I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

I've be re-watching the series....and am simply amazed at X Brands. His skill with his knife is extraordinary. Yancy can flip Pahoo's knife back over his shoulder... and X Brands catches it amid spin and puts it into his shoulder sheath in one seemingly effortless move. AMAZING!!! Also his sign language seems to be very accurate.

For years I didn't know anyone who had heard of Yancy Derringer. I just remember as a child--I wasn't even 10 yet--I loved, Loved, LOVED it! I was so disappointed it lasted only one season. It was just so good. I looked for it for years and just now realized it is finally out on DVD. My next purchase. I will never forget Pahoo and Yancy and how great they were together. Rest in peace X Brand and Jock. You were the absolute best and were cool way before cool was even cool.If you ever get a chance, run to the nearest screen and watch this show.

I was trying to explain this show to my wife last night. It seems that given the character and his backstory, the producers could have gone two ways: they could have played Yancy very dark, much like Richard Boone did the Paladin character on "Have Gun Will Travel". They chose another way, and gave the character a supporting cast of rogues and comic foils that made Yancy an antebellum version of what Tom Selleck would be doing 2 decades later called "Magnum PI". As for X Brands, the story is that his real name is Jay Brands. Born in Germany, there was another person in his hometown by that name, so he took X as a middle initial. When he started acting, he decided to use the middle initial as his stage name.

I remember the show vividly; it was rerun on NBC afternoons later in the '60's. I live close to New Orleans, locale of the show, and met Mr. Mahoney at a rodeo the summer after the show ended. He was very friendly, let me hold his derringer, which was maybe not wise to do, told me where he bought it, etc. He stayed until the last autograph hound left. What really made the show was his athleticism with stunts, fights, falls, jumps, etc. One show had him trying to open a large box with his back to Pahoo; he made a gesture with his hand, keeping it up in the air shoulder height, and X Brands threw a large knife to Mr. Mahoney who caught it without looking. I read later that they thought it up as a gag, and decided to try it. It went on the first take. He became a stepfather to Sally Field, who seems to have had difficulties with him in that role, but he was really one of a kind in film. Later he had a stroke while horseback in "Kung Fu"; Burt Reynolds made a film about stunt men in the mid seventies with Brian Keith and Sally Field, the name of which I cannot remember, but it was a homage to stunt guys; Brian Keith's character had a stroke in the movie, reminding me of Mr. Mahoney; later, I read that Burt Reynolds said this was a bow to Mr. Mahoney. I was only 12, and got a kick out of the constant westerns at the time, but he gave it a distinctive feel. In TV Guide, he called it a "Southern". What was also interesting was his ensemble which came to include Mickey Morton, Lee Paul, Kelly Thorsen, etc. He was 6-4, and these guys topped him! Frances Bergen, Francine in the role, was wife of Edgar Bergen, whose daughter was Candice Bergen.