Ended · 1981–1983
Father Murphy
Drama / Family / Western
A good-hearted frontiersman dresses as a priest to start an orphanage for a group of kids whose homes have been destroyed by an evil mining manager. Father Murphy, an NBC series about an 1870s gold miner who occasionally pretends to be a Catholic priest in order to keep officials from closing his orphanage school, premiered in a special two-hour presentation on Tuesday. Nov. 3 1981. Merlin Olsen stars in the title role.
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Seasons & episodes
Season 1 · 22 episodes
- S01 E01 · Pilot (1)
- S01 E02 · Pilot (2)
- S01 E03 · Eggs, Milk and a Dry Bed
- S01 E04 · Establish Thou the Work of Our Hands
- S01 E05 · A Horse from Heaven
- S01 E06 · By the Bear That Bit Me (1)
- S01 E07 · By the Bear That Bit Me (2)
- S01 E08 · False Blessings
- S01 E09 · The Ghost of Gold Hill
- S01 E10 · Graduation
- S01 E11 · Will's Surprise
- S01 E12 · Eighty-Eight Keys to Happiness
- S01 E13 · Knights of the White Camelia
- S01 E14 · The Parable of Amanda
- S01 E15 · The Spy
- S01 E16 · The Heir Apparent
- S01 E17 · In God's Arms
- S01 E18 · The Dream Day
- S01 E19 · Laddie
- S01 E20 · Matthew & Elizabeth
- S01 E21 · The First Miracle (1)
- S01 E22 · The First Miracle (2)
Season 2 · 13 episodes
- S02 E01 · Happiness Is.....
- S02 E02 · The Father Figure
- S02 E03 · Stopover in a One-Horse Town
- S02 E04 · Outrageous Fortune
- S02 E05 · The Reluctant Runaway (1)
- S02 E06 · The Reluctant Runaway (2)
- S02 E07 · Buttons and Beaux
- S02 E08 · John Michael Murphy - R.I.P.
- S02 E09 · The Witness
- S02 E10 · Blood Right
- S02 E11 · Sweet Sixteen
- S02 E12 · The Rockets' Red Glare
- S02 E13 · The Matchmakers
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