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.
Created by: Norman Lear, Roland Kibbee
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Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1: Badge For A Day (The Deputy)
Sep 12, 1959
In the premiere episode, titled "The Deputy," Fry selects Silver City, Arizona, as the spot to head off two men he suspects of carrying supp...
Episode 2: The Wild Wind
Sep 19, 1959
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 th...
Episode 3: Back To Glory
Sep 26, 1959
Three bank robbers come across a traveling-players' caravan. They shoot the actor-manager and two of them then kidnap Angela, one of the actresse...
Episode 4: Shadow Of The Noose
Oct 03, 1959
Simon Fry arrests a ""Drifter"" for shooting a man, stealing his wife, and then shooting her. He takes the Drifter to a jail in th...
Episode 5: Powder Keg
Oct 10, 1959
supplying gunpowder to the Apaches. Herk's journey to Prescott with his prisoner is endangered when a garrulous telegrapher spreads the word of D...
Episode 6: Like Father
Oct 17, 1959
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 reache...
Episode 7: Proof Of Guilt
Oct 24, 1959
Episode 8: The Johnny Shanks Story
Oct 31, 1959
Episode 9: Focus Of Doom
Nov 07, 1959
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 vacat...
Episode 10: The Big Four
Nov 14, 1959
McCord infiltrates a group of outlaws to inform Fry of their plans. Fry: Henry Fonda. Johnny: Henry Brandon. Curly: Gerald Milton. Billy: Richard Baka...
Episode 11: The Next Bullet
Nov 28, 1959
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 sensatio...
Episode 12: The Deal
Dec 05, 1959
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 p...
Episode 13: Land Greed
Dec 12, 1959
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 ...
Episode 14: Man Of Peace
Dec 19, 1959
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 ...
Episode 15: The Orphans
Dec 26, 1959
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: ...
Episode 16: Backfire
Jan 02, 1960
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 wh...
Episode 17: Hang The Law
Jan 09, 1960
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. ...
Episode 18: Silent Gun
Jan 23, 1960
Episode 19: The Hidden Motive
Jan 30, 1960
While defending the Spencer ranch against rustlers, Deputy McCord shoots and kills ranch-owner Aaron Spencer. Though the shooting seems justified, McC...
Episode 20: Lawman's Blood
Feb 06, 1960
Episode 21: The Return Of Simon Fry
Feb 13, 1960
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 over...
Episode 22: Queen Bea
Feb 20, 1960
Protection racketeers invade Silver City, planning to replace the small merchants with a chain of stores. Beatrice: Phyllis Avery. Fry: Henry Fonda. F...
Episode 23: The Two Faces Of Bob Claxton
Feb 27, 1960
McCord and Fran try to rehabilitate a teenage thief (Robert Montgomery Jr.). McCord: Allen Case. Fran: Betty Lou Keim. Fry: Henry Fonda. Mike: Bob Hop...
Episode 24: Lady With A Mission
Mar 05, 1960
A suffragette incurs the wrath of male citizens. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Hodges: Carleton Young. Sloan: James Lanphier. Tinny: Tod Griff...
Episode 25: The Border Between
Mar 12, 1960
While returning from Mexico with a prison escapee, Marshal Fry and Clay McCord are ambushed by a Mexican landowner whose daughter, Felipa, has been ki...
Episode 26: Final Payment
Mar 19, 1960
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....
Episode 27: Dark Reward
Mar 26, 1960
Local businessmen offer a reward for bank robbers---dead ones. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Rosie: Jean Willes. Ross: Richard Garland. Hawkin...
Episode 28: Marked For Bounty
Apr 02, 1960
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...
Episode 29: The Truly Yours
Apr 09, 1960
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. C...
Episode 30: A Time To Sow
Apr 23, 1960
Andy Willis' boyish looks are deceiving---he's a hired killer. Willis: Richard Crenna. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Lucy: Coleen Gr...
Episode 31: The Last Gunfight
Apr 30, 1960
Gunfighter Johnny Dean wants to shed his reputation by settling down in Silver City under the alias ""Roger Enright."" He plans to...
Episode 32: Chain Of Action
May 07, 1960
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...
Episode 33: The Lucifer Urge
May 14, 1960
Barney Wagner uses loopholes in the law to evict farmers from their land. Clay McCord deplores this practice but cannot intervene since Wagner's ...
Episode 34: Palace Of Chance
May 21, 1960
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 Fon...
Episode 35: The X Game
May 28, 1960
Two cowboys swindle an illiterate farmer. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Huerta: Carlos Rivera. Allison: John Hoyt. Webb: Howard Wendell. Coyle...
Episode 36: The Stand-Off
Jun 11, 1960
Fry falls prey to a trap laid by an escaped criminal.
Episode 37: Trail Of Darkness
Jun 18, 1960
Fry guards his prisoner from the Brainard gang, who have orders to free---or silence---the jailed man. Brainard: Donald Woods. McCord: Allen Case. Tul...
Episode 38: The Choice
Jun 25, 1960
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. Su...
Episode 39: Ma Mack
Jul 09, 1960
McCord helps a woman search for her missing son. Ma Mack: Nina Varela. Abner: Jack Hogan. Fry: Henry Fonda. Bates: Douglas Kennedy. Reece: Gregory Wal...
