Yancy Derringer — Season 1

Episodes

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  E01 Return to New Orleans

  Oct 2, 1958 · 30m

  Yancy wins enough money playing poker to pay for his return home to New Orleans. The losing players decide to rob him of his winnings, but he escapes on a riverboat.

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  E02 Gallatin Street

  Oct 9, 1958 · 30m

  Yancy helps a sea captain who was cheated out of his money in a dive on notorious Gallatin Street.

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  E03 Ticket to Natchez

  Oct 23, 1958 · 30m

  City administrator Colton entrusts Yancy with an army payroll that is to be taken to Natchez on Yancy's riverboat, the Sultana, but robbers have other plans.

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  E04 An Ace Called Spade

  Oct 30, 1958 · 30m

  Yancy is relieved to find that a newspaper story about administrator Colton's death is premature, but fears that Colton will be the victim of trickery in an upcoming duel.

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  E05 A Bullet for Bridget

  Nov 6, 1958 · 30m

  An Irish girl visitng New Orleans decides that Yancy is to be her future husband.

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  E06 The Belle from Boston

  Nov 13, 1958 · 30m

  After administrator Colton hangs a member of an outlaw gang, the others decide to take revenge on his visiting sister.

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  E07 The Loot from Richmond

  Nov 20, 1958 · 30m

  A messenger is sent to New Orleans by a former general in the Civil War, but is killed before he can reveal what happened to a fortune that was taken from Richmond, Virginia.

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  E08 The Saga of Lonesome Jackson

  Nov 27, 1958 · 30m

  A wealthy but lonely man who has come to New Orleans looking for a wife asks Yancy to help him.

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  E09 Memo to a Firing Squad

  Dec 4, 1958 · 30m

  An army officer with vengeance on his mind tries to stop a presidential pardon from reaching a man who is scheduled to die before a firing squad.

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  E10 Three Knaves from New Haven

  Dec 11, 1958 · 30m

  Shop owners receive threats of violence if they refuse to sell their property to three strangers.

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  E11 Marble Fingers

  Dec 18, 1958 · 30m

  Yancy tries to find out who's responsible for recent grave robberies.

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  E12 Old Dixie

  Dec 25, 1958 · 30m

  Villains go after Yancy's dog after Yancy's father dies leaving a note that only the dog knows where the family pre-war fortune is buried.

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  E13 Two of a Kind

  Jan 1, 1959 · 30m

  Yancy and Pahoo are framed for a series of crimes, and now face execution.

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  E14 Nightmare on Bourbon Street

  Jan 8, 1959 · 30m

  A mysterious mad bomber steals explosives and threatens to blow up the entire city of New Orleans.

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  E15 The Fair Freebooter

  Jan 15, 1959 · 30m

  Yancy must deal with a female pirate whose gang has stolen a valuable necklace from representatives of the Mexican government.

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  E16 Mayhem at the Market

  Jan 22, 1959 · 30m

  Merchants are in such fear for their lives that Yancy gets no cooperation in his attempt to break a new protection racket.

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  E17 The Night the Russians Landed

  Jan 29, 1959 · 30m

  A visiting Russian noble appears to have become a target for murder.

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  E18 A Game of Chance

  Feb 5, 1959 · 30m

  Yancy suspects foul play when a lottery winner dies before she can collect.

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  E19 Panic in Town

  Feb 12, 1959 · 30m

  With a serial killer loose in New Orleans and the authorities seemingly powerless, a group of vigilantes decides to take action before any more prominent women are murdered.

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  E20 Hell and High Water

  Feb 19, 1959 · 30m

  A landowner comes up with a risky scheme to protect her property when it is threatened by flood waters.

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  E21 The Louisiana Dude

  Feb 26, 1959 · 30m

  Winning a half interest in a silver mine while visiting Virginia City, Yancy discovers that his new partner is a beautiful woman.

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  E22 Longhair

  Mar 5, 1959 · 30m

  When famed General George Armstrong Custer visits New Orleans, Yancy discovers that he is being stalked by an Indian seeking revenge for a past wrong.

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  E23 Thunder on the River

  Mar 12, 1959 · 30m

  Yancy decides to help a fellow riverboat owner whose fleet is being sabotaged by rivals trying to corner the market on river traffic.

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  E24 The Gun That Murdered Lincoln

  Mar 19, 1959 · 30m

  Yancy is arrested on a charge of high treason. His crime: selling John Wilkes Booth the gun that killed President Abraham Lincoln. While Derringer is held in solitary confinement, his friends must refute forged evidence and find where the his matched set of pistols, the ones alleged purchased by Booth, were hidden when renegades ransacked his plantation during the Civil War.

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  E25 Collector's Item

  Mar 26, 1959 · 30m

  To assist a woman in her crusade to provide a home for the city's orphans, Yancy comes up with a scheme that requires the aid of photography pioneer Matthew Brady.

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  E26 Fire on the Frontier

  Apr 2, 1959 · 30m

  Yancy's Indian friend Pahoo becomes an important element in efforts to prevent a war with the Pawnee tribes.

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  E27 Duel at the Oaks

  Apr 9, 1959 · 30m

  Yancy is sentenced to hang for killing a man in a duel.

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  E28 The Wayward Warrior

  Apr 16, 1959 · 30m

  Trying to stop some gun smugglers, Yancy has a run-in with a boxing champion and a re-match with a female river pirate.

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  E29 A State of Crisis

  Apr 30, 1959 · 30m

  With the city of New Orleans plagued by counterfeit money, General Hugh Morgan arrives in New Orleans with orders promoting John Colton to a post in Washington and giving Morgan command of the city.

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  E30 Outlaw at Liberty

  May 7, 1959 · 30m

  Yancy is at a loss to figure out what's going on when a marshal he knows charges an old wartime friend with murder.

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  E31 V as in Voodoo

  May 14, 1959 · 30m

  Yancy tries to combat superstition when the city is terrorized by a mysterious voodoo priestess.

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  E32 The Quiet Firecracker

  May 21, 1959 · 30m

  Yancy's good friend, Miss Mandarin, is accused of smuggling opium into the city inside firecrackers.

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  E33 Gone But Not Forgotten

  May 28, 1959 · 30m

  A friend of Yancy's comes to visit from Virginia City, with news that his silver mine is doing well, but that there is a gravestone in the cemetery with Yancy's name on it.

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  E34 Two Tickets to Promontory

  Jun 4, 1959 · 30m

  On a train trip to a celebration of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, Yancy discovers a saboteur.