The Six Shooter — 1953
16 episodes broadcast in 1953.
The program's audition recording, framed by a personal on-air pitch from James Stewart; the story was later reworked as the episode 'Ben Scofield.'
A plain, kind-hearted woman shelters a wounded outlaw and hides him from the sheriff, only for him to die of his wounds.
A reformed gunman who swore to his wife never to draw again is pushed to the brink when a land-grabber moves against their ranch.
On a cattle drive to Abilene, an older brother finds his wife's love letter to his younger sibling and starts a stampede to kill him.
A dying town's plan to revive itself with a railroad stalls when Silver Annie refuses to surrender her property to progress.
A boy searching for his father learns the man was an outlaw, killed in a failed bank robbery.
Convinced that Dan Mayler murdered his brother, Red Lawson sets out for vengeance.
Britt helps a sheriff hunt an outlaw whose description fits the lawman's own son.
A jittery town braces for the outlaw Stacy Gault, and a lone stranger's arrival nearly gets him lynched by the posse.
Two rivals for a young woman's affection must join forces to run down an outlaw killer.
The town thinks old sheriff Gabe is past his prime, but no one can bear to strip him of his life's work.
A young man takes the sheriff's badge hoping to find his long-lost father -- and discovers the father is the outlaw he is hunting.
Rumor sweeps the town that Britt is about to marry Helen Flint.
Britt turns actor to help a pair of down-on-their-luck theatrical friends.
Meeting a runaway boy on the trail, Britt retells Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' with a Western twist and sends him home a believer.
A son bristles at his widowed mother's remarriage barely ten months after his father's death.
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Other seasons: 1954