During Season 1 (1960–61), Outlaws depicted United States Marshal Frank Caine and his deputies Will Foreman and Heck Martin, lawmen on the American frontier during the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s.[2] Still enforcing the law in the Oklahoma Territory, Foreman has been promoted to marshal and now is based in Stillwater, pursuing outlaws with the assistance of his own deputy, Chalk Breeson.[2][3] Episodes also portray events in Stillwater, where Slim is the town character who sometimes assists the marshals and Connie Masters works at the Wells Fargo office.Episode directors included Abner Biberman, Walter Doniger, John Florea, Douglas Heyes, Jesse Hibbs, Sobey Martin, Paul Stanley, and Richard Whorf.[4] Other guest stars included Jack Elam, Eli Wallach, James Coburn, Warren Oates, Brian Keith, Gerald Mohr, Henry Hull, Jim Davis, Edgar Buchanan, Frank McHugh, Robert Culp, Nancy Kulp, Cliff Robertson, Leo Gordon, Fuzzy Knight, Julie Adams, Preston Foster, Alan Hale Jr., Robert Lansing, Lloyd Nolan, George Kennedy, Vic Morrow, Martin Landau, Jackie Coogan, William Shatner and Cloris Leachman.