A Lightning Bolt When He Drew That Colt
Original title
Colt .45
Released
10/18/1957
Origin country
US
Genre
Western
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
67
Colt .45 is an American Western series which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960. Christopher Colt was apparently a gun salesman but was in fact a government agent tracking down notorious bad guys. The half-hour program is loosely based on the 1950 Warner Bros. film of the same name, starring Randolph Scott. Colt .45 was part of the William T. Orr-produced array of westerns which Warner produced for ABC in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Gun salesman Christopher Colt arrives in Cottonwood, Arizona, ready to sell his new line of guns, but a young missionary gets on his case for helping contribute to the culture of violence in the west.
Escorting a prisoner across the desert, Chris is waylaid by the outlaw's cohorts. Now it's a fight for survival when he finds himself without a horse, food or water.
A wanted man Chris is after gets shot down in a saloon after he shoots another man. Three men then try to claim the reward for the criminal. Chris pretends to be the dead man's friend, but things get tense when someone in town recognizes him.
Chris captures the notorious outlaw The Comanche Kid in Granite Gap. The townspeople are bound and determined to hang him, but an elderly woman believes that the Kid is her long-long son.
Chris finds a seemingly mild mannered tenderfoot who always wins when he finds himself in a gunfight.
When the government finds itself in a case of fraud, Chris goes undercover in an attempt to find the culprits and to expose their plot.
When bandits raid and terrorize a small Mexican village, Chris comes to help quell the attacks of violence and terror.
While on a hunting trip with a fellow lawman, Chris encounters a woman who claims to have been a witness to a murder.
A young man buys a gun from Chris. The only problem with that is he soon learns that the boy is out for retribution against the man who killed his father during a bank job.
While checking into a secessionist plot, Chis find very little until he finds a mysterious symbol on a Mexican peso, his only clue.
Chris attempts to smooth things out between a Lawman and his girlfriend when she runs off with a Gypsy leader.
Chris joins forces with a government agent to guard an Army payroll shipment.
Chris once again finds himself helping a small Mexican village from Army renegade raiders.
Chris finds himself in a tight spot when an outlaw agrees to turn himself in provided the reward money goes to his girlfriend who needs the money for a procedure to save her life.
To learn about a huge robbery plot, Chris goes undercover as an outlaw in hopes of infiltrating the suspected gang.
Mexican outlaws raid cargoes of federal firearms.
Undercover government agent Chris Colt is wounded during a train robbery. A woman passenger uses a piece of needlework to patch up his bullet-torn jacket, and this piece of fabric provides a valuable clue later on.
A government agent brings down outlaws with help from the celebrated Colt revolver that his father invented.
Directed by Lee Sholem and Written by Nelson Nye Lee Sholem and James Gunn
Frank Wilson, a notorious gunfighter, arrives in town to see his son, who has changed his name because he's ashamed of his father. It's not long before Frank Sr. is forced to kill a challenger in a gunfight, after which he collapses. It turns out that he's terminally ill and hasn't long to live, and has come to town to leave his son a golden gun and a map to the spot where he has hidden %50,000 in stolen loot.
Chris is forced to be the hero when a stagecoach is attacked by Indians.
Turned into a vicious gunslinger by his wife's murder, a marshal finds the killer.
Chris mistakes a female doctor for an outlaw.
Chris Colt trails a number of deserters from an Army post to learn why they deserted.
A bitter young man is tempted to become an outlaw, then he unknowingly aids Chris colt in his search for a gang of bank robbers.
Chris helps a dismissed sheriff clear his name.
No sooner has Chris turned a prisoner over to the Army than a girl uses Chris to get the man freed.
Chris Colt trails a bounty-hunter straight to a murder.
Chris needs a photographer's help to clear a condemned Indian.
A rancher seems eager to confess to a stage robbery.
Colt is hired as bodyguard to actor Edwin Booth, brother of the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
A sheriff complicates Chris's hunt for a killer.
Posing as a jailbird, Chris engineers a break to learn where loot has been hidden.
Billy the Kid is offered amnesty by the governor, but a cynical sheriff raises Billy's doubts.
Sent to regain Federal money stolen by a pirate, Chris ends up a prisoner on board the pirate's ship.
Colt must defend his client---and himself---against a frame-up.
Chris tries to keep a gunman from framing a marshal for murder.
Chris finds the rifles he was to have impounded---after they're auctioned off to a rancher.
Leonard Nimoy plays Luke Reid, a robber who betrayed his men, and now has Chris Colt on his trail.
A counterfeiting ring makes things hot for Chris on a gambling boat
Chris is after killers in the desert. Father Knox: Jack Mather. Hicks: Joe di Reda. Gibson: Buzz Martin.
Adam West plays Doc Holliday, baiting a trap for a killer.
Hunting a missing shipment, Chris clashes with a man who sells guns to hostile Indians
Troy Donahue plays a bank clerk framed by outlaws.
Chris meets Buffalo Bill and writer Ned Buntline (Lindsay Workman)---and a gang of hijackers.
Colt uses panic about a yellow-fever epidemic to find a murderer.
Chris is assigned to protect a French diplomat touring the West.
Sam's on the trail of an outlaw but he doesn't know it's Jesse James.
Colt escorts a woman doctor and smallpox vaccine to Deadwood during an Indian uprising.
Sam, after the pair who robbed a stagecoach, finds one of them on the trail---dead. Mills: Tim Graham. Julie: Suzanne Lloyd. Cliff: Jack Hogan.
Sam and a soldier are carrying a military payroll and mistakenly turn it over to three bandits disguised as cavalry troopers. They set out to retrieve the money and catch the bandits.
Posing as a gambler, Sam puts on the pressure to locate stolen Government money.
Sam has to cope with Mexican rebels to retrieve a renegade colonel for the Government.
The Colt boys work to nab cattle rustlers---with Sam posing as a killer eager to kill Chris.
Chris tries to stop highwaymen from taking a gold-laden stagecoach.
Colt risks a court-martial when he refuses to follow orders. Colt: Wayde Preston.
While Chris investigates an alleged murderer's innocence, the prisoner disappears.
A colonel accuses his lieutenant son of cowardice.
Escorting two killers to jail, Chris comes upon injured men---and one of his prisoners is a doctor.
Chris takes on a woman whose word is judge and jury combined.
Sam's latest cause: helping immigrant workers who are being blackmailed by outlaws.
A gambler and Sam can't seem to come to terms on Sam's crusade to clean up the town.
The Sioux own ore-rich land - but miners are determined to take it over.
Sam and a bounty hunter are after the same men. Sam wants them alive, but the bounty hunter just wants the cash.
The Sanger family vows revenge on Ben Thompson after he shoots the youngest member in self defense. It's up to the Colt cousins to protect him and defuse the situation.
A paroled ex-convict is to drive a gold-laden stage---which his enemy plans to rob.
Mike O'Tara is determined to avenge the murder, by a soldier, of his Indian wife.
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