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The Worst Episodes of Bronco

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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Bronco Season 1 Episode 1 - The Besieged
    0.0/10(45 votes)

    #1 - The Besieged

    S1:E1

    Gunmen attack a religious family heading home to California.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Bronco Season 1 Episode 2 - Quest of the Thirty Dead
    0.0/10(42 votes)

    #2 - Quest of the Thirty Dead

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Bronco Season 1 Episode 3 - The Turning Point
    0.0/10(36 votes)

    #3 - The Turning Point

    S1:E3

    Bronco unknowingly saves the life of a gunfighter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Bronco Season 1 Episode 4 - Four Guns and a Prayer
    0.0/10(42 votes)

    #4 - Four Guns and a Prayer

    S1:E4

    Bronco enlists the help of gunfighters to save a town.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Bronco Season 1 Episode 5 - The Long Ride Back
    0.0/10(40 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.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Bronco Season 1 Episode 6 - Trail to Taos
    0.0/10(37 votes)

    #6 - Trail to Taos

    S1:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Bronco Season 1 Episode 7 - Brand of Courage
    0.0/10(37 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Bronco Season 1 Episode 8 - Freeze-Out
    0.0/10(40 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Bronco Season 1 Episode 9 - The Baron of Broken Lance
    0.0/10(33 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Bronco Season 1 Episode 10 - Payroll of the Dead
    0.0/10(40 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Bronco Season 1 Episode 11 - Riding Solo
    0.0/10(32 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Bronco Season 1 Episode 12 - Borrowed Glory
    0.0/10(34 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Berne Giler

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  13. Bronco Season 1 Episode 13 - The Silent Witness
    0.0/10(35 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.

    Director:Harmon Jones
    Writer:Tom Gries

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  14. Bronco Season 1 Episode 14 - The Belles of Silver Flat
    0.0/10(41 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Bronco Season 1 Episode 15 - Backfire
    0.0/10(37 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Bronco Season 1 Episode 16 - School for Cowards
    0.0/10(42 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Bronco Season 1 Episode 17 - Prairie Skipper
    0.0/10(36 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Bronco Season 1 Episode 18 - Shadow of a Man
    0.0/10(34 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Bronco Season 1 Episode 19 - Hero of the Town
    0.0/10(30 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Bronco Season 1 Episode 20 - Red Water North
    0.0/10(29 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Dean Riesner

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  21. Bronco Season 2 Episode 1 - Game at the Beacon Club
    0.0/10(37 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. Bronco Season 2 Episode 2 - The Burning Spring
    0.0/10(33 votes)

    #22 - The Burning Spring

    S2:E2

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

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Bronco Season 2 Episode 3 - Bodyguard
    0.0/10(38 votes)

    #23 - Bodyguard

    S2:E3

    Bronco is hired as a bodyguard, but when he fails to keep the man alive, he's faced with a host of people confessing to the killing.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Bronco Season 2 Episode 4 - The Soft Answer
    0.0/10(35 votes)

    #24 - 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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  25. Bronco Season 2 Episode 5 - The Last Resort
    0.0/10(36 votes)

    #25 - The Last Resort

    S2:E5

    Bronco goes in search of the only man who can clear him of a murder charge, but must disguise himself when his quarry goes to ground in a lawless town known as a haven for criminals.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Jack Laird

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Besieged" is the worst rated episode of "Bronco". It scored /10 based on 45 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/23/1958. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Quest of the Thirty Dead".