Colt .45 (1957)
Synopsis
Colt .45 is an American Western series which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960. Christopher Colt was apparently a gun salesman but was in fact a government agent tracking down notorious bad guys. The half-hour program is loosely based on the 1950 Warner Bros. film of the same name, starring Randolph Scott. Colt .45 was part of the William T. Orr-produced array of westerns which Warner produced for ABC in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
First Air Date: 1957-10-18
Last Air Date: 1960-06-21
Number of Seasons: 3
Number of Episodes: 67
Networks: ABC
Top Cast
- Wayde Preston as Christopher Colt
- Lisa Montell as Teresa Valdez
- Alma Beltran as Maria Valdez
- William Phipps as Trumbull
- Charles Bronson as Danny Gordon
- Peter Brown as Jimmy Benedict
- Lurene Tuttle as Frances Benedict
- James Anderson as Jeff Lanier
Seasons
Season 1 (1957)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Judgment Day
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.
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Ep. 2: A Time to Die
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.
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Ep. 3: The $3,000 Dollar Bullet
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.
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Ep. 4: Gallows at Granite Gap
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.
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Ep. 5: Small Man
Chris finds a seemingly mild mannered tenderfoot who always wins when he finds himself in a gunfight.
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Ep. 6: Final Payment
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.
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Ep. 7: One Good Turn
When bandits raid and terrorize a small Mexican village, Chris comes to help quell the attacks of violence and terror.
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Ep. 8: Last Chance
While on a hunting trip with a fellow lawman, Chris encounters a woman who claims to have been a witness to a murder.
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Ep. 9: Young Gun
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.
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Ep. 10: Rebellion
While checking into a secessionist plot, Chis find very little until he finds a mysterious symbol on a Mexican peso, his only clue.
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Ep. 11: The Gypsies
Chris attempts to smooth things out between a Lawman and his girlfriend when she runs off with a Gypsy leader.
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Ep. 12: Sign in the Sand
Chris joins forces with a government agent to guard an Army payroll shipment.
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Ep. 13: Mirage
Chris once again finds himself helping a small Mexican village from Army renegade raiders.
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Ep. 14: Blood Money
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.
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Ep. 15: Dead Reckoning
To learn about a huge robbery plot, Chris goes undercover as an outlaw in hopes of infiltrating the suspected gang.
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Ep. 16: Decoy
Mexican outlaws raid cargoes of federal firearms.
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Ep. 17: Rare Specimen
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.
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Ep. 18: Mantrap
A government agent brings down outlaws with help from the celebrated Colt revolver that his father invented.
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Ep. 19: Ghost Town
Directed by Lee Sholem and Written by Nelson Nye Lee Sholem and James Gunn
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Ep. 20: The Golden Gun
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.
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Ep. 21: Circle of Fear
Chris is forced to be the hero when a stagecoach is attacked by Indians.
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Ep. 22: Split Second
Turned into a vicious gunslinger by his wife's murder, a marshal finds the killer.
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Ep. 23: Point of Honor
Chris mistakes a female doctor for an outlaw.
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Ep. 24: The Deserters
Chris Colt trails a number of deserters from an Army post to learn why they deserted.
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Ep. 25: The Manbuster
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.
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Ep. 26: Long Odds
Chris helps a dismissed sheriff clear his name.
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