Father Murphy

- Season 2

(1982)

The kids band together to show they can help with the work that would be too much for Moses to do alone as well as know how like canning fruits/veges so Murphy and Mae can go on a much needed honeymoon in Mae's hometown of Omaha Nebraska.

When Murphy accidentally kills an abusive father whose son is at Gold Hill, Murphy has trouble coping with his grief.

A writer by the name of Clemens comes to Jackson to start a newspaper and is impressed by Will and Ephram's ingenuity at getting other kids to help them paint a fence for free that they are being paid for.

A man visits Gold Hill to inform one of the orphans they might have been named by an aunt who just died to inherit her fortune if she is who he thinks she is but is he really there to take her to the reading of the will as he says?

Murphy and Mae start out with the excitement of knowing they have a baby on the way. Keeping it a secret, Murphy starts to build an extra room on the house they live in. Will confronts Murphy, and gets the wrong idea that the room is for him. He gets jealous after finding out there is a baby coming, and even more jealous after the baby arrives. Murphy does not help by not realizing that Will feels hurt. Will decides that he would be better off by heading to St. Louis.

Will falls in with a group of orphan street kids taught to steal by an elderly lady who cooks and cares for them and helps them find jobs. Murphy is in St.Louise staying with the photographer that visited Gold Hills trying to find Will.

Lizette gets a job sewing and finds out about the ups and downs of adolescence.

John Murphy and Moses Gage go into a town that doesn't know them and are mistaken for two notorious outlaws one a big white man like John Murphy the other is a black man like Moses Gage that go by the names Big Jake and Black Jack.

Matt struggles when he is a witness to a robbery, when one of the robbers is his friend.

A gunfighter rolls into Jackson, who is bent on changing his ways and visiting his son, who is housed at Gold Hill. Adults and children alike are excited by the idea of a famous gunfighter in their town. But can the gunfighter get people to leave him alone? Should he tell his son that he is his father?

The Gold Hill folks help an unmarried 16 year old who finds herself pregnant and the father has disappeared.

Garrett ruins Gold Hill's benefit Fourth of July show by stealing all the fireworks from Murphy'''''''s barn. He puts them in his saloon safe. A comical old safe cracker, an escaped convict, befriends Murphy and the kids and liberates the firecrackers.

Three of the kids kids decide Moses needs some romance in his life, so they send away for a mail-order bride. Her arrival brings about joy to everyone except Moses. By the time Moses realizes she's a perfect woman for his wife, she goes back to her old boyfriend back east after she receives a letter from him stating he wants to marry her.