7.2/1090 votes#1 - Return to New Orleans
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1958
Yancy wins enough money playing poker to pay for his return home to New Orleans. The losing players decide to rob him of his winnings, but he escapes on a riverboat.
Director: Richard Sale
Writer: Richard Sale
- 7.7/1064 votes
#2 - Gallatin Street
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1958
Yancy helps a sea captain who was cheated out of his money in a dive on notorious Gallatin Street.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1055 votes
#3 - Ticket to Natchez
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1958
City administrator Colton entrusts Yancy with an army payroll that is to be taken to Natchez on Yancy's riverboat, the Sultana, but robbers have other plans.
Director: Richard Sale
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1057 votes
#4 - An Ace Called Spade
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1958
Yancy is relieved to find that a newspaper story about administrator Colton's death is premature, but fears that Colton will be the victim of trickery in an upcoming duel.
Director: Richard Sale
Writer: Richard Sale
- 7.3/1050 votes
#5 - A Bullet for Bridget
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1958
An Irish girl visitng New Orleans decides that Yancy is to be her future husband.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1051 votes
#6 - The Belle from Boston
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1958
After administrator Colton hangs a member of an outlaw gang, the others decide to take revenge on his visiting sister.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1045 votes
#7 - The Loot from Richmond
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/1958
A messenger is sent to New Orleans by a former general in the Civil War, but is killed before he can reveal what happened to a fortune that was taken from Richmond, Virginia.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1044 votes
#8 - The Saga of Lonesome Jackson
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/1958
A wealthy but lonely man who has come to New Orleans looking for a wife asks Yancy to help him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1040 votes
#9 - Memo to a Firing Squad
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/1958
An army officer with vengeance on his mind tries to stop a presidential pardon from reaching a man who is scheduled to die before a firing squad.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1039 votes
#10 - Three Knaves from New Haven
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1958
Shop owners receive threats of violence if they refuse to sell their property to three strangers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1047 votes
#11 - Marble Fingers
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1958
Yancy tries to find out who's responsible for recent grave robberies.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard Sale
- 7.5/1050 votes
#12 - Old Dixie
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1958
Villains go after Yancy's dog after Yancy's father dies leaving a note that only the dog knows where the family pre-war fortune is buried.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1041 votes
#13 - Two of a Kind
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/1959
Yancy and Pahoo are framed for a series of crimes, and now face execution.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1041 votes
#14 - Nightmare on Bourbon Street
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1959
A mysterious mad bomber steals explosives and threatens to blow up the entire city of New Orleans.
Director: Richard Sale
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1043 votes
#15 - The Fair Freebooter
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1959
Yancy must deal with a female pirate whose gang has stolen a valuable necklace from representatives of the Mexican government.
Director: Richard Sale
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1044 votes
#16 - Mayhem at the Market
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1959
Merchants are in such fear for their lives that Yancy gets no cooperation in his attempt to break a new protection racket.
Director: Richard Sale
Writer: Richard Sale
- 7.6/1044 votes
#17 - The Night the Russians Landed
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1959
A visiting Russian noble appears to have become a target for murder.
Director: Richard Sale
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1040 votes
#18 - A Game of Chance
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1959
Yancy suspects foul play when a lottery winner dies before she can collect.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1043 votes
#19 - Panic in Town
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1959
With a serial killer loose in New Orleans and the authorities seemingly powerless, a group of vigilantes decides to take action before any more prominent women are murdered.
Director: Richard Sale
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1053 votes
#20 - Hell and High Water
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1959
A landowner comes up with a risky scheme to protect her property when it is threatened by flood waters.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1039 votes
#21 - The Louisiana Dude
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1959
Winning a half interest in a silver mine while visiting Virginia City, Yancy discovers that his new partner is a beautiful woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1041 votes
#22 - Longhair
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1959
When famed General George Armstrong Custer visits New Orleans, Yancy discovers that he is being stalked by an Indian seeking revenge for a past wrong.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1038 votes
#23 - Thunder on the River
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1959
Yancy decides to help a fellow riverboat owner whose fleet is being sabotaged by rivals trying to corner the market on river traffic.
Director: Richard Sale
Writer: Richard Sale
- 7.5/1027 votes
#24 - The Gun That Murdered Lincoln
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/1959
Yancy is arrested on a charge of high treason. His crime: selling John Wilkes Booth the gun that killed President Abraham Lincoln. While Derringer is held in solitary confinement, his friends must refute forged evidence and find where the his matched set of pistols, the ones alleged purchased by Booth, were hidden when renegades ransacked his plantation during the Civil War.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1042 votes
#25 - Collector's Item
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/1959
To assist a woman in her crusade to provide a home for the city's orphans, Yancy comes up with a scheme that requires the aid of photography pioneer Matthew Brady.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Yancy Derringer Season 1
Every episode of Yancy Derringer Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Yancy Derringer Season 1!
Yancy Derringer is an American Western series
Genres:WesternAction & Adventure
Network:CBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Return to New Orleans" is the best rated episode of "Yancy Derringer" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 90 votes. Directed by Richard Sale and written by Richard Sale, it aired on 10/2/1958. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Gallatin Street".