S01E01 Badge For A Day (The Deputy)
In the premiere episode, titled "The Deputy," Fry selects Silver City, Arizona, as the spot to head off two men he suspects of carrying supplies to a holdup gang led by Ace Gentry (Robert J....
The Deputy
S01E13: Land Greed
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.
Overview
The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961. The series stars Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.
Episodes
S01E02 The Wild Wind
Charlotte Nelson tells Clay McCord of her concern for her younger brother, Trooper, who has fallen into a gang headed by the evil Bull Ward. McCord then arranges for Trooper to get an honest job...
S01E03 Back To Glory
Three bank robbers come across a traveling-players' caravan. They shoot the actor-manager and two of them then kidnap Angela, one of the actresses. The third robber, Cowan, stays with the other actress, Lily, and is...
S01E04 Shadow Of The Noose
Simon Fry arrests a ""Drifter"" for shooting a man, stealing his wife, and then shooting her. He takes the Drifter to a jail in the nearby town but, when a lynch-mob gathers, moves him on...
S01E05 Powder Keg
supplying gunpowder to the Apaches. Herk's journey to Prescott with his prisoner is endangered when a garrulous telegrapher spreads the word of Deaver's capture - word that reaches the prisoner's Indian allies.
S01E06 Like Father
While Chesley Vantage eagerly greets the arrival in Silver City of his son, Brad, who's been studying in Kansas to be a veterinarian, word reaches Deputy McCord that a gunfighter is also on the way...
S01E07 Proof Of Guilt
S01E08 The Johnny Shanks Story
S01E09 Focus Of Doom
Marshals in three Arizona towns have been shot dead and Simon Fry fears the killer may now be coming to Silver City. He sends Herk Lamson off on vacation and watches as four suspicious strangers...
S01E10 The Big Four
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.
S01E11 The Next Bullet
Clay finds a note in a murdered man's pocket that threatens death to Herk Lamson. Marshal Fry is convinced that the crime is linked to a sensational trial held the previous year where a woman...
S01E12 The Deal
A gang headed by men named Quincannon and Usher kidnap Fran McCord. They tell her brother, Clay, that to save his sister he must go along with their plan to rob the payroll of a...
S01E13 Land Greed
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.
S01E14 Man Of Peace
Apaches steal a shipment of repeating-rifles headed for the cavalry at Ft. Donaldson. Simon Fry fears this means war but Clay McCord wants to get the Indians' side of the story and so travels alone...
S01E15 The Orphans
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.
S01E16 Backfire
Con Marlowe makes a violent escape from a work-gang at the Arizona Territorial Prison. He heads for Silver City where his wife, Peg, awaits him and where he can find Marshal Lamson, the man he...
S01E17 Hang The Law
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.
S01E18 Silent Gun
S01E19 The Hidden Motive
While defending the Spencer ranch against rustlers, Deputy McCord shoots and kills ranch-owner Aaron Spencer. Though the shooting seems justified, McCord feels guilty, especially when breaking the news to young Mrs. Spencer. At first she...
S01E20 Lawman's Blood
S01E21 The Return Of Simon Fry
A man named Kipp has been brought in from San Francisco to get rid of Simon Fry. He ambushes Fry who's driving a buckboard but the buckboard overturns, spills a can of coal oil, and...
S01E22 Queen Bea
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.
S01E23 The Two Faces Of Bob Claxton
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.
S01E24 Lady With A Mission
A suffragette incurs the wrath of male citizens. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Hodges: Carleton Young. Sloan: James Lanphier. Tinny: Tod Griffin.
S01E25 The Border Between
While returning from Mexico with a prison escapee, Marshal Fry and Clay McCord are ambushed by a Mexican landowner whose daughter, Felipa, has been kidnapped by an American miner from Leadville, Evan Sloate. The landowner...
S01E26 Final Payment
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.
S01E27 Dark Reward
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.
S01E28 Marked For Bounty
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...
S01E29 The Truly Yours
A trio of three men, (Coffer, File, and Fancy), rob the bank in Silver City one night after setting fire to Clay McCord's store as a diversion. Clay persues them to a mine but winds...
S01E30 A Time To Sow
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.
S01E31 The Last Gunfight
Gunfighter Johnny Dean wants to shed his reputation by settling down in Silver City under the alias ""Roger Enright."" He plans to buy a ranch north of town and marry the local music teacher, Helen...
S01E32 Chain Of Action
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.
S01E33 The Lucifer Urge
Barney Wagner uses loopholes in the law to evict farmers from their land. Clay McCord deplores this practice but cannot intervene since Wagner's staying within the law. Eventually McCord tricks Wagner into offering him a...
S01E34 Palace Of Chance
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.
S01E35 The X Game
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.
S01E37 Trail Of Darkness
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.
S01E38 The Choice
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.
S01E39 Ma Mack
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.
Cast
Henry Fonda
Marshal Simon Fry
Read Morgan
Sergeant Hapgood Tasker
Wallace Ford
Marshal Herk Lamson
