Overview of 'Yancy Derringer' Season 1

Episode 1 - Return to New Orleans

Release Date: 1958-10-02

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.

Episode 2 - Gallatin Street

Release Date: 1958-10-09

Yancy helps a sea captain who was cheated out of his money in a dive on notorious Gallatin Street.

Episode 3 - Ticket to Natchez

Release Date: 1958-10-23

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.

Episode 4 - An Ace Called Spade

Release Date: 1958-10-30

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.

Episode 5 - A Bullet for Bridget

Release Date: 1958-11-06

An Irish girl visitng New Orleans decides that Yancy is to be her future husband.

Episode 6 - The Belle from Boston

Release Date: 1958-11-13

After administrator Colton hangs a member of an outlaw gang, the others decide to take revenge on his visiting sister.

Episode 7 - The Loot from Richmond

Release Date: 1958-11-20

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.

Episode 8 - The Saga of Lonesome Jackson

Release Date: 1958-11-27

A wealthy but lonely man who has come to New Orleans looking for a wife asks Yancy to help him.

Episode 9 - Memo to a Firing Squad

Release Date: 1958-12-04

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.

Episode 10 - Three Knaves from New Haven

Release Date: 1958-12-11

Shop owners receive threats of violence if they refuse to sell their property to three strangers.

Episode 11 - Marble Fingers

Release Date: 1958-12-18

Yancy tries to find out who's responsible for recent grave robberies.

Episode 12 - Old Dixie

Release Date: 1958-12-25

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.

Episode 13 - Two of a Kind

Release Date: 1959-01-01

Yancy and Pahoo are framed for a series of crimes, and now face execution.

Episode 14 - Nightmare on Bourbon Street

Release Date: 1959-01-08

A mysterious mad bomber steals explosives and threatens to blow up the entire city of New Orleans.

Episode 15 - The Fair Freebooter

Release Date: 1959-01-15

Yancy must deal with a female pirate whose gang has stolen a valuable necklace from representatives of the Mexican government.

Episode 16 - Mayhem at the Market

Release Date: 1959-01-22

Merchants are in such fear for their lives that Yancy gets no cooperation in his attempt to break a new protection racket.

Episode 17 - The Night the Russians Landed

Release Date: 1959-01-29

A visiting Russian noble appears to have become a target for murder.

Episode 18 - A Game of Chance

Release Date: 1959-02-05

Yancy suspects foul play when a lottery winner dies before she can collect.

Episode 19 - Panic in Town

Release Date: 1959-02-12

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.

Episode 20 - Hell and High Water

Release Date: 1959-02-19

A landowner comes up with a risky scheme to protect her property when it is threatened by flood waters.

Episode 21 - The Louisiana Dude

Release Date: 1959-02-26

Winning a half interest in a silver mine while visiting Virginia City, Yancy discovers that his new partner is a beautiful woman.

Episode 22 - Longhair

Release Date: 1959-03-05

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.

Episode 23 - Thunder on the River

Release Date: 1959-03-12

Yancy decides to help a fellow riverboat owner whose fleet is being sabotaged by rivals trying to corner the market on river traffic.

Episode 24 - The Gun That Murdered Lincoln

Release Date: 1959-03-19

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.

Yancy Derringer (1958)