Season 1
7.8/1062 votesAn Echo of Bugles
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1965
A swaggering gunfighter targets an aging Confederate veteran, and Colton steps in to deal with the bully.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.8/1042 votes
The Vespers
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1965
Sworn to avenge his brother's death, a hoodlum comes gunning for a small town's local minister. When Colton arrives to warn his old friend and ex-soldier, he finds the man unwilling to resort to violence to protect himself and his pregnant wife.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.1/1041 votes
The Lonely Galico Queen
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1965
A dance hall girl mistakes Colton for her mail-order bridegroom.
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.6/1042 votes
The Kingdom of McComb
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1965
Unable to perform the deed themselves, a group of religious colonists attempt to recruit Colton to kill a powerful landowner trying to evict them.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.9/1038 votes
One of the Wounded
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1965
Colton tries to help a Union army veteran left mute and immobile by the psychological horrors of war.
Director: Paul Henreid
Writer: Rod Serling
- 6.8/1029 votes
The Flight of the Artic Tern
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1965
Colton becomes involved in a romantic triangle when he saves a friend's bride-to-be from a runaway horse.
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1033 votes
Widow on the Evening Stage
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1965
Following the murder of a man during an Indian attack, Colton witnesses a town's prejudice towards the man's Indian widow.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.5/1030 votes
The House Rules at Mrs. Wayne's
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1965
While trying to defend his wife's honor, a friend of Colton is killed... and Colton is torn between seeking justice and keeping his word to turn the other cheek.
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.9/1024 votes
The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1965
Colton has second thoughts after accepting the position of deputy to the dubious sheriff of a sleepy Montana town.
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.9/1031 votes
The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1965
Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by bigots.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.2/1035 votes
Westward, the Shoemaker
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1965
When a well-intentioned immigrant is stripped of his nest egg in a rigged card game, Colton takes on the con artist.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.5/1032 votes
The Oath
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1965
When a doctor proves to be as full of whiskey as he is of self-pity, Colton must perform an emergency appendectomy on a young gunfighter.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.3/1027 votes
Hunt the Man Down
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1965
Colton is drafted to help a posse hunt down a seemingly harmless recluse.
Director: Tay Garnett
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1023 votes
Escort for a Dead Man
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1965
A man who deserted from the Army wants Colton to escort him back to his fort.
Director: Norman Foster
Writer: Robert Lewin
- 7.7/1035 votes
The Ordeal of Bud Windom
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1965
A murder suspect's son makes life difficult for Colton when the boy tries to clear his father's name.
Director: Paul Henreid
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1028 votes
To the West of Eden
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1966
While traveling across the desert to deliver horses to their new owner, Colton reluctantly agrees to escort a young woman across the arid land.
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: Ed Adamson
- 7.7/1022 votes
Mantrap
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1966
Colton becomes the target of an assassin when he is the sole witness to a robbery and murder.
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1026 votes
A Little Stroll to the End of the Line
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1966
Colton neither likes nor respects the man he has been deputized to protect: a rabble-rousing preacher who fears death from an ex-convict.
Director: Norman Foster
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.4/1023 votes
The Trial in Paradise
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/1966
Colton provides the defense in a kangaroo court trial of a former Union Army officer.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.0/1022 votes
A Question of Guilt
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/1966
In the darkness Colton kills an intruder, and discovers the man is an Army Lieutenant.
Director: James B. Clark
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1024 votes
The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (1)
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/5/1966
While a young gunman lies dying in a cave, a ruthless man waits outside hoping to get his hands on the boy's loot. (Part 1 of 2)
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.3/1023 votes
The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (2)
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1966
Following the late Johnny Sharp's instructions, Colton arranges for the four people closest to the gunman to meet at the undertaker's parlor. (Part 2 of 2)
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Rod Serling
- 7.1/1022 votes
Incident in the Middle Of Nowhere
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/19/1966
Colton encounters a little girl riding his horse — which was stolen from Colton during the stagecoach robbery in which he was shot and left for dead.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1021 votes
Pick Me Another Time to Die
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/26/1966
Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Ed Adamson
- 7.3/1018 votes
The Burden of the Badge
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1966
A group of reformed criminals deputize Colton to defend and protect them.
Director: Larry Peerce
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1021 votes
To Hang a Dead Man
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/12/1966
Colton joins a sheriff in search of a town's destroyers.
Director: Alex March
Writer: N/A