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S1 E18 A Game of Chance

Action & Adventure

TV-PG

25m

Dec 31, 1958

The winner of a $100,000 lottery winner dies before she can collect, leading Yancy to organize a trick with Bourbon Street regulars designed to sweat the truth out of the killer.

Season 1, 34 Episodes

season 1 (34 episodes)

Return to New Orleans,

Prompted by an urgent telegram, Yancy returns to New Orleans to save his mansion from a carpetbagger. On the voyage back home, Derringer is trailed along the Mississippi by 3 vengeful card cheats.

Gallatin Street,

Charged with cleaning up crime on Gallatin Street, Yancy finds himself at odds with the villainous Toby Cook, & enlists the help of a sea captain who is transporting an explosive new invention.

Ticket to Natchez,

City Administrator John Colton entrusts Yancy with an army payroll that is to be taken to Natchez, Mississippi on Yancy's riverboat, the Sultana, but robbers have other plans.

An Ace Called Spade,

When Colton is challenged by ace duelist, Yancy helps him search for a way out of a deadly duel, while attempting to impress a beautiful visitor from Boston with whom he finds himself smitten.

A Bullet for Bridget,

When a freighter arrives in New Orleans, Colton suspects smuggling. Sent to the freighter in search of clues, Yancy encounters the Irish waif Bridget who assists them in their investigation.

The Belle From Boston,

Colton finds himself with quite a workload: fending off a crime czar from wooing his visiting sister Agatha, & attempting to build a romantic blockade between her and Yancy.

The Loot From Richmond,

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.

The Saga of Lonesome Jackson,

Yancy investigates counterfeit money that's being passed throughout the Quarter. His investigation brings him into contact with Lonesome Jackson, a miner who recently struck in rich is seeking a wife.

Memo to a Firing Squad,

An army officer with vengeance in his heart tries to stop a presidential pardon. Without the pardon, a man is scheduled to die before a firing squad, leaving it up to Yancy to recover this pardon.

Three Knaves from New Haven,

Several shopkeepers are found robbed & murdered after selling their properties to a group of gentlemen from Connecticut. Yancy takes up an investigation & soon finds a land grab scheme may be in play.

Marble Fingers,

Falsely accused of complicity in a waterfront property theft, Yancy suspects that his accuser may be throwing charges around as a means of keeping a set of grave robberies buried underground.

Yancy spends the holiday season searching for the murderer of his uncle Henry Spinner and hunting down his late father's pre-War fortune with the help of his old hound dog, Dixie.

Yancy learns that there are two men impersonating him and Pahoo, running wild around New Orleans, and committing crimes for which he and Pahoo are being charged.

Nightmare on Bourbon Street,

A madman steals ten cases of dynamite & announces his intention of reducing New Orleans to rubble. As explosions rock the city, Yancy, Colton, and Captain Fry attempt to track down the bomber.

The Fair Freebooter,

River pirates rob Yancy, stealing a diamond necklace belonging to the Mexican government. In order to recover the necklace, Yancy makes a deal with the pirate's leader to escort her to Mardi Gras.

Mayhem at the Market,

A protection racket threatens its way into control of the French Market. The merchants, in utter fear for their lives, forcing Yancy and Pahoo to find the thugs.

The Night the Russians Landed,

When the hard-partying heir to the Russian throne, breezes into the Big Easy, he's greeted by a series of blood-thirsty assassins! Yancy becomes responsible for protecting the czar-to-be.

A Game of Chance,

The winner of a $100,000 lottery winner dies before she can collect, leading Yancy to organize a trick with Bourbon Street regulars designed to sweat the truth out of the killer.

A criminal is running around New Orleans, beating women so he can cut and steal their hair. The authorities are utterly powerless against the maniac, causing a vigilante mob to form!

Hell and High Water,

With a record flood incoming, authorities intend to save New Orleans by blowing up a levee up-river. However, doing so would redirect the flood, inundating the new plantation of British Lady Charity!

The Louisiana Dude,

Yancy wins a share of a Virginia City silver mine. Yancy travels to Virginia City and meets his new partner, the beautiful Julia Bulette, who explains that the mine has suspiciously run dry.

Pahoo is accused of an assassination attempt on a Union General. Yancy's explanation that the weapons are from a different tribe than Pahoo's Pawnee are quickly disregarded.

Thunder on the River,

A riverboat owned by Patricia Tappworth, is attempting to make a record run from New Orleans to St. Louis until it sinks, making it the most recent victim in a suspicious string of wrecks.

The Gun That Murdered Lincoln,

Yancy is arrested on a charge of high treason! His crime: selling John Wilkes Booth the gun that killed President Abraham Lincoln! Now his friends must refute forged evidence before it is too late!

Collector's Item,

After Yancy's boat is robbed by a pair of female thieves, he tracks down the robbers, only to discover that they're targeting pickpockets, gamblers, & thieves in order to support a half-dozen orphans.

Fire on the Frontier,

When renegades start attacking peaceful Pawnee villages, Pahoo, & Yancy, travel to Washington, D.C. in an attempt to enforce the protection guaranteed to the tribe by the Tablecreek Treaty.

Duel at the Oaks,

Yancy & Charlie LeBow conspire to stage a fake duel as a means of drawing out a man that appears to be after LeBow's life. A conspiracy arises when they find LeBow's partner dead!

The Wayward Warrior,

Pirate queen Coco LaSalle convinces Yancy to back her fighter in a boxing match against the mighty heavyweight Tennessee Slasher all the while tracking down stolen rifles from the federal armory.

A State of Crisis,

When Colton is ordered back to Washington, General Wheeler takes his place investigates a nation-wide counterfeiting gang. Yancy objects to the investigation, particularly the raiding gambling houses!

Outlaw at Liberty,

Yancy receives an urgent letter from a friend who is on trial for a murder he didn't commit. He travels to Missouri and learns that the infamous Jesse James has framed his friend for the crime.

V as in Voodoo,

Yancy Derringer and a thoroughly skeptical Administrator Colton attempt to combat superstition when the city is terrorized by a mysterious voodoo priestess.

The Quiet Firecracker,

Yancy travels to California in an attempt to clear the name of his friend Mei Ling, who is being accused of smuggling after receiving a mysterious shipment of illegal opium.

Gone But Not Forgotten,

Yancy and Pahoo take a train to check on his silver mine. But when they arrive, they find a mysterious gravestone in the Virginia City cemetery with Yancy's name on it.

Two Tickets to Promontory,

Yancy wins two tickets to attend the celebratory linking of the transcontinental railroad. Once there, Yancy learns that conspirators intend to destroy one of the trains & frame him!

Details

Yancy Derringer

Action & Adventure

TV-PG

1 Season

25m

Ex-Confederate soldier Yancy Derringer now works for the civil administrator of New Orleans. Yancy prevents crime & if necessary, arrest the culprits with the help of his companion, Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah.

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