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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Dead Man's Gun Season 2 Episode 22 - A Just Reward
    5.7/10(9 votes)

    #1 - A Just Reward

    S2:E22

    An outlaw (William Forsythe) retrieves the Dead Man's Gun by murdering its latest owners for a mysterious, eccentric, incredibly rich man, known only as Mr. Smith. Upon delivery of the gun, the outlaw is treated to several stories about its eerie past (in the form of flashbacks to previous episodes including The Hangman, The Bounty Hunter, The Photographer, Bad Boys, and The Great Mcdonacle), and cannot leave because of the posse outside. He grows more and more uncomfortable, and feels that, because of the danger of the weapon, he deserves more money for it. His greed is his undoing, as Mr. Smith reveals himself to be the original owner of the cursed weapon, and the outlaw receives his just reward.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 19 - The Gambler
    6.2/10(14 votes)

    #2 - The Gambler

    S1:E19

    When a no-good gambler comes across the Dead Man's Gun, he convinces himself that he just can't lose. But we all know that when you deal with the Dead Man's Gun, you're in for a surprise. In the biggest game of his life, the tables get turned on our gambling friend.

    Director:Paul Etherington
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 6 - Highwayman
    6.5/10(18 votes)

    #3 - Highwayman

    S1:E6

    When a Highwayman comes across the Dead Man's Gun, his job becomes a lot more difficult than he ever could have imagined. His Highway now leads directly into the fires of hell.

    Director:Donald Shebib
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Dead Man's Gun Season 2 Episode 18 - The Good Chef
    6.6/10(12 votes)

    #4 - The Good Chef

    S2:E18

    Chef Emil (Jay Thomas) gets the cash for his dream of setting up his own high class French restaurant by poisoning his employers, and also inherits the Dead Man's Gun. An ill-tempered man, he treats the people of the town terribly, but is forgiven because of his great food, and the hungry Sheriff is content to simply look the other way. Anyone who disagrees with Emil's cooking is killed by him. The town's other home-cooking restaurant, an Irish mother/son operation, suffers for lack of business at the hands of Chez Emil, with Emil humiliating the man every chance he gets. Soon, the restaurant goes under, and he young man is forced to work for Emil himself. Emil soon covets the man's girlfriend, and drugs her. Luckily, the man discovers Emil's plan and saves the girl, just in time to be shot by Emil who claims he was attacked without provocation. Emil gets his just desserts, though, thanks to the Dead Man's Gun! (He is poisoned and used for meat.)

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Dead Man's Gun Season 2 Episode 10 - The Pinkerton
    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #5 - The Pinkerton

    S2:E10

    When a wife and mother is murdered, and the local law can not find the killer, her widower calls in expert help in the form of John Eastman (Michael Dorn), a talented Pinkerton investigator. Eastman has troubles during his investigation, primarily because of racism in a small white town, but he will not be turned away. Using the Dead Man's Gun, he solves the evil crime, and justice is doled out to the surprising culprit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 15 - The Mesmerizer
    6.8/10(15 votes)

    #6 - The Mesmerizer

    S1:E15

    without acknowledgement to Edgar Allen Poe's ""The Facts In The Case of M. Valdemar"", this bizarre tale is of a womanizing hypnotist who falls for the wife of a dying millionare. She persuades the hypnotist to use his talent to ease her husband's suffering. But as hubby sinks deeper and deeper into death, the hypnotist sees an opportunity to achieve fame by keeping conssciousness and motor nerves alive in a corpse, at the same time arresting decay, and creating an immortal dead man! Only after the wife finds out that she can't inherit anything as long as her husband is still considered alive, and the hypnotist finds out he can't remove the hypnotic state do things start to literally fall apart! The twist ending is particularly gruesome and ironically fitting

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Dead Man's Gun Season 2 Episode 17 - The Oath
    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #7 - The Oath

    S2:E17

    A woman helps carry out an oath she made to her murdered husband ... thanks to the Dead Man's Gun!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 20 - The Deserter
    6.9/10(11 votes)

    #8 - The Deserter

    S1:E20

    When his cavalry platoon is ambushed by Indians with red bandanas in a corn field, Lt. Matthew Ryan cowardly hides and watches them, including the man who saved his own life, Sgt. O'Connor, get slaughtered. After the bloodbath he picks up the Dead Man's Gun from O'Connors corpse, and heads back to the fort. Asked about what happened, he obviously lies, claiming that he heroically fought the Indians but everyone else was slaughtered despite his actions. He is believed, but when one of the troops believed dead returns to the fort and tries to tell the truth about Lt. Ryan, the commanding officer believes that the soldier himself is the one who ran off and is trying to cover his own behind. Lt. Ryan simply agrees, and watches in silence as the innocent man is hanged. He believes his ordeal is over, but the commander has one more job for him before they move out - to return to the battle site and bury the other men. He reluctantly agrees, and when they arrive and enter the field he s

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Dead Man's Gun Season 2 Episode 3 - Sheep's Clothing
    6.9/10(13 votes)

    #9 - Sheep's Clothing

    S2:E3

    The town push-over, a school teacher, turns his life around when he discovers the Dead Man's Gun on a killed outlaw. He no longer puts up with the bullying of his peers, but ends up becoming a bully himself. Can he turn his life back around, though, when the outlaw's partners turn up, looking for the powerful Dead Man's Gun? And can he win the love of the school marm, whom he secretly adores?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Dead Man's Gun Season 2 Episode 7 - The Collector
    6.9/10(15 votes)

    #10 - The Collector

    S2:E7

    A German collector of antiquities (Michael York) travels to the American west in search of goods to trade for, with the hopes of taking his riches back to Germany. He finds the Dead Man's Gun on a dead body while scavenging for goods, and hires a Mexican to help him on his way. He soon visits an American professor with similar interests, and seeks to trade for part of his valuable collection, i.e. a map rumoured to lead to a dead tribe's treasure cave, but just as a deal is reached, the American backs out, having realized the kind of man von Hubert is after butchering a rare buffalo for its pelt. Furious, von Hubert arranges for a goodbye ride with the professor, ostensibly to leave on good terms, but he instead murders the professor and shoots himself, blaming the deed on the renegade in the area, thus winning the professor's collection and his beautiful wife as well. Soon, however, the wife realizes where von Hubert's love lies, and sabotages him by taking the bullets out of hi

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Dead Man's Gun Season 2 Episode 8 - The Trapper
    6.9/10(12 votes)

    #11 - The Trapper

    S2:E8

    A man with no appreciation for nature begins trapping near the home of old native, Charlie Three Claws (Gordon Tootoosis), and becomes enraged when Charlie begins springing his traps before animals can fall prey to them. The trapper kills another trapper, who he feels is responsible for his lost pelts, and takes his weapon, the Dead Man's Gun. He then comes after Charlie Three Claws, and, after being forced at gunpoint to leave by Charlie's beautiful granddaughter, he returns and rapes her. Charlie can not get justice from the local sheriff, who hates Indians even more than he hates the evil trapper, so he decides to get it on his own by summoning up an old friend, Jimmy the Dead Grizzly Bear.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 11 - Next of Kin
    7.0/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Next of Kin

    S1:E11

    A peace-loving man seeks revenge against the men who killed his family in this episode. But will he himself fall victim to the Dead Man's Gun in the process?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 1 - The Great Mcdonacle
    7.1/10(31 votes)

    #13 - The Great Mcdonacle

    S1:E1

    John Ritter is ""The Great Mcdonacle"" in the opening episode of the three-part pilot, a shifty trick-shooter who relies on ""smoke & mirrors"" and a little buckshot to provide a decent show, but once he gets his hands on the Dead Man's Gun he realizes he no longer needs any illusions, he's suddenly a crack shot! And when shootists come gunning for him, he has no problem dealing with them, until the Dead Man's Gun has its way!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 7 - The Bounty Hunter
    7.1/10(13 votes)

    #14 - The Bounty Hunter

    S1:E7

    A meek store owner seeks adventure in his life, and, after finding the Dead Man's Gun, aspires to become a bountie hunter, even though his friend the shootist tells him to get rid of the evil weapon. He, of course, does not listen, and just when he thinks he's bagged his first outlaw, he falls prey to the Dead Man's Gun.

    Director:Brenton Spencer
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 8 - The Black Widow
    7.2/10(13 votes)

    #15 - The Black Widow

    S1:E8

    A mysterious woman tends to get ahead in life by killing off her husbands and taking their money ... but when she comes across the Dead Man's Gun she just might get a taste of her own ""medicine"".

    Director:David Winning
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 13 - Mail Order Bride
    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #16 - Mail Order Bride

    S1:E13

    Aaron Freemont (Meat Loaf) is a lonely and awkward man, but when his mail order bride finally arrives in town he grows much happier with her, and falls in love. But when he comes across the Dead Man's Gun, will he be able to defeat the evil that comes along with it, save his new wife, and convince her to love him in return?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 21 - Wages of Sin
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Wages of Sin

    S1:E21

    When the Reverend Jeremiah Early (Tim Matheson) comes to town he plans on taking them for all the money he can and splitting, until he spots a beautiful woman. With the help of the Dead Man's Gun he does way with her man so he can have her for himself, framing his good-natured, religious, retarded assistant for the murder. In the meantime, he discovers that, while in possession of the Dead Man's Gun, he can suddenly perform real miracles and actually heal the people who come to him. But will his other assistant turn back from his evil ways and reveal the Reverend for what he really is before it's too late for the town? Of course he will, with the Dead Man's Gun.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Dead Man's Gun Season 2 Episode 11 - Seven Deadly Sins
    7.2/10(8 votes)

    #18 - Seven Deadly Sins

    S2:E11

    The prodigal son returns to his small-town roots just in time to miss his father's funeral. He inherits half the bank, but he wants responsibility to run it, which has been left to his responsible brother. However, destitute, having blown the substantial amount of money his father gave him when he went to Philadelphia, he is forced to take a position as bank teller and work his way up. Not patient enough for this, however, and needing money to pay off his gambling debts to the local gangster, he gets the vault's combination and starts stealing money, framing the kindly assistant manager, who has been training him, for the crime. He then becomes assistant manager, but when his brother discovers the crime, he murders him with the Dead Man's Gun. Along the way, despising his father's religious instruction, Baldwin strives to get pleasure by breaking all of the seven deadly sins, but will they come back to haunt him via the Dead Man's Gun?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 9 - The Healer
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #19 - The Healer

    S1:E9

    A faith healer arrives in town and begins bilking the people out of their money. But when he lays his hands on the Dead Man's Gun (having convinced a wife-beating, murdering scoundrel to turn his gun over and begin a new life ... little did he know the cad's REAL reason for giving up the gun!), he strangely begins healing people for real! He gets bolder and bolder, eventually killing one of the town's gentlemen in order to steal his wife, by convincing his faithful, God-fearing retarded assistant that the gentleman was evil; then he turns against his own friend and partner when he suggests they get out of town. This is a big mistake. His ex-partner figures out that the faith healer set up their retarded assistant for the man's murder, so he shows up during the faith healer's next sermon and proves that he was planning on running off with the town's church-building money, and that the retarded guy was tricked into commiting the murder. The town then REALLY turns on him when they re

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 14 - Fortune Teller
    7.3/10(12 votes)

    #20 - Fortune Teller

    S1:E14

    Will the rambling predictions of a mysterious Fortune Teller come to pass, or can a man still save himself from the clutches of the Dead Man's Gun? Of course, when you're dealing with the Dead Man's Gun, it's pretty easy to predict what's going to happen. You'll probably die.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 3 - My Brother's Keeper
    7.4/10(17 votes)

    #21 - My Brother's Keeper

    S1:E3

    When two brothers find the Dead Man's Gun on a skeleton, one of them develops a fascination with it and soon is forced to kill the local shootist in a duel. After this, he takes up with a gold-digging harlot, who, along with her shifty friend, urge the young man to continue on his dangerous path, despite the warnings of his older brother to give up his new way of life, and the Dead Man's Gun, before it's too late. The older brother, Will, wants to leave town, but can't leave his brother, so he gets himself a job at the general store, where he falls in love with the owner's daughter. Outlaws come gunning for his younger brother one after another, and all meet the same fate, until he finally kills a gentleman who is interested in his girlfriend. The gentleman's brothers come to town for revenge, but, since his younger brother is wounded, Will protects him by taking his chances with the Dead Man's Gun.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 16 - Stagecoach Marty
    7.4/10(13 votes)

    #22 - Stagecoach Marty

    S1:E16

    Marty (JoBeth Williams) is a woman stagecoach robber with a sordid past. When she comes across the Dead Man's Gun she considers using it for the evil purpose of revenge, but will she be able to sort out her past without ruining her future with a new man?

    Director:Helen Shaver
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Dead Man's Gun Season 2 Episode 14 - The Womanizer
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #23 - The Womanizer

    S2:E14

    Patrick Duffy is a Womanizer. When the husband of one of his flings tracks him down, and dies after being thrown off his horse during the chase, the Womanizer loots his wallet, and picks up The Dead Man's Gun. Can he mend his ways, or will he fall prey to the gun's evil powers?

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Dead Man's Gun Season 1 Episode 2 - Fool's Gold
    7.5/10(18 votes)

    #24 - Fool's Gold

    S1:E2

    A con man finds the Dead Man's Gun and the claim to what he believes is a barren mine, which he sells to a half-wit (Matt Frewer), but soon regrets it when the the half-wit shows up in town with gold nuggets to deposit. He quickly convinces his prey that he needs help to properly run the mine, and agrees to be 50/50 partners so long as they agree that if one dies, the survivor inherits the rest, to protect them against claim-jumpers. Of course, he intends to kill the half-wit and inherit the entire mine back, with the help of his beautiful new girlfriend, and run it with the equipment he plans to purchase using money he has gotten from the local loan-shark. Or course, the town lawyer sees right through the con man's plan and threatens not to endorse the partnership agreement unless he is cut in for a share, but the con man simply kills him. But the tables are turned on the con man when the half-wit disappears with the money intended for the mining equipment, and the loan shark get

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Dead Man's Gun Season 2 Episode 12 - The Ripper
    7.6/10(10 votes)

    #25 - The Ripper

    S2:E12

    When a bizarre slashing murder takes place in a small western town, an English inspector soon turns up asking questions about the crime. It is soon divulged that he is hot on the trail of Jack the Ripper, and thinks the killer is in the town. Could the murderer be the town's doctor? Or the scarred, malevolent blacksmith? Or even the town's shady Sheriff or the brothel's madam, who the inspector finds himself getting close with? The murders continue until the Ripper is finally flushed out, and brought down by the Dead Man's Gun.

    Director:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"A Just Reward" is the worst rated episode of "Dead Man's Gun". It scored 5.7/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/26/1999. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Gambler".