John McGreevey
Director
Black Saddle (1959)
Season 1
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.
Released Jan. 10, 1959
Episode 30 min
None+
Keywords: imdb.gunfighter, imdb.lawyer, imdb.color-in-title, imdb.judge, imdb.deputy
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Client: Travers
Jan. 10, 1959, midnight
S1E2 - Client: Meade
Jan. 17, 1959, midnight
S1E3 - Client: McQueen
Jan. 24, 1959, midnight
S1E4 - Client: Dawes
Culhane is investigating the death of Ben Dawes, a wealthy middle-aged bachelor who took a mail-order bride.
Jan. 31, 1959, midnight
S1E5 - Client: Starkey
June Starkey arrives in town to ask Culhane to find her missing husband.
Feb. 7, 1959, midnight
S1E6 - Client: Tagger
Feb. 14, 1959, midnight
S1E7 - Client: Robinson
Feb. 21, 1959, midnight
S1E8 - Client: Martinez
March 7, 1959, midnight
S1E9 - Client: Northrup
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.
March 14, 1959, midnight
S1E10 - Client: Steele
Lawyer Clay Culhane agrees to defend Bill Steele, one of three men being held by Marshal Gib Scott for robbery.
March 21, 1959, midnight
S1E11 - Client: Mowery
March 28, 1959, midnight
S1E12 - Client: Braun
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.
April 4, 1959, midnight
S1E13 - Client: Banks
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.
April 11, 1959, midnight
S1E14 - Client: Jessup
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.
April 18, 1959, midnight
S1E15 - Client: Frome
April 25, 1959, midnight
S1E16 - Client: Nelson
Culhane runs into two brawling men, each of whom claims he's a lawman and that the other is his prisoner.
May 2, 1959, midnight
S1E17 - Client: Neal Adams
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.
May 9, 1959, midnight
S1E18 - Client: Brand
May 16, 1959, midnight
S1E19 - Client: Reynolds
Jealousy causes misfortune between two females and one greedy gambler.
May 23, 1959, midnight
S1E20 - Client: Vardon
May 30, 1959, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 1320 min.
Released: Jan. 10, 1959
Last Air Date: May 4, 1960, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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