A hardened criminal plots to rescue his younger brother from hanging by abducting Deputy Clay McCord and holding him as a hostage to exchange for his sibling's release. Director: David Butler Writers: Peggy O'Shea, Lou Shaw Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry Allen Case as Deputy Clay McCord Read Morgan as Sgt. Hapgood Tasker Initially broadcast January 28, 1961. The Deputy is Clay McCord, a storekeeper in 1880's Silver City, Arizona Territories, who is an expert shot, but refuses to use his gun because he believes they are the major cause of frontier violence. However, he is persuaded many times to be The Deputy to help keep order when the Chief Marshal Simon Fry is out of town.