TV series
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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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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Episode 1
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.
Directed by Don SiegelGuest stars John Smith, King Donovan, Scott Forbes, Leo Gordon, Guy Way, Dabbs Greer
Episode 2
Guest stars Frank Puglia, Mike Connors, Sean McClory, Kasey Rogers
Episode 3
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.
Guest stars James Griffith, Lee Erickson
Episode 4
Guest stars Addison Richards, Scott Forbes, Hayden Rorke
Episode 5
Directed by Sidney LumetGuest stars Kenneth Tobey, Jeff Morrow, Edward McNally
Episode 7
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.
Guest stars Herbert Heyes, Dennis Moore, Tom Tryon, Phyllis Coates, Alan Hale Jr., Dick Wessel, Walter Baldwin, Paul Langton
Episode 8
A young wife insists on accompanying her husband on a 600-mile cattle drive
Guest stars Jack Elam, Ray Teal, Beverly Garland, Charles Stevens, Robert Arthur
Episode 9
Guest stars Don Diamond, Joan Vohs
Episode 10
Guest stars Jack Elam, Leo Gordon
Episode 12
Guest stars Coleen Gray, James Best, Paul Richards, Helen Kleeb, Anna Navarro, John Dehner, Jay Novello
Episode 13
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.
Guest stars Denver Pyle, Rodd Redwing
Episode 14
Guest stars Gloria Talbott, Richard Crenna, Claude Akins
Episode 15
Guest stars Tommy Kirk, J.M. Kerrigan, Dorothy Adams
Episode 17
Guest stars Denver Pyle, Gloria Saunders, Trevor Bardette, Jan Arvan
Episode 26
Guest stars Richard Devon, Joan Hotchkis, Jack Kelly, Jan Merlin
Episode 27
Guest stars Richard Devon, Joan Hotchkis, Jack Kelly, Jan Merlin, Willis Bouchey
Episode information updated Sep 16, 2026
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Walter CoyNarrator (voice)
Addison Richards
John Bromfield
Kenneth Tobey
Frank Puglia
Gloria Talbott
James Griffith
Don Diamond
NBCUnited States
NBCUnited States