Father Murphy

  • Premiered: Nov 1981
  • Episodes: 35
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • NBC
  • Unknown
  • Drama Family Western

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Season 2
2x1
Happiness Is.....
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 28, 1982
Mae and Murphy take a well deserved honeymoon in the city, where they meet young Eli Matthews, a streetwise black orphan. They swear they won't get involved, but naturally they end up adopting him and taking him back to Gold Hill.
2x2
The Father Figure
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 05, 1982
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 child abuser and the mother fears for her son's life. When .. show full overview
2x3
Stopover in a One-Horse Town
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 26, 1982
Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) arrives in Jackson during his itinerant journalist days, and sets up a newspaper to fight the evil influence of Garrett. Ephram and Will join him as .. show full overview
2x4
Outrageous Fortune
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 09, 1982
Murphy and Mae join the Pinkertons on a cross-country train chase when one of their young orphans becomes heir to a large inheritance... and is kidnapped in an attempt to keep her from showing up to claim it.
2x5
The Reluctant Runaway (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 16, 1982
Mae announces joyously that she's pregnant and the whole community rejoices... except Will. Finding out that the new bedroom Murphy is building is not for him, he feels ignored and finally, at the baby's birth, he runs away to St. Louis.
2x6
The Reluctant Runaway (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 23, 1982
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 searching for Will and goes to convince him to come home.
2x7
Buttons and Beaux
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 30, 1982
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 drawn into his troublesome circle of friends before Mae .. show full overview
2x8
John Michael Murphy - R.I.P.
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 07, 1982
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. The fireworks begin when the real robber shows up.
2x9
The Witness
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 14, 1982
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 mother, and Matt must wrestle with his conscience as he decides whether or not to turn in his friend.
2x10
Blood Right
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 21, 1982
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 criminal image. Murphy and company must help these two come to an understanding and reconciliation.
2x11
Sweet Sixteen
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 28, 1982
A teenaged girl in town becomes pregnant, and after a suicide attempt fails, she's found by the Murphys and brought to Gold Hill. She learns a lesson in living, and the children learn a lesson in tolerance.
2x12
The Rockets' Red Glare
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 01, 1983
Garrett ruins Gold Hill's benefit Fourth of July show by stealing all the fireworks Murphy has especially ordered and locking them in his saloon safe. A comical old safecracker on the .. show full overview
2x13 Show finale
The Matchmakers
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 18, 1983
The kids decide Moses needs some romance in his life, so they send away for a mail-order bride. Her arrival precipitates comic explosions in Gold Hill, but by the time Moses realizes .. show full overview

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