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Starring
John Lupton
(as Tom Jeffords) &
Michael Ansara
(as Cochise)
Season 1 (ABC) (1956-57)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
Sal Crisanti, Rina Fox, James Beer
references:
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ABC Tuesdays 9:00pm Eastern
1.01 [--] Broken Arrow: THE MAIL RIDERS [verified -SC]
TCF prod. no. 4-01 / 25Sep56 ABC
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by Alvin Ganzer
Teleplay by Clark Reynolds
director of photography: Karl Struss
film editor: Otto Meyer.
Guest Cast:
Michael Pate ............ Gokliya
Donald Randolph ......... Col. Bernall
Ted DeCorsia ............ Cartwright
KENNETH MACDONALD
Judith Ames ............. Terry Wilson
TOM LONDON (UNCREDITED), RORY MALLINSON (UNCREDITED).
RECURRING CAST:
Tom Fadden .................... Duffield
SYNOPSIS:
TOM JEFFORDS HAS HIS FIRST MEETING WITH COCHISE, WHO PROMISES
TO LET MAIL RIDERS PASS THROUGH HIS TERRITORY UNHARMED. [SC]
1.02 Broken Arrow: BATTLE AT APACHE PASS
TCF prod. no. 4-02
02Oct56 ABC Tue
Produced by Mel Epstein
Teleplay by Clark Reynolds
Directed by Richard L. Bare
Director of photography: Karl Struss
Film editor: Otto Meyer
Guest Cast:
Michael Pate ........... Gokliya
Ross Elliott ........... Capt. Carstairs
Tom Fadden ............. Duffield
Robert Warwick ......... Gen. Howard
Ted DeCorsia ........... Cartwright
Synopsis:
Angered because they think he has released information to Cochise, a group
of settlers set out to lynch mail carrier Tom Jeffords. [RF]
1.03 [--] Broken Arrow: INDIAN AGENT
TCF prod. no. 4-03 / 09-Oct-1956 ABC Tue
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by Alvin Ganzer.
Teleplay by Clark Reynolds
director of photography: Karl Struss
film editor: Otto Meyer.
Starring:
John Lupton (as Tom Jeffords), Michael Ansara (as Cochise)
Guest Cast:
Michael Pate ............ Geronimo
Sue England ............. Sonseeahray
Tom Fadden .............. Duffield
Synopsis:
Geronimo leads an Indian attack on a stagecoach, and Tom Jeffords seeks help
from Cochise in fighting the Indian renegade band. [JB]
1.04 Broken Arrow: THE CAPTIVE
TCF prod. no. 4-04
23-Oct-1956 ABC Tue
Produced by Mel Epstein
Teleplay by Clark Reynolds
Directed by Richard L. Bare
Director of photography: Karl Strauss.
Guest Cast:
Tom Fadden ............. Duffield
Ray Stricklyn .......... Nahilo
Trevor Bardette ........ Whittier
Kathryn Card ........... Abigail
Richard Wessel ......... Bartender
Synopsis:
Two whites kidnap a white boy who has been raised as an Apache. Cochise
and his braves prepare to go on the warpath to get the boy back. [RF]
1.05 Broken Arrow: PASSAGE DEFERRED
Prod. no. 4-05
30-Oct-1956 ABC Tue (Network Rerun 1Nov59 ABC Sun)
produced by Alan A. Armer
directed by John English
Teleplay by Jan Leman and Ted Thomas
director of photography: Karl Struss
film editor: James D. Ballas.
Guest Cast:
Chris Alcaide .......... Brown Eagle
Sean McClory ........... Shawn
Henry Brandon .......... Judd Buckley
Pepe Hern .............. Tokumo
Synopsis:
A poor Irishman is caught by Cochise while mining gold in Apache territory. [RF]
Synopsis:
A poor Irishman is caught by Cochise while mining for gold in Apache territory.
He’s trespassing on forbidden territory
and only the intervention of Tom Jeffords saves him. [JB]
1.06 Broken Arrow: MEDICINE MAN
TCF prod. no. 4-06
13Nov56 ABC Tue (Network Rerun 25Jun57)
Produced by Mel Epstein
Teleplay by John McGreevey
Directed by John English
director of photography: Karl Struss
film editor: James D. Ballas
Guest Cast:
Peter Hansen
Synopsis:
When an Apache brave collapses at an Army post, the Army Doctor diagnoses his
ailment as smallpox. Investigation reveals
that a major epidemic has broken out among the Apache tribesmen and the doctor
is assigned to treat the stricken Indians.
But the Apaches do no trust the white man's medicine and rely instead on Nochalo,
their medicine man. [RF]
1.07 Broken Arrow: HERMANO
TCF prod. no. 4-09
20Nov56 ABC Tue
Produced by Mel Epstein
Teleplay by John Dunkel
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse
director of photography: Karl Struss
film editor: James D. Ballas.
Guest Cast:
Nick Venetoulis ........ Hermano
Ray Teal ............... Col. McBride
Kem Dibbs .............. Sanchi
Steve Conte ............ Chee
Synopsis:
A young Indian is torn between loyalty to his brother, a member of Geronimo's
band of renegade Indians, and his personal
loyalty to the U.S. Army. He has to
prove his worth to the whites by giving them information about Geronimo's
activities. [RF]
1.08 Broken Arrow: JUSTICE (a.k.a. "Caged"(copyright title)
TCF prod. no. 4-08 / 27-Nov-1956 ABC Tue
produced by Alan A. Armer
directed by John English.
Teleplay by Warren Wilson
director of photography: Karl Struss
film editor: Otto Meyer.
Starring:
John Lupton (as Tom Jeffords), Michael Ansara (as Cochise)
Guest Cast:
Eugene Iglesias ............... Cheewaukee
Addison Richards .............. Dougherty
Robert Armstrong .............. Insp. Higgins
Synopsis:
An Indian friend of Tom Jeffords goes to San Francisco, believing he is to be
representing the Apaches at an Indian congress.
It turns out to be a complete fraud, and the Indian is being advertised as the
star of a circus side show. [JB]
1.09 Broken Arrow: RETURN FROM THE SHADOWS
TCF prod. no. 4-12
04-Dec-1956 ABC Tue (rerun 21Jul57)
Produced by Alan A. Armer
Teleplay by William R. Cox
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse.
director of photography: Karl Struss
film editor: James Ballas.
Starring:
John Lupton (as Tom Jeffords), Michael Ansara (as Cochise)
Guest Cast:
Robert Cornthwaite ....... Lt. Haskell
Marjorie Owens ........... Mrs. Pilgrim
Harry Harvey, Jr. ........ Judge
Christopher Dark ......... Jose
Synopsis:
An Army lieutenant who several years before lured five Indians into a trap by
using a flag of truce,
returns to admit his guilt. He has to face the only one
who escaped the massacre, Cochise. [RF]
1.10 [--] Broken Arrow: CRY WOLF
(a.k.a. "Mirage")
TCF prod. no. 4-10
11-Dec-1956 ABC Tues (Network Rerun 29Nov59 ABC Sun)
Produced by Alan A. Armer
Teleplay by Warren Wilson / Story by Barbara and Milton Merlin
Directed by William Thiele
director of photography: Karl Struss / film editor: James Ballas.
Starring:
John Lupton (as Tom Jeffords), Michael Ansara (as Cochise)
Guest Cast:
Ricky Vera
Helen Wallace
Synopsis:
The imaginative son of the town derelict reports that he witnessed a murder and
saw two strange animals.
One looked like a dinosaur, the other was a camel. [JB]
1.11 [--] Broken Arrow: THE CONSPIRATORS
TCF prod. no. 4-11 / 18-Dec-1956 ABC Tue
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse.
Teleplay by Harold Swanton
director of photography: Karl Struss
Starring:
John Lupton (as Tom Jeffords), Michael Ansara (as Cochise)
Guest Cast:
Edgar Barrier ........... Chenoweth
Angie Dickinson ......... Terry Weaver
Florenz Ames ............ Emperor Norton
Booth Colman ............ Wilkins
Synopsis:
Tom Jeffords makes a trip to San Francisco to find out what happened to an
Apache clothing order
supposedly sent by the government a month earlier. [JB]
1.12 [--] Broken Arrow: THE RAIDERS
[verified -SC]
TCF prod. no. 4-07 / 25-Dec-1956 ABC
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by John English (on copyright)
DIRECTED RICHARD L. BARE. [SC]
Teleplay by William Leicester (on copyright)
TELEPLAY BY ORVILLE H. HAMPTON. [SC]
director of photography: Karl Struss;
film editor: Otto Meyer.
Guest Cast:
Leo Gordon ............ Will Carr
Jean Howell ........... Mrs. Krohl
William Phipps......... Frank Krohl
JOHN HARMON, TERRY FROST, MYRON HEALEY.
SYNOPSIS:
A GROUP OF TUCSON MERCHANTS IMPERSONATE APACHE RAIDERS TO BRING BACK
ARMY TROOPS, RESULTING IN AN INCREASE IN THEIR BUSINESS FROM LOCAL
FARMERS. TOM JEFFORDS MUST PROVE THAT COCHISE'S APACHES ARE NOT
RESPONSIBLE. [SC]
Synopsis 2:
A general store owner, aided by three other men, campaigns to start war between
the white settlers and the
Apaches. The man wants the army to send in troops to
quell the war, so he will get the soldiers' trade. [RF]
1.13 Broken Arrow: APACHE MASSACRE
TCF prod. no. 4-13
01-Jan-1957 ABC Tue (Network Rerun 6Dec59 ABC Sun)
produced by Mel Epstein
directed by Joe Parker
Teleplay by John Meredyth Lucas
director of photography: Karl Struss/ film editor: Richard Farrell.
Guest Cast:
Hal Smith ............... Griffin
Peter Mamakos ........... Tigre
Synopsis:
After the renegade Geronimo makes two surprise attacks on settlers, one of the
settlers leads a vengeful attack
on an Indian village. [JB]
1.14 [--] Broken Arrow: THE RESCUE
TCF prod. no. 4-14 / 08-Jan-1957 ABC Tue
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse.
Teleplay by Gerald Drayson Adams
director of photography: Charles VanEnger.
Starring:
John Lupton (as Tom Jeffords), Michael Ansara (as Cochise)
Guest Cast:
Kathy Nolan ............. Cathy Mason
Eddy Waller ............. Hank Thompson
Synopsis:
Tom Jeffords rides from Fort Apache to Tucson to deliver a dispatch to the
Mexican Army forces.
The information will aid them in their plan to trap the renegade Geronimo, if he
gets there safely. [JB]
1.15 [--] Broken Arrow: APACHE DOWRY
TCF prod. no. 4-18 / 15-Jan-1957 ABC Tue
Produced by Alan A. Armer
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse.
Story by Clark E. Reynolds / Teleplay by Clark E. Reynolds & David T. Chantler
director of photography: Charles VanEnger
film editor: James D. Ballas.
Starring:
John Lupton (as Tom Jeffords), Michael Ansara (as Cochise)
Guest Cast:
Howard Petrie ........... Sam Carson
Maurice Jara ............ Oreste
Strother Martin ......... Renton
Lisa Montell ............ Tesalbe
Paul Birch .............. Col. Scott
Synopsis:
One of Cochise’s Braves steals two horses from a rancher. Trouble develops
between Tom Jeffords and Cochise,
because both demand the right to punish the Brave. [JB]
1.16 [--] Broken Arrow: THE TRIAL
[verified -SC]
(a.k.a. "White Man's Justice")
22Jan57 ABC
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by Albert S. Rogell.
Teleplay by Peter R. Brooke
director of photography: Charles VanEnger
film editor: Richard W. Farrell.
Guest Cast:
Don Beddoe .................... Baldwyn
Tamar Cooper .................. Julie
Hal K. Dawson ................. Carter
Damian O'Flynn ................ Hawkins
Arthur Space .................. Marshal Neilson
Phil Van Zandt ................ Walters
SYNOPSIS:
TOM JEFFORDS GETS CAUGHT UP IN A ONE-SIDED MILITARY TRIAL. [SC]
1.17 Broken Arrow: THE MISSIONARIES (1957.01.29)
TCF prod. no. 4-16
produced by Mel Epstein
directed by Hollingsworth Morse
Teleplay by David Victor & Herbert Little
director of photography: Charles VanEnger
film editor: Otto Meyer.
Guest Cast:
Joan Camden ................... Amanda
Chet Stratton ................. Jason
Don Beddoe .................... Silas Baldwyn
Manuel Rojas .................. Tomah
Julian Rivero ................. Papago Joe
Michael Granger ............... Nantish
Jim Nusser .................... Perkins
1.18 [--] Broken Arrow: THE CHALLENGE
CF prod. no. 4-17
5-Feb-1957 ABC Tues
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by Albert S. Rogell.
Teleplay by Wallace Bosco;
director of photography: Charles VanEnger;
film editor: James D. Ballas.
Starring:
John Lupton (as Tom Jeffords), Michael Ansara (as Cochise)
Guest Cast:
Anthony Caruso .......... Chato
Christopher Dark ........ Toweega
Pat Hogan ............... Victorio
Synopsis:
One of the renegades Geronimo’s allies asks Cochise to meet with him for a peace
council.
Against Tom Jeffords’ advice, Cochise agrees to the meeting. [JB]
1.19 [--] Broken Arrow: THE DOCTOR
TCF prod. no. 4-19
12-Feb-1957 ABC Tue (Network Rerun 20Dec59 ABC Sun)
produced by Alan A. Armer
directed by William Beaudine.
Teleplay by Kay Lenard & Jess Carneol
director of photography: Charles VanEnger
film editor: Richard H. Cahoon.
Starring:
John Lupton (as Tom Jeffords), Michael Ansara (as Cochise)
Guest Cast:
Victor Millan ........... Dr. Luke
Robert Foulk ............ Hank Woodley
Gil W. Rankin ........... Tawanga
David Saber ............. Jed
Billy Milhil
Robert Cabal
Synopsis:
Two youngsters, one an Indian, are seriously injured. [JB]
1.20 [--] Broken Arrow: POWDER KEG
TCF prod. no. 4-20
19-Feb-1957 ABC Tues
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse
Teleplay by Arthur Orloff
director of photography: Charles VanEnger;
film editor: Richard W. Farrell.
Starring:
John Lupton (as Tom Jeffords), Michael Ansara (as Cochise)
Guest Cast:
Roland Winters .......... Perry
Lurene Tuttle ........... Kate Connor
Bernie Gozier ........... Miguel
Synopsis:
A congressman visiting in Indian territory is shot and critically injured. Many
years before, while in the Army, the man
had ambushed an Apache tribal meeting. Therefore local authorities feel the
Apaches may have chosen this method of getting even. [JB]
1.21 Broken Arrow: LEGACY OF A HERO
TCF prod. no. 4-21
26Feb57 ABC Tue
Produced by William Beaudine
Teleplay by Wilton Schiller
Directed by Alan A. Armer
director of photography: Charles VanEnger
film editor: Richard H. Cahoon.
Guest Cast:
Ray Stricklyn .......... Joey
Ann Doran .............. Mrs. Randolph
Mort Mills ............. Connell
Joseph Turkel .......... Marvin
Synopsis:
A jury releases two men suspected of murder, but Tom Jeffords orders them out of
the territory to forestall any further trouble. They decide to get revenge on
Jeffords. [RF]
1.22 Broken Arrow: REBELLION
TCF prod. no. 4-22
05Mar57 ABC Tue
Produced by Alan A. Armer
Teleplay by DeVallon Scott
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse
director of photography: Charles Van Enger
film editor: Richard W. Farrell.
Guest Cast:
John Beradino .......... Choleno
Sally Fraser ........... Faith
Robert Burton .......... Peterson
Synopsis:
An Apache band suffering from a malaria epidemic becomes hostile to the whites
in the territory. [RF]
1.23 Broken Arrow: GHOST FACE
TCF prod. no. 4-23
12Mar57 ABC Tue
Produced by Mel Epstein
Teleplay by John Dunkel
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse.
director of photography: Charles VanEnger
film editor: Richard W. Farrell.
Guest Cast:
Robert F. Simon ........ Gen. Everitt
Steven Ritch ........... Nakaya
Ken Christy ............ Tabor
Steve Conte ............ Chie
Claire DuBrey .......... Tesal Bestinay
Synopsis:
During the long winter, Cochise's Apache tribe is slowly starving. They ask help
from General Everitt, but it is refused. [RF]
1.24 Broken Arrow: JOHNNY FLAGSTAFF (1957.03.19)
TCF prod. no. 4-25
produced by Alan A. Armer
directed by William Beaudine.
Teleplay by Warren Wilson
director of photography: Charles VanEnger
film editor: Otto W. Meyer.
Guest Cast:
James Craig ................... Johnny Flagstaff
1.25 [--] Broken Arrow: THE DESPERADO
[verified -SC]
TCF prod. no. 4-26 / 26Mar57 ABC
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by Albert S. Rogell
Teleplay by Peter R. Brooke
director of photography: Charles VanEnger
film editor: Otto W. Meyer.
Guest Cast:
Paul Richards .......... Bret Younger
Francis McDonald ....... Nochay
RICHARD SHANNON, HUGH SANDERS, DICK RICH, CHUCK COURTNEY.
SYNOPSIS:
THE ARMY IS SEARCHING FOR A WANTED KILLER. COCHICE MISTAKENLY WOUNDS
THE DESPERADO, WHO SHOT A MOUNTAIN LION READY TO ATTACK COCHISE.
WHEN JEFFORDS ARRIVES AT COCHISE'S CAMP LOOKING FOR THE KILLER,
THE APACHE CHIEF PROTECTS HIM FOR SAVING HIS LIFE. [SC]
1.26 Broken Arrow: FATHERS AND SONS
TCF prod. no. 4-27
02Apr57 ABC Tue
Produced by Mel Epstein
Teleplay by John Dunkel/ Story by Lawrence Goldman
Directed by Frank McDonald.
director of photography: Frank Redman
film editor: Richard Cahoon.
Guest Cast:
Willis Bouchey ......... Jeremy Chambers
Nico Minardos .......... Nachise
Synopsis:
A former Army general seeks to have the Chiricahua Apaches moved from their
reservation to open up the land for white settlers. Nachise, son of Cochise,
decides to take
matters into his own hands and kidnaps Indian agent Tom Jeffords
and the ex-general. [RF]
1.27 [--] Broken Arrow: QUARANTINE
TCF Prod. no. 4-30
09Apr57 ABC Tue
Produced by Alan A. Armer
Directed by William Beaudine.
Guest Cast:
Eugene Martin .......... Teeahbay
Clancy Cooper .......... Harrison
Robert Brubaker ........ Capt. Farrell
Synopsis:
Jeffords and Cochise learn that a boy is driving a herd of
infected cattle toward the Mexican border. [RF]
1.28 [--] Broken Arrow: ORDEAL [verified -SC]
TCF prod. no. 4-29 / 16Apr57 ABC
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by William Beaudine
Teleplay by John Dunkel
director of photography: Frank Redman
film editor: Richard H. Cahoon.
Guest Cast:
JOHN LARCH,
STEVE CONTE.
SYNOPSIS:
TOM JEFFORDS AND COCHISE SEARCH FOR A WANTED KILLER IN THE DESERT.
BEFORE CAPTURING HIM,COCHISE US SERIOUSLY WOUNDED, AND JEFFORDS
MUST FIND A WAY TO SURVIVE AND SAVE HIS FRIEND. [SC]
1.29 Broken Arrow: THE ASSASSIN
TCF prod. no. 4-28
23Apr57 ABC Tue
Produced by Mel Epstein
Teleplay by Sam Peckinpah/ Story by Elliott Arnold
Directed by Frank McDonald
director of photography: Frank Redman
film editor: Otto W. Meyer.
Guest Cast:
Charles Fredericks ..... Dilson
Russ Bender ............ Marshal
Tyler McVey ............ Simmons
Synopsis:
Indian agent Tom Jeffords hears of a plot to assassinate Cochise. There are only
two strangers in town and he must determine which is the hired killer. [RF]
1.30 Broken Arrow: THE ARCHEOLOGIST
TCF prod. no. 4-31
30Apr1957 ABC Tue (rerun 10Sep57)
Produced by Mel Epstein
Teleplay by Ellis Marcus
Directed by Frank McDonald.
director of photography: Charles VanEnger;
film editor: Richard W. Farrell.
Guest Cast:
Arthur Hanson .......... Morgan
Anthony Eustrel ........ Regis
Richard Hale ........... Katena
Alex Montoya ........... Nogalo
Synopsis:
Indian agent Tom Jeffords guides two archeologists to the Apache reservation to
record primitive Indian customs for their museum. But when the two archeologists
start probing into things the Indians regard as sacred, the Apaches take up arms
against them. [RF]
1.31 Broken Arrow: APACHE GIRL
07May57 ABC
TCF prod. no. 4-32
Produced by Alan A. Armer
Teleplay by Curtis Kenyon/ Story by Elliott Arnold
Directed by Frank McDonald
director of photography: Charles VanEnger
film editor: Richard Cahoon.
Guest Cast:
Donna Martell .......... Marsheela
Miguel Landa ........... Togan
Jan Merlin ............. Pete
Synopsis:
A beautiful Indian girl leaves the boy she loves and her home on the reservation
to study in Tucson. She is convinced that education will enable her to be
treated as a woman of
intelligence. But in Tucson she meets a roughneck who begins to
force his attentions on her. [RF]
1.32 Broken Arrow: THE BROKEN WIRE (1957.05.14)
TCF prod. no. 4-33
produced by Alan A. Armer
directed by William Beaudine.
Teleplay by Warren Wilson
director of photography: Charles VanEnger
film editor: Otto W. Meyer.
Guest Cast:
John Doucette
Buzz Henry
George J. Lewis
1.33 Broken Arrow: ATTACK ON FORT GRANT
TCF Prod. no. 4-24
21May57 ABC Tue (rerun 3Jan60)
Produced by Alan A. Armer
Teleplay by Kay Lenard & Jess Carneol
Directed by William Beaudine
director of photography: Charles VanEnger
film editor: Otto W. Meyer.
Guest Cast:
Hayden Rorke ........... Col. Lanson
Mae Clarke ............. Louise
Charles Horvath ........ Geronimo
Synopsis:
Cochise learns of Geronimo's plan to attack Fort Grant. He and Jeffords
go to warn the colonel in charge. [RF]
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