The Deputy

The Deputy

1959
The Deputy
The Deputy

The Deputy

6.9 | TV-PG | en | Western

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 Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.

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EP37  Lawman's Conscience
Jul. 01,1961
Lawman's Conscience

A deathbed confession frees Albee Beckett, who embarks on a campaign of terror against the people who convicted him. Beckett: Russell Johnson. Rufus: Jason Robards Sr. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Mary: Tracey Roberts. Tanby: Jerry LaZarre. Briggs: Roy Wright.

EP36  Lorinda Belle
Jun. 24,1961
Lorinda Belle

Jason Getty, poisoned by one of his enemies, has two days to live---and find his killer. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Landy: Addison Richards. Croman: Frank Overton.

EP35  Brand Of Honesty
Jun. 10,1961
Brand Of Honesty

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.

EP34  The Deathly Quiet
May. 27,1961
The Deathly Quiet

Two Army deserters turn to crime---with the aid of Gatling guns. Braddock: Johnny Cash. Hawkins: Michael Garrett. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Sarge: Read Morgan. Stonewall: Chubby Johnson.

EP33  The Legend Of Dixie
May. 20,1961
The Legend Of Dixie

Dixie Miller glories in his fame when credited with killing two fugitives. Miller: Stanley Adams. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Logan: Gregory Walcott. Mace: Henry Fleer. Hoak: King Calder.

EP32  An Enemy Of The Town
May. 06,1961
An Enemy Of The Town

McCord is besieged by angry townspeople when he closes a profitable tannery. Fry: Henry Fonda. Sarge: Read Morgan. Culp: Whit Bissell. Crockett: Stephen Roberts. Hall: Ray Kellogg.

EP31  Spoken In Silence
Apr. 29,1961
Spoken In Silence

Mike Rogers needs money for an operation on his deaf-mute daughter Laura.

EP30  The Return Of Widow Brown
Apr. 22,1961
The Return Of Widow Brown

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

EP29  Brother In Arms
Apr. 15,1961
Brother In Arms

McCord's boyhood friend returns with a killer's reputation. Jason: Denny Miller. McCord: Allen Case. Fry: Henry Fonda. Arnold: Lon Chaney. Cabot: Bill Hale. Sarge: Read Morgan.

EP28  Tension Point
Apr. 08,1961
Tension Point

Fry tries to protect the Baker family from three gunmen---without revealing that he is a lawman. McCord: Allen Case. Zed: John Marley. Molly: Virginia Christine. Meadows: Jerome Thor. Whip: William Stevens. Mark: Donald Losby.

EP27  Cherchez La Femme
Apr. 01,1961
Cherchez La Femme

Sarge accidentally kills the son of a powerful rancher while protecting a young woman from his unwanted advances. Unfortunately for Sarge, there were no witnesses to the struggle and the rancher uses his political influence to have a hanging judge appointed for the trial. Clay tracks the frightened woman through Albuquerque into the New Mexican mountains in hopes of bringing her back to serve as a witness as Sarge's trial.

EP26  The Example
Mar. 25,1961
The Example

Outlaw Frank Barton, alarmed by his son's desire to emulate him, arranges for his own arrest. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Jeb: Jack Chaplain. Kitt: Rickie Sorenson. Whitey: Reedy Talton. Gabe: Robert C. Ross.

EP25  The Means And The End
Mar. 18,1961
The Means And The End

Fry searches for the man who killed the main witness against outlaw Josie Styles. Farley Styles: DeForest Kelley. Josie: Phyllis Love. McCord: Allen Case. Wiley: Robert E. Griffin.

EP24  Two-Way Deal
Mar. 11,1961
Two-Way Deal

Slade Blatner brings in a young outlaw and demands the reward. The outlaw: Blatner's son. Johnny: Billy Gray. Blatner: Ted de Corisa. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Sheriff: Kenneth MacDonald.

EP23  Edge Of Doubt
Mar. 04,1961
Edge Of Doubt

Richard Chamberlain as a parolee accused of murdering his fiancee's father. McCord: Allen Case. Annie: Floy Dean Smith. Jenner: Bigelow C. Sayre. Lake: George Chandler. Potter: Tommy Jackson. Sarge: Read Morgan.

EP22  The Challenger
Feb. 25,1961
The Challenger

To help financially pressed McCord, Sarge agrees to fight a boxing champion for $500. Sarge: Read Morgan. McCord: Allen Case. Titan: Hal Baylor. Collins: Stafford Repp. Dillon: Paul Gilbert. Dan: Don Heitgert.

EP21  The Lonely Road
Feb. 18,1961
The Lonely Road

Paroled killer Shad Billings returns after five years in prison, hoping to resume cattle ranching with his wife, Meg. While there have been false rumors linking Meg with Marshall Fry, Meg has actually been involved with a mine-guard from Tombstone named Trace Phelan. Fry urges Phelan to clear out but Phelan humiliates the unarmed Billings whom Fry then jails for his own protection. Then, instead of moving on as Fry hopes, Phelan vists the Billings homestead to kidnap Meg who now wants no part of him. Fry follows and guns down Phelan in a shoot-out. Billings and Meg are re-united.

EP20  Shackled Town
Feb. 11,1961
Shackled Town

McCord and Sarge fall prey to a crooked sheriff and a power-hungry judge. McCord: Allen Case. Sarge: Read Morgan. Denton: Reed Hadley. Smith: Robert Brubaker. O'Brien: Eugene Iglesias.

EP19  The Dream
Feb. 04,1961
The Dream

Clint Hammer uses strong-arm tactics to convert his inheritance into cash. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Selene: Carolyn Craig. Lawson: John McLain. Mildred: Mary Munday.

EP18  The Hard Decision
Jan. 28,1961
The Hard Decision

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EP17  Past And Present
Jan. 21,1961
Past And Present

Fry tries to find out why bank clerk Herb Caldwell offered no resistance to robbers. Calico Bill: Murvyn Vye. McCord: Allen Case. Sarge: Read Morgan. Madge: Mary Beth Hughes.

EP16  The Lesson
Jan. 14,1961
The Lesson

The lawmen try to protect schoolteacher Mary Willis from her husband, a wanted outlaw. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Danton: Harry Lauter. Jenkins: Stevan Darrell. Johnny: Kevin O'Neal. Grisby: Fred Kruger.

EP15  Duty Bound
Jan. 07,1961
Duty Bound

Fry has his hands full protecting murder suspects from an Indian attack---and each other. Elston: Ron Harper. Ricker: Frank Maxwell. McCord: Allen Case. Trooper: Pat McCaffrie.

EP14  The Judas Town
Dec. 31,1960
The Judas Town

McCord refuses to be bribed into releasing a cattleman's son. McCurdy: Roy Roberts. Pete: Ed Nelson. Fry: Henry Fonda. Touhy: Duane Cress. Mayor: Ed Prentiss.

EP13  Second Cousin To The Czar
Dec. 24,1960
Second Cousin To The Czar

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.

EP12  Day Of Fear
Dec. 17,1960
Day Of Fear

Townsfolk fear that the outlaw McCord brought in has smallpox. Amy: Mary Tyler Moore. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Collins: Tyler McVey. Landy: Addison Richards. Nathan: Robert Osterloh.

EP11  The Three Brothers
Dec. 10,1960
The Three Brothers

McCord and Sarge suspect three brothers of bank robberies. Fry: Henry Fonda. Martha: Cathy Case. Terry: Minga Mitchell. Suzy: Carmen Phillips. Jay: Jack Ging. Frank: Lew Gallo. Gary: Buzz Martin.

EP10  Sally Tornado (aka Lady For A Hanging)
Dec. 03,1960
Sally Tornado (aka Lady For A Hanging)

Fay Spain as convicted murderess Sally Tornado, who is being escorted to execution by McCord (Allen Case). Fry: Henry Fonda. Jipsom: William Fawcett.

EP9  The World Against Me
Nov. 26,1960
The World Against Me

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.

EP8  Passage To New Orleans
Nov. 19,1960
Passage To New Orleans

A romantic triangle develops when Fry and McCord are assigned to escort a pretty murder witness to New Orleans. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Lucy: Patrice Wymore. Foreman: Carl Benton Reid.

EP7  The Higher Law
Nov. 12,1960
The Higher Law

Clay McCord arrests Jack Rivers for assaulting an Indian named Black Wing but Black Wing, distrusting the legal system, refuses to testify against him. Judge Wilkens releases Rivers who is then abducted by Black Wing and taken to an Indian village for some ""Apache justice."" Clay McCord rides out to the village to make sure that ""white man's law"" prevails.

EP6  Bitter Root
Nov. 05,1960
Bitter Root

In an isolated shack, a lonely woman harbors a wounded killer on the run. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Sarge: Read Morgan. Hester: Virginia Gregg.

EP5  Mother And Son
Oct. 29,1960
Mother And Son

Fry has his hands full with a jailed outlaw, and the man's mother, who knows nothing about her son's life of crime. Stanhope: James Franciscus. Mrs. Stanhope: Josephine Hutchinson. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case.

EP4  The Fatal Orge
Oct. 15,1960
The Fatal Orge

Well-to-do Elmer Jackson is murdered and evidence points to his nephew, Phil, who has fled town. Clay McCord suspects Phil's sister, Martha, knows his whereabouts though she denies this. Clay secretly follows Martha out of town but she knocks him out with a rock to the head and rides on to a cabin where she meets her lover, outlaw Tweed Younger. Tweed killed Elmer Jackson but made it look as if Phil had. Phil's now a prisoner in the cabin. Double-crossing Martha shoots Tweed and is about to kill Phil when McCord arrives on the scene.

EP3  The Jason Harris Story
Oct. 08,1960
The Jason Harris Story

Simon Fry arrests Jason Harris, the marshall of Hondo, for complicity in some robberies. Harris could clear himself but remains silent to protect his guilty wife, Laurie. Laurie's fallen for a man named Johnny Dustin and together they plan to get rid of Harris. Dustin betrays Laurie, however, and Fry and Clay McCord then see to it that the guilty are caught and punished. Fry then offers the exonerated Harris a job in the new town of Yorba Linda.

EP2  Meet Sergeant Tasker
Oct. 01,1960
Meet Sergeant Tasker

Clay tries to help a two-fisted but gullible sergeant recover two thousand dollars of Army funds stolen by a beautiful blonde saloon hostess and her two card sharp confederates.

EP1  The Deadly Breed
Sep. 24,1960
The Deadly Breed

Clay is curious and concerned when Chief Marshal Fry insists on personally handling the investigation into the activities of a pair of swindlers, one of whom happens to be a beautiful young blonde. Clay learns that the young woman is the daughter of woman who spurned his love more than twenty years ago and the deputy fears that Simon may be allowing his personal feelings to cloud his professional judgment.

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Released: 1959-09-12 | Released Producted By: Top Gun Productions , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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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 Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.

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bkoganbing The Deputy had a fatal gimmick to start with when it debuted on television in 1959. It's star was to be movie legend Henry Fonda who played a US Marshal. But note the title of the series, the one who carried the show for the most part was his deputy in one particular town in his jurisdiction, Allen Case.Case was a storekeeper in the town so the deputy's job was a part-time gig. He was not a violent man, only resorting to firearms when he absolutely had to. For action fans this was a big no no.But in plain fact it was Fonda's name that lured viewers to the show and he only appeared in maybe a third of the episodes and in some only brief appearances. So people tuned in for Fonda and didn't get him.This was a busy period in Henry Fonda's life, he was working in three different mediums, stage, screen, and television. My guess is that he didn't have the time to devote to a weekly television series and opted for this format. After two seasons The Deputy was canceled.It was an average television western, but the next time Fonda did a regular TV series it was as a full time star.
tokyogreisman I appeared in this series for one episode, "The Lesson" in 1960. I played Pete Jenkins. I probably went by my stage name at that time, which was Philip Grayson instead of Philip Greisman, the name I used on earlier TV shows. I am trying to find a copy of this show. Would anyone have one? I am also looking for other shows I was on. "U.S. Marshall" (Nine O'Clock Pick-up), "Panic"(Peter and the Tiger), "Checkmate" (Tight As A Drum), a catholic series that used to be shown on Sundays called "This is the Life"(episode #624, Prejudice and The Price Of Friedship), "Official Detective"(The People vs. Al Nickoloff). If anyone knows where I can get copies of any of these shows, please let me know.
ejrjr Beware. The DVD cover presented by IMDb and the DVD from Amazon.com are not from this series. Legendary Lawmen is a different series. The Deputy has not been released on DVD or VHS as of September 1, 2006. Some of the episode copyrights were renewed by Universal City Studios, Inc., which now is owned by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), which is owned by General Electric (GE).Also, the program music theme by Jack Marshall is under copyright so even if some episodes are in public domain, the theme music is under copyright. There were seventy-six episodes produced by Top Gun Productions.
raysond I recently saw one of the episodes from the series and I had the chance to recorded it,being this will a rare opportunity you'll see Henry Fonda is his only TV series. One interesting part about the show: Fonda was the Marshal who was in charge of law and order in the Arizona Territory of the 1800's as Simon Fry. He always had a deputy beside(who was a storekeeper and lawman as well)him to bring in criminals who broke the law and brought them to justice in the old west. The show was a huge hit when ran on NBC from 1959-1961,when Fonda was still cranking out feature films and starring in a TV series during that time. One note about the show: Fonda also had a second partner helping him out as well,if you catch some of the episodes you'll see a boyish looking Kent McCord(long before he became Officer Malloy on Adam-12 years later)which is rarely seen nowdays. But if you do,it will be a opportunity to catch a great Hollywood actor in one of his best and only TV series that produced 78 episodes and produced by Revue Studios,the same studio that produced the westerns "Wagon Train", "Shotgun Slade",and "The Virginian";the crime shows "Johnny Staccato", "M Squad",and the situation family-friendly comedies "Leave It To Beaver","Bachelor Father",not to mention the anthology drama series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents".