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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!

The Best Episodes of Bronco Season 1

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...

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  1. Background image for The Besieged
    8.2/10(41 votes)

    #1 - The Besieged

    S1:E1

    Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Quest of the Thirty Dead
    8.4/10(39 votes)

    #2 - Quest of the Thirty Dead

    S1:E2

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

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    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Turning Point
    7.6/10(33 votes)

    #3 - The Turning Point

    S1:E3

    Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Four Guns and a Prayer
    8.1/10(39 votes)

    #4 - Four Guns and a Prayer

    S1:E4

    Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Long Ride Back
    8.8/10(38 votes)

    #5 - The Long Ride Back

    S1:E5

    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.

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  6. Background image for Trail to Taos
    8.4/10(35 votes)

    #6 - Trail to Taos

    S1:E6

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Brand of Courage
    8.0/10(35 votes)

    #7 - Brand of Courage

    S1:E7

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Freeze-Out
    7.4/10(38 votes)

    #8 - Freeze-Out

    S1:E8

    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.

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    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Baron of Broken Lance
    7.9/10(31 votes)

    #9 - The Baron of Broken Lance

    S1:E9

    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.

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    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Payroll of the Dead
    8.5/10(38 votes)

    #10 - Payroll of the Dead

    S1:E10

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

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    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Riding Solo
    8.2/10(30 votes)

    #11 - Riding Solo

    S1:E11

    Bronco is suspected of being a killer when he arrives in a town just after a stagecoach robbery committed by an old friend.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Borrowed Glory
    7.8/10(32 votes)

    #12 - Borrowed Glory

    S1:E12

    Bronco gets involved in blackmail and murder when a killer tagets a friend whose Congressional Medal of Honor may have been wrongly won.

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    Director:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Silent Witness
    8.3/10(33 votes)

    #13 - The Silent Witness

    S1:E13

    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.

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    Director:Harmon Jones
    Writer:Tom Gries
  15. Background image for The Belles of Silver Flat
    7.8/10(38 votes)

    #14 - The Belles of Silver Flat

    S1:E14

    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.

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    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Backfire
    8.1/10(33 votes)

    #15 - Backfire

    S1:E15

    Sheriff McKeever is killed when his scheme to restore his gunslinging youth fails, leaving deputy Bronco to discover who was behind the backfire.

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    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for School for Cowards
    7.8/10(39 votes)

    #16 - School for Cowards

    S1:E16

    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.

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    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Prairie Skipper
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #17 - Prairie Skipper

    S1:E17

    Bronco's hired as trail-boss for a cattle drive and runs into trouble with a flirtatious woman who seems to have multiple husbands.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Shadow of a Man
    8.3/10(31 votes)

    #18 - Shadow of a Man

    S1:E18

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Hero of the Town
    8.1/10(27 votes)

    #19 - Hero of the Town

    S1:E19

    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.

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    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Red Water North
    8.0/10(26 votes)

    #20 - Red Water North

    S1:E20

    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.

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    Director:Lee Sholem

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Besieged" is the best rated episode of "Bronco" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 41 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/23/1958. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Quest of the Thirty Dead".