Barbary Coast (1975)
Synopsis
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.
Network
ABC
Episodes
Funny Money
Cable & Cash go after a banker involved in a counterfeit scheme using the funny money to bolster his own accounts.
Crazy Cats
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?
Cable investigates when famed outlaw Jesse James is reported to have robbed a small-town California bank.
The Ballad of Redwing Jail
Cable poses as an outlaw to recover $20,000 hidden in a small town jail by a corrupt sheriff, Hyde.
Guns For a Queen
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
Assassins plan the death of Irish leader Charles Stewart Parnell and Cash & Cable must stop them.
Sauce For the Goose
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
Cable must pose as a foreign agent to reacquire the stolen plans for a new experimental iron-clad submarine.
Arson and Old Lace
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
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
Cable ends up arresting a man who he believes is John Wilkes Booth.
Mary Had More Than a Little
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
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.
Cast
Details
Original Title
Barbary Coast
Status
Ended
Seasons
1
Episodes
13