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The Deputy

Season 1 Episode 15: The Orphans

Clay McCord stops a covered wagon that careened through town and discovers three young children inside, but finds no sign of the parents. The children's parents are eventually found murdered so, when Simon Fry discovers their money hidden...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Badge for a Day

1. Badge for a Day

Aired: Sep 12, 1959

Marshal Simon Fry tricks Clay McCord, a young storekeeper into taking a wagon...

Episode 2 The Wild Wind

2. The Wild Wind

Aired: Sep 19, 1959

Clay tries to help three young men who have fallen in with a gang of murderou...

Episode 3 Back to Glory

3. Back to Glory

Aired: Sep 26, 1959

While Marshal Fry tries to locate the murderer who abducted a pretty actress,...

Episode 4 Shadow of the Noose

4. Shadow of the Noose

Aired: Oct 3, 1959

Marshall Fry arrests a drifter for the murder of a farmer and his wife but mu...

Episode 5 Powder Keg

5. Powder Keg

Aired: Oct 10, 1959

Herk Lansom and his men capture Tom Deaver, a notorious renegade wanted for s...

Episode 6 Like Father, -

6. Like Father, -

Aired: Oct 17, 1959

Ches Vantage, an ex-convict gone straight, is anxiously awaiting the arrival ...

Episode 7 Proof of Guilt

7. Proof of Guilt

Aired: Oct 24, 1959

A murderous outlaw gang has attacked a number of smelting operations and seiz...

Episode 9 Focus of Doom

9. Focus of Doom

Aired: Nov 7, 1959

When three town marshals are murdered near Silver City, Arizona Territory's c...

Episode 10 The Big Four

10. The Big Four

Aired: Nov 14, 1959

A highly organized outlaw gang has robbed banks, trains and stagecoaches thro...

Episode 11 The Next Bullet

11. The Next Bullet

Aired: Nov 28, 1959

Clay finds a note in a murdered man's pocket that threatens death to Herk Lam...

Episode 12 The Deal

12. The Deal

Aired: Dec 5, 1959

Marshal Simon Fry is trailing a gang of outlaws that specialize in abducting ...

Episode 13 Land Greed

13. Land Greed

Aired: Dec 12, 1959

A widow with a young son marches into a church service and loudly denounces h...

Episode 14 Man of Peace

14. Man of Peace

Aired: Dec 19, 1959

When two wagons full of repeating rifles are stolen by an Apache raiding part...

Episode 15 The Orphans

15. The Orphans

Aired: Dec 26, 1959

Clay McCord stops a covered wagon that careened through town and discovers th...

Episode 16 Backfire

16. Backfire

Aired: Jan 2, 1960

Marshal Herk Lamson gets the drop on a murderous escaped prisoner in a dark h...

Episode 17 Hang the Law

17. Hang the Law

Aired: Jan 9, 1960

While visiting a border town to determine if he should set up a general store...

Episode 18 The Silent Gun

18. The Silent Gun

Aired: Jan 23, 1960

A mute gunfighter with a distinctive scar around his throat arrives in Silver...

Episode 19 The Hidden Motive

19. The Hidden Motive

Aired: Jan 30, 1960

While trying to arrest a notorious band of cattle rustlers, Clay shoots a chi...

Episode 20 Lawman's Blood

20. Lawman's Blood

Aired: Feb 6, 1960

An outlaw abducts Silver City's doctor to attend to his brother who was shot ...

Episode 22 Queen Bea

22. Queen Bea

Aired: Feb 20, 1960

Simon Fry attempts to gather evidence against a sophisticated gang that is at...

Episode 24 Lady with a Mission

24. Lady with a Mission

Aired: Mar 5, 1960

After being injured at a rally in Prescott, Agatha Stone, a spunky suffragett...

Episode 25 The Border Between

25. The Border Between

Aired: Mar 12, 1960

Compelled by a wealthy landowner to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Clay McCor...

Episode 26 Final Payment

26. Final Payment

Aired: Mar 19, 1960

A businessman, restricted to a wheelchair after being shot in gunfight with C...

Episode 27 Dark Reward

27. Dark Reward

Aired: Mar 26, 1960

Arizona's bankers have banded together to offer rewards for dead bank robbers...

Episode 28 Marked for Bounty

28. Marked for Bounty

Aired: Apr 2, 1960

A kind-hearted warden allows a prisoner to "escape" so that the young man can...

Episode 29 The Truly Yours

29. The Truly Yours

Aired: Apr 9, 1960

An outlaw gang burns down Clay McCord's general store to provide a diversion ...

Episode 30 A Time to Sow

30. A Time to Sow

Aired: Apr 23, 1960

Chief Marshal Simon Fry warns Clay to be on the lookout for a gunman who he b...

Episode 31 The Last Gunfight

31. The Last Gunfight

Aired: Apr 30, 1960

A famous gunfighter who is attempting to live down his reputation settles in ...

Episode 32 Chain of Action

32. Chain of Action

Aired: May 7, 1960

When money for a blind boy's operation is stolen from a stagecoach, Deputy Mc...

Episode 33 The Lucifer Urge

33. The Lucifer Urge

Aired: May 14, 1960

The man who killed Clay's father in a gunfight twelve years ago arrives in Si...

Episode 34 Palace of Chance

34. Palace of Chance

Aired: May 21, 1960

Simon Fry suspects that an escaped convict will head for Silver City to seek ...

Episode 35 The X Game

35. The X Game

Aired: May 28, 1960

An illiterate Mexican-American believes he is signing papers certifying the h...

Episode 36 The Stand-Off

36. The Stand-Off

Aired: Jun 11, 1960

After Simon Fry is wounded chasing an escaped prisoner, he orders Clay McCord...

Episode 37 Trail of Darkness

37. Trail of Darkness

Aired: Jun 18, 1960

Even though he's been savagely beaten, Deputy Marshal Clay McCord can't tell ...

Episode 38 The Choice

38. The Choice

Aired: Jun 25, 1960

Dory Matson, an ex-convict returns to his hometown of Silver City and announc...

Episode 39 Ma Mack

39. Ma Mack

Aired: Jul 9, 1960

An acquaintance of Clay and Fran's father arrives in Silver City searching fo...

Info about The Deputy

Seasons: 2

Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Genres:Western