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Black Saddle

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Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 half-hour episodes on NBC from January 10, 1959, to May 6, 1960.Breck plays Clay Culhane, a gunfighter who becomes a lawyer after his brothers are killed in a shootout: a gunfight in which he himself was seriously injured, but survived. Realising that his life had to take a different direction, Clay hung up his gun and began to study the law. Based in the town of Latigo, New Mexico, Clay attempts to solve trouble through the law, but circumstances often force him to strap on his guns again. Other regulars include U.S. Marshal Gib Scott (Russell Johnson), a Reasonable Authority Figure who is suspicious of Clay, but generally gives him the benefit of the doubt, and Nora Travers (Anna-Lisa), who owns the hotel where Clay lives and who plays peacemaker between Culhane and Scott.
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Retired Outlaw: Clay Culhane is a gunfighter who becomes a lawyer after his brothers are killed in a shootout, a gunfight in which he himself was seriously injured, but survived. Realising that his life had to take a different direction, Clay hung up his gun and began to study the law.
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Trivial Title
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Trivial Title: Clay Culhane uses a distinctive black saddle when he rides. Others occasionally identify him by the saddle, but it otherwise has no bearing on the stories.
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Wrongful Accusation Insurance
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Wrongful Accusation Insurance: In "Client: Tagger", Culhane suffers no consequences for breaking out of jail, and assaulting the marshal in the process, in order to prove his innocence of murder.
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The Guards Must Be Crazy
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The Guards Must Be Crazy: In "Client: Meade", the deputy Scott leaves to guard the prisoner immediately goes to sleep and is taken completely by surprise when the prisoner's mentor breaks in to free him. Made even worse by the fact that Scott had woken the deputy up when leaving, and warned him what might happen if he dozed off again.
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Beardness Protection Program
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Beardness Protection Program: In "Client: Tagger", Tagger has grown a beard so the man responsible for sending him to prison won't recognise him as Tagger stalks him.
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Take Over the City
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Take Over the City: In "Client: Travers", rancher Hannibal Pardee is either buying out or driving out everyone in the town of Latigo, so he can kill the town which he blames for the death of his son.
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Grave Robbing
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Grave Robbing: In "Client: Starkey", Clay and Scott exhume an unmarked grave in the middle of the night while attempting to unravel the mystery of a Town with a Dark Secret.
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New Old Flame
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New Old Flame: In "Client: McQueen", Clay is hired by his old employer Senator McQueen to get back control of his ranch. McQueen's daughter Susan—now married—is an old crush of Clay's.
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Rancher
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Rancher: In "Client: McQueen", Clay's client is a retired senator who owns the biggest ranch in Texas and who is being bilked out of his property by his daughter and his adopted son.
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Laser-Guided Karma
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Laser-Guided Karma: "Blood Money" climaxes with Chet Mallet, who fatally shot (in the back) a respected citizen of Latigo who also happened to be a wanted but reformed outlaw with a price on his head. Unsurprisingly fearing for his life with the late ex-outlaw's brothers wanting his head and everyone in town despising him(Nora point blank tells him the hotel's full), he's about to leave with the reward money, but then a stranger rides into town looking for Mallet... and the paranoid Mallet draws his gun on the man...but the newcomer fires and kills Mallet in self-defence (both Clay and Scott witnessed it)... he was a newspaper reporter eager to do a piece on the man who killed Ansel King!
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A Day in the Limelight
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A Day in the Limelight: "The Long Rider" is a Gib Scott episode.
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U.S. Marshal
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U.S. Marshal: Gib Scott is a Deputy US Marshal who comprises the only law enforcement in this region of New Mexico.
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Little Useless Gun
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Little Useless Gun: In "Client: Dawes", Maggie Dawes pulls a derringer on Clay, only to have Clay contemptuously slap it out of her hand.
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Meek Townsman
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Meek Townsman: In "Client: Meade", the only witness that can prove Clay's client innocent of murder is a meek shopkeeper who allows himself to be bullied by the dead man's family into changing his testimony.
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: In the first season, all the episode were titled "Client: X" where X was name of the person who hired Clay's services. This convention was dropped in the second, where only one episode uses the "Client: X" formula.
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Town with a Dark Secret
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Town with a Dark Secret: In "Client: Starkey", Clay discovers that no one in Latigo will talk when he starts asking questions about Ben Starkey. When he attempts to dig deeper, he finds two months worth of papers missing from the newspaper morgue. And then he and Scott find a body in an unmarked grave in Boot Hill...
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Clear My Name
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Clear My Name: In "Client: Tagger", Culhane is arrested for committing a murder he was trying to prevent. He has to break out of jail and locate the elusive Tagger to prove his innocence.
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Mail-Order Bride
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Mail-Order Bride: In "Client: Dawes", Clay defends a mail order bride who is accused of murder when he new husband dies in a seeming accident. Maggie Dawes mentions her husband having picked her out of a catalogue.
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