Dead Man's Gun

Season 2

Title sequence: "In the American West, a gun touched by evil, passed from hand to hand, changing the lives of all who possessed it. Its origin unknown, its dark legend grew, until it came to be known as, the Dead Man's Gun." Of the people who possess the gun, the bad usually die, the good usually benefit, but they all learn a lesson.
22 Episodes
  • The Judgement of Joe Dean Bonner
    E1
    Episode 1The Judgement of Joe Dean BonnerJoe Dean Bonner (Brian Austin Green) is a professional killer who cares for nothing but himself. After his latest killing, he rides into a strange town populated by only one man, who he obtains the Dead Man's gun from. Soon, Bonner is on trial for his past deeds, with a jury of those he has butchered, and not even the Dead Man's gun can help him against the supernatural. After visits from his dead, disappointed father, a pastor, and the love of his life, who committed suicide after he impregnated then abandoned her, Bonner seems to repent, but is he sincere? The Dead Man's Gun knows! And so do I, he's not sincere at all, so he gets hung.
  • Ties That Bind
    E2
    Episode 2Ties That BindBlood is thicker than water as two brothers wrestle with each other over what they should do when one of them falls under the spell of The Dead Man's Gun, after finding it on a body. Will his brother be able to save him, and himself, from the fate that awaits them?
  • Sheep's Clothing
    E3
    Episode 3Sheep's ClothingThe town push-over, a school teacher, turns his life around when he discovers the Dead Man's Gun on a killed outlaw. He no longer puts up with the bullying of his peers, but ends up becoming a bully himself. Can he turn his life back around, though, when the outlaw's partners turn up, looking for the powerful Dead Man's Gun? And can he win the love of the school marm, whom he secretly adores?
  • Winner Takes All
    E4
    Episode 4Winner Takes AllAn aging manager and his talented pugilist travel town to town, winning money by boxing. They arrive one day in a boxing tycoon's town and quickly make waste of his best boxer; demanding a chance to win back his money, and the Dead Man's Gun, the tycoon brings in a ringer and has his ruffians ambush the boxer one night, forcing him to break his hand on one of their skulls. Meanwhile, the manager has taken in a young boy who years to learn the art of boxing. Faced with the choice of forfeiting, or making his boxer fight with one hand, the manager elects to return to the ring for one lst fight, 14 years after retiring, against one of the best boxers. He is badly beaten for several rounds before taking his own advice from the boy: win with your heart! He uppercuts the boxer, punches out the tycoon, and leaves town with his money, but not the Dead Man's Gun! That's for sure!
  • Sisters of Mercy
    E5
    Episode 5Sisters of MercyTwo women posing as nuns are afoot in the countryside and given a ride in a wagon driven by a man who seems to have plenty of bounty. With their eye on it all they also see something that is calling to its new owner - the Dead Man's Gun.
  • Hangman
    E6
    Episode 6HangmanPhineas Newman (Winkler) is a hangman by trade. Ostracized by the rest of society for his work, he takes pride in it, and strives to be the best executioner money can by. He explains to his assistant that he does his job because, as a child, he saw his uncle hung by unprofessionals, and believes that even a condemned man shouldn't suffer. He also becomes fascinated with a gun he picks up from his latest hanging client, the Dead Man's Gun, of course. When he arrives for his next job at another town, he learns that the town, including the mother of the raped and murdered girl, refuses to believe that their Reverend has committed the crime. He goes about his duties of preparation, not caring to hear anything about the crime, and refusing to give mercy to the pleading, condemned Reverend. That night, depressed after being refused service by the town's low-life whore, he tries to kill himself, and realizes that the Dead Man's Gun and he both have the power to choose when to take life
  • The Collector
    E7
    Episode 7The CollectorHerr Von Huber considers himself a collector of all things from the American old West. When he visits a professor with a similar passion, he discovers he is close to unearthing an old Indian treasure, which he also desires.
  • The Trapper
    E8
    Episode 8The TrapperCharlie Three Claws doesn't care for his new neighbor. He skins animals with no regard to their soul and even kills a poacher. When Charlie's granddaughter is raped, a scheme is hatched where he uses the spirit of a grizzly and the curse of the Deadman's gun to even the score.
  • The Mimsers
    E9
    Episode 9The MimsersThe Mimsers seek employment wherever they can lift the most in the shortest period. Fleeing London to the American West, they hope their luck and fortunes will change. Posing as the hired help for an older confederate colonel, they hadn't figured on someone else having a plan in mind too.
  • The Pinkerton
    E10
    Episode 10The PinkertonWhen a wife and mother is murdered, and the local law can not find the killer, her widower calls in expert help in the form of John Eastman (Michael Dorn), a talented Pinkerton investigator. Eastman has troubles during his investigation, primarily because of racism in a small white town, but he will not be turned away. Using the Dead Man's Gun, he solves the evil crime, and justice is doled out to the surprising culprit.
  • Seven Deadly Sins
    E11
    Episode 11Seven Deadly SinsJoe Morgan returns to bury his father who ran the town bank. When he figures to share in the bank's ownership his brother objects. After a time he becomes ensnared in what his father reminded him were the seven deadly sins.
  • The Ripper
    E12
    Episode 12The RipperWhen Jack the Ripper may have traveled to a town in the West, an Inspector shows up, saying he is hot on his trail. It takes the town sheriff and a madam to bring him to justice along with the Dead Man's Gun.
  • The Regulator
    E13
    Episode 13The RegulatorWith 30 kills to his name, John Slattery adds 3 more stage robbers to the score. When a widow writer from back East wants to be his biographer he considers it. But his plans for being in town are sidetracked by her devil in the details queries and the Dead Man's Gun.
  • The Womanizer
    E14
    Episode 14The WomanizerPatrick Duffy is a Womanizer. When the husband of one of his flings tracks him down, and dies after being thrown off his horse during the chase, the Womanizer loots his wallet, and picks up The Dead Man's Gun. Can he mend his ways, or will he fall prey to the gun's evil powers?
  • Sleepwalker
    E15
    Episode 15SleepwalkerGruesome, unmotivated killings soon begin to take place in a small town after a man finds the Dead Man's Gun, and soon he become convinced that he is performing the deeds himself while sleepwalking. His wife stays awake to watch him, but falls asleep early and another murder takes place. The man is incredibly guilty for what he's done, turns himself in, and is sentenced to die ... but is he the real culprit? No, he's not. His wife is!
  • Four of a Kind
    E16
    Episode 16Four of a KindYears after the town hooligan and three of his men murder a young woman's husband simply for beating them at poker, she returns with the Dead Man's Gun, seeking revenge. She leaves an Ace at each dead man's side, and soon a showdown is set up with the hooligan and his son. After being injured she enlists the help of the town's shopkeeper, a victim of the town's gang's treachery for years, and his young daughter. The hooligan waits for her to show up to ambush her, but she cleverly kidnaps his son instead and forces him to come to her, at her old ranch, where her husband had been murdered so long ago. Here he finds his son in an unexpected predicament, and she forces him to face his deepest, darkest fears. Then she goes back to town to marry the shopkeeper and to be the littler girl's mother.
  • The Oath
    E17
    Episode 17The OathA replacement doctor comes to town and already has two strikes: an epidemic is at hand and is a female. She uses the Dead Man's gun to save lives so they decide to give her time to figure out what is killing them.
  • The Good Chef
    E18
    Episode 18The Good ChefChef Emil (Jay Thomas) gets the cash for his dream of setting up his own high class French restaurant by poisoning his employers, and also inherits the Dead Man's Gun. An ill-tempered man, he treats the people of the town terribly, but is forgiven because of his great food, and the hungry Sheriff is content to simply look the other way. Anyone who disagrees with Emil's cooking is killed by him. The town's other home-cooking restaurant, an Irish mother/son operation, suffers for lack of business at the hands of Chez Emil, with Emil humiliating the man every chance he gets. Soon, the restaurant goes under, and he young man is forced to work for Emil himself. Emil soon covets the man's girlfriend, and drugs her. Luckily, the man discovers Emil's plan and saves the girl, just in time to be shot by Emil who claims he was attacked without provocation. Emil gets his just desserts, though, thanks to the Dead Man's Gun! (He is poisoned and used for meat.)
  • The Vine
    E19
    Episode 19The VineAn Italian immigrant on his way to California comes upon a nanny who lost her family to bandits. He takes her along but when the bandits return and he has never done so, he finds out what it means to fire the Dead Man's gun.
  • Bad Boys
    E20
    Episode 20Bad BoysWhen three boys see an outlaw hide a gun in a barn, they become emboldened to rid their lives of what has been troubling them. When the owner returns to reclaim his property, they find out the price of ownership of the Deadman's Gun.
  • The Phrenologist
    E21
    Episode 21The PhrenologistC. Thomas Howell is a habberdasher and phrenologist; a city boy who leaps at whatever the latest big-city fad is. He hires a new assistant, who has just witnessed an outlaw being bucked off his horse into quicksand and could not save him, only the Dead Man's Gun, which he carried. The Phrenologist uses the boy to try to win the heart of a beautiful young lady, whose affections he is competing for with a local rancher. She is having great difficulty choosing between them. Meanwhile, the outlaws bank-robbing partners are hot on his (and the stolen money's) trail, and, after being placed under arrest, notice the Phrenologist carrying their old partner's gun. The boy overhears their discussion, and leads the Phrenologist to the swamp where the money must be, while the outlaws escape. They take the phrenologist and the rancher hostage, but are saved by the clever boy, who turns out to be Thomas Edison; the woman uses trickery to discover which man she should give her hand to.
  • A Just Reward
    E22
    Episode 22A Just RewardAn outlaw (William Forsythe) retrieves the Dead Man's Gun by murdering its latest owners for a mysterious, eccentric, incredibly rich man, known only as Mr. Smith. Upon delivery of the gun, the outlaw is treated to several stories about its eerie past (in the form of flashbacks to previous episodes including The Hangman, The Bounty Hunter, The Photographer, Bad Boys, and The Great Mcdonacle), and cannot leave because of the posse outside. He grows more and more uncomfortable, and feels that, because of the danger of the weapon, he deserves more money for it. His greed is his undoing, as Mr. Smith reveals himself to be the original owner of the cursed weapon, and the outlaw receives his just reward.
Cast of Season 2
  • Kris Kristofferson
  • Sarah ChalkeMuriel Jakes
  • Brian Austin GreenJoe Dean Bonner
  • Henry Winkler
 
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