coogan, Jeanne Cooper
Episode 10
Masquerade
1h
Bronco's attempt to reform four teenage would-be outlaws backfires when a violent gang cuts in on their planned gold heist.
Episode credits
Directed by Herbert L. StrockGuest stars Joel Grey, Paul Maxwell, Rusty Lane, Frank Albertson
Episode 11
Volunteers from Aberdeen
1h
Bronco tries to rescue a lovestruck friend from murder and robbery charges.
Episode credits
Directed by Herbert L. StrockGuest stars Robert Reed, Regis Toomey, Karl Weber
Episode 12
Every Man a Hero
1h
Bronco arrives at Ft. Monument in the wake of an Indian massacre, and slowly realizes the survivors are actually criminals masquerading as heroes.
Episode credits
Directed by Herbert L. StrockGuest stars Warren Oates, Simon Oakland, Mike Road
Episode 13
Death of an Outlaw
1h
Bronco wins a range war with the help of Billy the Kid, but when the dust settles the outlaw is still wanted by the law and by bounty-hunter Pat Garrett.
Episode credits
Directed by Herbert L. StrockWritten by Gerald Drayson AdamsGuest stars Rhodes Reason, Alan Caillou, Miriam Colon
Episode 14
The Human Equation
1h
Bronco finally talks an Army officer into sending the Osage to a fertile Wyoming territory, but a cholera epidemic and a hostile new commander threatens to destroy the plan.
Episode credits
Directed by Lee SholemGuest stars Herbert Rudley, Kem Dibbs, Lawrence Dobkin, Robert Barrat
Episode 15
Montana Passage
1h
Bronco fakes his own death, and assumes the identity of a colonist, in order to hunt down the outlaws who framed him for murder.
Episode credits
Directed by Reginald Le BorgWritten by Howard Browne, Gerald Drayson AdamsGuest stars Rex Reason, Mari Blanchard, Mala Powers, Robert Colbert
Episode 16
Legacy of Twisted Creek
1h
Bronco's attempt to capture a killer alive runs into a snag when a band of renegade Apaches set out to kill his prisoner in hopes of sparking an uprising.
Episode credits
Directed by André de TothGuest stars Carleton G. Young, Henry Brandon, John Anderson, Robert B. Williams, Gustavo Rojo
Episode 17
Tangled Trail
1h
Bronco helps a small herder resists a brutal rancher and finds himself accused of murder when the man's unbalanced wife becomes a tool for the canny rancher.
Episode credits
Directed by Herbert L. StrockGuest stars Marc Lawrence
Episode 18
La Rubia
1h
A beautiful woman double-crosses Bronco when she learns that the bandits who have taken them hostage have a fortune in gold hidden in a secret cache.
Episode credits
Directed by Reginald Le BorgWritten by Gerald Drayson AdamsGuest stars Faith Domergue, Fabrizio Mioni, Joan O'Brien, Carlos Romero, Jack Mather, Paul Fierro, Rodolfo Acosta, Emile Avery
Episode 19
Winter Kill
1h
A vengeful mother swears to kill the prisoner Bronco and Marshal Sample are taking to the county jail.
Episode credits
Directed by Jesse HibbsGuest stars Richard Rust, Merry Anders, John Mitchum, Arthur Space, John Litel, Virginia Gregg, Edgar Buchanan
Episode 20
End of a Rope
1hfinale
Bronco finds himself on the gallows after he stumbles across an elaborate scheme to protect wanted fugitives from the law.
Episode credits
Guest stars Joan Marshall, Vaughn Taylor, Horace McMahon, Robert Colbert, Don Haggerty, Pitt Herbert, Jimmy Lydon, Eumenio Blanco
Episode information updated Sep 19, 2026
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More about Bronco
Cast
Ty HardinBronco Layne
Rhodes Reason
Robert McQueeney
Frank Ferguson
Jack Cassidy
William Reynolds
James Coburn
Joan MarshallCredits
- Written by
- Gerald Drayson Adams, Warren Douglas, Dean Riesner, Tom Gries, William Bruckner, Berne Giler, Jack Laird, Howard Browne
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 68
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
ABCUnited States