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Barbary Coast (1975)
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.
Writing:
- Douglas Heyes
Release Date:
Mon, Sep 08, 1975
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Season 1:
Cable & Cash go after a banker involved in a counterfeit scheme using the funny money to bolster his own accounts.
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.
Cable investigates when famed outlaw Jesse James is reported to have robbed a small-town California bank.
Cable poses as an outlaw to recover $20,000 hidden in a small town jail by a corrupt sheriff, Hyde.
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.
Assassins plan the death of Irish leader Charles Stewart Parnell and Cash & Cable must stop them.
Cable and Cash set up a seance as a scam to get their hands on corrupt civic leader Austin Benedict's list of payoffs.
Cable must pose as a foreign agent to reacquire the stolen plans for a new experimental iron-clad submarine.
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.
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.
Cable ends up arresting a man who he believes is John Wilkes Booth.
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 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.