Not to put too fine a point on it, but Yancy Derringer was essentially an informer. The premise of this show was that Derringer who carried several on his person was a most unofficial agent for Kevin Hagen the Yankee colonel in Reconstruction New Orleans.
Jock Mahoney was the title character and he was a former Confederate colonel of the plantation gentry who has gracefully come to accept the defeat of the south. There are however a lot of hotheads who have all kinds of wild schemes and Hagen wants someone who can find out and can quash them or at least inform him.
The white suited and courtly Yancy Derringer was about as far as you could get from Mahoney's other series where he was the buckskin, moccasin clad Range Rider. Mahoney had a silent Pawnee sidekick played by X Brands who took care of backshooters and others who had sinister designs.
I doubt Yancy Derringer could be made today. The blacks in it were still quite subservient to Marse Yancy. He may have been a good master who never used the whip and never sold any slaves, but slavery was still slavery.
Not a bad show for its time though.
Jock Mahoney was the title character and he was a former Confederate colonel of the plantation gentry who has gracefully come to accept the defeat of the south. There are however a lot of hotheads who have all kinds of wild schemes and Hagen wants someone who can find out and can quash them or at least inform him.
The white suited and courtly Yancy Derringer was about as far as you could get from Mahoney's other series where he was the buckskin, moccasin clad Range Rider. Mahoney had a silent Pawnee sidekick played by X Brands who took care of backshooters and others who had sinister designs.
I doubt Yancy Derringer could be made today. The blacks in it were still quite subservient to Marse Yancy. He may have been a good master who never used the whip and never sold any slaves, but slavery was still slavery.
Not a bad show for its time though.