Among the crowd of television westerns in the 1950s and 60s, The Texan stands tall. Western movie matinee idol Rory Calhoun, with his trademark black hat and steely gaze, stars as Bill Longley, a Civil War Veteran roaming the west in this fast paced, action-packed drama. With a reputation for a fast gun, loyalty to his friends, and merciless adherence to the law, Longley's quixotic travels take him across Texas from small town to small town. Along with adventure, and sometimes romance, trouble inevitably finds him, confronting him with the contradictions of the “Code of the West.” Although not a lawman himself, his reputation as a gunfighter often precedes him, pitting Longley against the forces of lawlessness. Although he is not a violent man, and he tries to de-fuse dangerous situations with frontier diplomacy, the last resort is often the only way to remedy a bad one, and Bill Longley is always up to the task.
Over The Texan's two year run on CBS, the series attracted many of the finest guest stars in Hollywood, in part because of the great writing, and because of Rory Calhoun himself, who was also a producer on the show. Alan Hale Jr., James Coburn, Denver Pyle, Mike Connors, Harry Dean Stanton and many others were frequent guest stars on the show, and a host of television's finest character actors filled out each weekly episode's cast.
The Texan, like many 50s and 60s western shows, has been hard to find since its last re-runs in 1962, and has been available only on pirated copies, often taped directly from television.
Timeless Media Group is proud to bring you 70 episodes of The Texan on 10 DVD discs. The Texan was transferred from the original 35mm film elements, bringing you the best audio and the crisp black and white photography of the original broadcasts.
Disc 1
- Law of the Gun
Guest Star: Neville Brand
- The Man with the Solid Gold Star
Guest Star: Bruce Bennett
- The Troubled Town
Guest Star: Harry Dean Stanton
- The First Notch
Guest Star: J. Carroll Naish
- The Edge of the Cliff
Guest Star: Mike Connors
- Jail for the Innocents
Guest Star: Vaughn Taylor
- A Tree for Planting
Guest Star: James Parnell
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Disc 2
- The Hemp Tree
Guest Star: Michael Landon
- The Widow of Paradise
Guest Star: Alan Hale, Jr.
- No Tears for the Dead
Guest Star: Beverly Washburn
- The Easterner
Guest Star: Jack Elam
- A Time of the Year
Guest Star: Howard Wendell
- The Lord Will Provide
Guest Star: Ellen Corby
- The Duchess of Denver
Guest Star: Alan Dinehart III
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Disc 3
- A Quart of Law
Guest Stars: Holly Bane, Theona Bryant
- Outpost
Guest Star: Christopher Dark
- The Peddler
Guest Star: Lou Jacobi
- Return to Friendly
Guest Star: John Harmon
- The Man Behind the Star
Guest Stars: Brian Donlevy, Richard Jaeckel
- The Ringer
Guest Stars: Regis Parton, Vito Scotti
- The Marshal of Yellow Jacket
Guest Stars: Robert Wilke, Red Morgan
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Disc 4
- No Love Wasted
Guest Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Marian Seldes
- A Race for Life
Guest Star: Kelly Thordsen
- Letter of the Law
Guest Star: Richard Hale (II)
- Private Account
Guest Star: Jesse White
- Caballero
Guest Star: Cesar Romeo
- Blood Money
Guest Star: Dorothy Provine
- No Place to Stop
Guest Stars: Denver Pyle, Strother Martin
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Disc 5
- Reunion
Guest Star: Norman Leavitt
- Badlands
Guest Star: Ralph Moody
- South of the Border
Guest Stars: John Doucette, Jack Elam
- The Smiling Loser
Guest Star: Red Morgan
- The Sheriff of Boot Hill
Guest Stars: Denver Pyle, Reed Hadley
- The Gunfighter
Guest Stars: Nick Rodman, Nancy Valentine
- The Man Hater
Guest Star: William Tannen
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Disc 6
- No Way Out
Guest Stars: Lon Helen Wallace, Lucien Littlefield
- Image of Guilt
Guest Stars: Don Haggerty, Monte Hale
- The Dishonest Posse
Guest Stars: Jack Lambert, Bing Russell
- Blue Norther
Guest Star: Harry Dean Stanton
- Traildust
Guest Star: Brian Donlevy
- The Telegraph Story
Guest Star: Denver Pyle
- Stampede
Guest Stars: Shirley Knight, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez
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Disc 7
- Showdown at Abilene
Guest Stars: Barbara Luna, Shirley Knight
- Trouble on the Trail
Guest Star: Michael Dante
- Cowards Don't Die
Guest Star: Sherwood Price
- Border Incident
Guest Star: Alan Hale Jr.
- End of the Track
Guest Star: Alan Hale Jr.
- Dangerous Ground
Guest Star: Alan Hale Jr.
- Friend of the Family
Guest Stars: James Coburn, John Dehner
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Disc 8
- The Terrified Town
Guest Stars: Alan Dinehart III, Reed Hadley
- Sixgun Street
Guest Star: Alan Dinehart III
- The Taming of Rio Nada
Guest Star: Alan Dinehart III
- Thirty Hours to Kill
Guest Star: Malcolm Atterbury
- Quarantine
Guest Star: Alan Hale Jr.
- Buried Treasure
Guest Star: Duncan Lamont
- Captive Crew
Guest Star: Alan Hale Jr.
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Disc 9
- Showdown
Guest Star: Alan Hale Jr.
- The Governor's Lady
Guest Stars: Myron Healey, Lita Baron
- Town Divided
Guest Star: Morgan Woodward
- The Guilty and the Innocent
Guest Stars: Denver Pyle, Helen Wallace
- Presentation Gun
Guest Stars: Harry Harvey Jr., Robert Brubaker
- The Nomad
Guest Star: William Fawcett
- Killer's Road
Guest Stars: Lane Bradford, James Best
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Disc 10
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Lady Tenderfoot
Guest Stars: Jack Elam, Claire Kelly
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The Invisible Noose
Guest Star: Bill Erwin
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Johnny Tuvo
Guest Stars: Frank Wilcox, Myron Healey
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The Accuser
Guest Stars: Don Haggerty, Harry Cheshire
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Mission to Monterey
Guest Stars: Richard Carlyle, Lane Bradford
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Badman
Guest Star: Anthony Warde
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24 Hours to Live
Guest Stars: Paul Birch, Charles Cooper
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