Yancy Derringer Season 1, Episode 32: The Quiet Firecracker

1

Return to New Orleans

Yancy wins enough money playing poker to pay for his return home to New Orleans. The losing players decide to rob him of his winnings, but he escapes on a riverboat.

30 min

2

Gallatin Street

Yancy helps a sea captain who was cheated out of his money in a dive on notorious Gallatin Street.

30 min

3

Ticket to Natchez

City administrator Colton entrusts Yancy with an army payroll that is to be taken to Natchez on Yancy's riverboat, the Sultana, but robbers have other plans.

30 min

4

An Ace Called Spade

Yancy is relieved to find that a newspaper story about administrator Colton's death is premature, but fears that Colton will be the victim of trickery in an upcoming duel.

30 min

5

A Bullet for Bridget

An Irish girl visitng New Orleans decides that Yancy is to be her future husband.

30 min

6

The Belle from Boston

After administrator Colton hangs a member of an outlaw gang, the others decide to take revenge on his visiting sister.

30 min

7

The Loot from Richmond

A messenger is sent to New Orleans by a former general in the Civil War, but is killed before he can reveal what happened to a fortune that was taken from Richmond, Virginia.

30 min

8

The Saga of Lonesome Jackson

A wealthy but lonely man who has come to New Orleans looking for a wife asks Yancy to help him.

30 min

9

Memo to a Firing Squad

An army officer with vengeance on his mind tries to stop a presidential pardon from reaching a man who is scheduled to die before a firing squad.

30 min

10

Three Knaves from New Haven

Shop owners receive threats of violence if they refuse to sell their property to three strangers.

30 min

11

Marble Fingers

Yancy tries to find out who's responsible for recent grave robberies.

30 min

12

Old Dixie

Villains go after Yancy's dog after Yancy's father dies leaving a note that only the dog knows where the family pre-war fortune is buried.

30 min

13

Two of a Kind

Yancy and Pahoo are framed for a series of crimes, and now face execution.

30 min

14

Nightmare on Bourbon Street

A mysterious mad bomber steals explosives and threatens to blow up the entire city of New Orleans.

30 min

15

The Fair Freebooter

Yancy must deal with a female pirate whose gang has stolen a valuable necklace from representatives of the Mexican government.

30 min

16

Mayhem at the Market

Merchants are in such fear for their lives that Yancy gets no cooperation in his attempt to break a new protection racket.

30 min

17

The Night the Russians Landed

A visiting Russian noble appears to have become a target for murder.

30 min

18

A Game of Chance

Yancy suspects foul play when a lottery winner dies before she can collect.

30 min

19

Panic in Town

With a serial killer loose in New Orleans and the authorities seemingly powerless, a group of vigilantes decides to take action before any more prominent women are murdered.

30 min

20

Hell and High Water

A landowner comes up with a risky scheme to protect her property when it is threatened by flood waters.

30 min

21

The Louisiana Dude

Winning a half interest in a silver mine while visiting Virginia City, Yancy discovers that his new partner is a beautiful woman.

30 min

22

Longhair

When famed General George Armstrong Custer visits New Orleans, Yancy discovers that he is being stalked by an Indian seeking revenge for a past wrong.

30 min

23

Thunder on the River

Yancy decides to help a fellow riverboat owner whose fleet is being sabotaged by rivals trying to corner the market on river traffic.

30 min

24

The Gun That Murdered Lincoln

Yancy is arrested on a charge of high treason. His crime: selling John Wilkes Booth the gun that killed President Abraham Lincoln. While Derringer is held in solitary confinement, his friends must refute forged evidence and find where the his matched set of pistols, the ones alleged purchased by Booth, were hidden when renegades ransacked his plantation during the Civil War.

30 min

25

Collector's Item

To assist a woman in her crusade to provide a home for the city's orphans, Yancy comes up with a scheme that requires the aid of photography pioneer Matthew Brady.

30 min

26

Fire on the Frontier

Yancy's Indian friend Pahoo becomes an important element in efforts to prevent a war with the Pawnee tribes.

30 min

27

Duel at the Oaks

Yancy is sentenced to hang for killing a man in a duel.

30 min

28

The Wayward Warrior

Trying to stop some gun smugglers, Yancy has a run-in with a boxing champion and a re-match with a female river pirate.

30 min

29

A State of Crisis

With the city of New Orleans plagued by counterfeit money, General Hugh Morgan arrives in New Orleans with orders promoting John Colton to a post in Washington and giving Morgan command of the city.

30 min

30

Outlaw at Liberty

Yancy is at a loss to figure out what's going on when a marshal he knows charges an old wartime friend with murder.

30 min

31

V as in Voodoo

Yancy tries to combat superstition when the city is terrorized by a mysterious voodoo priestess.

30 min

32

The Quiet Firecracker

Yancy's good friend, Miss Mandarin, is accused of smuggling opium into the city inside firecrackers.

30 min

33

Gone But Not Forgotten

A friend of Yancy's comes to visit from Virginia City, with news that his silver mine is doing well, but that there is a gravestone in the cemetery with Yancy's name on it.

30 min

34

Two Tickets to Promontory

On a train trip to a celebration of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, Yancy discovers a saboteur.

30 min