Father Murphy

2,1

1981

8.2 / 10

Season 1
Season 2
Episodes

EP 2: The Father Figure

A mother delivers her son to Gold Hill, saying that he's been incorrigible in school. The real reason is that his father is a chil...

EP 3: Stopover in a One-Horse Town

Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) arrives in Jackson during his itinerant journalist days, and sets up a newspaper to fight the evil influe...

EP 4: Outrageous Fortune

Murphy and Mae join the Pinkertons on a cross-country train chase when one of their young orphans becomes heir to a large inherita...

EP 5: The Reluctant Runaway (1)

Mae announces joyously that she's pregnant and the whole community rejoices... except Will. Finding out that the new bedroom Murp...

EP 6: The Reluctant Runaway (2)

Will has run away to St. Louis and fallen in with a Fagin-type and his band of criminals. Murphy enlists Farley's help in searchin...

EP 7: Buttons and Beaux

Lizette grows up; she begins work as an apprentice seamstress in town and falls in love with a n'er-do-well teenager. She's nearly...

EP 8: John Michael Murphy - R.I.P.

Murphy and Moses find trouble on a freight run when an old yarn-spinner convinces a whole town that Murphy is a famous bank robber...

EP 9: The Witness

Young Matt is witness to a bank robbery. One of the robbers is a teenaged friend of Matt's who is the sole support of a sick mothe...

EP 10: Blood Right

An ex-gunfighter gets out of prison and comes to Gold Hill to retrieve his son. He finds his son in love with his dad's old crimin...

EP 11: Sweet Sixteen

A teenaged girl in town becomes pregnant, and after a suicide attempt fails, she's found by the Murphys and brought to Gold Hill. ...

EP 12: The Rockets' Red Glare

Garrett ruins Gold Hill's benefit Fourth of July show by stealing all the fireworks Murphy has especially ordered and locking them...

EP 13: The Matchmakers

The kids decide Moses needs some romance in his life, so they send away for a mail-order bride. Her arrival precipitates comic exp...

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,

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