Father Murphy

1,18

1981

8.2 / 10

Season 1
Season 2
Episodes

EP 1: Pilot (1)

In the late 1800s, John Murphy wanders into a wild mining town controlled by a local tycoon. Instant enmity is born, but the gritt...

EP 2: Pilot (2)

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EP 3: Eggs, Milk and a Dry Bed

A handsome but ineffectual priest joins the school and provides comic opposition to Murphy and a pair of brothers in the orphanage...

EP 4: Establish Thou the Work of Our Hands

Murphy befriends an embittered black boy and teaches him a useful trade—wagon driving. But a wagon wreck causes the boy to lose ...

EP 5: A Horse from Heaven

Father Parker mistakenly trades some of the stock for a fast, beautiful horse... that no one can ride. He'd hoped to race it in th...

EP 6: By the Bear That Bit Me (1)

A mountain man deposits a young boy at the orphanage. The boy soon turns out to be a young girl, attracting the amorous attentions...

EP 7: By the Bear That Bit Me (2)

Murphy and Eli must finally wade in to con the authorities into releasing the kids from the workhouse....

EP 8: False Blessings

Falling on hard times again, the school is seduced by an offer of ""state aid"" by a local official. Mae accepts the aid, only to ...

EP 9: The Ghost of Gold Hill

Comic episode in which the son of the original owner of Gold Hill Mine comes back to reclaim the school. Mae and Murphy are worrie...

EP 10: Graduation

Claiming he's an orphan because his parents are dead, an old man joins the school to achieve a lifelong ambition... to learn to re...

EP 11: Will's Surprise

When Will happens upon a large gold nugget, his drunk father shows up in town and kidnaps him, convinced the boys know where there...

EP 12: Eighty-Eight Keys to Happiness

Moses discovers that music is the key to reaching a withdrawn blind girl. But the only way the school can afford a piano is by let...

EP 13: Knights of the White Camelia

A runaway Southern boy, formerly a bugler in the rebel army, comes to the school and has trouble accepting Moses' status there. Si...

EP 14: The Parable of Amanda

Amanda, a pretty accomplice to a bank robbery, is in a stage wreck near Gold Hill while escaping from her crime. She dons the habi...

EP 15: The Spy

When Rodman's unruly son is kicked out of boarding school, Rodman enrolls him at Gold Hill making him pose as an orphan in order t...

EP 16: The Heir Apparent

A wealthy widow with a railroad fortune comes to Gold Hill hoping to adopt a son to take over the family business. She's very take...

EP 17: In God's Arms

The death of an abandoned child drives Father Parker to forsake the priesthood. He moves to Jackson where the only job he can find...

EP 19: Laddie

Lizette's heart is broken when Father Parker sells Laddie, an aging horse. When the kids learn the horse is bound for slaughter, W...

EP 20: Matthew & Elizabeth

Richard Garrett, the infamous twin of the villain from the pilot show, comes to Jackson to take over his late brother's empire. He...

EP 21: The First Miracle (1)

When a teenage girl falls in love with Murphy, it forces him to examine his own feelings for Mae and he proposes marriage. At the...

EP 22: The First Miracle (2)

Emma feels rejected and in her upset state she divulges the secret of ""Father"" Murphy's identity to Rodman, causing the church t...

Overview

A good-hearted frontiersman poses as a priest to start an orphanage for a group of kids whose homes have been destroyed by an evil mining manager.

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  • Western, Drama,

Episodes >>

Pilot (1)

Episode 1

In the late 1800s, John Murphy wanders into a wild mining town controlled by a l...

Pilot (2)

Episode 2

...

Eggs, Milk and a Dry Bed

Episode 3

A handsome but ineffectual priest joins the school and provides comic opposition...

Establish Thou the Work of Our Hands

Episode 4

Murphy befriends an embittered black boy and teaches him a useful trade—wagon ...

A Horse from Heaven

Episode 5

Father Parker mistakenly trades some of the stock for a fast, beautiful horse......

By the Bear That Bit Me (1)

Episode 6

A mountain man deposits a young boy at the orphanage. The boy soon turns out to ...

By the Bear That Bit Me (2)

Episode 7

Murphy and Eli must finally wade in to con the authorities into releasing the ki...

False Blessings

Episode 8

Falling on hard times again, the school is seduced by an offer of ""state aid"" ...

The Ghost of Gold Hill

Episode 9

Comic episode in which the son of the original owner of Gold Hill Mine comes bac...

Graduation

Episode 10

Claiming he's an orphan because his parents are dead, an old man joins the schoo...

Will's Surprise

Episode 11

When Will happens upon a large gold nugget, his drunk father shows up in town an...

Eighty-Eight Keys to Happiness

Episode 12

Moses discovers that music is the key to reaching a withdrawn blind girl. But th...

Knights of the White Camelia

Episode 13

A runaway Southern boy, formerly a bugler in the rebel army, comes to the school...

The Parable of Amanda

Episode 14

Amanda, a pretty accomplice to a bank robbery, is in a stage wreck near Gold Hil...

The Spy

Episode 15

When Rodman's unruly son is kicked out of boarding school, Rodman enrolls him at...

The Heir Apparent

Episode 16

A wealthy widow with a railroad fortune comes to Gold Hill hoping to adopt a son...

In God's Arms

Episode 17

The death of an abandoned child drives Father Parker to forsake the priesthood. ...

The Dream Day

Episode 18

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Laddie

Episode 19

Lizette's heart is broken when Father Parker sells Laddie, an aging horse. When ...

Matthew & Elizabeth

Episode 20

Richard Garrett, the infamous twin of the villain from the pilot show, comes to ...

The First Miracle (1)

Episode 21

When a teenage girl falls in love with Murphy, it forces him to examine his own ...

The First Miracle (2)

Episode 22

Emma feels rejected and in her upset state she divulges the secret of ""Father""...