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The Deputy

1959TV-PG2 seasons6.5 / 10

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.

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Synopsis

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.

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Episode 1

The Deadly Breed

30m

Clay is curious and concerned when Chief Marshal Fry insists on personally handling the investigation into the activities of a pair of swindlers, one of whom happens to be a beautiful young blonde. Clay learns that the young woman is the daughter of woman who spurned his love more than twenty years ago and the deputy fears that Simon may be allowing his personal feelings to cloud his professional judgment.

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Directed by Virgil W. VogelWritten by Clarke ReynoldsGuest stars Lyle Bettger, Susan Oliver, Robert P. Lieb, Francis De Sales

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Episode 2

Meet Sergeant Tasker

30m

Clay tries to help a two-fisted but gullible sergeant recover two thousand dollars of Army funds stolen by a beautiful blonde saloon hostess and her two card sharp confederates.

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Directed by Reginald Le BorgWritten by Richard N. MorganGuest stars Joan O'Brien, Richard H. Cutting, Rayford Barnes, Phil Tully

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Episode 3

The Jason Harris Story

30m

Simon Fry arrests Jason Harris, the marshall of Hondo, for complicity in some robberies. Harris could clear himself but remains silent to protect his guilty wife, Laurie. Laurie's fallen for a man named Johnny Dustin and together they plan to get rid of Harris. Dustin betrays Laurie, however, and Fry and Clay McCord then see to it that the guilty are caught and punished. Fry then offers the exonerated Harris a job in the new town of Yorba Linda.

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Directed by Tay Garnett

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Episode 4

The Fatal Orge

30m

Well-to-do Elmer Jackson is murdered and evidence points to his nephew, Phil, who has fled town. Clay McCord suspects Phil's sister, Martha, knows his whereabouts though she denies this. Clay secretly follows Martha out of town but she knocks him out with a rock to the head and rides on to a cabin where she meets her lover, outlaw Tweed Younger. Tweed killed Elmer Jackson but made it look as if Phil had. Phil's now a prisoner in the cabin. Double-crossing Martha shoots Tweed and is about to kill Phil when McCord arrives on the scene.

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Directed by Tay Garnett

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Episode 5

Mother And Son

30m

Fry has his hands full with a jailed outlaw, and the man's mother, who knows nothing about her son's life of crime. Stanhope: James Franciscus. Mrs. Stanhope: Josephine Hutchinson. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case.

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Directed by Louis King

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Episode 6

Bitter Root

30m

In an isolated shack, a lonely woman harbors a wounded killer on the run. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Sarge: Read Morgan. Hester: Virginia Gregg.

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Directed by Louis KingGuest stars Virginia Gregg, Paul Sorensen, Zon Murray

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Episode 7

The Higher Law

30m

Clay McCord arrests Jack Rivers for assaulting an Indian named Black Wing but Black Wing, distrusting the legal system, refuses to testify against him. Judge Wilkens releases Rivers who is then abducted by Black Wing and taken to an Indian village for some ""Apache justice."" Clay McCord rides out to the village to make sure that ""white man's law"" prevails.

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Directed by Tay Garnett

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Episode 8

Passage To New Orleans

30m

A romantic triangle develops when Fry and McCord are assigned to escort a pretty murder witness to New Orleans. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Lucy: Patrice Wymore. Foreman: Carl Benton Reid.

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Guest stars Patrice Wymore, Carl Benton Reid, Sol Gorss

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Episode 9

The World Against Me

30m

Sarge befriends a boy who witnessed the murder of his grandfather. Tommy: Dennis Joel. Sarge: Read Morgan. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Boyd: Joseph Bassett. Brewer: Henry Rowland.

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Episode 10

Sally Tornado (aka Lady For A Hanging)

30m

Fay Spain as convicted murderess Sally Tornado, who is being escorted to execution by McCord (Allen Case). Fry: Henry Fonda. Jipsom: William Fawcett.

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Episode 11

The Three Brothers

30m

McCord and Sarge suspect three brothers of bank robberies. Fry: Henry Fonda. Martha: Cathy Case. Terry: Minga Mitchell. Suzy: Carmen Phillips. Jay: Jack Ging. Frank: Lew Gallo. Gary: Buzz Martin.

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Directed by Sidney LanfieldGuest stars Jack Ging

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Episode 12

Day Of Fear

30m

Townsfolk fear that the outlaw McCord brought in has smallpox. Amy: Mary Tyler Moore. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Collins: Tyler McVey. Landy: Addison Richards. Nathan: Robert Osterloh.

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Guest stars Mary Tyler Moore, Herbert Lytton

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Episode 13

Second Cousin To The Czar

30m

A duke challenges McCord to a horse race. Fry: Henry Fonda. Dmitri: Carl Esmond. Sarge: Read Morgan. Farrell: George Wallace. Hawkins: Clancy Cooper. Bartender: Phil Tully.

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Episode 14

The Judas Town

30m

McCord refuses to be bribed into releasing a cattleman's son. McCurdy: Roy Roberts. Pete: Ed Nelson. Fry: Henry Fonda. Touhy: Duane Cress. Mayor: Ed Prentiss.

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Episode 15

Duty Bound

30m

Fry has his hands full protecting murder suspects from an Indian attack---and each other. Elston: Ron Harper. Ricker: Frank Maxwell. McCord: Allen Case. Trooper: Pat McCaffrie.

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Directed by Herschel DaughertyGuest stars Ron Harper

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Episode 16

The Lesson

30m

The lawmen try to protect schoolteacher Mary Willis from her husband, a wanted outlaw. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Danton: Harry Lauter. Jenkins: Stevan Darrell. Johnny: Kevin O'Neal. Grisby: Fred Kruger.

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Guest stars Kevin O'Neal

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Episode 17

Past And Present

30m

Fry tries to find out why bank clerk Herb Caldwell offered no resistance to robbers. Calico Bill: Murvyn Vye. McCord: Allen Case. Sarge: Read Morgan. Madge: Mary Beth Hughes.

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Guest stars Arthur Franz

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Episode 18

The Hard Decision

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Directed by David ButlerGuest stars Marc Lawrence, George Brenlin

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Episode 19

The Dream

30m

Clint Hammer uses strong-arm tactics to convert his inheritance into cash. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Selene: Carolyn Craig. Lawson: John McLain. Mildred: Mary Munday.

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Guest stars Francis McDonald

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Episode 20

Shackled Town

30m

McCord and Sarge fall prey to a crooked sheriff and a power-hungry judge. McCord: Allen Case. Sarge: Read Morgan. Denton: Reed Hadley. Smith: Robert Brubaker. O'Brien: Eugene Iglesias.

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Directed by Tay GarnettGuest stars Bruce Gordon, Eugene Iglesias

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Episode 21

The Lonely Road

30m

Paroled killer Shad Billings returns after five years in prison, hoping to resume cattle ranching with his wife, Meg. While there have been false rumors linking Meg with Marshall Fry, Meg has actually been involved with a mine-guard from Tombstone named Trace Phelan. Fry urges Phelan to clear out but Phelan humiliates the unarmed Billings whom Fry then jails for his own protection. Then, instead of moving on as Fry hopes, Phelan vists the Billings homestead to kidnap Meg who now wants no part of him. Fry follows and guns down Phelan in a shoot-out. Billings and Meg are re-united.

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Directed by Louis KingGuest stars Constance Ford

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Episode 22

The Challenger

30m

To help financially pressed McCord, Sarge agrees to fight a boxing champion for $500. Sarge: Read Morgan. McCord: Allen Case. Titan: Hal Baylor. Collins: Stafford Repp. Dillon: Paul Gilbert. Dan: Don Heitgert.

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Guest stars Paul Gilbert, Hal Baylor, Stafford Repp, Frank Hagney

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Episode 23

Edge Of Doubt

30m

Richard Chamberlain as a parolee accused of murdering his fiancee's father. McCord: Allen Case. Annie: Floy Dean Smith. Jenner: Bigelow C. Sayre. Lake: George Chandler. Potter: Tommy Jackson. Sarge: Read Morgan.

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Guest stars Richard Chamberlain, George Chandler, Thomas E. Jackson

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Episode 24

Two-Way Deal

30m

Slade Blatner brings in a young outlaw and demands the reward. The outlaw: Blatner's son. Johnny: Billy Gray. Blatner: Ted de Corisa. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Sheriff: Kenneth MacDonald.

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Episode 25

The Means And The End

30m

Fry searches for the man who killed the main witness against outlaw Josie Styles. Farley Styles: DeForest Kelley. Josie: Phyllis Love. McCord: Allen Case. Wiley: Robert E. Griffin.

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Directed by Tay GarnettWritten by Finlay McDermidGuest stars Phyllis Love, Justice Watson, Robert Griffin, Don Heitgerd, DeForest Kelley

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Episode 26

The Example

30m

Outlaw Frank Barton, alarmed by his son's desire to emulate him, arranges for his own arrest. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Jeb: Jack Chaplain. Kitt: Rickie Sorenson. Whitey: Reedy Talton. Gabe: Robert C. Ross.

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Guest stars Denver Pyle, Rickie Sorensen

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Episode 27

Cherchez La Femme

30m

Sarge accidentally kills the son of a powerful rancher while protecting a young woman from his unwanted advances. Unfortunately for Sarge, there were no witnesses to the struggle and the rancher uses his political influence to have a hanging judge appointed for the trial. Clay tracks the frightened woman through Albuquerque into the New Mexican mountains in hopes of bringing her back to serve as a witness as Sarge's trial.

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Directed by David ButlerWritten by Stuart JeromeGuest stars Edward Platt, Herbert Lytton, Lisa Montell

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Episode 28

Tension Point

30m

Fry tries to protect the Baker family from three gunmen---without revealing that he is a lawman. McCord: Allen Case. Zed: John Marley. Molly: Virginia Christine. Meadows: Jerome Thor. Whip: William Stevens. Mark: Donald Losby.

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Directed by Tay GarnettGuest stars John Marley, Virginia Christine, William Stevens

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Episode 29

Brother In Arms

30m

McCord's boyhood friend returns with a killer's reputation. Jason: Denny Miller. McCord: Allen Case. Fry: Henry Fonda. Arnold: Lon Chaney. Cabot: Bill Hale. Sarge: Read Morgan.

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Guest stars Lon Chaney Jr., Denny Miller, Dick Cherney

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Episode 30

The Return Of Widow Brown

The widow of a lynched man returns to town to claim the farm he left behind.

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Directed by Otto Lang

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Episode 31

Spoken In Silence

30m

Mike Rogers needs money for an operation on his deaf-mute daughter Laura.

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Directed by Tay Garnett

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Episode 32

An Enemy Of The Town

30m

McCord is besieged by angry townspeople when he closes a profitable tannery. Fry: Henry Fonda. Sarge: Read Morgan. Culp: Whit Bissell. Crockett: Stephen Roberts. Hall: Ray Kellogg.

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Guest stars Dan Riss, Keith Richards, Frank Mills

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Episode 33

The Legend Of Dixie

30m

Dixie Miller glories in his fame when credited with killing two fugitives. Miller: Stanley Adams. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Logan: Gregory Walcott. Mace: Henry Fleer. Hoak: King Calder.

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Episode 34

The Deathly Quiet

30m

Two Army deserters turn to crime---with the aid of Gatling guns. Bo Braddock and Con Hawkins trade the Army life for lives of crime—with the aid of some high-powered Gatling guns. The pickings are pretty good around Silver City, especially since Fry and McCord's Sixguns are no match for the Gatlings.

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Directed by Otto LangGuest stars Johnny Cash, Michael Garrett, Chubby Johnson, Read Morgan, Robert Foulk, Craig Duncan, Kermit Maynard

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Episode 35

Brand Of Honesty

30m

Two former crooks, suspected of robberies, take steps to clear themselves. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Ortega: George Dolenz. Miller: Elisha Cook. Gardner: J. Edward McKinley. Nathans: Robert Osterloh. Clark: Norman Willis.

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Directed by Tay GarnettGuest stars George Dolenz, Elisha Cook Jr., J. Edward McKinley, Robert Osterloh, Norman Willis

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Episode 36

Lorinda Belle

30m

Jason Getty, poisoned by one of his enemies, has two days to live---and find his killer. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Landy: Addison Richards. Croman: Frank Overton.

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Guest stars Claude Akins, Frank Overton

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Episode 37

Lawman's Conscience

30mfinale

A deathbed confession frees Albee Beckett, who embarks on a campaign of terror against the people who convicted him. Beckett: Russell Johnson. Rufus: Jason Robards Sr. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Mary: Tracey Roberts. Tanby: Jerry LaZarre. Briggs: Roy Wright.

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Guest stars Russell Johnson, Cyril Delevanti

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Episode information updated Sep 17, 2026

More about The Deputy

Cast

Henry FondaMarshal Simon Fry
Allen CaseClay McCord
Betty Lou KeimFran McCord
Wallace FordHerk Lamson
Read MorganDeputy Vince
Francis McDonald
Fred Beir
Constance Ford

Credits

Created by
Norman Lear, Roland Kibbee
Written by
Roland Kibbee, Charles Smith, Norman Lear, Clarke Reynolds, Katherine Albert, Finlay McDermid, Montgomery Pittman, Dale Eunson, Stuart Jerome, Richard N. Morgan

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
76
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • NBCUnited States
  • Top Gun ProductionsUnited States

Themes

19th century