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Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
Cast
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01The Marple BrothersOctober 4, 1957—
- S01E02Law in LampasasOctober 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
- S01E03San Saba IncidentOctober 18, 1957—
- S01E04Easton, TexasOctober 25, 1957—
- S01E05Like FatherNovember 1, 1957—
- S01E06Sweetwater, TexasNovember 8, 1957—
- S01E07Alpine, TexasNovember 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
- S01E08Self-DefenseNovember 22, 1957—
- S01E09End of an OutlawNovember 29, 1957—
- S01E10Look for the WomanDecember 6, 1957—
- S01E11The TownDecember 13, 1957—
- S01E12Man and MoneyDecember 27, 1957—
- S01E13The RewardJanuary 3, 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.
- S01E14The Farrand StoryJanuary 10, 1958—Hoby tracks the murderer of a married man who may have been ready to leave his wife for another woman.
- S01E15Right of WayJanuary 17, 1958—
- S01E16The WitnessJanuary 24, 1958—
- S01E17The Toll RoadJanuary 31, 1958—
- S01E18The Young GunFebruary 7, 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
- S01E19The WeddingFebruary 14, 1958—
- S01E20The TrailFebruary 28, 1958—
- S01E21The Bounty HunterMarch 7, 1958—Nick Adams and Michael Landon as bad-guy brothers
- S01E22The JudgeMarch 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.
- S01E23The HouseMarch 21, 1958—
- S01E24The BoyMarch 28, 1958—
- S01E25The Pueblo KidApril 4, 1958—
- S01E26The Winter BoysApril 11, 1958—Hoby has to nursemaid a witness from El Paso who's in hiding until the big murder trial in three weeks.
- S01E27The MistakeApril 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 h
- S01E28The DealApril 25, 1958—Hoby has to deal with a notorious outlaw/killer who is holding a runaway town boy for ransom.
- S01E29The JailbreakMay 2, 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 Range
- S01E30The End of the WorldMay 9, 1958—
- S01E31The BrothersMay 16, 1958—Twins (both played by Steve McQueen) change identities to confuse Hoby.
- S01E32The GovernorMay 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 vi
Season02
- S02E01Killer Take AllSeptember 5, 1958—
- S02E02Outlaw's WifeSeptember 12, 1958—The town's women want Hoby to make an outlaw's wife (who just returned to Porter) leave town.
- S02E03Chinese CowboySeptember 19, 1958—
- S02E04The Set-UpSeptember 26, 1958—Henrietta's new gentleman friend is only using her to setup an alibi for a bank robbery.
- S02E05A Stone for Benny FrenchOctober 3, 1958—Hoby tracks down Benny French who was the only member of the Morgan Larker gang who escaped from the bank robbery.
- S02E06TrappedOctober 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.
- S02E07Matter of JusticeOctober 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 t
- S02E08Tenner SmithOctober 24, 1958—
- S02E09The AvengerOctober 31, 1958—Lance Garth is accused of stealing the payroll from Banning Mining but he is shot and killed before the money is found.
- S02E10The SchoolteacherNovember 7, 1958—
- S02E11Deadly DecoyNovember 14, 1958—
- S02E12Sunday's ChildNovember 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 t
- S02E13Day of VengeanceNovember 28, 1958—A young man seeks the person who killed his brother. The truth is not what he expected.
- S02E14Three-Legged FoxDecember 5, 1958—
- S02E15The KidDecember 12, 1958—
- S02E16GuiltDecember 19, 1958—
- S02E17Every Man a WitnessDecember 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 Lope
- S02E18McCallin's DaughterJanuary 2, 1959—Youngster Debby McCallin comes to town and asks Hoby to stop her father Bart McCallin from committing a robbery.
- S02E19Bad JudgmentJanuary 28, 1959—
- S02E20TerrorFebruary 4, 1959—Doc Calhoun and Hoby deal with an outbreak of typhoid fever in town.
- S02E21The FeudFebruary 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
- S02E22The SamaritanFebruary 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 an
- S02E23The GangFebruary 25, 1959—
- S02E24The ThreatMarch 4, 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 threaten
- S02E25Hard LinesMarch 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, e
- S02E26FearMarch 18, 1959—
- S02E27Stranger in TownMarch 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 bec
- S02E28The ProtectorApril 1, 1959—
- S02E29False WitnessApril 8, 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 sente
- S02E30The TrickApril 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
- S02E31The Eyes of Jerry KelsoApril 22, 1959—When traveling salesman Emanuel Brock is found shot to death in his hotel room, Hoby has to figure out who did it.
- S02E32The Gift HorseApril 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.
- S02E33The VoteMay 6, 1959—A man and a woman came to Porter bringing with them the idea of "Give Women the Vote".
- S02E34The UnwantedMay 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 witchcra
- S02E35Toss-UpMay 20, 1959—
- S02E36InquestSeptember 2, 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
- S02E37Back to CrawfordSeptember 9, 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 g
- S02E38Blind AlleySeptember 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 h
- S02E39Quiet Night in PorterSeptember 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 f
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