8.2/1040 votes#1 - The Besieged
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1958
Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1037 votes
#2 - 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
- 7.6/1032 votes
#3 - The Turning Point
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1958
Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1038 votes
#4 - Four Guns and a Prayer
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/1958
Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/1037 votes
#5 - 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
- 8.5/1034 votes
#6 - 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
- 8.0/1034 votes
#7 - Brand of Courage
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/1958
Bronco lands in the middle of a range war when he tries to help nuns whose possession of a cattle ranch is opposed by other ranchers in the area.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1036 votes
#8 - Freeze-Out
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/30/1958
Bronco is hired to guide a writer to a ghost town, but repeated attempts on both their lives reveals her true purpose: to find a man buried in a nearby glacier.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1030 votes
#9 - The Baron of Broken Lance
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/13/1959
Bronco leads a wagon train through the wilderness but the danger comes from within as an old war buddy provokes a local cattle baron when he brings along the man's runaway daughter.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1037 votes
#10 - 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
- 8.3/1030 votes
#11 - Riding Solo
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/10/1959
Bronco is suspected of being a killer when he arrives in a town just after a stagecoach robbery committed by an old friend.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1032 votes
#12 - Borrowed Glory
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/24/1959
Bronco gets involved in blackmail and murder when a killer tagets a friend whose Congressional Medal of Honor may have been wrongly won.
Director: N/A
Writer: Berne Giler
- 8.3/1031 votes
#13 - The Silent Witness
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/10/1959
Bronco is framed for murder when the ruthless Traxel brothers and gangleader Willis Turner sets him up for the murder of his best friend. Only the testimony of a mute child can rescue Bronco from the gallows.
Director: Harmon Jones
Writer: Tom Gries
- 7.9/1037 votes
#14 - The Belles of Silver Flat
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/24/1959
Bronco is saved from a hired gun by the quick draw of the Reverend Dave Clayton, arousing suspicions that the preacher is really a gunman.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1032 votes
#15 - Backfire
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/7/1959
Sheriff McKeever is killed when his scheme to restore his gunslinging youth fails, leaving deputy Bronco to discover who was behind the backfire.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1038 votes
#16 - School for Cowards
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/21/1959
Bronco is hired to teach at a military academy but ends up searching for a would-be killer after a cadet's realization that he's half-Sioux prompts an attempt on his life.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1032 votes
#17 - Prairie Skipper
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/5/1959
Bronco's hired as trail-boss for a cattle drive and runs into trouble with a flirtatious woman who seems to have multiple husbands.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1030 votes
#18 - 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
- 8.2/1027 votes
#19 - Hero of the Town
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 6/2/1959
Bronco tries to solve the murder of the town's most popular man, found dead with Bronco's gun in his hand shortly after a bank robbery.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1026 votes
#20 - Red Water North
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 9/19/1959
Bronco agrees to deliver a riverboat for his friend Martha Chandler despite a ruthless businessman intent on stopping the cargo from reaching its destination and a blonde passenger with a mysterious agenda.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: Dean Riesner
The Best Episodes of Bronco Season 1
Every episode of Bronco Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Bronco Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Besieged" is the best rated episode of "Bronco" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/23/1958. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Quest of the Thirty Dead".