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The Worst Episodes of Bronco

Every episode of Bronco ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Bronco!

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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Bronco Season 2 Episode 1 - Game at the Beacon Club
    7.3/10(36 votes)

    #1 - Game at the Beacon Club

    S2:E1

    Bronco unwittingly introduces a demure con artist to a rich man.

    Director:Arthur Lubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Bronco Season 1 Episode 8 - Freeze-Out
    7.5/10(39 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Bronco Season 1 Episode 17 - Prairie Skipper
    7.5/10(35 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Bronco Season 3 Episode 9 - Stage to the Sky
    7.5/10(24 votes)

    #4 - Stage to the Sky

    S3:E9

    Bronco faces a lynch mob when he tries to save a friend from the hatred of his own brother.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Bronco Season 4 Episode 1 - Cousin from Atlanta
    7.5/10(30 votes)

    #5 - Cousin from Atlanta

    S4:E1

    Bronco tries to convince a city cousin that her interest in a dashing gunman is a bad idea.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Bronco Season 4 Episode 5 - Harrigan
    7.5/10(28 votes)

    #6 - Harrigan

    S4:E5

    Bronco teams up with a silver-tongued Irishman to break up a robbery gang.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Bronco Season 2 Episode 10 - Masquerade
    7.6/10(30 votes)

    #7 - Masquerade

    S2:E10

    Bronco's attempt to reform four teenage would-be outlaws backfires when a violent gang cuts in on their planned gold heist.

    Director:Herbert L. Strock
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Bronco Season 4 Episode 15 - Moment of Doubt
    7.6/10(26 votes)

    #8 - Moment of Doubt

    S4:E15

    Bronco infiltrates anti-Union subversives in New Orleans with the help of an ex-slave and a lovely woman.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Bronco Season 4 Episode 4 - Equalizer
    7.7/10(48 votes)

    #9 - Equalizer

    S4:E4

    Bronco keeps rival outlaw gangs from slaughtering each other so two young lovers can marry.

    Director:Marc Lawrence
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Bronco Season 1 Episode 3 - The Turning Point
    7.8/10(34 votes)

    #10 - The Turning Point

    S1:E3

    Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Bronco Season 4 Episode 3 - One Came Back
    7.8/10(27 votes)

    #11 - One Came Back

    S4:E3

    Bronco falls hard for a pretty traveler, and only a bank robbery delays his rush to the altar.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Bronco Season 4 Episode 7 - Ride the Whirlwind
    7.8/10(31 votes)

    #12 - Ride the Whirlwind

    S4:E7

    Bronco and the local sheriff try to figure out how a bitter ex-con is taking revenge for a Civil War disgrace.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Bronco Season 4 Episode 10 - Rendezvous with a Miracle
    7.8/10(27 votes)

    #13 - Rendezvous with a Miracle

    S4:E10

    Bronco tracks an escaped bankrobber and meets up with an unusual nun.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Bronco Season 1 Episode 12 - Borrowed Glory
    7.9/10(33 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Berne Giler

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  15. Bronco Season 1 Episode 16 - School for Cowards
    7.9/10(41 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Bronco Season 2 Episode 6 - The Devil's Spawn
    7.9/10(33 votes)

    #16 - The Devil's Spawn

    S2:E6

    Bushwhacked by an escaped convict, Bronco is saved by a local rancher and becomes involved in his feud with a neighboring family.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Bronco Season 3 Episode 7 - Yankee Tornado
    7.9/10(31 votes)

    #17 - Yankee Tornado

    S3:E7

    Bronco helps a young Teddy Roosevelt fight a rancher trying to drive the Indians off their land.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Bronco Season 4 Episode 13 - One Evening in Abilene
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #18 - One Evening in Abilene

    S4:E13

    Bronco hires gunman Clay Farraday to help with a cattle drive, but when Clay falls for a scheming beauty Bronco has to try to talk his helper out of a shootout with Wild Bill Hickock.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Bronco Season 1 Episode 9 - The Baron of Broken Lance
    8.0/10(32 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Bronco Season 1 Episode 14 - The Belles of Silver Flat
    8.0/10(40 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Bronco Season 2 Episode 4 - The Soft Answer
    8.0/10(33 votes)

    #21 - The Soft Answer

    S2:E4

    Bronco intervenes when a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen threatens to become a slaughter due to the Quaker sheepman's refusal to use guns.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Bronco Season 2 Episode 11 - Volunteers from Aberdeen
    8.0/10(30 votes)

    #22 - Volunteers from Aberdeen

    S2:E11

    Bronco tries to rescue a lovestruck friend from murder and robbery charges.

    Director:Herbert L. Strock
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Bronco Season 2 Episode 18 - La Rubia
    8.0/10(28 votes)

    #23 - La Rubia

    S2:E18

    A beautiful woman double-crosses Bronco when she learns that the bandits who have taken them hostage have a fortune in gold hidden in a secret cache.

    Director:Reginald Le Borg
    Writer:Gerald Drayson Adams

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  24. Bronco Season 3 Episode 5 - The Invaders
    8.0/10(31 votes)

    #24 - The Invaders

    S3:E5

    Bronco reluctantly works to help an outlaw rob a gold shipment, knowing that any disruption of the man's plans will result in the death of his hostage.

    Director:William J. Hole Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Bronco Season 4 Episode 9 - Trail of Hatred
    8.0/10(27 votes)

    #25 - Trail of Hatred

    S4:E9

    Bronco leads a troop of mutinous soldiers into Indian territory to find a deserter, the father of the troop's ruthless lieutenant.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Game at the Beacon Club" is the worst rated episode of "Bronco". It scored 7.3/10 based on 36 votes. Directed by Arthur Lubin and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/22/1959. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Freeze-Out".