''Man Without a Gun'' is an American

western Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US * Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that i ...

television series A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed ...

produced by

20th Century Fox Television 20th Television (formerly 20th Century Fox Television, 20th Century-Fox Television, and TCF Television Productions, Inc.) is an American television production company that is a division of Disney Television Studios, part of The Walt Disney Com ...

and presented on the

NTA Film Network The NTA Film Network was an early American television network founded by Ely Landau in 1956. The network was not a full-time television network like CBS, NBC, or ABC. Rather, it operated on a part-time basis, broadcasting films and several f ...

and in first-run syndication in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five ma ...

from 1957 to 1959. Set in the town of Yellowstone near

Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is border ...

in the then

Dakota Territory The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of ...

during the 1870s, the program starred Rex Reason as

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport ...

editor Adam MacLean, who brought miscreants to justice without the use of violence or gunplay but through his ''Yellowstone Sentinel''. The co-star was Mort Mills, as Marshal Frank Tallman, who intervened when the "pen" proved not to be "mightier than the sword".

Harry Harvey, Sr. Harry William Harvey Sr. (January 10, 1901 – November 27, 1985) was an American actor of theatre, film, and television. He was the father of actor, script supervisor, and director Harry William Harvey Jr. He is best known for his perform ...

, was cast in twenty-one episodes as Yellowstone Mayor George Dixon. The program is considered to have been unique because it showcased MacLean's moral ethics and

common sense ''Common Sense'' is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine collected various moral and political arg ...

to bring

outlaw An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so that anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill them ...

s to justice. The show was also used as a schoolroom to teach the youngsters of the 1950s about decency and the differences between right and wrong.

Guest stars

* Chris Alcaide - as Johnny Kansas in two episodes ("Teen-Age Idol", "The Hero") * John Anderson ("Eye Witness") * Whit Bissell - as Mark Ryan in the "Aftermath" episode * Lloyd Corrigan * Dennis Cross - as Cheotah in the "Indian Fury" episode * John Doucette - as Dan Kester in "The Fugitive" episode *

James Drury James Child Drury Jr. (April 18, 1934 – April 6, 2020) was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series '' The Virginian'', which was broadcast on NBC from 1962 ...

- as Cort Hamish in the "Aftermath" episode *

Stanley Fafara Stanley Albert Fafara (September 20, 1950 – September 20, 2003) was an American child actor, best known for his role as Hubert "Whitey" Whitney in the original '' Leave It to Beaver'' television series. His older brother, Tiger, play ...

- as Boy in the "Eye Witness" episode *Stanley Farrar - as Auges in two episodes ("Guilty", "Eye Witness") * Bruce Gordon - as Wolf Manson in the "Headline" episode * Don Gordon ("Jailbreak") * Dabbs Greer - as Ben McLaren in the "Hangtree Inn" episode * Ron Hagerthy - as Tod Wilburn in the "Witness to Terror" episode * Myron Healey - as Yank Sullivan in the "Decoy" episode *

Diane Jergens Diane Jergens (born Dianne Irgens; March 31, 1935 – October 9, 2018) was an American film and television actress. Early years Jergens was the daughter of Norman C. Irgens, an alderman in Minneapolis, and his wife. In 1944, at age 8, she au ...

- as Ellen in the "Night of Violence" episode * Robert Karnes - as Jonas in the "Invisible Enemy" episode * Dayton Lummis - as Fred Hawkins in "The Fugitive" episode * Carole Mathews - as Rose in the "Lady from Laramie" episode * Doug McClure - as Albert (or Ollie) Ketchum in "The Kidder" episode * Patrick McVey - as Forester in the "Special Edition" episode * James Philbrook - as Troy in the "Decoy" episode * Dorothy Provine - as Lucy in the "Man Missing" episode * Denver Pyle ("Shadow of a Gun") * Victor Rodman ("Devil's Acre") * Robert F. Simon - as Hamish Sr. in the "Aftermath" episode *

Olan Soule Olan Evart Soule (February 28, 1909 – February 1, 1994) was an American actor, who had professional credits in nearly 7,000 radio shows and commercials, appearances in 200 television series and television films, and in over 60 films. Soul ...

- as Henry Holbrook in the "Daughter of the Dragon" episode * Ray Teal ("The Day The West Went Wild") *Marie Tsien - as Chi Ying in the "Daughter of the Dragon" episode * Robert J. Wilke - as Hackett in the "Buried Treasure" episode * Victor Sen Yung - as Ho Wang in the "Daughter of the Dragon" episode After ''Man Without a Gun'', Rex Reason was again cast as a reporter, Scott Norris, on ABC's

crime drama Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

, '' The Roaring Twenties'', with co-stars Dorothy Provine (who had guest-starred on ''Man Without a Gun''), John Dehner, Donald May, Mike Road, and Gary Vinson. Mort Mills later appeared as a semi-regular on NBC's most successful western, ''

Bonanza ''Bonanza'' is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 13, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 432 episodes, ''Bonanza'' is NBC's longest-running western, the second-longest-running western series on ...

''.

Episodes

Season 1 (1957-1958)

Season 2 (1959)

References

External links

*
Classic TV Archive episode listing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Man Without A Gun 1950s Western (genre) television series Black-and-white American television shows First-run syndicated television programs in the United States 1957 American television series debuts 1959 American television series endings Television series by 20th Century Fox Television Television shows set in Wyoming Television series by CBS Studios