Browse episode ratings trends for Black Saddle. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of Black Saddle's 44 episodes.
Best Episodes of Black Saddle
The Saddle
S2 Ep2
10.0
9th Oct 1959
Culhane helps Marshal Scott catch three escaped prisoners. He recognizes one of them as the son of Judge McKinney, a man who encouraged his legal career.
The Freebooters
S2 Ep1
9.0
2nd Oct 1959
When the crooked Major overtakes the town he murders Nora's father.
Worst Episodes of Black Saddle
The Long Rider
S2 Ep3
1.0
16th Oct 1959
While Marshal Gib Scott is riding to Albuquerque, his horse goes lame and the marshal gets a ride with Pa Scales's wagon train. Scott, Pa Scales and son George come across two men, one whom is injured and a woman. Pa identifies the injured man as a wanted criminal.
Client: Starkey
S1 Ep5
6.0
7th Feb 1959
June Starkey arrives in town to ask Culhane to find her missing husband.
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Client: Dawes
S1 Ep4
31st Jan 1959
Culhane is investigating the death of Ben Dawes, a wealthy middle-aged bachelor who took a mail-order bride.
Client: Starkey
S1 Ep5
6.0
7th Feb 1959
June Starkey arrives in town to ask Culhane to find her missing husband.
Client: Northrup
S1 Ep9
14th Mar 1959
Ty Northrup, ex-lawman turned renegade, and his wife arrive in Latigo, but Marshal Gib Scott orders them out of town. Mrs. Northrup is unable to travel, and Clay Culhane tries to talk Scott into allowing them to stay until the woman is well enought to move on.
Client: Steele
S1 Ep10
21st Mar 1959
Lawyer Clay Culhane agrees to defend Bill Steele, one of three men being held by Marshal Gib Scott for robbery.
Client: Braun
S1 Ep12
4th Apr 1959
A recluse hires Clay Culhane to obtain an injunction keeping trespassers off his property. While attending to this matter, the lawyer is startled by an encounter with a famous general who is believed to have died heroically.
Client: Banks
S1 Ep13
9.0
11th Apr 1959
Teenager Dick Banks maintains an interest in guns in spite of his father's opposition. Clay Culhane, who sees a similarity to the start of his own career as a gunfighter, befriends the youth.
Client: Jessup
S1 Ep14
9.0
18th Apr 1959
Rancher Lon Jessup is charged with robbery and murder by two Chicago detectives. Jessup tells Clay Culhane that he was involved in a robbery but had nothing to do with the murder.
Client: Nelson
S1 Ep16
2nd May 1959
Culhane runs into two brawling men, each of whom claims he's a lawman and that the other is his prisoner.
Client: Neal Adams
S1 Ep17
9th May 1959
An injured man, Neal Adams, arrives in Latigo and tells his friend Clay Culhane that he is being unjustly hunted. Clay learns that Adams is a wanted man and his pursuer is a bounty hunter.
Client: Reynolds
S1 Ep19
23rd May 1959
Jealousy causes misfortune between two females and one greedy gambler.
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.
The best rated episodes of Black Saddle are:
The Saddle S2E2 rated 10.0
The Freebooters S2E1 rated 9.0
The lowest rated episodes of Black Saddle are:
The Long Rider S2E3 rated 1.0
Client: Starkey S1E5 rated 6.0
The first episode of Black Saddle aired on January 10, 1959.
The last episode of Black Saddle aired on May 04, 1960.
