Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

The Great McDonacle

Sun, Mar 2, 1997

Harry McDonacle is part of a traveling group of performers going from town to town. Using a prop pistol which fires buckshot instead of bullets, he never misses his target. That is until he runs into the Dead Man's Gun.

Episode 2

Fool's Gold

Sun, Mar 2, 1997

A con man who sells a worthless gold mine to a naive farmer soon finds out the joke is on him when the mark shows signs of striking it rich.

Episode 3

My Brother's Keeper

Sun, Mar 2, 199744 mins

Two brothers find a skeleton under a tree and a gun beside it. One of them finds he has become an incredibly fast draw with the gun.

Episode 4

The Impostor

A salesman living from sale to sale, walks between towns and stumbles upon a dead body. He discovers the man was on his way to a marshal's job at Apache Wells and decides to take his job and what he was also wearing - the Deadman's Gun.

Episode 5

Buryin' Sam

44 mins

A pair of undertakers get their business wherever they can. Their payment is whatever they can get, even from each other. During an unusually slow period, their payment and their future comes unexpectedly in the form of the Dead Man's Gun.

Episode 6

The Highwayman

44 mins

Robert Cosgrove runs a failing boarding house with his wife. A rich boarder tells him we make our own luck. Taking his advice, he starts a new career by stealing his money and relieving him of the Deadman's Gun.

Episode 7

The Bounty Hunter

44 mins

Raymond Jakes has dreams of being more than he is -- a store keeper. When one day he trades goods for the Deadman's Gun, he feels his calling of being a bounty hunter can now be realized.

Episode 8

Black Widow

44 mins

Willed the Deadman's Gun by her latest husband, Lillian Posey moves to a new town where she ensnares her next victim. What she doesn't know is his reputation may equal hers.

Episode 9

The Healer

44 mins

As the town doctor, Madison Butler receives the 'Dead Man's Gun' as payment for his services from a grateful patient. When a known killer by the name of Dalton Coe rides into town and is wounded in a gunfight, Madison takes him into his home to nurse him back to health. The citizens of the town are adamant about hanging him, forcing Madison to take precautions to protect Coe so long as he is under his care. As he does so, Madison discovers a deep, dark secret concerning Dalton Coe, the townsfolk, and his wife, Anna.

Episode 10

Medicine Man

44 mins

A rancher hires a native American Indian named Tom Shadow Wolf to break and tame some horses for him, and then refuses to pay him for his services. Shadow Wolf finds the Dead Man's Gun and goes after his money, nearly killing the rancher. Humiliated, the rancher assembles a posse and chases after Shadow Wolf and his girlfriend, Winter Bird, killing Shadow Wolf's father along the way. Tom Shadow Wolf must learn how to listen to the spirits of his ancestors and excise the hatred in his heart in order for them to survive.

Episode 11

Next of Kin

44 mins

Gathering the remainder of his family and friends, a dying man uses the weekend to see who deserves what of his considerable estate and holdings, one of which is the Deadman's Gun.

Episode 12

Death Warrant

44 mins

A ruthless, hard-bitten bounty hunter carrying the Dead Man's Gun accidentally kills an innocent young man in a shoot-out. The mother of the dead boy puts a bounty on the bounty-hunter.

Episode 13

Mail Order Bride

44 mins

When a blacksmith sends away for a bride, what his future has in store is more than what he initially planned especially when it includes the Dead Man's Gun.

Episode 14

Fortune Teller

44 mins

A crystal ball gazer with a traveling carnival tricks a man out of the Deadman's Gun not knowing she is about to experience talents for foretelling the future even she didn't know she had.

Episode 15

The Mesmerizer

44 mins

A mesmerizer's skills are soon enhanced once he cures a traveler whose payment is the Deadman's Gun.

Episode 16

Stage Coach Marty

A stagecoach driver, in an old west town, finds romance with a passenger. As it turns out, he is really interested in a large shipment of silver she might be transporting.

Episode 17

The Photographer

44 mins

After photographing a local bank robbery, Travis decides to take his show on the road when papers are willing to print his pictures for top dollar. What he thinks he knows is how each deed is done so he must follow the Deadman's Gun.

Episode 18

The Resurrection of Joe Wheeler

44 mins

The Dead Man's Gun winds up in the hands of a drunk who uses it to defend his community against a band of outlaws.

Episode 19

The Gambler

44 mins

A down on his luck gambler unknowingly changes his luck when he tries to welch on a bet and winds up using a man's gun against him and it turns out to be The Dead Man's Gun.

Episode 20

The Deserter

44 mins

The Dead Man's Gun changes hands ending up in a cowards possession which carries with it a responsibility the coward can not fill.

Episode 21

Wages of Sin

44 mins

Reverand Early relieves a sinner of the Dead Man's Gun and believes he can now heal with his hands and faith. Conning the townsmen to contribute their money to his Well of Miracles works and then something unexpected happens.

Episode 22

Snake Finger

Lured by a James & Decker theft proof safe, a renowned safe cracker takes it on, knowing a Woodsman agent is on his trail. But his last job yielded more than money - now he has the Dead Man's Gun.