Season 2 • Episode 39
LatestChad Winter, the owner of the general store, finds an old woman in his store after closing then two men walk in and shoot him. Hoby has to find out who killed him.
Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
Acting
Robert Culp's pre-I Spy charisma carries every scene.
Writing
Dick Powell's team delivers tight half-hour morality tales.
Production
Desilu studio Western sets at their most atmospheric.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Culp landed I Spy partly because Trackdown proved he could carry a series solo. The network finally noticed.
This was Dick Powell's secret weapon—using his anthology platform to test characters for standalone series, essentially inventing the TV spin-off template.
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