Gunslinger was a Western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 television series starring Tony Young that aired on the CBS television network

Television network

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 from February 9 until May 18, 1961. The theme song was sung by Frankie Laine

Frankie Laine

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Young played Cord, a young gunfighter who works undercover for the local army garrison commander, acting as a secret law enforcement agent in the territory. The series lasted for only twelve episodes.

Cast

• Tony Young as Cord
• Preston Foster
  Preston Foster
  Preston Foster was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley...
  
   as Capt. Zachary Wingate
• Charles Gray
  Charles Gray
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   as Pico McGuire
• Dee Pollock as Billy Urchin
• Midge Ware Amby Hollister
• John Picard as Sgt. Major Murdock