The Deputy - The Hard Decision (1961), Classic TV Series, Henry Fonda

The Deputy - Hard Decisions, Classic TV Series
Henry Fonda stars as a deputy in the Arizona Territory who refuses to use his gun. Watch classic western movies and tv shows on your TV with Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV. Watch on the web at www.westernmani...

[@jeriw]

I never saw this when I was a kid but I do love it now. I haven't seen them all yet but I've enjoyed everyone. These two guys worked really well together along with Sarge. As far as I know this is the only TV series that Henry Fonda did,

[@cowboysonicgamming5833]

I 💕 the show 🍻 ten out of ten

[@stevenorton8722]

Fonda also did The Smith Family on ABC from 1970 to 1972 (produced by Don Fedderson of My Three Sons and The Lawrence Welk Show fame), working just 13 weeks a year (as he did in The Deputy) with Ronny (now Ron) Howard taking up the slack there like Allen Case did here

[@joselopezmoya9786]

THE FITST TIME I HEARD OF THIS SERIES WITH THE GREAT HENRY FONDA, AN ICON FROM HOLLYWOOD.

[@ronviens7040]

I've always loved this TV western, growing up as a kid. And I really enjoyed the ending theme song, which Grit TV has shamefully omitted. Much thanks to KZbin and those credited for posting these episodes. Now I can listen to the whole show!

[@benniebarrow348]

Wow!....hard to believe the big time Henry Fonda did a TV western.

[@user-tg3tj2nq6v]

I am watching it and I don't believe it either. If they were telling me was AI I would have believed it. This was in 1961, he was still young and he was such a huge movie star.

[@jahimjauh-hey5653]

For a show thats from the 1950s it's not bad. Having Henry Fonda in it is pretty cool.

[@dgray9020]

Rest In Peace Mr Norman Lear (Creator of The Deputy)

[@lynngregory393]

I remember Allen Case with Christopher Jones in The Legend of Jesse James, but this show is great. Thanks for uploading.

[@kurman4749]

Anything with Henry Fonda in is guaranteed to be good.

[@MoAnamCara]

Brilliant, thank you to share those episodes ;)

[@SherryTaylorReynolds]

Love my Westerns.

[@SherryTaylorReynolds]

@Terry Hawkins I love The Restless Gun. Every story line is so interesting.

[@SherryTaylorReynolds]

@Terry Hawkins I don't think there is an episode of the Rifleman that I haven't seen 😁

[@menow5118]

Sherry SMC

[@SherryTaylorReynolds]

I know there isn't one that I haven't seen. I do get a Gun smoke every now and then that is new to me. I can watch reruns if it's a good episode. Oh Mark from The Rifleman just died not too long ago.

[@SherryTaylorReynolds]

@@menow5118 smc??

[@pcno2832]

This was a strange sort of western, with the jazzy soundtrack and with half the characters sounding as if they came from Brooklyn. It's like having Peter Gunn on horseback.

[@danielboone6631]

Maybe that's because people from the East were moving to the West.

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@danielboone6631 As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point !

[@jimc4839]

Yeah. Always thought the jazz guitar was peculiar, but still a great show.

[@paulkatz258]

Thanks for uploading

[@makemoneyonlinenow145]

Can we get the whole season uploaded? This episode was just GREAT!! Thanks.

[@reginaferguson5383]

Love these shows!!

[@ryanmchaelsms5043]

#1 GREAT SHOW

[@rebelbatdave5993]

GOOD SHOW! THANKS!

[@cowboysonicgamming5833]

I love this show the deputy 10 out of 10

[@robertsutton8802]

Love this picture show gave,us,, best western show,, keep gone

[@jubalcalif9100]

Thanks for uploading this bodacious "blast from the past" ! The jazz guitar used for the musical score reminds me of the mid-60s British dramatic TV series "The Human Jungle", which starred the late great Herbert Lom as a London psychiatrist with a new patient every week.

[@robertsutton8802]

One,, of the, best show ever seen

[@Robert-mn8gc]

Henry Fonda was fantastic in Tin Star . A black & white western movie . Check it out & upload it if u r able cheers from Melbourne Australia

[@jubalcalif9100]

I heartily concur ! The 1957 Western "The Tin Star" is indeed one fine film. Top notch story & cast: Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Neville Brand, etc.

[@rileymorgan9084]

Back when men was men and television programs was awesome.

[@davidcraig9779]

The background music would've stopped any series cold.

[@jamesthackeray5422]

Henry Fonda I can't believe he's in a TV show ! What a pay cut!🤔

[@TheSpaghetti64]

Henry had Alimony payments to make.

[@actionsub]

Fonda brokered a deal to shoot all his scenes for the season in a marathon session...to allow him time to star in movies during the run of the series. That's where Fred MacMurray got the idea to make a similar contract demand for "My Three Sons".

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@TheSpaghetti64 Indeed ! During this lifetime, the late great Mr Fonda was married FIVE times !

[@terrybell912]

Notice about half-way in the young deputy started talking like the older deputy? Fonda had that impact on more than one of his co-stars.

[@Cyril_Squirrel]

And the little rat in the jailhouse was channelling James Dean.

[@speedracer1945]

Terry Bell+ your right he doing a good Henry Fonda imitation . He didn't have to shoot that guy in the room since the bad guy was slow an drowsy he could had knocked it out of his hand . Also there not a lot music that usually ends a scene and the only music played but they do play a jazzy guitar that seem to mark the times .

[@dillysgirl4ever]

First time I’ve seen this (I was born in 1960 so I missed out on the first run of this series). Actually this is a really good show - largely because of Henry Fonda (the writing isn’t bad either). This show should have been on a bit longer - it’s actually better than most of the westerns on TV at the time.

[@morrisphillips6518]

A jazz guitar, for a cowboy movie, nice.

[@aaubreywallace3575]

Need more Deputy it's ok

[@dougiequick1]

When I was a boy we lived next door to Read Morgan. Just little 4 bedroom homes in Northridge Ca not far from Burbank and Hollywood. Read came over and swam in our pool all the time pretty nice guy ....to me looked like superman or something he was pretty tall and always pumping weights...This was like 1964-66 I dont think Read was getting a ton of work at that point but IDK he probably had parts in various TV series. We moved to a nicer neighood in 66 there were actors and people working in the film industry everywhere! My brother delivered papers to Dale Evans I think Don RIckles had a home on the same street as well as Chad Everett ....our whole tract had been property owned by Lucilee Ball ...neighbor kids had dads that were camera men and make up etc One of my first jobs was doing pool service there were a few actors on the pool route including Farrah Faucet! Strange place to live the San Fernando Valley area and the WEIRDEST THING? I met several of the Manson girls in the park accross from out home! It wasjust before the manson murders my friends and I were out in the park smoking a joint and here comes these really scuzzy gals with food they dug out of the trash at Ralphes supermarket probably the closest supermarket to the spawn movie ranch a few miles away ....we actually smoked pot with them! They were saying the most bizarre things about taking acid and stull....another friend actually met charlie as he lived pretty close to the span ranch and would hike in thow hills where there was a little cave he hung out in at times that is where he met Charlie....he was blown away he had been talking to a killer not much later on! You cant make this stull up

[@actionsub]

To paraphrase the Bob Marley song, Hank played the sheriff, but he did not play the deputy. The Deputy of that title was the younger guy.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Well said and well put !

[@christinelawry7346]

Enjoyed thank you

[@ianwilson8258]

They cut a bit out of this one and removed a logical step and didn’t make it better. The original stories were done by professionals, the cut versions are never better than the originals.

[@82Echo411]

Early created by credit for Norman Lear & Roland Kibbee. Thanks.

[@stevenbonovitch2497]

Great show I’ve been watching it on Grit TV. I have a question about Allen Case. Did Allen Case always talk and act the way he does in the deputy or is he imitating Henry Fonda? I mean listen to how he talks and walks he is doing Henry Fonda while acting with Fonda, am I wrong. What do you think. Anyway great job, great videos I learned about the Deputy from this site and then discovered Grit again thanks

[@gmwalsh1482]

Steven Bonovitch. I'm laughing here because when I first started watching this program The Deputy I kept thinking the deputy sure is sounding like Henry Fonda. But since I've watched all of that series, I've noticed Allen Case on small parts in other TV programs and he talks that same way in them and they were mostly westerns. The one thing I didn't like about this program The Deputy, it only ran two seasons darn it. I was so depressed to find out it didn't go any longer than that.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

I can see why it only lasted one season. It's okay but it wouldn't bring me back next week.

[@antonyandrerenaissanceart977]

M. M. ...You were not a kid in the 50s when tv was brand new...you have to have fake actors and cgi

[@ernestkovach3305]

It lasted ore than 1 season...incredible but true.

[@dwightstjohn6927]

used to watch it in Dryden, ONt. in Grade 2. sometimes dad would let up stay up as I believe it was on at 9 p.m. Fonda leant his name to the series but as I remember you rarely saw him, or he on a few seconds, eating a free apple out of the General Store barrel!!!

[@jimlaguardia8185]

The two hoods have NYC accents! Very realistic western. LOL

[@johnnyangel3683]

The bad guy was the hotel clerk in Dusk till Dawn!

[@jameskoch7190]

Jim LaGuardia yes your right. Many Easterners heeded Horace Greeley advice. The West was full of Poles, Scots, Irish and many Germans. Get my point.

[@SherryTaylorReynolds]

It reminds me of tires squeeling on a dirt road. LOL

[@unique74muzik]

Not one Southern accent or drawl at all.. accompanied by an excellent Jazz score.. lol

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@johnnyangel3683 Yes, that's Marc Lawrence. Prolific movie/TV character actor.

[@juvanildocabraldossantos6317]

Estes filmes deveriam ser legendados ou dublados. Aqui falamos português, não inglês.

[@charleschampion4682]

Top Shelf

[@Bjazzzzzz12]

Gangster Cowboys... love it

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indubitably ! From Brooklyn to the Badlands ! Quite a journey !

[@ronaldoribeiroronaldo7664]

Eu.wuero.ver.esse.seriado.com.legenda português

[@PurpleSwan]

Should have been called The Sheriff. The Deputy wasn't chit.

[@jefftompkins6202]

Electric guitar in a western show! LOL

[@jubalcalif9100]

I noticed that too ! And jazz guitar riffs at that ! Quite a change from the other TV Westerns of the time.

[@billkennedy8379]

That's Howard Roberts on Guitar.

[@tomcarpenter700]

It would only take a couple of brain cells to figure that out

[@Boss-ve8rl]

I shot the sheriff but I didn’t get the deputy..

[@spreadingrumors]

It''s odd to hear background 'jazz' music in a western? huh?

[@christopherdunne7848]

Check out "Shotgun Slade" here on KZbin.

[@danielmanrique8800]

Ree bueno

[@davidcraig9779]

The background music was too much.

[@jubalcalif9100]

I must admit, it did grate on my nerves. Felt like I was watching an episode of a 60's urban crime TV series !

[@josephkincaid9760]

Good one! Can you upload more??

[@doughickey1379]

Joseph Kincaid

[@SherryTaylorReynolds]

Please upload more. 🙏

[@menow5118]

Can I upload one into you sherry

[@scottmcclung1208]

@@SherryTaylorReynolds by by

[@SherryTaylorReynolds]

@@menow5118 lol. Your funny

[@BackSeatHump]

Good thing I didn't realize how silly this show was when I watched it as a boy.

[@alphonsozorro7952]

Which means westerns, good or not, are adult stories, not for kids.

[@philhayes8008]

The music sounds like it came straight from a nightclub. Doesn't fit a Western.

[@RoyPage1970]

Henry Fonda a true American hero not a coward draft dodger like John Wayne

[@tomcarpenter700]

This one didn't make a lot of sense to me How is the gas going to knock out the outlaws, Hey turn on the gas, But the outlaws was over by the window, All they had to do was hold their breath, Go turn off the gas, And go back to the window, Open all windows and door, Keep head out windows, Until the gas subsided

[@pcno2832]

Could it be that the gas didn't smell in those days? They add some obnoxious stuff to it nowadays so people notice when it's leaking. Just a wild guess on my part. Another thing about modern natural gas (but not propane) is that it's lighter than air, so it's almost impossible to displace enough air to die from it, though people who try to do themselves in that way often end up blowing up the house and taking others along with them.

[@patrickodonnell3562]

Stuck on one other

[@HatterasJeepguy]

I've never understood why the opening credits has them nearly holding hands while walking side by side up the street when they obviously have the whole street to themselves. 🤣

[@tinsoldier5621]

Geez why didn't they just link arms like they were on a date? Straight guys don't walk that close. Bad guys don't talk in each other's faces. And I've never seen a western where they play jazz music.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Maybe there were beatniks in those Arizona badlands....

[@donaldcleveland9143]

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[@Pro1er]

Wow, that was pretty bad. How in the heck did they get Fonda?

[@actionsub]

Fonda agreed to do the show on the condition they let him film ALL his scenes for the season up front. That's why in most episodes he's only in for about two minutes. This one was an oddity in that he was around for the whole episode. As a trivial side note, when they were pursuing Fred MacMurray for "My Three Sons", MacMurray reportedly talked it over with Fonda, who advised MacMurray to ask for the same conditions. (Since MCA at the time had their hands in both "Deputy" and the early seasons of "My Three Sons", I imagine there were similar discussions between the producers.)

[@ernestkovach3305]

Money.

[@pcno2832]

Have you ever seen "The Smith Family"?

[@VioletaAcaylar]

😅

[@jarretstroud1842]

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[@dindinprivate3477]

Audio - poor upload very poor, even when slowed down to .75

[@leslassiter6378]

Nobody is buying any of that.

[@randellcollier5129]

Worst accompaniment music in history. Theme song is ok but episode accompanying music absolutely SUCKS

[@frederickwise5238]

What a shame that he raised a female traitor and an anarchist son. so much for"representing law and order on screen"!

[@alphonsozorro7952]

Sodomite Wise, she opposed war by Pentagon beasts on Third-World countries (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) and supported Blacks' rights. What is traitoros about her activism? She didn't do any harm to her country, but she opposed harms her country did to foreign peoples and its own Black population.

[@alphonsozorro7952]

I meant "traitorous".

[@privatebubba8876]

The Vietnam war was a sham produced by the USA military industrial complex and the politicians in their pockets.

[@jubalcalif9100]

So he's responsible for the actions of his adult children ?

[@frederickwise5238]

@@jubalcalif9100 For their basic foundations, YOU BET!! and if you look at the comments others feel the same way. Two out of two says it all.

[@ernestkovach3305]

Good plot. Bad title for a western because he is not a main character, he is a minor character . Horrible acting by most of cast. No wonder this tv series went belly up fast.

[@alphonsozorro7952]

So many viewers, in spite of mediocre actors (including Fonda) and story lines, lured by Hollywood "fame" H. Fonda. Same with J. Wayne. Many better westerns went belly up too, if their sponsors not the public decided so, like "Johnny Ringo".

[@actionsub]

This is an outlier for "Deputy" episodes, as it's one of the few that Fonda carried. The majority of the episodes centered on Allen Case as the deputy.

[@francessacco3500]

@@actionsub I really enjoy Allen Case in this role. He was also a singer...beautiful voice!

[@jubalcalif9100]

Ran for two seasons. That's hardly going "belly up fast". Though I will admit was a mediocre series. No great shakes.

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@francessacco3500 Yes indeed ! When reading about his career online, it mentioned he was a veteran of musical theater & I heard him sing here at youtube. Wonderful voice. A shame he died from a sudden massive heart attack in 1986 while on vacation in Northern Calif. By then he'd retired from acting and was in the fur coat business.

[@user-ff4lr2jj5r]

A nice try but just not that well written...

[@christianlibrul]

What a terrible show.

[@ernestkovach3305]

Good story but some of the very worst acting in tv network westerns history.