Tate

- Season 1

(1960)

Tate returns to his home town to help an old friend, the town's aging marshal, guard a prisoner from a mob that wants to free him from being hanged.

Tate rides into town with the body of a wanted outlaw he's just killed, and presents it to the sheriff to collect the bounty. The sheriff sends Tate to the saloon to wait while he fills out the paperwork--and, since he doesn't like bounty hunters, decides to take his time about it. Meanwhile, at the saloon Tate runs into a young hothead who's itching to put a notch on his gun and decides that Tate's going to be it.

Robert Culp plays a bounty hunter who is seeking Tate for a murder that he didn't commit.

When Tetlow (Mort Mills) tries to take her property Mary Hardin (Julie Adams) asks Tate for help.

Tate is searching for a war criminal guilty of a heinous act, but in the town he lives in now, Frank Turner is a beloved and respected citizen. The townspeople won't let Tate take him without a fight.

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While bringing in sheepherder John Chess (Martin Landau) who twelve years prior had murdered more than a dozen people and ravaged a town out of revenge for his wife's death, Tate is forced to kill two sons of cattle rancher Abel Towey, who then wants his own revenge and tracks down Tate and Chess.

Tate tags along when grudge-holding Amos returns home to kill the little brother who wooed away and wed Amos' sweetheart during his long absence. Meanwhile, a marauding band of Comanches approaches.

Holed up in Doc's office is a wounded store keeper and the saloon girl who loves him. Clamoring outside are the town's murderous power broker and his henchmen. Standing in the gap is Tate.

While bounty hunting, Tate drinks some bad water and is near death. A man and his daughter take him in and nurse him back to health, despite the fact that the man recognizes Tate as the bounty hunter who is hunting him.

Tate takes on a train car full of fast guns when a simmering rancher vs. homesteader dispute escalates.

Tate tracks down a killer who gunned down a saloon girl. On the trail back to town, the girl's two brothers arrive seeking blood vengeance. Can Tate trust the residents of the home he's holed up in while three killers lurk outside?

Shades of The Searchers as an obsessed man negotiates the release of his wife abducted eight years earlier by a Paiute raiding party. He did not anticipate her bringing home a half-Indian child, or of the Paiute father's fierce resistance.