Season 1 • Episode 12
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Gunslinger was a Western television series starring Tony Young that aired on the CBS television network from February 9 until May 18, 1961 on Thursdays from 9 to 10 p.m. EST. The series theme song was sung by Frankie Laine. Young played Cord, a young gunfighter who works undercover for the local army garrison commander, acting as a secret law enforcement agent in the territory. The series lasted for only twelve episodes. Gunslinger was the successor to Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
Score
Frankie Laine's theme song slaps harder than it should
Production
Zane Grey Theater pedigree with added espionage twist
Acting
Tony Young's brooding undercover intensity
Creator
Charles Marquis Warren
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gunslinger arrived at peak TV Western saturation—1959-1961 saw over 30 Western series on network television, making its undercover-agent twist a desperate bid for differentiation in a crowded genre.
Creator Charles Marquis Warren was so prolific in Westerns that he essentially built CBS's entire frontier programming block; Gunslinger's failure arguably pushed him toward feature films and Rawhide's later success.
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