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The Best Episodes of Father Murphy Season 2

Every episode of Father Murphy Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Father Murphy Season 2!

A good-hearted frontiersman poses as a priest to start an orphanage for a group of kids whose homes have been destroyed by an evil mining manager.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 1 - Happiness Is.....
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    #1 - Happiness Is.....

    S2:E1

    Mae and Murphy take a well deserved honeymoon in the city, where they meet young Eli Matthews, a streetwise black orphan. They swear they won't get involved, but naturally they end up adopting him and taking him back to Gold Hill.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 2 - The Father Figure
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    #2 - The Father Figure

    S2:E2

    A mother delivers her son to Gold Hill, saying that he's been incorrigible in school. The real reason is that his father is a child abuser and the mother fears for her son's life. When the father comes after the boy, Murphy intervenes and accidentally kills the man while trying to restrain him. Murphy faces the crisis he's feared all his life—that his great size and strength might kill if unleashed.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 3 - Stopover in a One-Horse Town
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    #3 - Stopover in a One-Horse Town

    S2:E3

    Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) arrives in Jackson during his itinerant journalist days, and sets up a newspaper to fight the evil influence of Garrett. Ephram and Will join him as copyboys/reporters, and in a comical turn of events, they become the inspiration for Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 4 - Outrageous Fortune
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    #4 - Outrageous Fortune

    S2:E4

    Murphy and Mae join the Pinkertons on a cross-country train chase when one of their young orphans becomes heir to a large inheritance... and is kidnapped in an attempt to keep her from showing up to claim it.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 5 - The Reluctant Runaway (1)
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    #5 - The Reluctant Runaway (1)

    S2:E5

    Mae announces joyously that she's pregnant and the whole community rejoices... except Will. Finding out that the new bedroom Murphy is building is not for him, he feels ignored and finally, at the baby's birth, he runs away to St. Louis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 6 - The Reluctant Runaway (2)
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    #6 - The Reluctant Runaway (2)

    S2:E6

    Will has run away to St. Louis and fallen in with a Fagin-type and his band of criminals. Murphy enlists Farley's help in searching for Will and goes to convince him to come home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 7 - Buttons and Beaux
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    #7 - Buttons and Beaux

    S2:E7

    Lizette grows up; she begins work as an apprentice seamstress in town and falls in love with a n'er-do-well teenager. She's nearly drawn into his troublesome circle of friends before Mae shows her the error of her ways. The boy eventually reforms and then remain friends. Incidentally, the ongoing romance between Will and Lizette is terminated in this period because he is too short.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 8 - John Michael Murphy - R.I.P.
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    #8 - John Michael Murphy - R.I.P.

    S2:E8

    Murphy and Moses find trouble on a freight run when an old yarn-spinner convinces a whole town that Murphy is a famous bank robber. The fireworks begin when the real robber shows up.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 9 - The Witness
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    #9 - The Witness

    S2:E9

    Young Matt is witness to a bank robbery. One of the robbers is a teenaged friend of Matt's who is the sole support of a sick mother, and Matt must wrestle with his conscience as he decides whether or not to turn in his friend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 10 - Blood Right
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    #10 - Blood Right

    S2:E10

    An ex-gunfighter gets out of prison and comes to Gold Hill to retrieve his son. He finds his son in love with his dad's old criminal image. Murphy and company must help these two come to an understanding and reconciliation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 11 - Sweet Sixteen
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    #11 - Sweet Sixteen

    S2:E11

    A teenaged girl in town becomes pregnant, and after a suicide attempt fails, she's found by the Murphys and brought to Gold Hill. She learns a lesson in living, and the children learn a lesson in tolerance.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 12 - The Rockets' Red Glare
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    #12 - The Rockets' Red Glare

    S2:E12

    Garrett ruins Gold Hill's benefit Fourth of July show by stealing all the fireworks Murphy has especially ordered and locking them in his saloon safe. A comical old safecracker on the lam befriends Murphy and the kids and liberates the pyrotechnics ... in a most unusual way.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 13 - The Matchmakers
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    #13 - The Matchmakers

    S2:E13

    The kids decide Moses needs some romance in his life, so they send away for a mail-order bride. Her arrival precipitates comic explosions in Gold Hill, but by the time Moses realizes she's a wonderful woman, she's decided to go back to her old boyfriend back east.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Happiness Is....." is the best rated episode of "Father Murphy" season 2. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/28/1982. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Father Figure".