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Yancy Derringer Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Return to New Orleans

First aired: Oct/02/1958
Writer: Mary Loos, Richard Sale
Director: Richard Sale
Guest star: Julie Adams (Amanda Eaton), Fred Krone (guest star), Otis Greene (guest star), Woody Chambliss (guest star), Bill Walker (Obadiah), Charles Cooper (guest star), Dan Sheridan (guest star), George N. Neise (guest star)

Yancy Derringer returns to his hometown of New Orleans after the Civil War and encounters a trio of dishonest gamblers, and old galpal, and the civil administrator of New Orleans.


2 :01x02 - Gallatin Street

First aired: Oct/09/1958
Writer: Mary Loos, Richard Sale
Director: William F. Claxton
Guest star: Charles Horvath (guest star), Paul Baxley (guest star), Fred Krone (guest star), Harry Lewis (guest star), John Qualen (Larsen), Paula Raymond (Lucy Marjdale), Claude Akins (Toby Cook)

Colton asks Yancy to help clean up the notorious Gallatin Street area of New Orleans which is under the control of the dishonest Toby Cook.


3 :01x03 - Ticket to Natchez

First aired: Oct/23/1958
Director: Richard Sale
Guest star: Jack Perkins (guest star), Harvey Perry (guest star), Martin Bryan (guest star), Woody Chambliss (guest star), Jean Byron (guest star), Bill Williams (Winslow), Marie Windsor (Billie Jo)

Colton assigns Yancy to take a large sum of money up the river to Natchez aboard a riverboat. Yancy must figure out a way to protect the loot from robbers.


4 :01x04 - An Ace Called Spade

First aired: Oct/30/1958
Director: Richard Sale
Guest star: Ann Codee (Madame Marie), Sandy Kenyon (Willy Nilly), Larry J. Blake (Jailer), Clarke Gordon (Crane), Lisa Lu (Miss Mandarin), Joan Taylor (Lavinia Lake), Ray Danton (Spade Stuart)

A woman hires a professional gambler to provoke a duel with John Colton and kill him. Yancy then comes to the aid of his friend.


5 :01x05 - A Bullet for Bridget

First aired: Nov/06/1958
Guest star: John Stephenson (Joshua Devon), Robert Lowery (Blair Devon), Frances Bergen (Madame Francine), Margaret Field (Bridget Malone)

An Irish damsel is convinced that Yancy is her Mr. Right after he saves her life.


6 :01x06 - The Belle from Boston

First aired: Nov/13/1958
Guest star: Noreen Nash (Agatha Colton)

Colton's visiting sister is targeted by a revenge seeking gang.


7 :01x07 - The Loot from Richmond

First aired: Nov/20/1958
Writer: Irving Wallace
Director: William F. Claxton
Guest star: Julie Adams (Amanda Eaton), Carl Benton Reid (General Stafford)

Yancy investigates when the secretary of a general is killed before he can deliver an important message to Colton.


8 :01x08 - The Saga of Lonesome Jackson

First aired: Nov/27/1958
Guest star: Richard Devon (Jody Barker), Sandy Kenyon (Willy Nilly), Bartlett Robinson (Stephen Quayle), Margaret Hayes (Ruby), Gene Evans (Lonesome Jackson)

A crude but wealthy man asks Yancy to help find him a wife.


9 :01x09 - Memo to a Firing Squad

First aired: Dec/04/1958
Guest star: Guy Kingsford (John Fillmore), Richard Devon (Jody Barker), John Pickard (Lt. Weems), Bill Walker (Obadiah), Robert Rockwell (Phillip Hampton), John Dehner (Colonel Tate), Frances Bergen (Madame Francine)

Even though a presidential pardon has arrived to save a man from a firing squad, a vengeful Army officer tries to see that the execution proceeds.


10 :01x10 - Three Knaves from New Haven

First aired: Dec/11/1958
Guest star: Frances Bergen (Madame Francine), Edwin Jerome (Claude de Graf), Richard Devon (Jody Barker), Margaret Field (Bridget Malone)

New Orleans shopkeepers are getting offers they can't refuse to sell their stores.


11 :01x11 - Marble Fingers

First aired: Dec/18/1958
Director: William F. Claxton
Guest star: John Alderman (Marble Fingers), Kasey Rogers (Blackeyed Sue), Kathleen Crowley (Desiree), Mark Roberts (Matthew Younger), Frances Bergen (Madame Francine)

Yancy goes undercover to discover who's behind a series of robberies against New Orleans merchants.


12 :01x12 - Old Dixie

First aired: Dec/25/1958
Guest star: Joan Taylor (Lavinia), Lisa Lu (Miss Mandarin), Bill Walker (Obadiah), Lester Matthews (Jerrison Ames), Louise Fletcher (Miss Nellie)

A dog named Dixie might hold a clue to where Yancy's father buried some treasure.


13 :01x13 - Two of a Kind

First aired: Jan/01/1959
Director: William F. Claxton
Guest star: Dick Foran (Amos Fry), Frances Bergen (Madame Francine)

Yancy and Pahoo are blamed for a local crime wave and find themselves arrested and sentenced to death.


14 :01x14 - Nightmare on Bourbon Street

First aired: Jan/08/1959
Writer: Mary Loos, Richard Sale
Director: Richard Sale
Guest star: Bill Walker (Obadiah), Robert L. McCord (Captain Fry), Frances Bergen (Madame Francine), Fred Krone (Sentry), Mary La Roche (Barbara Kent)

A crazy little old man steals some dynamite and threatens to blow up the levee that holds back the waters from New Orleans.


15 :01x15 - The Fair Freebooter

First aired: Jan/15/1959
Writer: Richard Sale, Mary Loos
Director: Richard Sale
Guest star: Charles Bateman (Lieutenant), Gene Collins (Willy Quill), Patricia Blair (Goldy), Richard Devon (Jody Barker), Robert L. McCord (Captain Fry), Michael Forest (Pierre), Beverly Garland (Coco LaSalle)

Yancy is on the scene when a band of Mississippi River pirates nearly set off an international incident.


16 :01x16 - Mayhem at the Market

First aired: Jan/22/1959
Director: Richard Sale
Guest star: Frances Bergen (Madame Francine), George De Normand (guest star), Saul Gorss (guest star), Chuck Couch (guest star), Regis Parton (guest star), Jack Albertson (guest star), Lillian Bronson (guest star), Harry Lauter (guest star), Raymond Bailey (Colonel Duval), Mari Aldon (Celeste Duval)

Yancy helps a flower vendor in her struggle against a protection racket.


17 :01x17 - The Night the Russians Landed

First aired: Jan/29/1959
Writer: Coles Trapnell
Director: Richard Sale
Guest star: Alberto Morin (Colonel Suvaroff), Richard Devon (Jody Barker), Patricia Blair (Goldy), Nick Adams (Duke Alexis)

Yancy must protect a visiting Russian duke with an eye for hot women and a taste for fine vodka.


18 :01x18 - A Game of Chance

First aired: Feb/05/1959
Guest star: Frances Bergen (Madame Francine), Larry J. Blake (Jailer), Karen Sharpe Kramer (Patricia Lee)

Madame Francine wins a lottery but doesn't live long enough to collect her winnings.


19 :01x19 - Panic in Town

First aired: Feb/12/1959
Writer: Coles Trapnell
Director: Richard Sale
Guest star: Irving Mitchell (guest star), Dale Van Sickle (guest star), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (guest star), Carey Loftin (guest star), Fred Krone (guest star), Troy Melton (guest star), Walter Burke (guest star), Holly Harris (guest star), Joan Dupuis (guest star), Charlene James (Pearl Girl), Patricia Blair (Goldy), Robert L. McCord (Captain Fry), Ed Kemmer (Dr. Bishop), Donald Randolph (Bert Ogilvie), Peggy Stewart (Karen Ogilvie)

Colton assigns Yancy to investigate when a series of women in and around New Orleans are assaulted by someone dressed as a clown.


20 :01x20 - Hell and High Water

First aired: Feb/19/1959
Guest star: Patricia Cutts (Lady Charity), Charles Bronson (Rogue Donovan)

A woman devises a plan to save her estate from being overrun by flooding but it could lead to New Orleans being devastated by floodwaters.


21 :01x21 - The Louisiana Dude

First aired: Feb/26/1959
Writer: Coles Trapnell
Director: William F. Claxton
Guest star: Hillary Brooke (Julia Bulette), Addison Richards (Judge Harper), Booth Colman (guest star)

During a visit to Virginia City, Yancy sits in on a poker game and wins half interest in silver mine.


22 :01x22 - Longhair

First aired: Mar/05/1959
Writer: Coles Trapnell
Director: William F. Claxton
Guest star: Kelly Thordsen (Colorado Charlie), Robert L. McCord (Captain Fry), Roy Jenson (Captain McBain), Charlene James (Pearl Girl), Gene Collins (Willy Quill), Grant Williams (George Armstrong Custer)

Visiting Civil War hero and Indian fighter George Custer arrives in New Orleans only to find himself being stalked by a vengeful Native American.


23 :01x23 - Thunder on the River

First aired: Mar/12/1959
Director: Richard Sale
Guest star: Fred Krone (guest star), Gene Collins (guest star), Douglas Odney (guest star), Woody Chambliss (guest star), Oliver McGowan (Dan Emerson), Jim Fox (O'Hara), Ken Mayer (Shute O'Brien), Patricia Barry (Patricia Tappworth)

Colton sends Yancy to investigate a series of riverboat accidents that have occurred near New Orleans.


24 :01x24 - The Gun That Murdered Lincoln

First aired: Mar/19/1959
Guest star: Tom McKee (General Cochran), Robert L. McCord (Captain Fry), Bert Remsen (Major Sampson), Willard Sage (Senator Yardley)

Yancy is accused of being the man who sold John Wilkes Booth the gun he used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.


25 :01x25 - Collector's Item

First aired: Mar/26/1959
Guest star: Robert Cornthwaite (Matthew Brady), Richard Devon (Jody Barker), Claude Akins (Toby Cook), Janet Lord (Elsie)

A widow who's trying to help the orphans of New Orleans involves Yancy in some questionable activities.


26 :01x26 - Fire on the Frontier

First aired: Apr/02/1959
Writer: Richard Sale, Mary Loos
Director: Richard Sale
Guest star: Nesdon Booth (Conductor), Tom Palmer (Hotel Clerk), Regina Gleason (Margot Chatman), Robert Carricart (Thaddeus Stevens), Charles Fredericks (Jack Dingo), Dan Tobin (Alvin Watson), Noreen Nash (Agatha Colton), Kelly Thordsen (Colorado Charlie)

Yancy and Pahoo try to prevent a potentially bloody Native American uprising by the Pawnee tribe.


27 :01x27 - Duel at the Oaks

First aired: Apr/09/1959
Guest star: John Vivyan (LeBow), Hugh Sanders (Phillip Lorne), Charlene James (Pearl Girl), Richard Devon (Jody Barker), Robert L. McCord (Captain Fry)

Yancy gets challenged to a duel and almost winds up at the wrong end of a hangman's rope.


28 :01x28 - The Wayward Warrior

First aired: Apr/16/1959
Guest star: Joan Boston (Opal), Larry J. Blake (Jailer), Harry Jackson (Professor Bates), Robert L. McCord (Captain Fry), Bill Pullen (Major Henri), Karl Lukas (Warrior), Mickey Simpson (Tennessee Slasher), Beverly Garland (Coco LaSalle)

Yancy's investigation of gunrunning on the Mississippi River gets sidetracked by a river queen and a boxer.


29 :01x29 - A State of Crisis

First aired: Apr/30/1959
Writer: Coles Trapnell
Director: Edward O. Denault
Guest star: Thom Carney (Army Clerk), Charlene James (Pearl Girl), Joan Boston (Opal), Charles Bateman (Captain Blythe), Larry J. Blake (Jailer), Walter Coy (Slade Donovan), John Lupton (Major Alvin), Richard Arlen (General Morgan)

A former Civil War general comes charging into New Orleans to break up a counterfeiting ring.


30 :01x30 - Outlaw at Liberty

First aired: May/07/1959
Writer: Richard Sale, Coles Trapnell
Director: William F. Claxton
Guest star: Val Benedict (Gunman), Jane Burgess (Crystal), Stephen Roberts (Sheriff Peterson), Brett King (Jesse James), John Anderson (Wayne Raven), Kaye Elhardt (Sally Snow), Lee Van Cleef (Ike Milton), Kelly Thordsen (Colorado Charlie)

Yancy rides to Missouri to save a friend who's scheduled to hang for a crime committed by the infamous James Gang.


31 :01x31 - V as in Voodoo

First aired: May/14/1959
Guest star: Dennis McCarthy (Hotel Clerk), Ruby Dandridge (Lily Rose Beam), Jane Burgess (Crystal), Robert L. McCord (Captain Fry), Bill Walker (Obadiah), Naaman Brown (Dr. Yaya), Brad Dexter (Charles Hammond), Judi Meredith (Charlotte Dubois), Virginia Grey (Emily Dubois)

New Orleans is plagued by a series of mysterious incidents which appear to be the work of voodoo.


32 :01x32 - The Quiet Firecracker

First aired: May/21/1959
Guest star: Frances Fong (Ruby), Victor Sen Yung (Hon Lee), Charles Tannen (Captain Brown), Theodore Marcuse (Alex Bristol), J. Pat O'Malley (Captain Billie), Mickey Morton (Wee Willie Benson), Lee Kendall (Blackjack Benson), Richard Devon (Jody Barker), Jean Willes (Jessie Bell), Lisa Lu (Miss Mandarin)

A suspicious firecracker turns out to contain opium.


33 :01x33 - Gone But Not Forgotten

First aired: May/28/1959
Writer: Richard Sale
Director: Edward O. Denault
Guest star: Tom Carew (Conductor), Allen Pinson (Val), Chuck Hayward (Mine Heavy), Fred Krone (Saloon Gunman), Chuck Carson (Saloon Heavy), Kelly Thordsen (Colorado Charlie), Hal Needham (Guard), Stuart Randall (Sheriff Milton), Joyce Jameson (Bonnie Mason), Betty Lou Keim (Judy Randall), Charles H. Gray (Clay Wellman), Dayton Lummis (Judge Randall), Luke Saucier (Collins), William Henry (Fargo)

Yancy travels to Virginia City once again to check up on the status of his silver mine and sees a tombstone in a cemetary with his name on it.


34 :01x34 - Two Tickets to Promontory

First aired: Jun/04/1959
Writer: Richard Sale, Coles Trapnell
Director: Richard Sale
Guest star: Kelly Thordsen (Colorado Charlie), Lee Kendall (Blackjack Benson), Jim Davis (Bullet Pike), Rita Lynn (Vinnie Farr), John Larch (Wayland Farr), Robert Nash (guest star), Hal Needham (Guard)

Yancy is traveling to Promontoary, Utah in order to attend the Golden Spike Ceremony linking two railroads together when he overhears a plot to sabotage things.