Ty Hardin various Warner productions. When Clint Walker walked out on his ABC series "Cheyenne" in 1958 during a contract dispute with Warner Bros., Hardin got his big break. Warner bought out Hardin's contract from Paramount Studios and installed him into "Cheyenne" for the remainder of the season, as the country cousin "Bronco Layne". Walker and Warner Bros. came to terms after the season ended, but Hardin had made such a big hit on the show that Jack L. Warner gave him his own series, "Bronco", under the Cheyenne title. "Bronco" alternated weeks with "Sugarfoot", starring Will Hutchins, and "Cheyenne" for four
Ty Hardin (1968). Hardin starred in the 1968–1969 Australian television series "Riptide", in which he played an American running a charter boat company along the eastern seaboard of Australia. He returned to Europe to star in "The Last Rampage" (1970), "Quel maledetto giorno della resa dei conti" (1971), and "Drummer of Vengeance" (1971). He was in a 1970 German television series called "On the Trail of Johnny Hilling, Boor and Billy", shown in the former West Germany. Hadin was in "The Last Rebel" (1971) "Acquasanta Joe" (1971), and "You're Jinxed, Friend You've Met Sacramento" (1972) and a small role in "Avanti!" (1972).