Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on NBC from January 10, 1959, to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original backdoor pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, with Chris Alcaide originally portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane.
After his two brothers are killed in a shootout, a famous gunfighter Clay Culhane (Peter Breck) decides to uphold the law by becoming a lawyer. This excellent short-lived Western Series was a departure from the usual B-Western fare that had dominated the big screen for so many years. Peter Breck (later to be Nick Barkley on The Big Valley) and Russell Johnson (Later the Professor on Gilligan's Island) starred in this tale of an ex-gunman who began using the law to subdue the Owlhoots who circumvented prairie law.