- 9.2/10 26 votes
#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
- 9.1/10 26 votes
#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
- 9.0/10 26 votes
#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
- 9.0/10 30 votes
#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
- 9.0/10 26 votes
#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
- 8.9/10 30 votes
#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
- 8.9/10 28 votes
#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
- 8.8/10 37 votes
#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
- 8.7/10 37 votes
#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
- 8.7/10 29 votes
#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
- 8.6/10 28 votes
#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
- 8.6/10 33 votes
#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
- 8.6/10 27 votes
#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
- 8.6/10 27 votes
#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
- 8.6/10 28 votes
#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
- 8.5/10 34 votes
#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
- 8.5/10 37 votes
#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
- 8.5/10 29 votes
#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
- 8.5/10 28 votes
#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
- 8.5/10 27 votes
#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
- 8.5/10 32 votes
#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
- 8.4/10 37 votes
#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
- 8.4/10 30 votes
#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
- 8.4/10 28 votes
#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
- 8.4/10 26 votes
#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
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 Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
Genre:Western
Network:ABC
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Bronco" is "Immovable Object", rated 9.2/10 from 26 user votes. It was directed by Sidney Salkow and written by N/A. "Immovable Object" aired on 4/16/1962 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Last Letter".