Father Murphy

Pilot (1)

In the late 1800s, John Murphy wanders into a wild mining town controlled by a local tycoon. Instan...

Pilot (2)

Eggs, Milk and a Dry Bed

A handsome but ineffectual priest joins the school and provides comic opposition to Murphy and a pa...

Establish Thou the Work of Our Hands

Murphy befriends an embittered black boy and teaches him a useful trade—wagon driving. But a wago...

A Horse from Heaven

Father Parker mistakenly trades some of the stock for a fast, beautiful horse... that no one can ri...

By the Bear That Bit Me (1)

A mountain man deposits a young boy at the orphanage. The boy soon turns out to be a young girl, at...

By the Bear That Bit Me (2)

Murphy and Eli must finally wade in to con the authorities into releasing the kids from the workhou...

False Blessings

Falling on hard times again, the school is seduced by an offer of ""state aid"" by a local official...

The Ghost of Gold Hill

Comic episode in which the son of the original owner of Gold Hill Mine comes back to reclaim the sc...

Graduation

Claiming he's an orphan because his parents are dead, an old man joins the school to achieve a life...

Will's Surprise

When Will happens upon a large gold nugget, his drunk father shows up in town and kidnaps him, conv...

Eighty-Eight Keys to Happiness

Moses discovers that music is the key to reaching a withdrawn blind girl. But the only way the scho...

Knights of the White Camelia

A runaway Southern boy, formerly a bugler in the rebel army, comes to the school and has trouble ac...

The Parable of Amanda

Amanda, a pretty accomplice to a bank robbery, is in a stage wreck near Gold Hill while escaping fr...

The Spy

When Rodman's unruly son is kicked out of boarding school, Rodman enrolls him at Gold Hill making h...

The Heir Apparent

A wealthy widow with a railroad fortune comes to Gold Hill hoping to adopt a son to take over the f...

In God's Arms

The death of an abandoned child drives Father Parker to forsake the priesthood. He moves to Jackson...

The Dream Day

The orphanage stages an Open House for potential adopting parents, and this all-kid show examines t...

Laddie

Lizette's heart is broken when Father Parker sells Laddie, an aging horse. When the kids learn the...

Matthew & Elizabeth

Richard Garrett, the infamous twin of the villain from the pilot show, comes to Jackson to take ove...

The First Miracle (1)

When a teenage girl falls in love with Murphy, it forces him to examine his own feelings for Mae an...

The First Miracle (2)

Emma feels rejected and in her upset state she divulges the secret of ""Father"" Murphy's identity...