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Black Saddle is a Western TV series that ran on NBC from January 10, 1959, to May 6, 1960. It starred Peter Breck as Clay Culhane, a former gunfighter who turned into a lawyer after his brothers were killed in a shootout. The series was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide playing Culhane. For syndicated reruns, it was combined with three other short-lived Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner starring Brian Keith, under the title The Westerners with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.

Breck, a veteran Hollywood film and TV actor, later went on to greater fame in another Four Star-produced western series, ABC's The Big Valley starring Barbara Stanwyck.

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• Black Saddle at the Internet Movie Database
• Black Saddle at TVAddicts