

The Loner is an American western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, under the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble.
A swaggering gunfighter targets an aging Confederate veteran, and Colton steps in to deal with the bully.
Aired: 9/18/1965Sworn to avenge his brother's death, a hoodlum comes gunning for a small town's local minister. When Colton arrives to warn his old friend and ex-soldier, he finds the man unwilling to resort to violence to protect himself and his pregnant wife.
Aired: 9/25/1965A dance hall girl mistakes Colton for her mail-order bridegroom.
Aired: 10/2/1965Unable to perform the deed themselves, a group of religious colonists attempt to recruit Colton to kill a powerful landowner trying to evict them.
Aired: 10/9/1965Colton tries to help a Union army veteran left mute and immobile by the psychological horrors of war.
Aired: 10/16/1965Colton becomes involved in a romantic triangle when he saves a friend's bride-to-be from a runaway horse.
Aired: 10/23/1965Following the murder of a man during an Indian attack, Colton witnesses a town's prejudice towards the man's Indian widow.
Aired: 10/30/1965While trying to defend his wife's honor, a friend of Colton is killed... and Colton is torn between seeking justice and keeping his word to turn the other cheek.
Aired: 11/6/1965Colton has second thoughts after accepting the position of deputy to the dubious sheriff of a sleepy Montana town.
Aired: 11/13/1965Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by bigots.
Aired: 11/20/1965When a well-intentioned immigrant is stripped of his nest egg in a rigged card game, Colton takes on the con artist.
Aired: 11/27/1965When a doctor proves to be as full of whiskey as he is of self-pity, Colton must perform an emergency appendectomy on a young gunfighter.
Aired: 12/4/1965Colton is drafted to help a posse hunt down a seemingly harmless recluse.
Aired: 12/11/1965A man who deserted from the Army wants Colton to escort him back to his fort.
Aired: 12/18/1965A murder suspect's son makes life difficult for Colton when the boy tries to clear his father's name.
Aired: 12/25/1965While traveling across the desert to deliver horses to their new owner, Colton reluctantly agrees to escort a young woman across the arid land.
Aired: 1/1/1966Colton becomes the target of an assassin when he is the sole witness to a robbery and murder.
Aired: 1/8/1966Colton neither likes nor respects the man he has been deputized to protect: a rabble-rousing preacher who fears death from an ex-convict.
Aired: 1/15/1966Colton provides the defense in a kangaroo court trial of a former Union Army officer.
Aired: 1/22/1966In the darkness Colton kills an intruder, and discovers the man is an Army Lieutenant.
Aired: 1/29/1966While a young gunman lies dying in a cave, a ruthless man waits outside hoping to get his hands on the boy's loot. (Part 1 of 2)
Aired: 2/5/1966Following the late Johnny Sharp's instructions, Colton arranges for the four people closest to the gunman to meet at the undertaker's parlor. (Part 2 of 2)
Aired: 2/12/1966Colton encounters a little girl riding his horse — which was stolen from Colton during the stagecoach robbery in which he was shot and left for dead.
Aired: 2/19/1966Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.
Aired: 2/26/1966A group of reformed criminals deputize Colton to defend and protect them.
Aired: 3/5/1966Colton joins a sheriff in search of a town's destroyers.
Aired: 3/12/1966Sign in to share your thoughts with the community.