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The Best Episodes of Colt .45

Genre:Western
Network:ABC

Every episode of Colt .45 ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Colt .45!

Colt .45 is an American Western series which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960. Christopher Colt was apparently a gun salesman...
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  • Dead Reckoning
    8.4/10(15)
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    #1 - Dead Reckoning

    Season 1 Episode 15

    Aired 1/24/1958

    To learn about a huge robbery plot, Chris goes undercover as an outlaw in hopes of infiltrating the suspected gang.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Point of Honor
    8.4/10(13)
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    #2 - Point of Honor

    Season 1 Episode 23

    Aired 3/21/1958

    Chris mistakes a female doctor for an outlaw.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Young Gun
    8.3/10(22)
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    #3 - Young Gun

    Season 1 Episode 9

    Aired 12/13/1957

    A young man buys a gun from Chris. The only problem with that is he soon learns that the boy is out for retribution against the man who killed his father during a bank job.

    Director: Walter Grauman

    Writer: William Driskill, Joel Rapp

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  • Mantrap
    8.0/10(14)
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    #4 - Mantrap

    Season 1 Episode 18

    Aired 2/14/1958

    A government agent brings down outlaws with help from the celebrated Colt revolver that his father invented.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Golden Gun
    8.0/10(14)
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    #5 - The Golden Gun

    Season 1 Episode 20

    Aired 2/28/1958

    Frank Wilson, a notorious gunfighter, arrives in town to see his son, who has changed his name because he's ashamed of his father. It's not long before Frank Sr. is forced to kill a challenger in a gunfight, after which he collapses. It turns out that he's terminally ill and hasn't long to live, and has come to town to leave his son a golden gun and a map to the spot where he has hidden %50,000 in stolen loot.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Rare Specimen
    7.9/10(11)
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    #6 - Rare Specimen

    Season 1 Episode 17

    Aired 2/7/1958

    Undercover government agent Chris Colt is wounded during a train robbery. A woman passenger uses a piece of needlework to patch up his bullet-torn jacket, and this piece of fabric provides a valuable clue later on.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Rebellion
    7.8/10(10)
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    #7 - Rebellion

    Season 1 Episode 10

    Aired 12/20/1957

    While checking into a secessionist plot, Chis find very little until he finds a mysterious symbol on a Mexican peso, his only clue.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Trial by Rope
    7.8/10(10)
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    #8 - Trial by Rope

    Season 3 Episode 21

    Aired 5/3/1960

    Chris takes on a woman whose word is judge and jury combined.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Gandy Dancers
    7.8/10(9)
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    #9 - The Gandy Dancers

    Season 3 Episode 22

    Aired 5/10/1960

    Sam's latest cause: helping immigrant workers who are being blackmailed by outlaws.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Time to Die
    7.7/10(21)
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    #10 - A Time to Die

    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 10/25/1957

    Escorting a prisoner across the desert, Chris is waylaid by the outlaw's cohorts. Now it's a fight for survival when he finds himself without a horse, food or water.

    Director: Edward Bernds

    Writer: John McGreevey

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  • Small Man
    7.7/10(15)
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    #11 - Small Man

    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 11/15/1957

    Chris finds a seemingly mild mannered tenderfoot who always wins when he finds himself in a gunfight.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Circle of Fear
    7.7/10(11)
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    #12 - Circle of Fear

    Season 1 Episode 21

    Aired 3/7/1958

    Chris is forced to be the hero when a stagecoach is attacked by Indians.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Judgment Day
    7.5/10(20)
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    #13 - Judgment Day

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 10/18/1957

    Gun salesman Christopher Colt arrives in Cottonwood, Arizona, ready to sell his new line of guns, but a young missionary gets on his case for helping contribute to the culture of violence in the west.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Decoy
    7.4/10(11)
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    #14 - Decoy

    Season 1 Episode 16

    Aired 1/31/1958

    Mexican outlaws raid cargoes of federal firearms.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Phantom Trail
    7.4/10(11)
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    #15 - Phantom Trail

    Season 3 Episode 15

    Aired 3/13/1960

    The Colt boys work to nab cattle rustlers---with Sam posing as a killer eager to kill Chris.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Gypsies
    7.3/10(11)
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    #16 - The Gypsies

    Season 1 Episode 11

    Aired 12/27/1957

    Chris attempts to smooth things out between a Lawman and his girlfriend when she runs off with a Gypsy leader.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Ghost Town
    7.3/10(15)
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    #17 - Ghost Town

    Season 1 Episode 19

    Aired 2/21/1958

    Directed by Lee Sholem and Written by Nelson Nye Lee Sholem and James Gunn

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Strange Encounter
    7.3/10(10)
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    #18 - Strange Encounter

    Season 3 Episode 20

    Aired 4/26/1960

    Escorting two killers to jail, Chris comes upon injured men---and one of his prisoners is a doctor.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Gallows at Granite Gap
    7.2/10(15)
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    #19 - Gallows at Granite Gap

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 11/8/1957

    Chris captures the notorious outlaw The Comanche Kid in Granite Gap. The townspeople are bound and determined to hang him, but an elderly woman believes that the Kid is her long-long son.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Blood Money
    7.1/10(11)
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    #20 - Blood Money

    Season 1 Episode 14

    Aired 1/17/1958

    Chris finds himself in a tight spot when an outlaw agrees to turn himself in provided the reward money goes to his girlfriend who needs the money for a procedure to save her life.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Sign in the Sand
    7.0/10(12)
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    #21 - Sign in the Sand

    Season 1 Episode 12

    Aired 1/3/1958

    Chris joins forces with a government agent to guard an Army payroll shipment.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Split Second
    7.0/10(10)
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    #22 - Split Second

    Season 1 Episode 22

    Aired 3/14/1958

    Turned into a vicious gunslinger by his wife's murder, a marshal finds the killer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Under False Pretenses
    7.0/10(9)
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    #23 - Under False Pretenses

    Season 3 Episode 11

    Aired 1/10/1960

    Sam, after the pair who robbed a stagecoach, finds one of them on the trail---dead. Mills: Tim Graham. Julie: Suzanne Lloyd. Cliff: Jack Hogan.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Showdown at Goldtown
    7.0/10(9)
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    #24 - Showdown at Goldtown

    Season 3 Episode 27

    Aired 6/14/1960

    A paroled ex-convict is to drive a gold-laden stage---which his enemy plans to rob.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The $3,000 Dollar Bullet
    6.9/10(16)
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    #25 - The $3,000 Dollar Bullet

    Season 1 Episode 3

    Aired 11/1/1957

    A wanted man Chris is after gets shot down in a saloon after he shoots another man. Three men then try to claim the reward for the criminal. Chris pretends to be the dead man's friend, but things get tense when someone in town recognizes him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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Best Episodes Summary

"Dead Reckoning" is the best rated episode of "Colt .45". It scored 8.4/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/24/1958. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Point of Honor".