Colt .45 - Season 1

First aired: 10/18/1957 26 episodes

Episodes

1. Judgment Day

Aired: 10/18/1957

Gun salesman Christopher Colt arrives in Cottonwood, Arizona, ready to sell his new line of guns, but a young missionary gets on his case for helping contribute to the culture of violence in the west.

2. A Time to Die

Aired: 10/25/1957

Escorting a prisoner across the desert, Chris is waylaid by the outlaw's cohorts. Now it's a fight for survival when he finds himself without a horse, food or water.

3. The $3,000 Dollar Bullet

Aired: 11/1/1957

A wanted man Chris is after gets shot down in a saloon after he shoots another man. Three men then try to claim the reward for the criminal. Chris pretends to be the dead man's friend, but things get tense when someone in town recognizes him.

4. Gallows at Granite Gap

Aired: 11/8/1957

Chris captures the notorious outlaw The Comanche Kid in Granite Gap. The townspeople are bound and determined to hang him, but an elderly woman believes that the Kid is her long-long son.

5. Small Man

Aired: 11/15/1957

Chris finds a seemingly mild mannered tenderfoot who always wins when he finds himself in a gunfight.

6. Final Payment

Aired: 11/22/1957

When the government finds itself in a case of fraud, Chris goes undercover in an attempt to find the culprits and to expose their plot.

7. One Good Turn

Aired: 11/29/1957

When bandits raid and terrorize a small Mexican village, Chris comes to help quell the attacks of violence and terror.

8. Last Chance

Aired: 12/6/1957

While on a hunting trip with a fellow lawman, Chris encounters a woman who claims to have been a witness to a murder.

9. Young Gun

Aired: 12/13/1957

A young man buys a gun from Chris. The only problem with that is he soon learns that the boy is out for retribution against the man who killed his father during a bank job.

10. Rebellion

Aired: 12/20/1957

While checking into a secessionist plot, Chis find very little until he finds a mysterious symbol on a Mexican peso, his only clue.

11. The Gypsies

Aired: 12/27/1957

Chris attempts to smooth things out between a Lawman and his girlfriend when she runs off with a Gypsy leader.

12. Sign in the Sand

Aired: 1/3/1958

Chris joins forces with a government agent to guard an Army payroll shipment.

13. Mirage

Aired: 1/10/1958

Chris once again finds himself helping a small Mexican village from Army renegade raiders.

14. Blood Money

Aired: 1/17/1958

Chris finds himself in a tight spot when an outlaw agrees to turn himself in provided the reward money goes to his girlfriend who needs the money for a procedure to save her life.

15. Dead Reckoning

Aired: 1/24/1958

To learn about a huge robbery plot, Chris goes undercover as an outlaw in hopes of infiltrating the suspected gang.

16. Decoy

Aired: 1/31/1958

Mexican outlaws raid cargoes of federal firearms.

17. Rare Specimen

Aired: 2/7/1958

Undercover government agent Chris Colt is wounded during a train robbery. A woman passenger uses a piece of needlework to patch up his bullet-torn jacket, and this piece of fabric provides a valuable clue later on.

18. Mantrap

Aired: 2/14/1958

A government agent brings down outlaws with help from the celebrated Colt revolver that his father invented.

19. Ghost Town

Aired: 2/21/1958

Directed by Lee Sholem and Written by Nelson Nye Lee Sholem and James Gunn

20. The Golden Gun

Aired: 2/28/1958

Frank Wilson, a notorious gunfighter, arrives in town to see his son, who has changed his name because he's ashamed of his father. It's not long before Frank Sr. is forced to kill a challenger in a gunfight, after which he collapses. It turns out that he's terminally ill and hasn't long to live, and has come to town to leave his son a golden gun and a map to the spot where he has hidden %50,000 in stolen loot.

21. Circle of Fear

Aired: 3/7/1958

Chris is forced to be the hero when a stagecoach is attacked by Indians.

22. Split Second

Aired: 3/14/1958

Turned into a vicious gunslinger by his wife's murder, a marshal finds the killer.

23. Point of Honor

Aired: 3/21/1958

Chris mistakes a female doctor for an outlaw.

24. The Deserters

Aired: 3/28/1958

Chris Colt trails a number of deserters from an Army post to learn why they deserted.

25. The Manbuster

Aired: 4/4/1958

A bitter young man is tempted to become an outlaw, then he unknowingly aids Chris colt in his search for a gang of bank robbers.

26. Long Odds

Aired: 4/11/1958

Chris helps a dismissed sheriff clear his name.