Barbary Coast

1h

Western

Barbary Coast is an American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on May 4, 1975 and the series itself premiered September 8, 1975; the last episode aired January 9, 1976. Barbary Coast was inspired by a similar 19th-century spy series, The Wild Wild West, and like the earlier program, Barbary Coast mixed the genres of Western and secret agent drama.

Episodes

Cast

Funny Money

1. Funny Money

8th Sep 1975

Cable & Cash go after a banker involved in a counterfeit scheme using the funny money to bolster his own accounts.

Crazy Cats

2. Crazy Cats

15th Sep 1975

When Bristol, a wealthy rancher, steals a valuable jade cat from the Chinese government, Cable goes undercover as a reporter to recover it before the Chinese go to war against the U.S.

Jesse Who?

3. Jesse Who?

22nd Sep 1975

Cable investigates when famed outlaw Jesse James is reported to have robbed a small-town California bank.

The Ballad of Redwing Jail

4. The Ballad of Redwing Jail

29th Sep 1975

Cable poses as an outlaw to recover $20,000 hidden in a small town jail by a corrupt sheriff, Hyde.

Guns For a Queen

5. Guns For a Queen

6th Oct 1975

As they try to recover stolen rifles from revolutionaries, Cash and Cable both have to deal with women out of their past who have plans of their own.

Irish Luck

6. Irish Luck

13th Oct 1975

Assassins plan the death of Irish leader Charles Stewart Parnell and Cash & Cable must stop them.

Sauce For the Goose

7. Sauce For the Goose

20th Oct 1975

Cable and Cash set up a seance as a scam to get their hands on corrupt civic leader Austin Benedict's list of payoffs.

An Iron-Clad Plan

8. An Iron-Clad Plan

31st Oct 1975

Cable must pose as a foreign agent to reacquire the stolen plans for a new experimental iron-clad submarine.

Arson and Old Lace

9. Arson and Old Lace

14th Nov 1975

Cable and Cash must uncover the identity of ""The Shark,"" a waterfront racketeer who burns fishermen's boats if they don't pay him protection money.

Sharks Eat Sharks

10. Sharks Eat Sharks

21st Nov 1975

When Cash and Cable need to take out two groups of crooks - one of con men and one of shakedown extortion artists - they set up a phony diamond mine to play both groups off of each other.

The Day Cable Was Hanged

11. The Day Cable Was Hanged

26th Dec 1975

Cable ends up arresting a man who he believes is John Wilkes Booth.

Mary Had More Than a Little

12. Mary Had More Than a Little

2nd Jan 1976

Cash is attracted to a new lady dealer at a rival casino, Mary Ellen, but she's involved in criminal doings when the gamblers who win at her table get robbed by thieves as they leave the place.

The Dawson Marker

13. The Dawson Marker

9th Jan 1976

The heirs of Confederate agents who stole and hid a shipment of gold during the Civil War are meeting in San Francisco to recover the loot, but Cable hopes to get the cache first.

First air date

8th Sep 1975

Last air date

9th Jan 1976

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks