Frontier Justice (TV series)

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Frontier Justice
Format Western
Starring Lew Ayres; Melvyn Douglas; Ralph Bellamy
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 3 summers
No. of episodes 31
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Picture format Black and white (1958-1959; 1961)
Original run July 7, 1958September 28, 1961

Frontier Justice was a CBS television Western anthology series which had thirty-one telecasts over the summers of 1958, 1959, and 1961. It was a repackaging of episodes from CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, and was hosted by Lew Ayres, Melvyn Douglas, and Ralph Bellamy, one each summer. The program was a production of Four Star Television.

Starring in various episodes were Eddie Albert, John Derek, William Fawcett, Dean Jagger, David Janssen, Ida Lupino, Strother Martin, Jack Palance, John Payne, Denver Pyle, Robert Ryan, Stuart Whitman, and James Whitmore, among others.

The half-hour, black-and-white program, a summer-replacement series, debuted on Monday, July 7, 1958, and ended its run on Thursday, September 28, 1961. It was produced by Four Star Television, co-owned by Dick Powell, David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Ida Lupino.

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