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.
Guest Stars:
Julie Adams, George N. Neise, Bill Walker
Yancy helps a sea captain who was cheated out of his money in a dive on notorious Gallatin Street.
Guest Stars:
John Qualen, Paula Raymond, Claude Akins
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.
Guest Stars:
Marie Windsor, Bill Williams, Jean Byron, Jack Perkins, Herschel Graham
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.
Guest Stars:
Ray Danton, Ann Codee, Sandy Kenyon, Joan Taylor
An Irish girl visitng New Orleans decides that Yancy is to be her future husband.
Guest Stars:
Margaret Field, Frances Bergen, Larry J. Blake, Fred Graham
After administrator Colton hangs a member of an outlaw gang, the others decide to take revenge on his visiting sister.
Guest Stars:
Leo Gordon, Lovyss Bradley
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.
Guest Stars:
Carl Benton Reid, Dennis Patrick, Larry J. Blake, Chuck Hicks, Dale Van Sickel
A wealthy but lonely man who has come to New Orleans looking for a wife asks Yancy to help him.
Guest Stars:
Gene Evans, Margaret Hayes, Sandy Kenyon, Bartlett Robinson, Richard Devon
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.
Guest Stars:
Robert Rockwell, John Pickard, John Dehner, Frances Bergen, Bill Walker
Shop owners receive threats of violence if they refuse to sell their property to three strangers.
Guest Stars:
Margaret Field, Frances Bergen, Herschel Graham, John Stephenson, Roy Damron
Yancy tries to find out who's responsible for recent grave robberies.
Guest Stars:
Mark Roberts, Kathleen Crowley, Kasey Rogers, Frances Bergen
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.
Guest Stars:
Lester Matthews, Louise Fletcher, Joan Taylor, Bill Walker
Yancy and Pahoo are framed for a series of crimes, and now face execution.
Guest Stars:
Dick Foran, Patricia Blair, Frances Bergen, Larry J. Blake, Richard Devon
A mysterious mad bomber steals explosives and threatens to blow up the entire city of New Orleans.
Guest Stars:
Frances Bergen
Yancy must deal with a female pirate whose gang has stolen a valuable necklace from representatives of the Mexican government.
Guest Stars:
Beverly Garland, Michael Forest, Patricia Blair, Charles Bateman
Merchants are in such fear for their lives that Yancy gets no cooperation in his attempt to break a new protection racket.
Guest Stars:
Jack Albertson, Harry Lauter, Raymond Bailey, Lillian Bronson, Frances Bergen
A visiting Russian noble appears to have become a target for murder.
Guest Stars:
Nick Adams, Patricia Blair, Alberto Morin, Larry J. Blake, Richard Devon
Yancy suspects foul play when a lottery winner dies before she can collect.
Guest Stars:
Patricia Blair, Frances Bergen, Larry J. Blake, Richard Devon, Karen Sharpe
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.
Guest Stars:
Donald Randolph, Ed Kemmer, Patricia Blair, Carey Loftin, Walter Burke
A landowner comes up with a risky scheme to protect her property when it is threatened by flood waters.
Guest Stars:
Patricia Cutts, Charles Bronson
Winning a half interest in a silver mine while visiting Virginia City, Yancy discovers that his new partner is a beautiful woman.
Guest Stars:
Hillary Brooke, Addison Richards, Booth Colman
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.
Guest Stars:
Roy Jenson
Yancy decides to help a fellow riverboat owner whose fleet is being sabotaged by rivals trying to corner the market on river traffic.
Guest Stars:
Ken Mayer
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.
Guest Stars:
Frances Bergen, Willard Sage, Bert Remsen, Robert McCord, Tom McKee
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.
Guest Stars:
Claude Akins, Larry J. Blake, Richard Devon
Yancy's Indian friend Pahoo becomes an important element in efforts to prevent a war with the Pawnee tribes.
Guest Stars:
Dan Tobin
Yancy is sentenced to hang for killing a man in a duel.
Guest Stars:
John Vivyan, Richard Devon
Trying to stop some gun smugglers, Yancy has a run-in with a boxing champion and a re-match with a female river pirate.
Guest Stars:
Beverly Garland, Mickey Simpson, Arthur Tovey, Richard Devon, Larry J. Blake
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.
Guest Stars:
Richard Arlen, John Lupton, Charles Bateman, Larry J. Blake, Herschel Graham
Yancy is at a loss to figure out what's going on when a marshal he knows charges an old wartime friend with murder.
Guest Stars:
Lee Van Cleef, John Anderson, Kaye Elhardt
Yancy tries to combat superstition when the city is terrorized by a mysterious voodoo priestess.
Guest Stars:
Ruby Dandridge, Brad Dexter, Judi Meredith, Virginia Grey, Bill Walker
Yancy's good friend, Miss Mandarin, is accused of smuggling opium into the city inside firecrackers.
Guest Stars:
J. Pat O'Malley, Jean Willes, Victor Sen Yung, Larry J. Blake, Richard Devon
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.
Guest Stars:
Joyce Jameson, Hal Needham, Chuck Hayward, William Henry, Dayton Lummis