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Yancy Derringer is an American action/adventure series that was broadcast on CBS from October 2, 1958, to September 24, 1959, with Jock Mahoney in the title role. It was broadcast from 8:30 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursdays.
Yancy Derringer is a 1958-1959 action-adventure-western TV series starring Jock Mahoney as a gambler and secret agent in post-Civil War New Orleans. He is assisted by his companion, a silent Pawnee Native American, and faces various criminals and threats.
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- 1958-10-02
- Action, Adventure, Western
- 30
Yancy Derringer is an American Western series. A suave ex-Confederate soldier turned gambler covertly assists New Orleans law enforcement.
- Yancy Derringer is not really a Western. During the 1958-59 season, more than two dozen Westerns saddled up in primetime. How to stand out in that glut of gunslingers?
- The series was co-created, co-written, and co-produced by a woman. Pulp writer Richard Sale wrote Derringer - the short story that would serve as the basis for the TV show - in 1938.
- Jock Mahoney did all his own stunts. The 6'4" Chicago native began working as a stunt man at Columbia Pictures following a tour of duty in World War II.
- Yancy lives in a famous house. Don’t be surprised if Yancy’s family home looks familiar. It’s the white-columned headquarters of Selznick International Pictures, immortalized in Gone With The Wind and countless other films between 1935 and 1956.
A western series starring Jock Mahoney as Yancy Derringer, a gambler and gunfighter in the Old West. See the full cast and crew, including directors, writers, and guest stars, on IMDb.
Ex-confederate soldier, Yancy Derringer, teams up with the civil administrator, & his companion Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah fight crime in New Orleans.
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Away for 7 years, Derringer returns to save his mansion from New Orleans' carpetbagging Reconstruction overlord. Yancy Derringer's former belle Amanda also tells Derringer she posed as his wife to keep the Waverly from rapacious Yankees.
