Old Police TV show

David LaPell · Dec 19, 2012

I recall seeing online a couple of episodes of an old cop show from the late 50's or early 60's where the cop is like a Highway Patrolman (not the show with Broderick Crawford) but it is set in the west, the cop drives a big old sedan and he carries his revolver which I think is a long barreled Colt or Smith revolver in a western style holster and he is sort of like a cowboy set in the late 1950's. I don't remember who played the sheriff, or marshal but I think in his personal life he might have been a surfer or athlete. Anyone remember this show, it was before my time but what I caught seemed to be pretty good.

DCWilson · Dec 19, 2012

Sheriff of Cochise, with John Bromfield.

The show had an inconsistent story line, and I don't think it lasted more than a couple of seasons.

amazingflapjack · Dec 19, 2012

What about McCloud, with Dennis Weaver!!

sipowicz · Dec 19, 2012

DCWilson said:
The show had an inconsistent story line, and I don't think it lasted more than a couple of seasons.

My favorite episode was the one where the convict escaped from prison and became a door to door salesman but had to give up the job when his dog bit the mailmen.

feralmerril · Dec 19, 2012

I belive I heard bill jordon was in the first episode or two. The sidekick deputy. Anybody else ever hear that?

bloo · Dec 19, 2012

feralmerril said:
I belive I heard bill jordon was in the first episode or two. The sidekick deputy. Anybody else ever hear that?

That's a lie started by Skeeter Skelton

Ted

safearm · Dec 20, 2012

Didn't he carry a lever action rifle in a scabbard mounted on the inside of the driver's door?

DCWilson · Dec 20, 2012

sipowicz said:
My favorite episode was the one where the convict escaped from prison and became a door to door salesman but had to give up the job when his dog bit the mailmen.

I seem to recall a similar storyline was used in both Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Or maybe it's just that I don't recall a single original storyline from either of those shows and am attributing to them an act of story piracy that they didn't last long enough to get around to.

Back to the main topic, John Bromfield was a Sheriff in Cochise County AZ in the first season, and then the show was retitled U.S. Marshal and he got a new job in the second season.

I found and watched an episode of Sheriff of Cochise last night; Bromfield had some big old revolver with stag grips. I though it was a S&W N-frame, but the screen resolution was so poor that I couldn't make it out. Half moon front sight. It might have been a Colt New Service.

For a bare 25 minutes of drama, the show had a lot of characters, a lot of sets and scenes, a lot of dialog and even some character development that didn't need to be there. It was definitely a denser dramatic experience than most TV shows of that era provided. I remember watching several episodes when I was about 12 or 13, but I must have missed most of them.

McCloud was definitely a western guy, but he mostly hung out in Manhattan as a fish-out-of-water New Mexico marshal in the Big Apple; that was his show's gimmick. It ran in the 1970s, several years after the Bromfield shows.

Massad Ayoob · Dec 20, 2012

Might have been the series "State Trooper," starring Rod Cameron as an investigator for the Nevada state police, circa 1955. Mostly dressed like a cowboy, occasionally wore a Western style gunbelt; was usually apparently unarmed, but when trouble threatened, a 2" M&P would magically appear in his hand. The DVD series is available; I bought mine at a Fry's Electronics.

feralmerril · Dec 20, 2012

Googel is your friend.
John Bromfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I remember the one mass is talking about with rod cameron too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Trooper_(TV_series)

Sorry I dont know why that secound transfer on state trooper doesnt show full info when I googeled it. Tried a couple times now.

DCWilson · Dec 20, 2012

Massad Ayoob said:
Might have been the series "State Trooper," starring Rod Cameron as an investigator for the Nevada state police, circa 1955. Mostly dressed like a cowboy, occasionally wore a Western style gunbelt; was usually apparently unarmed, but when trouble threatened, a 2" M&P would magically appear in his hand. The DVD series is available; I bought mine at a Fry's Electronics.

I don't remember ever seeing that show or even hearing about it. Now I need to do some research, because that certainly fits the description in the original post. Merril, thanks for the link!

jimmyj · Dec 20, 2012

John Bromfield AKA Sheriff of Cochise wore a S&W M&P 6" with Stag Grips in a western style gun belt. When He went to U.S. Marshall He carried the same revolver but in a shoulder holster.

jrm53 · Dec 20, 2012

I seem to remember that show and the way I remember the lever action rifle was it was mounted on the back of the drivers seat. Jeff

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