Original title
Broken Arrow
Released
9/25/1956
Origin country
US
Genre
Western
Production companies
20th Century Fox Television, TCF Television Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
72
Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were shown by ABC on Sunday afternoons during the 1959–60 season. Selected repeats were then shown once again in prime time during the summer of 1960.
A young Indian working as a scout for the Army is struggling between his loyalty to the Army and his loyalty to his brother, a member of Geronimo's renegade Indians.
A sideshow owner schemes to turn an Indian into his star attraction. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Cheewaukee: Eugene Iglesias.
A lieutenant once lured five Indians into a murderous trap. Now he faces the only one who escaped---Cochise (Michael Ansara). Haskell: Robert Cornthwaite.
A youngster reports that he saw a camel, a dinosaur---and a murder. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Ramon: Ricky Vera.
Jeffords heads for San Francisco when a Government clothing order is sidetracked. Terry: Angie Dickinson. Emperor Norton: Florenz Ames.
Area commodity providers conduct raids which turn deadly disguised as Aravaipa Apaches to foment conflict and draw military into the area and so gain profit from the increased presence of troops.
White settlers attack an Indian village in reprisal for Geronimo's raids. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Griffin: Hal Smith.
The Mexican Army aids Jeffords' search for Geronimo. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cathy: Kathleen Nolan. Cochise: Michael Ansara.
A theft of horses as a wedding gift for a tribeswoman by one of Cochise's braves imperils peace with the Chiricahua and the relationship of Jeffords and Cochise.
Quarry: an Indian brave suspected of shooting a woman. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Hawkins: Damian O'Flynn. Walters: Philip Van Zandt.
Against Jeffords' advice, a brother and sister wish to take an Apache boy back east to be given a white man's education.
Cochise arranges a peace conference with Geronimo. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Chato: Anthony Caruso. Jeffords: John Lupton. Toweega: Christopher Dark.
A Chiricahua man who has just completed medical school finds himself lacking acceptance of both Apache and white populations while the injury of Chiricahua and white playmates exacerbates the predicament.
When a retired Apache hating general visits the territory as a now Washington official and is shot by an unrequited love, an Apache brave is blamed by the biased settlers.
The son of a storekeeper who was killed by white reservation poachers when defending an Apache brave is captured and held for ransom when he pursues the poachers.
Apaches blame a malaria outbreak on neighboring settlers. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cholano: John Beradino.
During a harsh winter, Jeffords is compelled to use his own means to provide food for the reservation and keep the peace while an army officer and government agencies delay the delivery of promised provisions .
The Apaches fight a Government official's efforts to push them off their land. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Flagstaff: James Craig.
Jeffords tries to spring a murder suspect from Cochise's custody. Younger: Paul Richards. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara.
A former general schemes to push the Indians off their land. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara.
Jeffords and Cochise head for the Mexican border in pursuit of a boy and his herd of infected cattle. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Teeahbay: Eugene Martin. Harrison: Clancy Cooper.
Cochise and Jeffords trap a killer, then lose their horses in the desert. Taggert: John Larch. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara.
Two archaeologists prowl the reservation recording Indian customs. Jeffords: John Lupton. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Morgan: Arthur Hanson. Regis: Anthony Eustrel. Katena: Richard Hale. Nogalo: Alex Montoya.
An Indian girl is hampered in her efforts to get an education. Marsheela: Donna Martell. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Jeffords: John Lupton. Pete: Jan Merlin.
A chief's son is being framed for arson and murder. Rano: Buzz Henry. Kotoy: George J. Lewis. Jeffords: John Lupton. Tim: James Dobson. Bobo: John Doucette.
Cochise and Jeffords join forces to thwart Geronimo's attack plans. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Jeffords: John Lupton. Geronimo: Charles Horvath. Louise: Mae Clark.
A Mexican ranch owner is pressured by his foreman to not allow Cochise to move and water his cattle on the ranch property, by threatening to tell the don's daughter that her mother was Apache.
Jeffords intervenes when an exiled Apache abandons his child. Cochise: Michael Ansara. Manuel: Dan Casbian. Sanza: Jil Jarmyn. Tabor: Ken Christy.
A man who kills an elderly prospector for a valuable locket alleges it is Cochise who committed the murder. His associates then determine to kill Cochise for the deed.
Gun runners intent on supplying arms to the factions in a Mexican power struggle steal and buy all the guns and ammunition in the area and use outlaw Chiricahuas to blame Cochise's group.
Cochise asks for a teacher to instruct in the ways of white culture. To his chagrin, the one he gets is not only a woman, but a woman who holds fast to cultural values that demean Apache customs.
An outlaw sells whiskey to the Apaches which causes several deaths among the Indians. Cochise begins a search for the outlaw.
When a boy from a criminal family is caught stealing, Jeffords takes custody of him to prevent his imprisonment. But he then farms the boy to Cochise to teach him life lessons, to the mortification of his parents and the settlement folk.
Jeffords is falsely accused of stealing supplies meant for the Chiricahua reservation, which spurs efforts by Cochise to thwart Jeffords' prosecution, despite Jeffords' insistence on following the judicial process.
A murderous Modoc woman wanders into Cochise's camp and causes a jurisdictional dispute among a Modoc search party, the Apaches and the U.S. Army.
Cochise, is wounded in a battle and appoints a subchief to rule the Chiracahuas. The new leader, intoxicated with power, tries to lead the Apaches back to war.
A US Cavalry general posts troops on the Chirikawa reservation, distrustful of Cochise.
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