The Loner - Season 1
1 - An Echo of Bugles
Air Date: September 18, 1965
A swaggering gunfighter targets an aging Confederate veteran, and Colton steps in to deal with the bully.
2 - The Vespers
Air Date: September 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.
3 - The Lonely Galico Queen
Air Date: October 2, 1965
A dance hall girl mistakes Colton for her mail-order bridegroom.
4 - The Kingdom of McComb
Air Date: October 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.
5 - One of the Wounded
Air Date: October 16, 1965
Colton tries to help a Union army veteran left mute and immobile by the psychological horrors of war.
6 - The Flight of the Artic Tern
Air Date: October 23, 1965
Colton becomes involved in a romantic triangle when he saves a friend's bride-to-be from a runaway horse.
7 - Widow on the Evening Stage
Air Date: October 30, 1965
Following the murder of a man during an Indian attack, Colton witnesses a town's prejudice towards the man's Indian widow.
8 - The House Rules at Mrs. Wayne's
Air Date: November 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.
9 - The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing
Air Date: November 13, 1965
Colton has second thoughts after accepting the position of deputy to the dubious sheriff of a sleepy Montana town.
10 - The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove
Air Date: November 20, 1965
Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by bigots.
11 - Westward, the Shoemaker
Air Date: November 27, 1965
When a well-intentioned immigrant is stripped of his nest egg in a rigged card game, Colton takes on the con artist.
12 - The Oath
Air Date: December 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.
13 - Hunt the Man Down
Air Date: December 11, 1965
Colton is drafted to help a posse hunt down a seemingly harmless recluse.
14 - Escort for a Dead Man
Air Date: December 18, 1965
A man who deserted from the Army wants Colton to escort him back to his fort.
15 - The Ordeal of Bud Windom
Air Date: December 25, 1965
A murder suspect's son makes life difficult for Colton when the boy tries to clear his father's name.
16 - To the West of Eden
Air Date: January 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.
17 - Mantrap
Air Date: January 8, 1966
Colton becomes the target of an assassin when he is the sole witness to a robbery and murder.
18 - A Little Stroll to the End of the Line
Air Date: January 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.
19 - The Trial in Paradise
Air Date: January 22, 1966
Colton provides the defense in a kangaroo court trial of a former Union Army officer.
20 - A Question of Guilt
Air Date: January 29, 1966
In the darkness Colton kills an intruder, and discovers the man is an Army Lieutenant.
21 - The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (1)
Air Date: February 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)
22 - The Mourners for Johnny Sharp (2)
Air Date: February 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)
23 - Incident in the Middle Of Nowhere
Air Date: February 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.
24 - Pick Me Another Time to Die
Air Date: February 26, 1966
Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.
25 - The Burden of the Badge
Air Date: March 5, 1966
A group of reformed criminals deputize Colton to defend and protect them.
26 - To Hang a Dead Man
Air Date: March 12, 1966
Colton joins a sheriff in search of a town's destroyers.