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The Deputy Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1959 - 1960
Episode 1
Badge For A Day (The Deputy)
Sat, Sep 12, 1959 30 mins
Fry tricks McCord into helping him capture two train robbers. Gentry: Robert J. Wilke. Ballard: James Griffith. Cowboy: Steven Ritch. Stubber: Earl Hansen. Lamson: Wallace Ford.
Episode 2
The Wild Wind
Sat, Sep 19, 1959 27 mins
Fry entrusts a rustling suspect with a gold shipment. McCord: Allen Case. Ward: Richard Shannon. Nelson: John Ashley. Hipockets: Garry Vinson. Wilson: Joel Colin. Lamson: Wallace Ford.
Episode 3
Back to Glory
Sat, Sep 26, 1959 30 mins
The lawmen hunt for a band of killers. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Lamson: Wallace Ford. Killer: Frank de Kova. Keever: Jack Lambert. Scott: Larry Perron. Angela: Marie Windsor.
Episode 4
Shadow Of The Noose
Sat, Oct 3, 1959 30 mins
Fry tries to protect his prisoner from a lynch mob. Drifter: Clu Gulager. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Lamson: Wallace Ford. Akins: Denver Pyle. Hollister: John McKee.
Episode 5
Powder Keg
Sat, Oct 10, 1959 30 mins
While Tom Deaver stands trial for selling gunpowder to the Apaches, McCord investigates evidence that may prove Deaver innocent. McCord: Allen Case. Deaver: Onslow Stevens. Fry: Henry Fonda. Fran: Betty Lou Keim. Hawk: Christopher Dark. Vince: Read Morgan.
Episode 6
Like Father
Sat, Oct 17, 1959 30 mins
McCord seeks to learn why the town's veterinarian is the target of a paid gunman. Brad: Fred Beir. Ches: James Westerfield. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Stanton: Tom Laughton. Lamson: Wallace Ford. Fran: Betty Lou Keim.
Episode 7
Proof of Guilt
Sat, Oct 24, 1959 30 mins
A reformed outlaw confesses to a robbery committed by his son. Carey: Harry Stevens. Ellen: Whitney Blake. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Hart: Aldon Warder. Fran: Betty Lou Keim.
Episode 8
The Johnny Shanks Story
Sat, Oct 31, 1959 30 mins
Skip Homeier as Johnny Shanks, a man trying to outrun the law and bounty hunters. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Fran: Betty Lou Keim.
Episode 9
Focus of Doom
Sat, Nov 7, 1959 30 mins
Certain that Lamson is marked for murder, Fry sends the marshal out of town and sets himself up as decoy. Fry: Henry Fonda. Lamson: Wallace Ford. McCord: Allen Case. Fran: Betty Lou Keim. Wilk: Eduard Franz. Regan: Dennis Patrick.
Episode 10
The Big Four
Sat, Nov 14, 1959 30 mins
McCord infiltrates a group of outlaws to inform Fry of their plans. Fry: Henry Fonda. Johnny: Henry Brandon. Curly: Gerald Milton. Billy: Richard Bakalyan. Ike: Charles Fredericks.
Episode 11
The Next Bullet
Sat, Nov 28, 1959 30 mins
A note pinned to a murder victim marks Lamson as the killer's next target. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Clements: Brad Weston. Ann: Jennifer Lea. Benson: Walter Coy.
Episode 12
The Deal
Sat, Dec 5, 1959 30 mins
To save kidnapped Fran's life, McCord is forced to help rob a payroll. Fry: Henry Fonda. Fran: Betty Lou Keim. Hamish: Kelly Thordsen. Usher: Mel Welles. Lamson: Wallace Ford.
Episode 13
Land Greed
Sat, Dec 12, 1959 30 mins
Vivian Vance as widow Emma Gant, who tries to enlist Fry's help in protecting her property from greedy ranchers. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Billy: Robin Riley. Fran: Betty Lou Keim.
Episode 14
Man Of Peace
Sat, Dec 19, 1959 30 mins
McCord journeys to an Apache camp on a peace-keeping mission. Fry: Henry Fonda. Chief: Robert Warwick. Isbel: Edgar Buchanan.
Episode 15
The Orphans
Sat, Dec 26, 1959 30 mins
Fry baits a trap for three killers by fixing a raffle. McCord: Allen Case. Mrs. Bean: Carol Kelly. Timmy: Dennis Rush. Finley: Lane Bradford. Lamson: Wallace Ford. Dillon: Karl Lucas.
Episode 16
Backfire
Sat, Jan 2, 1960 30 mins
Lamson becomes the target of two gunmen hired by a vengeful widow. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Peg: Paula Raymond. Marlowe: Charles Cooper. Maxwell: Robert Carson. Sooley: Bob Steele.
Episode 17
Hang the Law
Sat, Jan 9, 1960 30 mins
Fry enlists the help of a clergyman's sister to clear McCord of a murder charge. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Blanche: Lillian Bronson. Rev. Cartwright: Willard Sage.
Episode 18
Silent Gun
Sat, Jan 23, 1960 30 mins
A stranger arrives in town---and lets his gun do his talking. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Clemson: Dean Fredericks. Marion: Marcia Henderson. Mayor: Grandon Rhodes. Stoner: Howard Wright. Locke: Herbert C. Lytton.
Episode 19
The Hidden Motive
Sat, Jan 30, 1960 30 mins
Pretty Louise Spencer misinterprets McCord's efforts to console her---after he kills her husband in a gunfight. McCord: Allen Case. Lamson: Wallace Ford. Fran: Betty Lou Keim. Dawson: Jeremy Slate.
Episode 20
The Hidden Motive
Sat, Feb 6, 1960 30 mins
McCord searches for Doc Landy, who is being forced to treat a wounded outlaw. Burch: Ronnie Burns. McCord: Allen Case. Fry: Henry Fonda. Lamson: Wallace Ford. Stacey: George Keymas. Mrs. Barker: Mae Clarke.
Episode 21
The Return of Simon Fry
Sat, Feb 13, 1960 30 mins
Fry feigns death to flush out a would-be assassin. Rufus: Stacey Keach. McCord: Allen Case. Jubba: Peter Mamakos. Jones: Larry Johns. Carter: Hugh Sanders. Lamson: Wallace Ford.
Episode 22
Queen Bea
Sat, Feb 20, 1960 30 mins
Protection racketeers invade Silver City, planning to replace the small merchants with a chain of stores. Beatrice: Phyllis Avery. Fry: Henry Fonda. Fletcher: Paul Dubov. Briscoe: Kim Spalding. McCord: Allen Case. Fran: Betty Lou Keim.
Episode 23
Two Faces of Bob Claxton
Sat, Feb 27, 1960 30 mins
McCord and Fran try to rehabilitate a teenage thief (Robert Montgomery Jr.). McCord: Allen Case. Fran: Betty Lou Keim. Fry: Henry Fonda. Mike: Bob Hopkins. Pete: Johnny Seven. Solomon: Ron Soble.
Episode 24
Lady with a Mission
Sat, Mar 5, 1960 30 mins
A suffragette incurs the wrath of male citizens. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Hodges: Carleton Young. Sloan: James Lanphier. Tinny: Tod Griffin.
Episode 25
The Border Between
Sat, Mar 12, 1960 30 mins
Fry will be killed unless McCord finds the runaway daughter of a landowner. Fry: Henry Fonda. Felipa: Anna Kashfi. Sloat: Leon Gordon. Lorrie: Laurie Mitchell.
Episode 26
Final Payment
Sat, Mar 19, 1960 30 mins
A paraplegic seeks revenge on McCord and Fran, whose father he blames for his condition. Groat: Gerald Mohr. McCord: Allen Case. Fran: Betty Lou Keim. Kemmer: Kevin Hagen. Priscilla: Mari Aldon. Doc: Charles Seel.
Episode 27
Dark Reward
Sat, Mar 26, 1960 30 mins
Local businessmen offer a reward for bank robbers---dead ones. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Rosie: Jean Willes. Ross: Richard Garland. Hawkins: John Dennis. Mrs. Carter: Frances Morris.
Episode 28
Marked for Bounty
Sat, Apr 2, 1960 30 mins
A bounty hunter stalks Ralph Jenson, who escaped from prison to visit his dying father. Jenson: Ron Hayes. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Harch: Alan Baxter. Judge: Edward Earle. Pete: Raymond Hatton. Miller: Charles Seel.
Episode 29
The Truly Yours
Sat, Apr 9, 1960 30 mins
When outlaws burn his store, McCord becomes a full-time deputy marshal. Coffer: James Coburn. Fry: Henry Fonda. Cita: Miriam Colon.
Episode 30
A Time to Sow
Sat, Apr 23, 1960 30 mins
Andy Willis' boyish looks are deceiving---he's a hired killer. Willis: Richard Crenna. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Lucy: Coleen Gray. McCullough: Frank Ferguson.
Episode 31
The Last Gunfight
Sat, Apr 30, 1960 30 mins
A gunman tries to force a reformed gunfighter into a duel. Dean: Charles McGraw. Crawford: Paul Clark. Johnson: Robert Redford. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Helen: Monica Lewis.
Episode 32
Chain of Action
Sat, May 7, 1960 30 mins
A man refuses to reveal the location of stolen loot needed to save a boy from blindness. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Scofield: Lee Patterson. Claudia: Bek Nelson. Porter: Francis DeSales.
Episode 33
The Lucifer Urge
Sat, May 14, 1960 30 mins
The man who killed McCord's father returns to begin eviction proceedings against local ranchers. Barney: George Tobias. McCord: Allen Case. Fry: Henry Fonda. Alva: Nancy Valentine. Stebbins: James Bell.
Episode 34
Palace Of Chance
Sat, May 21, 1960 30 mins
McCord uses a gambling-hall hostess to lure her boy friend---a wanted outlaw---to Silver City. Julie: Karen Steele. McCord: Allen Case. Fry: Henry Fonda. Reed: Dennis Cross. Lucille: Irene James.
Episode 35
The X Game
Sat, May 28, 1960 30 mins
Two cowboys swindle an illiterate farmer. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Huerta: Carlos Rivera. Allison: John Hoyt. Webb: Howard Wendell. Coyle: Tom McKee. Queed: Don Gordon.
Episode 36
The Standoff
Sat, Jun 11, 1960 30 mins
McCord pursues the criminal who seriously wounded Fry (Henry Fonda). Engle: Alan Hale. Helen: Ann McCrea. Doc: Addison Richards. Jose: Vito Scotti. LeBow: Stephen Coit.
Episode 37
Trail of Darkness
Sat, Jun 18, 1960 30 mins
Fry guards his prisoner from the Brainard gang, who have orders to free---or silence---the jailed man. Brainard: Donald Woods. McCord: Allen Case. Tully: Gregg Palmer. Jose: Vito Scotti.
Episode 38
The Choice
Sat, Jun 25, 1960 30 mins
Vince Edwards as an ex-convict who intends on becoming a doctor---if the townspeople let him forget his past. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Sutton: Rex Holman. Tanner: Chris Alcaide. Doc Landy: Addison Richards.
Episode 39
Ma Mack
Sat, Jul 9, 1960 30 mins
McCord helps a woman search for her missing son. Ma Mack: Nina Varela. Abner: Jack Hogan. Fry: Henry Fonda. Bates: Douglas Kennedy. Reece: Gregory Walcott. Lamson: Wallace Ford.