The BEST episodes of Yancy Derringer season 1
Every episode of Yancy Derringer season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Yancy Derringer season 1!
Yancy Derringer (Jock Mahoney) gets involved in adventures in New Orleans after the end of the Civil War. Besides being a gambler, Derringer also worked as a troubleshooter for city administrator John Colton (Kevin Hagen). He was assisted in his endeavors by a Pawnee sidekick (X Brands).
#1 - Duel at the Oaks
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/9/1959
Yancy is sentenced to hang for killing a man in a duel.
#2 - Panic in Town
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1959
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.
#3 - Hell and High Water
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1959
A landowner comes up with a risky scheme to protect her property when it is threatened by flood waters.
#4 - The Louisiana Dude
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1959
Winning a half interest in a silver mine while visiting Virginia City, Yancy discovers that his new partner is a beautiful woman.
#5 - Longhair
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1959
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.
#6 - Thunder on the River
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1959
Yancy decides to help a fellow riverboat owner whose fleet is being sabotaged by rivals trying to corner the market on river traffic.
#7 - The Gun That Murdered Lincoln
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/1959
Yancy is unjustly accused of having provided the weapon used by presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth.
#8 - Collector's Item
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/1959
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.
#9 - Fire on the Frontier
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/2/1959
Yancy's Indian friend Pahoo becomes an important element in efforts to prevent a war with the Pawnee tribes.
#10 - A Game of Chance
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1959
Yancy suspects foul play when a lottery winner dies before she can collect.
#11 - The Wayward Warrior
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/16/1959
Trying to stop some gun smugglers, Yancy has a run-in with a boxing champion and a re-match with a female river pirate.
#12 - A State of Crisis
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/30/1959
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.
#13 - Outlaw at Liberty
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/7/1959
Yancy is at a loss to figure out what's going on when a marshal he knows charges an old wartime friend with murder.
#14 - V as in Voodoo
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/14/1959
Yancy tries to combat superstition when the city is terrorized by a mysterious voodoo priestess.
#15 - The Quiet Firecracker
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/21/1959
Yancy's good friend, Miss Mandarin, is accused of smuggling opium into the city inside firecrackers.
#16 - Gone But Not Forgotten
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/28/1959
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.
#17 - Two Tickets to Promontory
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/4/1959
On a train trip to a celebration of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, Yancy discovers a saboteur.
#18 - Three Knaves from New Haven
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1958
Shop owners receive threats of violence if they refuse to sell their property to three strangers.
#19 - Gallatin Street
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1958
Yancy helps a sea captain who was cheated out of his money in a dive on notorious Gallatin Street.
#20 - Ticket to Natchez
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1958
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.
#21 - An Ace Called Spade
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1958
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.
#22 - A Bullet for Bridget
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1958
An Irish girl visitng New Orleans decides that Yancy is to be her future husband.
#23 - The Belle from Boston
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1958
After administrator Colton hangs a member of an outlaw gang, the others decide to take revenge on his visiting sister.
#24 - The Loot from Richmond
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/1958
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.
#25 - The Saga of Lonesome Jackson
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/1958
A wealthy but lonely man who has come to New Orleans looking for a wife asks Yancy to help him.