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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Deputy Season 1 Episode 24 - Lady With A Mission
    6.5/10(29 votes)

    #1 - Lady With A Mission

    S1:E24

    A suffragette incurs the wrath of male citizens. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Hodges: Carleton Young. Sloan: James Lanphier. Tinny: Tod Griffin.

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 37 - Trail Of Darkness
    6.5/10(27 votes)

    #2 - Trail Of Darkness

    S1:E37

    Fry guards his prisoner from the Brainard gang, who have orders to free---or silence---the jailed man. Brainard: Donald Woods. McCord: Allen Case. Tully: Gregg Palmer. Jose: Vito Scotti.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Deputy Season 2 Episode 18 - The Hard Decision
    6.5/10(45 votes)

    #3 - The Hard Decision

    S2:E18

    No description available

    Director:David Butler
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Deputy Season 2 Episode 30 - The Return Of Widow Brown
    6.6/10(53 votes)

    #4 - The Return Of Widow Brown

    S2:E30

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

    Director:Otto Lang
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 36 - The Stand-Off
    6.7/10(28 votes)

    #5 - The Stand-Off

    S1:E36

    Fry falls prey to a trap laid by an escaped criminal.

    Director:David Butler
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 2 - The Wild Wind
    6.9/10(38 votes)

    #6 - The Wild Wind

    S1:E2

    Charlotte Nelson tells Clay McCord of her concern for her younger brother, Trooper, who has fallen into a gang headed by the evil Bull Ward. McCord then arranges for Trooper to get an honest job as messenger for a mining company, transporting shipments of gold. This pleases Ward who assumes that Trooper will turn the gold over to him, but Trooper has mended his ways and when confronted and threatened by Ward while delivering the gold, shoots him. Having proven his worth, Trooper now gets his friend, Tommy -- another former member of Ward's gang -- hired to assist him in his job as messenger.

    Director:David Butler
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 23 - The Two Faces Of Bob Claxton
    7.0/10(26 votes)

    #7 - The Two Faces Of Bob Claxton

    S1:E23

    McCord and Fran try to rehabilitate a teenage thief (Robert Montgomery Jr.). McCord: Allen Case. Fran: Betty Lou Keim. Fry: Henry Fonda. Mike: Bob Hopkins. Pete: Johnny Seven. Solomon: Ron Soble.

    Director:David Butler
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Deputy Season 2 Episode 13 - Second Cousin To The Czar
    7.1/10(21 votes)

    #8 - Second Cousin To The Czar

    S2:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 3 - Back To Glory
    7.2/10(35 votes)

    #9 - Back To Glory

    S1:E3

    Three bank robbers come across a traveling-players' caravan. They shoot the actor-manager and two of them then kidnap Angela, one of the actresses. The third robber, Cowan, stays with the other actress, Lily, and is arrested by Simon Fry. Cowan winds up in the Silver City jail but escapes, steals a horse, and knocks down Fran McCord as he flees. Clay McCord and Herk Lamson track Cowan to a cabin where his two cronies are holed up with Angela. (One of these cronies is dying from a knife wound sustained when he and the other robber fought over Angela.) Clay and Herk arrest Cowan and Clay kills the other robber in a gunfight. Angela is then reunited with Lily.

    Director:Felix E. Feist
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 7 - Proof Of Guilt
    7.2/10(37 votes)

    #10 - Proof Of Guilt

    S1:E7

    No description available

    Director:Arthur Lubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 8 - The Johnny Shanks Story
    7.2/10(36 votes)

    #11 - The Johnny Shanks Story

    S1:E8

    No description available

    Director:David Butler
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 11 - The Next Bullet
    7.2/10(29 votes)

    #12 - The Next Bullet

    S1:E11

    Clay finds a note in a murdered man's pocket that threatens death to Herk Lamson. Marshal Fry is convinced that the crime is linked to a sensational trial held the previous year where a woman was convicted of murdering her husband and her brother's vowed vengeance.

    Director:David Butler
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 15 - The Orphans
    7.2/10(29 votes)

    #13 - The Orphans

    S1:E15

    Fry baits a trap for three killers by fixing a raffle. McCord: Allen Case. Mrs. Bean: Carol Kelly. Timmy: Dennis Rush. Finley: Lane Bradford. Lamson: Wallace Ford. Dillon: Karl Lucas.

    Director:Frederick Stephani
    Writers:Katherine Albert, Dale Eunson

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  14. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 9 - Focus Of Doom
    7.3/10(33 votes)

    #14 - Focus Of Doom

    S1:E9

    Marshals in three Arizona towns have been shot dead and Simon Fry fears the killer may now be coming to Silver City. He sends Herk Lamson off on vacation and watches as four suspicious strangers arrive in town: a cowboy named Barker, a gambler named Regan, a salesman named Madden, and a guitar-player named Wilk. Fry arrests Regan for cheating at cards while Clay McCord offers to escort Wilk back to his hotel. Wilk pulls a gun on McCord in an alley and explains he's been shooting marshals because his daughter was killed in the crossfire when marshals were making an arrest. Fry then comes into the alley followed by Fran McCord. Fran distracts Wilk who is then shot by Fry. As Wilk dies, he says he'll be happy to rejoin his daughter.

    Director:Arthur Lubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 29 - The Truly Yours
    7.3/10(32 votes)

    #15 - The Truly Yours

    S1:E29

    A trio of three men, (Coffer, File, and Fancy), rob the bank in Silver City one night after setting fire to Clay McCord's store as a diversion. Clay persues them to a mine but winds up being imprisoned inside a mine tunnel. A family of traveling Gypsies comes across the scene. The two sisters in this family free Clay who then shoots one of the robbers and captures the other two. One of these two knew Clay from childhood and Clay, seeing that the robber isn't all bad, promises to speak up for him at his trial.

    Director:David Butler
    Writer:Montgomery Pittman

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  16. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 31 - The Last Gunfight
    7.3/10(40 votes)

    #16 - The Last Gunfight

    S1:E31

    Gunfighter Johnny Dean wants to shed his reputation by settling down in Silver City under the alias ""Roger Enright."" He plans to buy a ranch north of town and marry the local music teacher, Helen Ivers. Trouble arrives in the form of Dan Crawford, a young man who's been trailing Dean and who wants to kill him in a shootout in order to acquire a reputation. Local bully Burt Johnson learns of Crawford's quest and decides to kill Dean himself. To settle which man will get the ""honor,"" Crawford and Johnson play cards. Crawford wins but when Johnson learns Crawford has a reputation for shady card-dealing, he challenges Crawford to a duel on the town's street. Dean tries to avert bloodshed by stepping between them but the men fire anyway and Dean is killed. Deputy McCord checks the body and says it shows only one bullet hole. Each shooter claims to be the one who fired the fatal shot but McCord refuses to settle their dispute, not wanting either man to claim ""credit."" He later confides to Ma

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 34 - Palace Of Chance
    7.3/10(30 votes)

    #17 - Palace Of Chance

    S1:E34

    McCord uses a gambling-hall hostess to lure her boy friend---a wanted outlaw---to Silver City. Julie: Karen Steele. McCord: Allen Case. Fry: Henry Fonda. Reed: Dennis Cross. Lucille: Irene James.

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 6 - Like Father
    7.4/10(35 votes)

    #18 - Like Father

    S1:E6

    While Chesley Vantage eagerly greets the arrival in Silver City of his son, Brad, who's been studying in Kansas to be a veterinarian, word reaches Deputy McCord that a gunfighter is also on the way from Kansas, apparently to settle a score. McCord soon learns that Brad acquired his vet training while serving time in a Kansas prison. He also learns that the gunfighter, Jim Stanton, wants to kill Brad because he mistakenly believes Brad warned authorities about a planned prison escape. McCord spares Brad from Stanton's wrath by coming up with a ruse to put Brad in jail. Then McCord kills Stanton in a barroom shootout. Brad's now free to set up his practice and his father, himself a reformed outlaw, is none the wiser about his son's criminal past.

    Director:David Butler
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 32 - Chain Of Action
    7.4/10(23 votes)

    #19 - Chain Of Action

    S1:E32

    A man refuses to reveal the location of stolen loot needed to save a boy from blindness. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Scofield: Lee Patterson. Claudia: Bek Nelson. Porter: Francis DeSales.

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Deputy Season 2 Episode 9 - The World Against Me
    7.4/10(27 votes)

    #20 - The World Against Me

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 1 - Badge For A Day (The Deputy)
    7.5/10(45 votes)

    #21 - Badge For A Day (The Deputy)

    S1:E1

    In the premiere episode, titled "The Deputy," Fry selects Silver City, Arizona, as the spot to head off two men he suspects of carrying supplies to a holdup gang led by Ace Gentry (Robert J. Wilke). After arresting the supply drivers, Fry tricks Clay McCord into joining him in delivering the foodstuffs to Gentry. When McCord realizes he has been duped into raiding an outlaw camp, he turns back toward Silver City, leaving Fry to face the outlaws alone.

    Director:Don Medford
    Writers:Norman Lear, Roland Kibbee

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  22. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 10 - The Big Four
    7.5/10(38 votes)

    #22 - The Big Four

    S1:E10

    McCord infiltrates a group of outlaws to inform Fry of their plans. Fry: Henry Fonda. Johnny: Henry Brandon. Curly: Gerald Milton. Billy: Richard Bakalyan. Ike: Charles Fredericks.

    Director:David Butler
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Deputy Season 2 Episode 35 - Brand Of Honesty
    7.5/10(26 votes)

    #23 - Brand Of Honesty

    S2:E35

    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.

    Director:Tay Garnett
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 4 - Shadow Of The Noose
    7.6/10(41 votes)

    #24 - Shadow Of The Noose

    S1:E4

    Simon Fry arrests a ""Drifter"" for shooting a man, stealing his wife, and then shooting her. He takes the Drifter to a jail in the nearby town but, when a lynch-mob gathers, moves him on to Silver City. Following him is a landowner named Akins and several of Akins' cronies who are anxious for some quick ""justice."" Fran McCord believes the Drifter's pleas of innocence and persuades brother Clay to help Fry transport the prisoner to a trial in Prescott. Before this happens, Akins tricks the Drifter into making a jailbreak but this plan fails. On the trail to Prescott, Akins again makes a move against the Drifter which Fry and Clay thwart. Fry then reveals to Clay evidence of the Drifter's guilt.

    Director:Robert B. Sinclair
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Deputy Season 1 Episode 12 - The Deal
    7.6/10(30 votes)

    #25 - The Deal

    S1:E12

    A gang headed by men named Quincannon and Usher kidnap Fran McCord. They tell her brother, Clay, that to save his sister he must go along with their plan to rob the payroll of a local mine. Clay cooperates, even going so far as to lure Simon Fry out of town on the day of the robbery. Fry, however, sees through Clay's ruses and soon Clay tells him the truth. Together they ride to the mine and in a shoot-out with the gang, Clay kills Quincannon. Usher rides off to the cabin where Fran is being held. Fran has freed herself from her ropes and when Usher enters the cabin, she throws water in his face and hits him in the head with a frying pan. Clay and Fry then arrive to complete the arrest.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Lady With A Mission" is the worst rated episode of "The Deputy". It scored 6.5/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/5/1960. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Trail Of Darkness".