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''Trackdown'' is an American western television series starring Robert Culp that aired more than seventy episodes on CBS between 1957 and 1959. The series was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. ''Trackdown'' was a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, ''Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater''. ==Synopsis== ''Trackdown'' stars Robert Culp as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman. It is set in the 1870s after the American Civil War about the fictional town of Porter, in Central Texas, not the unincorporated community of Porter in Montgomery County northeast of Houston. The current Porter apparently did not exist until 1892, when a United States Post Office was first established there or perhaps a few years earlier but well after the fictional events of ''Trackdown''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Porter, TX )〕 Gilman is the de facto sheriff in Porter. His friends in the town include Henrietta Porter, portrayed by Ellen Corby, later the character of Esther Walton on CBS's ''The Waltons''. She is the widow of the town's founder and owns ''The Porter Enterprise'' newspaper.〔Billy Hathorn, "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill, Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955 to 1967", ''West Texas Historical Review'', Vol. 89 (2013), pp. 103-106〕 Occasionally, his duties as a Texas Ranger took him out of town, where he used his fast gun to "track down" and apprehend wanted criminals throughout the Lone Star State. Peter Leeds in the second season plays Tenner Smith, the owner of the local saloon, a former gambler and gunslinger with a mysterious past. Other series regulars included Norman Leavitt as Gilman's deputy Ralph, James Griffith as town barber Aaron Adams, Gail Kobe as Penny Adams, the sister of Aaron who shows a romantic interest in Gilman in a few episodes, and Addison Richards as physician Jay Calhoun.〔 The pilot episode, "Badge of Honor", directed by Arthur Hiller, aired on ''Zane Grey Theater'' on May 3, 1957. Gilman, then an ex-Confederate cavalry officer returns to his Central Texas hometown called "Crawford" after the war. He finds the town under the ruthless control of a gang led by an ex-Confederate colonel, Boyd Nelson, played by Gary Merrill. The town sheriff portrayed by The Lineup star Tom Tully is a drunken shell of the man that Gilman had once known who is afraid to face the outlaws. When a Texas Ranger came to arrest Colonel Nelson, he is fatally shot in the back. His Ranger badge falls on the dusty road. Gilman, who previously served with the Texas Rangers, was weary of the Civil War and did not want to continue as a lawman. But after learning of the Ranger's death, Gilman picked up the badge and finished the job of bringing Nelson and his gang to justice.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=YouTube )〕 ''Trackdown'' carried the endorsement of both the State of Texas and the Texas Rangers, an accolade no other television series has procured. Some episodes were inspired by the files of the Rangers. Culp's Gilman may have been the first to introduce the concept of "cool" in entertainment, subsequently taken to longer-running success by Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood. On ''Trackdown'', Gilman is frequently shown rolling and smoking cigarettes. "He had a coolness about himself. Even when he grew angry, he hardly raised his voice. Though he had the voice of a gentleman, his eyes and words came out clear. If he threatened, one would know he was serious, and if he didn't get what he wanted, he had an easy way about him that usually gave him the desired results.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trackdown (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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