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The Best Episodes of Bronco

Every episode of Bronco ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Bronco!

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...
Genre:Western
Network:ABC

Best Episodes Summary

"Immovable Object" is the best rated episode of "Bronco". It scored 9.2/10 based on 26 votes. Directed by Sidney Salkow and written by N/A, it aired on 4/16/1962. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Last Letter".

  • Immovable Object
    9.2/1026 votes
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    #1 - Immovable Object

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 4/16/1962

    Bronco has to sweet-talk two stubborn frontier men when one refuses to allow the construction of a dam on his land, provoking a journalist to write a story that causes an international incident.

    Director: Sidney Salkow

    Writer: N/A

  • Last Letter
    9.1/1026 votes
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    #2 - Last Letter

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 3/5/1962

    Leading a group of bitter Confederate POWs west to fulfill their pledge to help the Union fight the Indians, Bronco is also in charge of a gold delivery headed to Mexico and a secret assignment from the murdered president Abraham Lincoln.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Montana Passage
    9.0/1026 votes
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    #3 - Montana Passage

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/5/1960

    Bronco fakes his own death, and assumes the identity of a colonist, in order to hunt down the outlaws who framed him for murder.

    Director: Reginald Le Borg

    Writer: Howard Browne, Gerald Drayson Adams

  • Buckbrier Trail
    9.0/1031 votes
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    #4 - Buckbrier Trail

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/1961

    Bronco races to keep a vengeful deserter from ambushing Marshal Kilgore and the prisoner he's taking to jail.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Manitoba Manhunt
    9.0/1027 votes
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    #5 - Manitoba Manhunt

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 4/3/1961

    Bronco joins a Mountie and two U.S. Marshals to bring in a bank robber who might be his best friend and former commander.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Night Train to Denver
    8.9/1030 votes
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    #6 - Night Train to Denver

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/29/1959

    Bronco accompanies a corpse to Denver and is accused when $100,000 is stolen from the railcar.

    Director: Leslie Goodwins

    Writer: N/A

  • A Town That Lived and Died
    8.9/1028 votes
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    #7 - A Town That Lived and Died

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 4/9/1962

    Bronco faces a kangaroo court intent on hanging him for his wartime activities as a Confederate spy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Long Ride Back
    8.8/1037 votes
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    #8 - The Long Ride Back

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/18/1958

    Bronco Layne returns to his Texas hometown after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War, but faces the hostility of townspeople who believe he's a traitor and a murderer who killed his fiancé's brother.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • Shadow of Jesse James
    8.7/1037 votes
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    #9 - Shadow of Jesse James

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/12/1960

    Bronco tries to break up the James gang by pressuring outlaw Cole Younger to give up Jesse, an indiscriminate killer.

    Director: Leslie Goodwins

    Writer: N/A

  • Apache Treasure
    8.7/1030 votes
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    #10 - Apache Treasure

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/7/1960

    Bronco is framed for murder by a ruthless bounty hunter who kills and scalps Apaches.

    Director: Robert B. Sinclair

    Writer: N/A

  • The Burning Spring
    8.6/1028 votes
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    #11 - The Burning Spring

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1959

    Bronco relives a wartime experience while testifying in the trial of his would-be killer.

    Director: Lee Sholem

    Writer: N/A

  • Every Man a Hero
    8.6/1033 votes
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    #12 - Every Man a Hero

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/23/1960

    Bronco arrives at Ft. Monument in the wake of an Indian massacre, and slowly realizes the survivors are actually criminals masquerading as heroes.

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: N/A

  • The Human Equation
    8.6/1027 votes
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    #13 - The Human Equation

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 3/22/1960

    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.

    Director: Lee Sholem

    Writer: N/A

  • Tangled Trail
    8.6/1027 votes
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    #14 - Tangled Trail

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 5/3/1960

    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.

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: N/A

  • Destinies West
    8.6/1028 votes
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    #15 - Destinies West

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 2/26/1962

    Bronco's infatuation with a lady gambler distracts him from his army assignment to locate a missing fortune and a renegade Union solder.

    Director: George Waggner

    Writer: N/A

  • Trail to Taos
    8.5/1034 votes
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    #16 - Trail to Taos

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/2/1958

    Bronco tracks down a gang robbing stagecoaches and goes undercover to catch them in the act.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Payroll of the Dead
    8.5/1037 votes
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    #17 - Payroll of the Dead

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/27/1959

    Major Damayer hires Bronco to guide him into Indian territory to make a request of Sitting Bull.

    Director: Lee Sholem

    Writer: N/A

  • Legacy of Twisted Creek
    8.5/1029 votes
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    #18 - Legacy of Twisted Creek

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/19/1960

    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.

    Director: André de Toth

    Writer: N/A

  • Winter Kill
    8.5/1028 votes
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    #19 - Winter Kill

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 5/31/1960

    A vengeful mother swears to kill the prisoner Bronco and Marshal Sample are taking to the county jail.

    Director: Jesse Hibbs

    Writer: N/A

  • End of a Rope
    8.5/1027 votes
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    #20 - End of a Rope

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 6/14/1960

    Bronco finds himself on the gallows after he stumbles across an elaborate scheme to protect wanted fugitives from the law.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mustangers
    8.5/1033 votes
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    #21 - Mustangers

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/17/1960

    Bronco is accused of murder when a young widow takes an interest in him.

    Director: Robert Altman

    Writer: N/A

  • Quest of the Thirty Dead
    8.4/1037 votes
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    #22 - Quest of the Thirty Dead

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1958

    Bronco investigates a planned train wreck that killed one of his best friends.

    Director: Lee Sholem

    Writer: N/A

  • Shadow of a Man
    8.4/1030 votes
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    #23 - Shadow of a Man

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/19/1959

    Furious at being pulled into a payroll robbery and murder, Bronco goes looking for the loot and the culprit as a posse chases him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Death of an Outlaw
    8.4/1028 votes
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    #24 - Death of an Outlaw

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 3/8/1960

    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.

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams

  • Sure Thing
    8.4/1026 votes
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    #25 - Sure Thing

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 1/22/1962

    Bronco sets himself up in the cattle business only to find that a local rancher is using his control of the only road to the market to kill off his competition.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A