Lawman (TV series)

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Episodes

Season 1 (1958–59)

Season 2 (1959–60)

Season 3 (1960–61)

Season 4 (1961–62)

Main characters

Recurring characters

• Dru Lemp appeared in eight episodes of season one. She owns a local cafe and is the widow of the previous town marshal, David Lemp.
• Judge Trager appeared in fifteen episodes over all four seasons. He oversees all of the court cases in Laramie. He is a member of the town council and a close friend of Dan's.
• Harry Tate appeared in five episodes in season one as the editor of the town newspaper, the bi-weekly "Laramie Free Press", and a close friend of Dan's. He was killed by mistake when wearing the hat of the intended victim. Tate had a daughter, Julie.
• Julie Tate appeared in four episodes of season one. She takes over as editor for the newspaper after her father was killed.
• Tom Pike appeared in four episodes of season one. He is a member of the town council and was constantly second guessing Dan's decisions.
• Hank the Bartender, appeared in eleven episodes of the first two seasons. He is the bartender at the Bluebonnet Saloon, a precursor to the Birdcage.
• Doc Stewart, the town physician, is initially portrayed by James Bell and for seven other episodes by Tom Palmer.
• Timmo McQueeney appeared in fifteen episodes in season two. He is Lily's main bartender, a big burly guy, who talks with a thick Irish accent.
• Jake Summers appeared in thirty-eight episodes in seasons three and four. Jake became Lily's main bartender who informs Dan and Johnny if any strangers come into town. Prior to becoming Jake, Sheridan guest starred twice in two separate roles.
• Owny O'Reilly appeared three times in seasons 2-4. In the episode "The Salvation of Owny O'Reilly", Grey, at twenty-eight, plays the teenager Owny O'Reilly, who is befriended by Deputy McKay. After he finds gold thrown into a well by the partner of his outlaw brother, Owny decides to return the money but only after coming into the crossfire of the marshal and the outlaws. In time, Owny becomes close friends with Dan and Johnny. In the season 3 episode "The Return of Owny O'Reilly", he plays a comical sidekick as Dan's deputy while Johnny is away. Finally, in the season 4 episode "Owny O'Reilly, Esq.", Grey's character blunders his way yet again into catching an escaped criminal.
• Jack Stiles appeared in four episodes of season two as the clerk at the Hotel Laramie and one of Dan and Johnny's informants.
• Oren Slauson appeared in nine episodes of seasons 2-4. He is the manager of the Laramie Bank, which seemed to get robbed regularly.
• Ben Toomey appeared in twelve episodes of seasons 3-4. He took over as clerk at the Hotel Laramie and like Jack before him gave Dan and Johnny information on a regular basis.

Guest stars

• Steve Pendleton and Lee Van Cleef played deputies Kelsey and Clyde Wilson, respectively, in the episode "Man on a Mountain".
• Vivi Janiss appeared as Alice Welch in "The Visitor", along with Charles Cooper as gunfighter Jack Rollins, Stephen Talbot as Jamie Rollins, Doug McClure as Jed Ryan, and Roscoe Ates as The Old Timer.
• DeForest Kelley, five years before Star Trek, was cast as Bent Carr, a greedy ranch foreman, in the episode "Squatters". Carr contributes to the death of his pneumonia-stricken employer by raising the window and removing his cover on a cold night. Armed with power of attorney, he then proceeds to expunge from the ranch lands several farm families who had received permission to settle there by his departed employer. On February 28, 1960, he was cast as Sam White, in "The Thimblerigger", in an earlier episode.
• Sammy Davis, Jr., appears in the episode "Blue Boss and Willie Shay" as singing cowboy Willie Shay, who sings part of the western song, "The Streets of Laredo," also known as "The Cowboy's Lament".
• Peter Breck, formerly of Black Saddle and later of The Big Valley, appears as the arrogant Hale Connors in "Trapped", the first episode of the last season of Lawman. In the story line, Connors places "Plague" warning signs to keep people from entering Laramie while he demands all $150,000 of the assets of the bank as the price for releasing stagecoach passengers being held hostage under threat of death. Marshal Troop devises a plan to thwart Connors and return the money to the bank.
• Robert McQueeney is cast in the episode "Tarot" as Joe Wyatt, an old friend of Lily Merrill's who arrives at the Birdcage. He reads fortune cards for her friends; all become true, but one suddenly points to death. Wyatt tries to halt a robbery but is fatally wounded in the attempt.
• Billy Booth appears as a young boy, Tad McCallan, in the episode "The Prodigal Mother". Tad's birth mother, now the married Margaret Coleson, played by Catherine McLeod, returns to Laramie to reclaim him legally from his foster parents, who are poor, hardworking farmers. When Tad tells Mrs. Coleson that she is his mother, but not his "maw", she decides to leave the boy with the McCallans but agrees to keep in contact with him.
• Lyle Talbot in the episode "By the Book" plays Orville Luster, an overbearing assistant to the territorial marshal, who arrives in Laramie questioning Dan Troop's methods of law enforcement. Troop makes a decision to release two drunken patrons of the Birdcage against Luster's recommendation, and the results are unexpected. Luster soon turns into an admirer of Troop because the two drunks save Luster's life from an attack by others. Walter Burke appears in a comical role as Ernie.
• Stephen Talbot played Jamie Rollins in the 1959 episode, "The Visitor."
• Marie Windsor in the episode "The Wanted Man" portrays Ann Jesse, a woman who dies in childbirth. Her wanted husband, Frank, orders their grown son, Ben to turn him into Marshal Dan Troop in order to collect the $5,000 reward to have the means to rear his infant brother. Meanwhile, Troop counters Joe Street, a bounty hunter seeking the same reward.

• Andrew Duggan appeared several times on Lawman, including the part of Frank Boone in "Sunday". In the story line, Boone desperately demands that he be allowed to take a young outlaw, Billy Deal, to Montana Territory, where Boone can receive amnesty for his own past crimes in return for bringing Deal to the gallows. At great risk to himself, Marshal Troop is determined to send Deal on the Sunday train to answer for another crime in Casper.
• Olive Carey delivers a noteworthy performance as a bullying mother, "Ma" Martin, of three grown sons in the episode "The Youngest". In the story line, Mrs. Martin pushes her sons, particularly the youngest, Jim Martin, Jr., to take revenge on Marshal Troop for the rightful shooting death of their father, who pulled a gun while involved in a crooked poker game. Jim, however, decides to stand up to his mother upon realizing that his father provoked the shooting.
• Kevin Hagen and Harry Carey, Jr., appeared as estranged brothers in the episode "Cort". In the story line, Cort Evers seeks revenge against his brother Mitch, whom he mistakenly blames for betraying six Union Army prisoners from their hometown during the American Civil War. Mitch is compelled to confront Cort in a shootout during which he explains that it had been Cort himself, under the influence of a fever, who betrayed the prisoners. Cort faints to the ground as he remembers the startling truth of the betrayal.

• John Agar
• Chris Alcaide
• Don "Red" Barry
• Whit Bissell
• John Carradine
• Lon Chaney, Jr.
• Ray Danton
• Jack Elam
• Chad Everett
• Louise Fletcher
• Robert Fuller
• Coleen Gray
• Skip Homeier
• Arch Johnson
• Martin Landau
• Charles Lane
• Suzanne Lloyd
• Ken Lynch
• Jo Morrow
• Robert Reed
• Joseph Ruskin
• William Schallert
• Robert F. Simon
• Barbara Stuart
• Olive Sturgess
• Kenneth Tobey
• Adam West
• Peter Whitney
• Elen Willard
• Van Williams
• Morgan Woodward
• Will Wright

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