Man Without a Gun
{{Short description|1957 western television show}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox television
| runtime = 30 minutes
| starring = {{Plainlist|
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| country = United States
| director =
| network = NTA Film Network (Syndicated)
| first_aired = {{Start date|1957|11|6}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1959|9|10}}
| num_seasons = 2
| num_episodes = 52
}}
Man Without a Gun is an American Western television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television and presented on the NTA Film Network and in first-run syndication in the United States from 1957 to 1959. Set in the town of Yellowstone near Yellowstone National Park in the then Dakota Territory during the 1870s, the program starred Rex Reason as newspaper 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".Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., p. 515 Harry Harvey Sr., 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 to bring outlaws 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvacres.com/westerns_m.htm|title=Man Without a Gun|publisher=TVacres.com|accessdate=February 8, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120914121614/http://www.tvacres.com/westerns_m.htm|archive-date=September 14, 2012|url-status=dead}}
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 - as Cort Hamish in the "Aftermath" episode
- Stanley Fafara - 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 - 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{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/man-without-a-gun/episode-23-season-1/lady-from-laramie/202896/?ftag=web|title=Man Without a Gun - Lady from Laramie: Season 1, Episode 23|publisher=TV Guide|accessdate=23 October 2020}} in the "Lady from Laramie" episode
- Doug McClure - as Albert (or Ollie) Ketchum in "The Kidder" episode
- Patrick McVey - as Forester{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/man-without-a-gun/episode-35-season-1/special-edition/202896/|title=Man Without a Gun - Special Edition: Season 1, Episode 35|publisher=TV Guide|accessdate=23 October 2020}} 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 - 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
Episodes
=Season 1 (1957–1958)=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=1
|EpisodeNumber2=1
|Title=The Seven Killers
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Clarke Reynolds}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|11|08}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=2
|EpisodeNumber2=2
|Title=Decoy
|DirectedBy=Charles F. Haas
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Frank Fenton, Joseph Petracca, and Richard H. Landau|t=Richard H. Landau}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|11|13}}
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=3
|EpisodeNumber2=3
|Title=The Fugitive
|DirectedBy=Charles F. Haas
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Lawrence Louis Goldman|t=David Lang and Lawrence Louis Goldman}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|11|21}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=4
|EpisodeNumber2=4
|Title=Teen-Age Idol
|DirectedBy=Charles F. Haas
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Robert Leslie Bellem}}
|OriginalAirDate=
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=5
|EpisodeNumber2=5
|Title=Silent Town
|DirectedBy=Charles F. Haas
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Eustace Cockrell and Francis M. Cockrell|t=Robert Leslie Bellem}}
|OriginalAirDate=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=6
|EpisodeNumber2=6
|Title=Shadow of a Gun
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|01|20}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=7
|EpisodeNumber2=7
|Title=The Sealed Envelope
|DirectedBy=Walter Grauman
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|1|24}}
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=8
|EpisodeNumber2=8
|Title=The Thin Wall
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|01|29}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=9
|EpisodeNumber2=9
|Title=Wanted
|DirectedBy=John H. Peyser
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Robert Leslie Bellem}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|02|06}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=10
|EpisodeNumber2=10
|Title=The Gun From Boot Hill
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|02|11}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=11
|EpisodeNumber2=11
|Title=Indian Fury
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|02|14}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=12
|EpisodeNumber2=12
|Title=Guilty
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|02|19}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=13
|EpisodeNumber2=13
|Title=Dark Road
|DirectedBy=Charles F. Haas
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Frederic Louis Fox}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|02|24}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=14
|EpisodeNumber2=14
|Title=Reward
|DirectedBy=Charles F. Haas
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert Leslie Bellem|t=Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|03|05}}
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=15
|EpisodeNumber2=15
|Title=Danger
|DirectedBy=John H. Peyser
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Mona Fisher}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|03|10}}
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=16
|EpisodeNumber2=16
|Title=The Last Hunt
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|03|13}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=17
|EpisodeNumber2=17
|Title=The Day The West Went Wild
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|03|18}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=18
|EpisodeNumber2=18
|Title=High Iron
|DirectedBy=Joseph Kane
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Frank L. Moss}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|03|28}}
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=19
|EpisodeNumber2=19
|Title=Peril
|DirectedBy=Gene Fowler Jr.
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Frederic Louis Fox}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|04|01}}
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=20
|EpisodeNumber2=20
|Title=Trap Line
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|04|04}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=21
|EpisodeNumber2=21
|Title=Night Of Violence
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|04|09}}
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=22
|EpisodeNumber2=22
|Title=Lady From Laramie
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|04|14}}
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=23
|EpisodeNumber2=23
|Title=The Dream Weaver
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=David Lang and Robert Leslie Bellem|t=Robert Leslie Bellem}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|04|17}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=24
|EpisodeNumber2=24
|Title=The Law Of The Land
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Roderick Peterson}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|04|22}}
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=25
|EpisodeNumber2=25
|Title=No Heart For Killing
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|04|25}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=26
|EpisodeNumber2=26
|Title=Buried Treasure
|DirectedBy=John H. Peyser
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Frederic Louis Fox}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|04|30}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=27
|EpisodeNumber2=27
|Title=The Quiet Strangers
|DirectedBy=Charles F. Haas
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Marion Parsonnet}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|05|05}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=28
|EpisodeNumber2=28
|Title=The Claim Jumpers
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|05|08}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=29
|EpisodeNumber2=29
|Title=Jailbreak
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|05|13}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=30
|EpisodeNumber2=30
|Title=The Kidder
|DirectedBy=John H. Peyser
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Sam Peckinpah}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|05|16}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=31
|EpisodeNumber2=31
|Title=Lissie
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|05|21}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=32
|EpisodeNumber2=32
|Title=Aftermath
|DirectedBy=Walter E. Grauman
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert Presnell Sr.|t=Herbert R. Purdom}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|05|26}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=33
|EpisodeNumber2=33
|Title=The Last Bullet
|DirectedBy=John H. Peyser
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|05|29}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=34
|EpisodeNumber2=34
|Title=Special Edition
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|06|04}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=35
|EpisodeNumber2=35
|Title=Headline
|DirectedBy=John H. Peyser
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Harry Kronman}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|06|09}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=36
|EpisodeNumber2=36
|Title=Man Missing
|DirectedBy=Charles F. Haas
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Eustace and Francis Cockrell|t=Robert Creighton Williams}}
|OriginalAirDate=
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=37
|EpisodeNumber2=37
|Title=The Mine
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|06|17}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=38
|EpisodeNumber2=38
|Title=Invisible Enemy
|DirectedBy=Charles F. Haas
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Frederic Louis Fox and Robert Leslie Bellem}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|06|24}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=39
|EpisodeNumber2=39
|Title=Wire's End
|DirectedBy=John H. Peyser
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Robert Leslie Bellem}}
|OriginalAirDate=
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=9eebe1
}}
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=Season 2 (1959)=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=40
|EpisodeNumber2=1
|Title=Face Of The Moon
|DirectedBy=Walter Grauman
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Robert Bloomfield}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|05|27}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=FF6048
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=41
|EpisodeNumber2=2
|Title=Eye Witness
|DirectedBy=Walter E. Grauman
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Oliver Crawford}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|06|01}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=FF6048
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=42
|EpisodeNumber2=3
|Title=The Hero
|DirectedBy=Paul Landres
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Frederic Louis Fox}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|06|04}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=FF6048
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=43
|EpisodeNumber2=4
|Title=Witness In Terror
|DirectedBy=Paul Landres
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Robert Leslie Bellem}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|06|09}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=FF6048
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=44
|EpisodeNumber2=5
|Title=Man With The Wrong Face
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|06|12}}
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=45
|EpisodeNumber2=6
|Title=The Last Holdup
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|06|17}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=FF6048
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=46
|EpisodeNumber2=7
|Title=Daughter Of The Dragon
|DirectedBy=Paul Landres
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert Leslie Bellem and Wanda Tuchock|t=Wanda Tuchock}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|06|22}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=FF6048
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=47
|EpisodeNumber2=8
|Title=The Shaving Mug
|DirectedBy=Paul Landres
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Robert Leslie Bellem}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|06|25}}
|ShortSummary=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=48
|EpisodeNumber2=9
|Title=The Devil's Acres
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|06|30}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=FF6048
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=49
|EpisodeNumber2=10
|Title=Accused
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert Leslie Bellem|t=Jess Carneol and Kay Lenard}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|07|03}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=FF6048
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=50
|EpisodeNumber2=11
|Title=Hangtree Inn
|DirectedBy=Les Goodwins
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Robert Leslie Bellem}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|09|02}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=FF6048
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=51
|EpisodeNumber2=12
|Title=The Giant
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|09|10}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=FF6048
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=52
|EpisodeNumber2=13
|Title=Stolen Stage
|DirectedBy=
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|09|16}}
|ShortSummary=
|LineColor=FF6048
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References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0179590}}
- [http://ctva.biz/US/Western/ManWithoutAGun.htm Classic TV Archive episode listing]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Man Without A Gun}}
Category:1950s Western (genre) television series
Category:Television series set in the 1870s
Category:Black-and-white American television shows
Category:First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Category:1957 American television series debuts
Category:1959 American television series endings
Category:Television series by 20th Century Fox Television