Trackdown  1957 - 1959

 

Robert Culp as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman


Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired between 1957 and 1959.
The series was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio.
Trackdown was a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.

The series starred Robert Culp as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman, a gunslinger hunting down criminals throughout the old west.
Culp's character was based in the real life town of Porter, Texas, an unincorporated community near Houston , where he
served as de facto sheriff. Occasionally, his duties as a Texas Ranger took him out of town, using his fast gun to apprehend
wanted criminals throughout the Lone Star State. His friends included Henrietta Porter (Ellen Corby (Walton's), widow of the
town's founder and owner of The Porter Enterprise, the local newspaper , and Tenner Smith (Peter Leeds), owner of the
local saloon, a former gambler and gunslinger whose past was shrouded in mystery. Other series regulars included
Norman Leavitt (as Ralph, his deputy), James Griffith, and Gail Kobe.

Starring

Robert Culp
Ellen Corby
Peter Leeds
Norman Leavitt
James Griffith
Gail Kobe
Addison Richards

As a side note , the series Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen was a spinoff from this show, see
DVD 6 The Bounty Hunter

Guest stars

Nick Adams - Chris Alcaide - John Anderson - Robert Armstrong - Phyllis Avery
Trevor Bardette -James Best - Paul Birch - Whit Bissell - Paul Brinegar - Walter Brooke
Edgar Buchanan - Ahna Capri - James Coburn - Russ Conway - Walter Coy
Johnny Crawford - Dennis Cross - Richard Devon - James Drury - Don Durant
Scott Forbes - Robert Foulk - Beverly Garland - Dabbs Greer - Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr.
Richard Jaeckel - Vivi Janiss - DeForest Kelley - Michael Landon - Forrest Lewis
Strother Martin - Carole Mathews - Steve McQueen - Rita Moreno - Vic Morrow
Warren Oates - Susan Oliver - Paul Richards - Pernell Roberts - Gloria Saunders
Karen Sharpe - Harold J. Stone - Ray Teal - William Talman - Russell Thorson
Lee Van Cleef - Stuart Whitman - Jean Willes - Chill Wills

Here is the Entire series "The Gang" is lost) on 18 dvds... 7/7.5 with a few ruff cuts (DVD 2) to fill the series.
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