Frontier Doctor
(1958-1959) The adventures of Bill Baxter, a doctor in the town of Rising Springs, Arizona during the early 1900's. Starring Republic B-Western star Rex Allen. Many episodes directed by Republic veteran William Witney and utilizing Republic's vast library of action footage!
Vol. 1:
A Twisted Road
4/25/1959. A psycho killer strangles young women and steals their shoes. Could it be asthma patient Robert Vaughn?
Queen of the Cimarron
9/26/1958. The doc patches up cowboys attacked by rustlers and meets the gambling hall queen.
The Outlaw Legion
11/15/1958. Butch Cassidy’s gang is injured on a raid. They kidnap the doctor to help the wounded.
Crooked Circle
10/18/1958. The doc is called to heal a stern cattle baron who has been ambushed. His grand daughter wants him out of the way.
Vol. 2:
Trouble in Paradise Valley
12/27/1958. Ranchers stricken by drought are being repossessed. The doctor helps a poor family with health problems.
San Francisco Story
10/4/1958. On the way to San Francisco, Dr. Baxter meets a prominent lawyer who is wounded in a hold up. He follows up the case and uncovers murder.
Mystery of the Black Stallion
11/8/1958. The doctor helps horse breeders who insure a race horse with a crook who will benefit from the horse’s death.
Gringo Pete
5/2/1959. A dying outlaw is pardoned from prison to help bring his old gang to justice, but he double crosses the authorities.
Vol. 3:
Fury in the Big Top
11/22/1958
A lost, ill girl who can’t speak leads the doctor to a mysterious death at a traveling circus and her wrongfully imprisoned father.
Flaming Gold
6/20/1959
Settlers are being driven off their land by oil drillers. The doctor investigates the death of a lawyer friend who was defending them.
Drifting Sands
3/28/1959
A nurse on her way to visit Dr. Baxter is kidnapped and replaced by a woman who plans to rob a hypochondriac of her diamonds.
Danger Valley
4/11/1959
The doctor joins a posse chasing an escaped train robber who may carry the contagious disease diptheria.
Vol. 4:
Three Wanted Men
10/11/1958
Dr. Baxter is captured by a gang of outlaws who need him to patch up a wound.
Apache Uprising
10/25/1958
Dr. Baxter attempts to effect a truce between residents of Rising
Springs and their apache neighbors.
Double Boomerang
11/1/1958
Dr. Baxter is perturbed by the many mine caualties is being called
on to treat.
The Desperate Game
11/29/1958
Dr. Baxter attempts to upset the plans of a gambler who has been
blackmailing a respected doctor into signing false death certificates.
Vol. 5:
Great Stagecoach Robbery
12/6/1958
Dr. Baxter gets involved with a famous theater actress, the Dalton gang and Stolen jewlery. With Lee Van Cleef.
Shotgun Hattie
12/20/1958
Dr. Baxter risks his life and reputation to stop an eccentric widow
and her accomplices from declaring her stepson insane.
Shadows of Belle Starr
1/3/1959
Dr. Baxter saves an adolescent boy from juvenile delinquency.
The Bittercreek Gang
1/31/1959
Dr. Baxter poses as an ex-convict to aid the law in tracking down
a gang.
Vol. 6:
The Big Frame-Up
3/21/1959
A girl announces that her husband and his brother have quaralled
and killed each other, but Dr. Baxter is suspicious and starts an investigation.
The Homesteaders
4/4/1959
A young cowpoke finds himself caught up in a range war with his
girlfriend's homesteading family.
Superstition Mountain
5/9/1959
Dr. Baxter makes a Hazardous trip into Comanche country to give
medical aid to a cavalry trooper.
Man to Man
6/21/1959
Dr. Bill Baxter becomes involved with a boy and his drunken father
who once served with Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders.
Vol. 7:
Iron Trail Ambush 12/13/1958
Dr. Baxter foils a sabotage plot against a railroad project in
Arizona.
Sabotage
1/17/1959 A meatpacking company has been supplying American soldiers with
contaminated meat rations.
Belle of Tennessee
1/3/1959 When a colorful frontier woman is murdered, Dr. Baxter introducing
the fingerprint technique, sets out to find the murderer.
Broken Barrier
2/7/1959 Dr. Bill Baxter becomes involved with an attractive woman from the
east, who has inherited an oil field near the town of Rising Springs.
Vol. 8:
Woman Who Dared
2/14/1959 An unreasonable mother threaten's her daughter's happiness when she
opposes the girl's forthcoming marriage.
Storm Over King City
2/21/1959 Dr. Baxter learns he has inherited a half interest in a gold mine.
Law of the Badlands
2/28/1959 Attending the wounded of both sides in a battle between U.S. Cavalry
and renegade Apaches, Dr. Baxter almost loses his life.
Big Gamblers
3/7/1959 Two unscrupulous brothers attempting to set up illegal gambling in a peaceful
town are stopped by the local sheriff. Then the law officer suffers a stroke
and is hepless.
Vol. 9:
Elkton Lake Feud
5/16/1959 families have almost annihilated themselves.
Strange Cargo
5/23/1959 Dr. Baxter travels to seaport town to help determine if sick sailor carries bubonic plague.
Confidence Gang
6/6/1959 A well-known writer and patient of Dr. Baxter's meets an attractive
girl and almost loses his life.
Counterfeiters
6/13/1959 Dr. Baxter risks his life and reputation by assuming the guilt for
the death of a captain of the Texas Rangers.