Black Saddle(1959)

series - first aired/released 1959-01-10 - audience 6.2

Western, Drama

Directed by Boris Sagal, David Lowell Rich, Elliot Silverstein, Francis D. Lyon, Frank Baur, Gerd Oswald, James Sheldon, John English, Robert Florey, Roger Kay, William D. Faralla, William F. Claxton

Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.