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Yancy Derringer - Episode Guide

Season 1

Return to New Orleans

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1958

Return to New Orleans

Yancy on his way back to New Orleans after the war. He runs afoul of three crooked gamblers and an old friend who explains that the new city administrator wants Yancy dead.

Gallatin Street

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1958

Gallatin Street

Joihn asks Yancy to deal with the crime-infested Gallatin Street, which is run by Yancy's old enemy Toby Cook.

Ticket to Natchez

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1958

Ticket to Natchez

John asks Yancy to deliver an Army payroll via the Sultana, but thieves intend to steal it.

An Ace Called Spade

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1958

An Ace Called Spade

A woman secretly hires Spade Stuart to provoke a duel with John and force him to run in fear rather than fight. Spade has other ideas, as does Yancy.

A Bullet for Bridget

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1958

A Bullet for Bridget

Francine's cousin Bridget arrives on a ship from Ireland, and the owner and his henchman intend to make sure she doesn't tell anyone what she discovered during the voyage.

The Belle from Boston

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1958

The Belle from Boston

Criminals threaten the life of John's sister Agatha after he has their leader hanged. Yancy soon regrets offering to help protect the snobbish visitor from Boston, a situation complicated because John insists that Agatha remain ignorant of her peril.

The Loot from Richmond

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1958

The Loot from Richmond

A Southern general sends a messenger to John offering to deliver $500,000 in Confederate treasure. However, the messenger is killed in front of Yancy, who sets out to find the treasure... and the $50,000 reward that goes with it.

The Saga of Lonesome Jackson

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1958

The Saga of Lonesome Jackson

Prospector Lonesome Jackson comes to New Orleans to find a wife interested in his $139,000, and soon gets swept up into a counterfeiting scheme.

Memo to a Firing Squad

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1958

Memo to a Firing Squad

Yancy tries to save his friend Phillip Hampton from the firing squad, and the colonel that intends to make sure that Phillip pays for killing his brother during the War.

Three Knaves from New Haven

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1958

Three Knaves from New Haven

Three men from Connecticut are buying out shops on Duquesne Street for exorbitant prices... but the sellers soon turn up dead with the money missing.

Marble Fingers

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1958

Marble Fingers

Yancy meets up with an old female friend and discovers that someone is attempting to defraud her late father's insurance company.

Old Dixie

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 25, 1958

Old Dixie

On Christmas, Yancy is reunited with the dog his father gave him as a boy... and discovers that it holds the key to a buried treasure.

Two of a Kind

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1959

Two of a Kind

A woman arrives at the club and tries to kill Yancy. Afterward she explains that Yancy bilked her father out of his fortune and proposed marriage to her before disappearing... and Yancy has no idea who she is.

Nightmare on Bourbon Street

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1959

Nightmare on Bourbon Street

A bomber declares his intention to blow New Orleans off the map, and Yancy and John try to track him down.

The Fair Freebooter

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1959

The Fair Freebooter

A pirate, Coco LaSalle, steals a necklace belonging to Empress Carlotta and agrees to return it to Yancy... if he accompanies her to a Mardi Gras ball.

Mayhem at the Market

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1959

Mayhem at the Market

John calls Yancy in to find a witness against a vicious extortion ring terrorizing the French Market.

The Night the Russians Landed

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1959

The Night the Russians Landed

Joihn asks Yancy to protect a Russian Grand Duke who is visiting New Orleans and wants to have a good time. However, assassins are after him.

A Game of Chance

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1959

A Game of Chance

Yancy gets involved with a crooked lottery syndicate after they hire a woman to collect earnings for them... and then have her killed.

Panic in Town

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1959

Panic in Town

A man in a clown mask is terrorizing the women of New Orleans, and Bart Ogilvie of the Freedom League is using Colton's inability to stop the man as a reason to have Colton recalled to DC.

Hell and High Water

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1959

Hell and High Water

Yancy faces rising flood waters, an escaped prisoner out for revenge, and a greedy plantation owner who will pay any price to keep her lands intact.

The Louisiana Dude

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1959

The Louisiana Dude

After winning 50% of a silver mine in Virginia City, Yancy goes out to check it when he needs $6,000 for a new boiler on the Sultana.

Longhair

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1959

Longhair

George Custer comes to New Orleans seeking John's help to get reinstated as general. However, an Indian tries to kill him… and Custer figures that Pahoo is responsible.

Thunder on the River

Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1959

Thunder on the River

Yancy investigates riverboat sinkings along the Mississippi, and discovers that someone is trying to corner the cotton market. He also deals with a female riverboat owner who wants to take the Sultana and use it to break the St. Louis to New Orleans record.

The Gun That Murdered Lincoln

Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1959

The Gun That Murdered Lincoln

Yancy is put on trial for selling the derringer to John Wilkes Booth that the assassin used to kill Lincoln.

Collector's Item

Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1959

Collector's Item

Two masked girls rob a poker party at the Sultana, and Yancy soon discovers that they're taking money for a charitable cause from not-so-charitable men.

Fire on the Frontier

Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1959

Fire on the Frontier

When hostile tribes attack the Pawnee, Pahoo is appointed their representative to go to Washington and ask for military aid per the treaty the Pawnee signed with the U.S. Government.

Duel at the Oaks

Episode: 1x27 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1959

Duel at the Oaks

Yancy's friend Charles LeBow asks Yancy to help him fake his death in a duel despite the anti-dueling laws. Things get sticky when Charles turns up dead, and his business partner is then found in Charles' coffin.

The Wayward Warrior

Episode: 1x28 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1959

The Wayward Warrior

Yancy stages a prize fight against an undefeated opponent to get the goods on a rifle-raiding ring that is selling arms to the Comanches.

A State of Crisis

Episode: 1x29 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1959

A State of Crisis

John is recalled to DC and a general put in charge, and Yancy soon discovers that the general isn't a general... and he plans to steal over $300,000 from New Orleans.

Outlaw at Liberty

Episode: 1x30 | Airdate: May 7, 1959

Outlaw at Liberty

Yancy, Pahoo, and Colorado Charlie head to Liberty, MO to save Yancy's army buddy Wayne Raven, who has been framed for a robbery by Jesse James.

V as in Voodoo

Episode: 1x31 | Airdate: May 14, 1959

V as in Voodoo

It's St. John's eve, and voodoo drums sound throughout New Orleans. Yancy, Pahoo, and a skeptical John are swept up in a web of intrigue when a visiting foundry owner is struck down by a voodoo curse while visiting his fiancee.

The Quiet Firecracker

Episode: 1x32 | Airdate: May 21, 1959

The Quiet Firecracker

When Mai-Ling is arrested for smuggling opium inside of Chinese firecrackers, Yancy and Pahoo travel to San Francisco to clear her name.

Gone But Not Forgotten

Episode: 1x33 | Airdate: May 28, 1959

Gone But Not Forgotten

While checking his silver mine in Virginia City, Yancy discovers that a crook has faked Yancy's death and is holding the granddaughter of Yancy's partner hostage to force her grandfather to hand over the mine to the "Widow Derringer".

Two Tickets to Promontory

Episode: 1x34 | Airdate: Jun 4, 1959

Two Tickets to Promontory

Trying to get to Promontory for the "Wedding of the Rails", Yancy gets caught up in a scheme to blow up one of the trains and sabotage the event.

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