
Yancy Derringer
1958–1959 · CBS · 30 min · 1 season
S01E34 · Two Tickets to Promontory
Thu, 4 June, 10:30 pm
Trying to get to Promontory for the "Wedding of the Rails", Yancy gets caught up in a scheme to blow up one of the trains and sabotage the event.
About
Yancy Derringer gets involved in adventures in New Orleans after the end of the Civil War. Besides being a gambler, Derringer also worked as a troubleshooter for city administrator John Colton. He was assisted in his endeavors by a Pawnee sidekick.
Episodes
- E01
Return to New Orleans
Thu, 2 Oct· 30 minYancy on his way back to New Orleans after the war. He runs afoul of three crooked gamblers and an old friend who explains that the new city administrator wants Yancy dead.
- E02
Gallatin Street
Thu, 9 Oct· 30 minJoihn asks Yancy to deal with the crime-infested Gallatin Street, which is run by Yancy's old enemy Toby Cook.
- E03
Ticket to Natchez
Thu, 23 Oct· 30 minJohn asks Yancy to deliver an Army payroll via the Sultana , but thieves intend to steal it.
- E04
An Ace Called Spade
Thu, 30 Oct· 30 minA woman secretly hires Spade Stuart to provoke a duel with John and force him to run in fear rather than fight. Spade has other ideas, as does Yancy.
- E05
A Bullet for Bridget
Thu, 6 Nov· 30 minFrancine's cousin Bridget arrives on a ship from Ireland, and the owner and his henchman intend to make sure she doesn't tell anyone what she discovered during the voyage.
- E06
The Belle from Boston
Thu, 13 Nov· 30 minCriminals threaten the life of John's sister Agatha after he has their leader hanged. Yancy soon regrets offering to help protect the snobbish visitor from Boston, a situation complicated because John insists that Agatha remain ignorant of her peril.
- E07
The Loot from Richmond
Thu, 20 Nov· 30 minA Southern general sends a messenger to John offering to deliver $500,000 in Confederate treasure. However, the messenger is killed in front of Yancy, who sets out to find the treasure... and the $50,000 reward that goes with it.
- E08
The Saga of Lonesome Jackson
Thu, 27 Nov· 30 minProspector Lonesome Jackson comes to New Orleans to find a wife interested in his $139,000, and soon gets swept up into a counterfeiting scheme.
- E09
Memo to a Firing Squad
Thu, 4 Dec· 30 minYancy tries to save his friend Phillip Hampton from the firing squad, and the colonel that intends to make sure that Phillip pays for killing his brother during the War.
- E10
Three Knaves from New Haven
Thu, 11 Dec· 30 minThree men from Connecticut are buying out shops on Duquesne Street for exorbitant prices... but the sellers soon turn up dead with the money missing.
- E11
Marble Fingers
Thu, 18 Dec· 30 minYancy meets up with an old female friend and discovers that someone is attempting to defraud her late father's insurance company.
- E12
Old Dixie
Thu, 25 Dec· 30 minOn Christmas, Yancy is reunited with the dog his father gave him as a boy... and discovers that it holds the key to a buried treasure.
- E13
Two of a Kind
Thu, 1 Jan· 30 minA woman arrives at the club and tries to kill Yancy. Afterward she explains that Yancy bilked her father out of his fortune and proposed marriage to her before disappearing... and Yancy has no idea who she is.
- E14
Nightmare on Bourbon Street
Thu, 8 Jan· 30 minA bomber declares his intention to blow New Orleans off the map, and Yancy and John try to track him down.
- E15
The Fair Freebooter
Thu, 15 Jan· 30 minA pirate, Coco LaSalle, steals a necklace belonging to Empress Carlotta and agrees to return it to Yancy... if he accompanies her to a Mardi Gras ball.
- E16
Mayhem at the Market
Thu, 22 Jan· 30 minJohn calls Yancy in to find a witness against a vicious extortion ring terrorizing the French Market.
- E17
The Night the Russians Landed
Thu, 29 Jan· 30 minJoihn asks Yancy to protect a Russian Grand Duke who is visiting New Orleans and wants to have a good time. However, assassins are after him.
- E18
A Game of Chance
Thu, 5 Feb· 30 minYancy gets involved with a crooked lottery syndicate after they hire a woman to collect earnings for them... and then have her killed.
- E19
Panic in Town
Thu, 12 Feb· 30 minA man in a clown mask is terrorizing the women of New Orleans, and Bart Ogilvie of the Freedom League is using Colton's inability to stop the man as a reason to have Colton recalled to DC.
- E20
Hell and High Water
Thu, 19 Feb· 30 minYancy faces rising flood waters, an escaped prisoner out for revenge, and a greedy plantation owner who will pay any price to keep her lands intact.
- E21
The Louisiana Dude
Thu, 26 Feb· 30 minAfter winning 50% of a silver mine in Virginia City, Yancy goes out to check it when he needs $6,000 for a new boiler on the Sultana .
- E22
Longhair
Thu, 5 Mar· 30 minGeorge Custer comes to New Orleans seeking John's help to get reinstated as general. However, an Indian tries to kill him… and Custer figures that Pahoo is responsible.
- E23
Thunder on the River
Thu, 12 Mar· 30 minYancy investigates riverboat sinkings along the Mississippi, and discovers that someone is trying to corner the cotton market. He also deals with a female riverboat owner who wants to take the Sultana and use it to break the St. Louis to New Orleans record.
- E24
The Gun That Murdered Lincoln
Thu, 19 Mar· 30 minYancy is put on trial for selling the derringer to John Wilkes Booth that the assassin used to kill Lincoln.
- E25
Collector's Item
Thu, 26 Mar· 30 minTwo masked girls rob a poker party at the Sultana, and Yancy soon discovers that they're taking money for a charitable cause from not-so-charitable men.
- E26
Fire on the Frontier
Thu, 2 Apr· 30 minWhen hostile tribes attack the Pawnee, Pahoo is appointed their representative to go to Washington and ask for military aid per the treaty the Pawnee signed with the U.S. Government.
- E27
Duel at the Oaks
Thu, 9 Apr· 30 minYancy's friend Charles LeBow asks Yancy to help him fake his death in a duel despite the anti-dueling laws. Things get sticky when Charles turns up dead, and his business partner is then found in Charles' coffin.
- E28
The Wayward Warrior
Thu, 16 Apr· 30 minYancy stages a prize fight against an undefeated opponent to get the goods on a rifle-raiding ring that is selling arms to the Comanches.
- E29
A State of Crisis
Thu, 30 Apr· 30 minJohn is recalled to DC and a general put in charge, and Yancy soon discovers that the general isn't a general... and he plans to steal over $300,000 from New Orleans.
- E30
Outlaw at Liberty
Thu, 7 May· 30 minYancy, Pahoo, and Colorado Charlie head to Liberty, MO to save Yancy's army buddy Wayne Raven, who has been framed for a robbery by Jesse James.
- E31
V as in Voodoo
Thu, 14 May· 30 minIt's St. John's eve, and voodoo drums sound throughout New Orleans. Yancy, Pahoo, and a skeptical John are swept up in a web of intrigue when a visiting foundry owner is struck down by a voodoo curse while visiting his fiancee.
- E32
The Quiet Firecracker
Thu, 21 May· 30 minWhen Mai-Ling is arrested for smuggling opium inside of Chinese firecrackers, Yancy and Pahoo travel to San Francisco to clear her name.
- E33
Gone But Not Forgotten
Thu, 28 May· 30 minWhile checking his silver mine in Virginia City, Yancy discovers that a crook has faked Yancy's death and is holding the granddaughter of Yancy's partner hostage to force her grandfather to hand over the mine to the "Widow Derringer".
- E34
Two Tickets to Promontory
Thu, 4 June· 30 minTrying to get to Promontory for the "Wedding of the Rails", Yancy gets caught up in a scheme to blow up one of the trains and sabotage the event.
Cast

Jock Mahoney
Yancy Derringer

X Brands
Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah

Kevin Hagen
John Colton

































