Thomas Carr
Director
Trackdown (1957)
Season 2
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.
Released Oct. 4, 1957
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Western
Keywords: tmdb.sheriff, tmdb.texas-ranger, tmdb.wild-west, tmdb.19th-century, tmdb.post-civil-war, imdb.classical-western
Production Companies: Four Stars Productions, CBS
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Killer Take All
None
Sept. 5, 1958, midnight
S2E2 - Outlaw's Wife
The town's women want Hoby to make an outlaw's wife (who just returned to Porter) leave town.
Sept. 12, 1958, midnight
S2E3 - Chinese Cowboy
None
Sept. 19, 1958, midnight
S2E4 - The Set-Up
Henrietta's new gentleman friend is only using her to setup an alibi for a bank robbery.
Sept. 26, 1958, midnight
S2E5 - A Stone for Benny French
Hoby tracks down Benny French who was the only member of the Morgan Larker gang who escaped from the bank robbery.
Oct. 3, 1958, midnight
S2E6 - Trapped
Hoby is held prisoner in a shack during a blizzard by the wife of husband and wife outlaws to care for her sick husband.
Oct. 10, 1958, midnight
S2E7 - Matter of Justice
One of the outlaws who held up the Butterfield stage depot has been caught and is awaiting trial and hanging. Hoby is called in to protect the town of Talpa. The prisoner claims his outlaw gang will kill the witnesses and destroy the town.
Oct. 17, 1958, midnight
S2E8 - Tenner Smith
None
Oct. 24, 1958, midnight
S2E9 - The Avenger
Lance Garth is accused of stealing the payroll from Banning Mining but he is shot and killed before the money is found.
Oct. 31, 1958, midnight
S2E10 - The Schoolteacher
None
Nov. 7, 1958, midnight
S2E11 - Deadly Decoy
None
Nov. 14, 1958, midnight
S2E12 - Sunday's Child
Gambler 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.
Nov. 21, 1958, midnight
S2E13 - Day of Vengeance
A young man seeks the person who killed his brother. The truth is not what he expected.
Nov. 28, 1958, midnight
S2E14 - Three-Legged Fox
None
Dec. 5, 1958, midnight
S2E15 - The Kid
None
Dec. 12, 1958, midnight
S2E16 - Guilt
None
Dec. 19, 1958, midnight
S2E17 - Every Man a Witness
Sheriff Alvin Fremont and a mob take prisoner Char Lopez out of jail and threaten to lynch him unless he confesses. The horse bolts and Lopez is hanged. Hoby is sent in to investigate who was responsible.
Dec. 26, 1958, midnight
S2E18 - McCallin's Daughter
Youngster Debby McCallin comes to town and asks Hoby to stop her father Bart McCallin from committing a robbery.
Jan. 2, 1959, midnight
S2E19 - Bad Judgment
None
Jan. 28, 1959, midnight
S2E20 - Terror
Doc Calhoun and Hoby deal with an outbreak of typhoid fever in town.
Feb. 4, 1959, midnight
S2E21 - The Feud
Elderly 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.
Feb. 11, 1959, midnight
S2E22 - The Samaritan
Hoby 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.
Feb. 18, 1959, midnight
S2E23 - The Gang
None
Feb. 25, 1959, midnight
S2E24 - The Threat
A 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.
March 4, 1959, midnight
S2E25 - Hard Lines
Joker 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.
March 11, 1959, midnight
S2E26 - Fear
None
March 18, 1959, midnight
S2E27 - Stranger in Town
Henrietta 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.
March 25, 1959, midnight
S2E28 - The Protector
None
April 1, 1959, midnight
S2E29 - False Witness
A 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.
April 8, 1959, midnight
S2E30 - The Trick
Tully 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.
April 15, 1959, midnight
S2E31 - The Eyes of Jerry Kelso
When traveling salesman Emanuel Brock is found shot to death in his hotel room, Hoby has to figure out who did it.
April 22, 1959, midnight
S2E32 - The Gift Horse
Two old men (Zack and Levi) tell Ralph that they are his long lost uncles but Hoby thinks something about the two men rang sour.
April 29, 1959, midnight
S2E33 - The Vote
A man and a woman came to Porter bringing with them the idea of "Give Women the Vote".
May 6, 1959, midnight
S2E34 - The Unwanted
Hoby is called to the town of Glenville who are afraid that a group of religious people who moved in outside of town are practicing witchcraft and are causing bad luck.
May 13, 1959, midnight
S2E35 - Toss-Up
None
May 20, 1959, midnight
S2E36 - Inquest
Hoby 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.
Sept. 2, 1959, midnight
S2E37 - Back to Crawford
Hoby 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.
Sept. 9, 1959, midnight
S2E38 - Blind Alley
Rufus 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.
Sept. 16, 1959, midnight
S2E39 - Quiet Night in Porter
Chad 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.
Sept. 23, 1959, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 2130 min.
Released: Oct. 4, 1957
Last Air Date: Sept. 23, 1959, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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