Yancy Derringer

Prompted by an urgent telegram from an old flame, Yancy Derringer returns to New Orleans to save his mansion from a carpetbagging Reconstruction overlord. On the voyage back home, Derringer and his Native American friend Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah are trailed along the Mississippi by 3 vengeful card cheats.

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

When Yancy is asked to assist a U.S. Marshall in the river transport of $200,000 in Army payroll greenbacks, a charming young beauty by the name of Billie Jo James persuades Yancy to take her along up the river along.

Challenged by ace duelist, Spade Stuart, Administrator Colton searches for a way out of a deadly duel while attempting to impress a beautiful visitor from Boston with whom he finds himself smitten.

When a freighter arrives to the port of New Orleans transporting valuable silk, Administrator Colton suspects smuggling. Sent to the freighter in search of clues, Yancy and Pahoo encounter the Irish waif Bridget who assists them in their investigation.

Administrator Colton finds himself with quite a workload: fending off New Orleans crime czar Lance Carter, wowing his visiting sister Agatha with his Reconstruction wizardry, and attempting to build a romantic blockade between her and Yancy.

Mr. Proctor, a friend of the Derringer family, is sent to New Orleans with a message from a former general in the Civil War. But before he is able to relay the message to Yancy, Mr. Proctor is assassinated.

Yancy investigates counterfeit money that is being passed throughout the French Quarter. His investigation brings him into contact with Lonesome Jackson, a Virginia City miner who recently struck it rich and ventured to New Orleans seeking a wife.

Yancy assists in transporting a Presidential pardon intended to save a Southerner who sided with the Union army from an unjust death sentence. However, his delivery is derailed by army officer with vengeance in his heart who attempts to carry out the execution anyway.

Several shopkeepers along Duquense Street sell their property to a group of gentlemen from Connecticut at suspiciously high prices. But when all of the former property owners are subsequently robbed and murder, Yancy takes up an investigation.

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.

In this Special Christmas Episode, 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.

A madman steals ten cases of dynamite from the city arsenal and announces his intention of reducing New Orleans to rubble.

Yancy must deal with a female pirate, Coco LaSalle, who has stolen a shirt he ordered from Paris. He chases after her into the deadly bayou swamps while Colton tags along to recover a stolen necklace from representatives of the Mexican government.

A protection racket threatens its way into control of the French Market. The merchants, in utter fear for their lives, refuse to step forward to Administrator Colton with an official accusation, forcing him to deploy Yancy and Pahoo to find the thugs.

When hot-heated, hard-partying heir to the Russian throne, Grand Duke Alexis, breezes into the Big Easy, he's greeted by the uncharacteristic Southern hospitality of blood-thirsty assassins. Yancy and Pahoo and charged with the protection of the czar-to-be.

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 crazed, caped criminal is running around New Orleans, beating women so he can cut and steal their hair. The Reconstruction administration seems utterly powerless against the maniac, causing a vigilante mob to threaten an overthrown of the local authorities.

With the Mississippi River rising towards a record flood, authorities intend to save New Orleans by blowing a hole in a levee up-river. However, doing so would redirect the flood, inundating the new plantation of British Lady Charity, who enlists the help of an escaped convict to protect her land. 

Yancy wins a half-share of a Virginia City silver mine. Intending to utilize its assests, 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 a bow-and-arrow assassination attempt on the famed Union General Custer and taken into custody.

The Southern Belle, a riverboat owned by the hot-headed Patricia Tappworth, is attempting to make a record run from New Orleans to St. Louis when it hits the river bank and sinks, making it the most recent victim in a suspicious string of wrecks.

A high-stakes poker game hosted on Yancy's boat is robbed by a pair of female thieves. Yancy tracks down the robbers, only to discover that they're targeting pickpockets, gamblers, and thieves in order to support a half-dozen orphans.