Trackdown

Oct 04, 1957

Oct 11, 1957

Hoby, passing through Lampasas, involves himself when the whole town seems intent on the legal lynching of what he thinks is an innocent man.

Oct 18, 1957

Oct 25, 1957

Nov 01, 1957

Nov 08, 1957

Nov 15, 1957

Hoby rides into Alpine, Texas looking for a friend. He finds instead a hatred for the Texas Rangers-- and the entire town sides against him to drive him out.

Nov 22, 1957

Nov 29, 1957

Dec 06, 1957

Dec 13, 1957

Dec 27, 1957

Jan 03, 1958

Hoby tracks down a missing florist with a rare orchid, who may hold the key to missing bank money and three fugitive bank robbers.

Jan 10, 1958

Hoby tracks the murderer of a married man who may have been ready to leave his wife for another woman.

Jan 17, 1958

Jan 24, 1958

Jan 31, 1958

Feb 07, 1958

Hoby is dispatched to Del Rio to investigate a bank robbery. He poses as a criminal to trick one of the bank robbers to lead him to the the rest of the gang and the money.

Feb 14, 1958

Feb 28, 1958

Mar 07, 1958

Nick Adams and Michael Landon as bad-guy brothers

Mar 14, 1958

Hoby is forced to arrest the wild son of a local judge for murder, the kid telling him all the while he'll never stand trial.

Mar 21, 1958

Mar 28, 1958

Apr 04, 1958

Apr 11, 1958

Hoby has to nursemaid a witness from El Paso who's in hiding until the big murder trial in three weeks.

Apr 18, 1958

Hoby gets on the bad side of town when he assists in freeing what he thinks is an innocent man. However, once acquitted, the killer admits his guilt only to the Ranger and makes his life much worse.

Apr 25, 1958

Hoby has to deal with a notorious outlaw/killer who is holding a runaway town boy for ransom.

May 02, 1958

Hoby has to deal with a jailbreak-- except the cowboy doesn't leave-- he takes three hostages and tries to work a trade-- them for the Ranger!

May 09, 1958

May 16, 1958

Twins (both played by Steve McQueen) change identities to confuse Hoby.

May 23, 1958

Hoby has to contend with a murder in a small town the day before the arrival of the Governor for the dedication of a new school-- and the victim was an undercover Texas Ranger.

Sep 05, 1958

Sep 12, 1958

The town's women want Hoby to make an outlaw's wife (who just returned to Porter) leave town.

Sep 19, 1958

Sep 26, 1958

Henrietta's new gentleman friend is only using her to setup an alibi for a bank robbery.

Oct 03, 1958

Hoby tracks down Benny French who was the only member of the Morgan Larker gang who escaped from the bank robbery.

Oct 10, 1958

Hoby is held prisoner in a shack during a blizzard by the wife of husband and wife outlaws to care for her sick husband.

Oct 17, 1958

One of the outlaws who held up the Butterfield stage depot has been caught and is awaiting trial and hanging. Hoby is called in to protect the town of Talpa. The prisoner claims his outlaw gang will kill the witnesses and destroy the town.

Oct 24, 1958

Oct 31, 1958

Lance Garth is accused of stealing the payroll from Banning Mining but he is shot and killed before the money is found.

Nov 07, 1958

Nov 14, 1958

Nov 21, 1958

Gambler Joe Sunday comes to Porter with a court order to take possession of his baby daughter from her mother Cindy who plays the piano in the saloon. Hoby has to enforce the order over the objections of Henrietta and the whole town.

Nov 28, 1958

A young man seeks the person who killed his brother. The truth is not what he expected.

Dec 05, 1958

Dec 12, 1958

Dec 19, 1958

Dec 26, 1958

Sheriff Alvin Fremont and a mob take prisoner Char Lopez out of jail and threaten to lynch him unless he confesses. The horse bolts and Lopez is hanged. Hoby is sent in to investigate who was responsible.

Jan 02, 1959

Youngster Debby McCallin comes to town and asks Hoby to stop her father Bart McCallin from committing a robbery.

Jan 28, 1959

Feb 04, 1959

Doc Calhoun and Hoby deal with an outbreak of typhoid fever in town.

Feb 11, 1959

Elderly and dying Maude Turley has her boys bring her back to Porter to die and be buried next to her husband after being run out of town 17 years ago by the Corbett's. Hoby tries to keep the two families from killing each other.

Feb 18, 1959

Hoby finds a man on the trail with his leg caught in a bear trap and releases him. The man then knocks Hoby out, steals his horse and gun and leaves him caught in the bear trap.

Feb 25, 1959

Mar 04, 1959

A smiling stranger wearing a 3-piece suit and bowler hat barges into the bank manager's office carrying a package under his arm and threatens to blow the town of Porter off the face of the Earth in one hour unless he is given $10,000.

Mar 11, 1959

Joker Wells, who was a traitor with the Confederate Army, returns to his home town of Porter. Everybody wants Hoby to run him out of town, especially Ed Crow, who blames Joker for the loss of his arm in the war.

Mar 18, 1959

Mar 25, 1959

Henrietta Porter receives a letter from Harry Keller who was just released from prison warning the town of Porter to stay away from Hoby because Harry is coming to kill Hoby in revenge for killing his brother. Making things worse, Hoby doesn't even know what Keller looks like.

Apr 01, 1959

Apr 08, 1959

A strange girl arrives in Porter and tells Hoby that she knows that Joe Corbett is innocent of murder even though he was convicted and sentenced to hang because she was a witness and saw somebody else do it.

Apr 15, 1959

Tully Saxon knocks on the door to Tenner Smith's office in the saloon. When Tenner opens the door, he is surprised to see someone he had not seen in 8 years. Tully tells Tenner he will kill him before he leaves town.

Apr 22, 1959

When traveling salesman Emanuel Brock is found shot to death in his hotel room, Hoby has to figure out who did it.

Apr 29, 1959

Two old men (Zack and Levi) tell Ralph that they are his long lost uncles but Hoby thinks something about the two men rang sour.

May 06, 1959

A man and a woman came to Porter bringing with them the idea of "Give Women the Vote".

May 13, 1959

Hoby is called to the town of Glenville who are afraid that a group of religious people who moved in outside of town are practicing witchcraft and are causing bad luck.

May 20, 1959

Sep 02, 1959

Hoby is helping Sheriff Lee look into a murder. But the widow, the doctor and even the sheriff have motives with none helpful in finding the killer.

Sep 09, 1959

Hoby returns home to Crawford to help his sister Nora after she sends him a telegram that somebody has been threatening her and because he gets a telegram from town drunk Fred Sales to come home quick because his sister is going to die.

Sep 16, 1959

Rufus Cole shoots Mike Hardesty off his horse on the trail. Hoby who had been trailing Rufus for six weeks comes along to save Mike but he has lost his sight.

Sep 23, 1959

Chad Winter, the owner of the general store, finds an old woman in his store after closing then two men walk in and shoot him. Hoby has to find out who killed him.