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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 Worst Episode
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    Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot (1)
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    #1 - Pilot (1)

    S1:E1

    In the late 1800s, John Murphy wanders into a wild mining town controlled by a local tycoon. Instant enmity is born, but the gritty Murphy joins a local miner and a homeless waif to work a gold claim and fight the tycoon's influence. Murphy's decision to stay is reinforced when the tycoon's heavies kill the parents of neighbor children over control of a gold strike. Together with the local school teacher, Murphy becomes temporary father to the children.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  2. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 2 - Pilot (2)
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    #2 - Pilot (2)

    S1:E2

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    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 3 - Eggs, Milk and a Dry Bed
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    #3 - Eggs, Milk and a Dry Bed

    S1:E3

    A handsome but ineffectual priest joins the school and provides comic opposition to Murphy and a pair of brothers in the orphanage, one of whom has a bed-wetting problem.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  4. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 4 - Establish Thou the Work of Our Hands
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    #4 - Establish Thou the Work of Our Hands

    S1:E4

    Murphy befriends an embittered black boy and teaches him a useful trade—wagon driving. But a wagon wreck causes the boy to lose the use of his hand, and Murphy must help him cope with living without the only task which ever made him feel worthwhile.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 5 - A Horse from Heaven
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    #5 - A Horse from Heaven

    S1:E5

    Father Parker mistakenly trades some of the stock for a fast, beautiful horse... that no one can ride. He'd hoped to race it in the territorial fair to win the $1000 purse, but he's injured while trying to break the animal. A little retarded girl at the school proves to be the only one who can tame it, and despite everyone's concern, she indeed rides the horse to victory. In the comic B-story, Rodman tries to indict the school for gambling and horse-playing, but it turns out Rodman's boss likes to play the ponies too ... and wins a bundle on the big race.

    Director:William F. Claxton
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 6 - By the Bear That Bit Me (1)
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    #6 - By the Bear That Bit Me (1)

    S1:E6

    A mountain man deposits a young boy at the orphanage. The boy soon turns out to be a young girl, attracting the amorous attentions of young Ephram. When he feels rejected by her, Ephram runs away, is caught, and thrown into a work farm. Will and the girl get arrested in a failed attempt to help Ephram. break out.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 7 - By the Bear That Bit Me (2)
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    #7 - By the Bear That Bit Me (2)

    S1:E7

    Murphy and Eli must finally wade in to con the authorities into releasing the kids from the workhouse.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 8 - False Blessings
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    #8 - False Blessings

    S1:E8

    Falling on hard times again, the school is seduced by an offer of ""state aid"" by a local official. Mae accepts the aid, only to learn that by doing so she has unwittingly agreed to some'terrible conditions ... including the departure of Murphy and Moses and putting the children to work making leather goods. She's finally able to kick out the unscrupulous officials when she discovers them tampering with the money earned by the children's labor.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 9 - The Ghost of Gold Hill
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    #9 - The Ghost of Gold Hill

    S1:E9

    Comic episode in which the son of the original owner of Gold Hill Mine comes back to reclaim the school. Mae and Murphy are worried until they discover he's harmless, loveable... and a little bit nuts.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 10 - Graduation
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    #10 - Graduation

    S1:E10

    Claiming he's an orphan because his parents are dead, an old man joins the school to achieve a lifelong ambition... to learn to read and write. Comical conflict arises with Rodman and Tuttle, but the old man succeeds... and wins the heart of a ladyfriend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 11 - Will's Surprise
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    #11 - Will's Surprise

    S1:E11

    When Will happens upon a large gold nugget, his drunk father shows up in town and kidnaps him, convinced the boys know where there's more. Will is locked in a dank root cellar and nearly starves when his father is injured without telling the boy's whereabouts. Murphy and his dog, Mine, manage to find and save the boy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 12 - Eighty-Eight Keys to Happiness
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    #12 - Eighty-Eight Keys to Happiness

    S1:E12

    Moses discovers that music is the key to reaching a withdrawn blind girl. But the only way the school can afford a piano is by letting a local entrepreneur use the saloon building temporarily as a casino. Rodman seizes upon this to attempt to shut down the school ... but fails when he himself succumbs to the gambling bug.

    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 13 - Knights of the White Camelia
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    #13 - Knights of the White Camelia

    S1:E13

    A runaway Southern boy, formerly a bugler in the rebel army, comes to the school and has trouble accepting Moses' status there. Simultaneously, undesirables in the area are forming a local K.K.K. chapter. The boy becomes involved with them and the group tries to railroad Moses out of town. Murphy, the Marshall, and the boy's long-lost father join Moses in doing battle with them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 14 - The Parable of Amanda
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    #14 - The Parable of Amanda

    S1:E14

    Amanda, a pretty accomplice to a bank robbery, is in a stage wreck near Gold Hill while escaping from her crime. She dons the habit of a nun who died in the wreck to avoid capture, but winds up having to go to the orphanage where the sister was expected. She grows attached to the children, and warm and comic moments ensue before she and Murphy drop pretenses in a touching conclusion.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 15 - The Spy
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    #15 - The Spy

    S1:E15

    When Rodman's unruly son is kicked out of boarding school, Rodman enrolls him at Gold Hill making him pose as an orphan in order to spy on the school, and he learns the secret of Murphy's disguise. Murphy, Will and Ephram take the boy on a camping trip to keep him from telling their secret to his father. During the trip the boy comes to feel loved by Murphy and the others, so he agrees to keep their secret to himself.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 16 - The Heir Apparent
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    #16 - The Heir Apparent

    S1:E16

    A wealthy widow with a railroad fortune comes to Gold Hill hoping to adopt a son to take over the family business. She's very taken with Will, who would rather stay with Murphy, but Murphy is torn between his love for the boy and the advantages of his adoption. The widow finally sees that the bond between Murphy and the boy is something she doesn't want to destroy and she withdraws her adoption bid in a complicated and interesting way.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 17 - In God's Arms
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    #17 - In God's Arms

    S1:E17

    The death of an abandoned child drives Father Parker to forsake the priesthood. He moves to Jackson where the only job he can find is cleaning out the saloon. In his secular adventures he finds himself protecting a boy and a pretty saloon singer from an unscrupulous gambler. The self-confidence he gains leads him back to his priestly role, with a little extra convincing from Murphy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 18 - The Dream Day
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    #18 - The Dream Day

    S1:E18

    The orphanage stages an Open House for potential adopting parents, and this all-kid show examines the reactions of many of the children to finding new homes. Several of the kids find homes; our regulars are left behind until the next ""dream day.""

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  19. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 19 - Laddie
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    #19 - Laddie

    S1:E19

    Lizette's heart is broken when Father Parker sells Laddie, an aging horse. When the kids learn the horse is bound for slaughter, Will leads them on an expedition to get her back, not realizing they're up against rustlers. Moses and Murphy race the clock to save the kids, the herd and Laddie.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 20 - Matthew & Elizabeth
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    #20 - Matthew & Elizabeth

    S1:E20

    Richard Garrett, the infamous twin of the villain from the pilot show, comes to Jackson to take over his late brother's empire. He doesn't reckon on resistance from Murphy when he tries to monopolize the town's freight lines nor on the fact that his young daughter will fall for one of the orphans, Matt.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 21 - The First Miracle (1)
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    #21 - The First Miracle (1)

    S1:E21

    When a teenage girl falls in love with Murphy, it forces him to examine his own feelings for Mae and he proposes marriage. At the same time, Father Parker's attempts to build a church in Jackson are thwarted by Garrett ... as a way of wreaking revenge on Murphy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Father Murphy Season 1 Episode 22 - The First Miracle (2)
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    #22 - The First Miracle (2)

    S1:E22

    Emma feels rejected and in her upset state she divulges the secret of ""Father"" Murphy's identity to Rodman, causing the church to reverse its support for the new parish.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 1 - Happiness Is.....
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    #23 - 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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  24. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 2 - The Father Figure
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    #24 - 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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  25. Father Murphy Season 2 Episode 3 - Stopover in a One-Horse Town
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    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Pilot (1)" is the worst rated episode of "Father Murphy". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by Michael Landon, it aired on 11/3/1981. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Pilot (2)".