Black Saddle(1959)

Name: Black Saddle
Genre: Western, Drama
Released: 1959-01-10
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Peter Breck, Russell Johnson

★ 6.2(5)30m44 episodesEnded

Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.

Created by:: Hal Hudson, John McGreevey
First aired:: 1959-01-10
Country:: US
Network:: ABC

Episodes

Season 1(20)Season 2(24)

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1. Client: Travers
1959-01-10
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2. Client: Meade
1959-01-17
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3. Client: McQueen
1959-01-24
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4. Client: Dawes
1959-01-31
Culhane is investigating the death of Ben Dawes, a wealthy middle-aged bachelor who took a mail-order bride.
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5. Client: Starkey
1959-02-07
June Starkey arrives in town to ask Culhane to find her missing husband.
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6. Client: Tagger
1959-02-14
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7. Client: Robinson
1959-02-21
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8. Client: Martinez
1959-03-07
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9. Client: Northrup
1959-03-14
Ty Northrup, ex-lawman turned renegade, and his wife arrive in Latigo, but Marshal Gib Scott orders them out of town. Mrs. Northrup is unable to travel, and Clay Culhane tries to talk Scott into allowing them to stay until the woman is well enought to move on.
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10. Client: Steele
1959-03-21
Lawyer Clay Culhane agrees to defend Bill Steele, one of three men being held by Marshal Gib Scott for robbery.
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11. Client: Mowery
1959-03-28
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12. Client: Braun
1959-04-04
A recluse hires Clay Culhane to obtain an injunction keeping trespassers off his property. While attending to this matter, the lawyer is startled by an encounter with a famous general who is believed to have died heroically.
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13. Client: Banks
1959-04-11
Teenager Dick Banks maintains an interest in guns in spite of his father's opposition. Clay Culhane, who sees a similarity to the start of his own career as a gunfighter, befriends the youth.
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14. Client: Jessup
1959-04-18
Rancher Lon Jessup is charged with robbery and murder by two Chicago detectives. Jessup tells Clay Culhane that he was involved in a robbery but had nothing to do with the murder.
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15. Client: Frome
1959-04-25
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16. Client: Nelson
1959-05-02
Culhane runs into two brawling men, each of whom claims he's a lawman and that the other is his prisoner.
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17. Client: Neal Adams
1959-05-09
An injured man, Neal Adams, arrives in Latigo and tells his friend Clay Culhane that he is being unjustly hunted. Clay learns that Adams is a wanted man and his pursuer is a bounty hunter.
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18. Client: Brand
1959-05-16
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19. Client: Reynolds
1959-05-23
Jealousy causes misfortune between two females and one greedy gambler.
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20. Client: Vardon
1959-05-30