As of July 2026, The Deputy Season 1 aired in 1959 with 39 episodes — streaming now on Pure Flix. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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The Deputy Season 1

1959 39 Episodes Western ⭐ 7/10

Right now you can watch The Deputy Season 1 on — and it holds up to as much attention as you give it. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. 6 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Henry Fonda anchors it with a performance that rewards close attention. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

The Deputy Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The Deputy Season 1 takes its time building the world its characters inhabit, and the patience pays off. Season 1 of The Deputy includes 39 episodes. It aired from September 1959 to July 1960. This season stars Henry Fonda, Wallace Ford and Allen Case. Henry Fonda and Wallace Ford lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1959. The Deputy Season 1 resists tidy resolutions in a way that respects how messy real consequences actually are. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

The Deputy Season 1 is what you recommend to people who say they do not really watch much. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Henry Fonda carries the material with a performance that rewards close attention. Worth starting sooner rather than later.

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🎬 The Deputy Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
Badge For A Day (The Deputy)
1959-09-12
In the premiere episode, titled "The Deputy," Fry selects Silver City, Arizona, as the spot to head off two men he suspects of carrying supplies to a holdup gang led by Ace Gentry (Robert J. Wilke). After arresting the supply drivers, Fry tricks Clay McCord into joining him in delivering the foodstu...
E2
The Wild Wind
1959-09-19
Charlotte Nelson tells Clay McCord of her concern for her younger brother, Trooper, who has fallen into a gang headed by the evil Bull Ward. McCord then arranges for Trooper to get an honest job as messenger for a mining company, transporting shipments of gold. This pleases Ward who assumes that Tro...
E3
Back To Glory
1959-09-26
Three bank robbers come across a traveling-players' caravan. They shoot the actor-manager and two of them then kidnap Angela, one of the actresses. The third robber, Cowan, stays with the other actress, Lily, and is arrested by Simon Fry. Cowan winds up in the Silver City jail but escapes, steals a ...
E4
Shadow Of The Noose
1959-10-03
Simon Fry arrests a ""Drifter"" for shooting a man, stealing his wife, and then shooting her. He takes the Drifter to a jail in the nearby town but, when a lynch-mob gathers, moves him on to Silver City. Following him is a landowner named Akins and several of Akins' cronies who are anxious for some ...
E5
Powder Keg
1959-10-10
supplying gunpowder to the Apaches. Herk's journey to Prescott with his prisoner is endangered when a garrulous telegrapher spreads the word of Deaver's capture - word that reaches the prisoner's Indian allies.
E6
Like Father
1959-10-17
While Chesley Vantage eagerly greets the arrival in Silver City of his son, Brad, who's been studying in Kansas to be a veterinarian, word reaches Deputy McCord that a gunfighter is also on the way from Kansas, apparently to settle a score. McCord soon learns that Brad acquired his vet training whil...
E7
Proof Of Guilt
1959-10-24
E8
The Johnny Shanks Story
1959-10-31
E9
Focus Of Doom
1959-11-07
Marshals in three Arizona towns have been shot dead and Simon Fry fears the killer may now be coming to Silver City. He sends Herk Lamson off on vacation and watches as four suspicious strangers arrive in town: a cowboy named Barker, a gambler named Regan, a salesman named Madden, and a guitar-playe...
E10
The Big Four
1959-11-14
McCord infiltrates a group of outlaws to inform Fry of their plans. Fry: Henry Fonda. Johnny: Henry Brandon. Curly: Gerald Milton. Billy: Richard Bakalyan. Ike: Charles Fredericks.
E11
The Next Bullet
1959-11-28
Clay finds a note in a murdered man's pocket that threatens death to Herk Lamson. Marshal Fry is convinced that the crime is linked to a sensational trial held the previous year where a woman was convicted of murdering her husband and her brother's vowed vengeance.
E12
The Deal
1959-12-05
A gang headed by men named Quincannon and Usher kidnap Fran McCord. They tell her brother, Clay, that to save his sister he must go along with their plan to rob the payroll of a local mine. Clay cooperates, even going so far as to lure Simon Fry out of town on the day of the robbery. Fry, however, s...
E13
Land Greed
1959-12-12
Vivian Vance as widow Emma Gant, who tries to enlist Fry's help in protecting her property from greedy ranchers. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Billy: Robin Riley. Fran: Betty Lou Keim.
E14
Man Of Peace
1959-12-19
Apaches steal a shipment of repeating-rifles headed for the cavalry at Ft. Donaldson. Simon Fry fears this means war but Clay McCord wants to get the Indians' side of the story and so travels alone to visit Chief Magnus. He learns the Chief is angry because white men have been ambushing Apaches and ...
E15
The Orphans
1959-12-26
Fry baits a trap for three killers by fixing a raffle. McCord: Allen Case. Mrs. Bean: Carol Kelly. Timmy: Dennis Rush. Finley: Lane Bradford. Lamson: Wallace Ford. Dillon: Karl Lucas.
E16
Backfire
1960-01-02
Con Marlowe makes a violent escape from a work-gang at the Arizona Territorial Prison. He heads for Silver City where his wife, Peg, awaits him and where he can find Marshal Lamson, the man he blames for sending him to prison. During an encounter between the two in Peg's hotel room, Marlowe strikes ...
E17
Hang The Law
1960-01-09
Fry enlists the help of a clergyman's sister to clear McCord of a murder charge. Fry: Henry Fonda. McCord: Allen Case. Blanche: Lillian Bronson. Rev. Cartwright: Willard Sage.
E18
Silent Gun
1960-01-23
E19
The Hidden Motive
1960-01-30
While defending the Spencer ranch against rustlers, Deputy McCord shoots and kills ranch-owner Aaron Spencer. Though the shooting seems justified, McCord feels guilty, especially when breaking the news to young Mrs. Spencer. At first she is angry and bitter but later softens and seems to be falling ...
E20
Lawman's Blood
1960-02-06

🎭 Cast of The Deputy Season 1

Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda
Marshal Simon Fry
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford
Herk Lamson
Allen Case
Allen Case
Clay McCord
Betty Lou Keim
Betty Lou Keim
Fran McCord

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