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Trackdown

TV·1957–1959·2 seasons, 71 episodes·CBS·Western, Action & Adventure·30m

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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.

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Episodes by season

Season0132Episodes1957–58AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01The Marple BrothersOctober 4, 1957
  2. S01E02Law in LampasasOctober 11, 1957Hoby, passing through Lampasas, involves himself when the whole town seems intent on the legal lynching of what he thinks is an innocent man
  3. S01E03San Saba IncidentOctober 18, 1957
  4. S01E04Easton, TexasOctober 25, 1957
  5. S01E05Like FatherNovember 1, 1957
  6. S01E06Sweetwater, TexasNovember 8, 1957
  7. S01E07Alpine, TexasNovember 15, 1957Hoby rides into Alpine, Texas looking for a friend. He finds instead a hatred for the Texas Rangers-- and the entire town sides against him
  8. S01E08Self-DefenseNovember 22, 1957
  9. S01E09End of an OutlawNovember 29, 1957
  10. S01E10Look for the WomanDecember 6, 1957
  11. S01E11The TownDecember 13, 1957
  12. S01E12Man and MoneyDecember 27, 1957
  13. S01E13The RewardJanuary 3, 1958Hoby tracks down a missing florist with a rare orchid, who may hold the key to missing bank money and three fugitive bank robbers.
  14. S01E14The Farrand StoryJanuary 10, 1958Hoby tracks the murderer of a married man who may have been ready to leave his wife for another woman.
  15. S01E15Right of WayJanuary 17, 1958
  16. S01E16The WitnessJanuary 24, 1958
  17. S01E17The Toll RoadJanuary 31, 1958
  18. S01E18The Young GunFebruary 7, 1958Hoby 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
  19. S01E19The WeddingFebruary 14, 1958
  20. S01E20The TrailFebruary 28, 1958
  21. S01E21The Bounty HunterMarch 7, 1958Nick Adams and Michael Landon as bad-guy brothers
  22. S01E22The JudgeMarch 14, 1958Hoby 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.
  23. S01E23The HouseMarch 21, 1958
  24. S01E24The BoyMarch 28, 1958
  25. S01E25The Pueblo KidApril 4, 1958
  26. S01E26The Winter BoysApril 11, 1958Hoby has to nursemaid a witness from El Paso who's in hiding until the big murder trial in three weeks.
  27. S01E27The MistakeApril 18, 1958Hoby 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
  28. S01E28The DealApril 25, 1958Hoby has to deal with a notorious outlaw/killer who is holding a runaway town boy for ransom.
  29. S01E29The JailbreakMay 2, 1958Hoby 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
  30. S01E30The End of the WorldMay 9, 1958
  31. S01E31The BrothersMay 16, 1958Twins (both played by Steve McQueen) change identities to confuse Hoby.
  32. S01E32The GovernorMay 23, 1958Hoby 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

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0239Episodes1958–59AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Killer Take AllSeptember 5, 1958
  2. S02E02Outlaw's WifeSeptember 12, 1958The town's women want Hoby to make an outlaw's wife (who just returned to Porter) leave town.
  3. S02E03Chinese CowboySeptember 19, 1958
  4. S02E04The Set-UpSeptember 26, 1958Henrietta's new gentleman friend is only using her to setup an alibi for a bank robbery.
  5. S02E05A Stone for Benny FrenchOctober 3, 1958Hoby tracks down Benny French who was the only member of the Morgan Larker gang who escaped from the bank robbery.
  6. S02E06TrappedOctober 10, 1958Hoby is held prisoner in a shack during a blizzard by the wife of husband and wife outlaws to care for her sick husband.
  7. S02E07Matter of JusticeOctober 17, 1958One 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
  8. S02E08Tenner SmithOctober 24, 1958
  9. S02E09The AvengerOctober 31, 1958Lance Garth is accused of stealing the payroll from Banning Mining but he is shot and killed before the money is found.
  10. S02E10The SchoolteacherNovember 7, 1958
  11. S02E11Deadly DecoyNovember 14, 1958
  12. S02E12Sunday's ChildNovember 21, 1958Gambler 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
  13. S02E13Day of VengeanceNovember 28, 1958A young man seeks the person who killed his brother. The truth is not what he expected.
  14. S02E14Three-Legged FoxDecember 5, 1958
  15. S02E15The KidDecember 12, 1958
  16. S02E16GuiltDecember 19, 1958
  17. S02E17Every Man a WitnessDecember 26, 1958Sheriff 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
  18. S02E18McCallin's DaughterJanuary 2, 1959Youngster Debby McCallin comes to town and asks Hoby to stop her father Bart McCallin from committing a robbery.
  19. S02E19Bad JudgmentJanuary 28, 1959
  20. S02E20TerrorFebruary 4, 1959Doc Calhoun and Hoby deal with an outbreak of typhoid fever in town.
  21. S02E21The FeudFebruary 11, 1959Elderly 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
  22. S02E22The SamaritanFebruary 18, 1959Hoby 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
  23. S02E23The GangFebruary 25, 1959
  24. S02E24The ThreatMarch 4, 1959A 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
  25. S02E25Hard LinesMarch 11, 1959Joker 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
  26. S02E26FearMarch 18, 1959
  27. S02E27Stranger in TownMarch 25, 1959Henrietta Porter receives a letter from Harry Keller who was just released from prison warning the town of Porter to stay away from Hoby bec
  28. S02E28The ProtectorApril 1, 1959
  29. S02E29False WitnessApril 8, 1959A 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
  30. S02E30The TrickApril 15, 1959Tully 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
  31. S02E31The Eyes of Jerry KelsoApril 22, 1959When traveling salesman Emanuel Brock is found shot to death in his hotel room, Hoby has to figure out who did it.
  32. S02E32The Gift HorseApril 29, 1959Two old men (Zack and Levi) tell Ralph that they are his long lost uncles but Hoby thinks something about the two men rang sour.
  33. S02E33The VoteMay 6, 1959A man and a woman came to Porter bringing with them the idea of "Give Women the Vote".
  34. S02E34The UnwantedMay 13, 1959Hoby 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
  35. S02E35Toss-UpMay 20, 1959
  36. S02E36InquestSeptember 2, 1959Hoby 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
  37. S02E37Back to CrawfordSeptember 9, 1959Hoby 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
  38. S02E38Blind AlleySeptember 16, 1959Rufus 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
  39. S02E39Quiet Night in PorterSeptember 23, 1959Chad 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

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

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