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| Father Murphy - Season 1 | 
 enlarge | Directors: Leo Penn, Maury Dexter, Michael Landon, Victor French
Actors: Merlin Olsen, Ivy Bethune, Kirk Brennan, Katherine Cannon, Colin Drake
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $26.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 37753
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 6
Running Time: 1175
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.2
UPC: 014381237825
EAN: 0014381237825
ASIN: B0002WZS9Y
Theatrical Release Date: November 3, 1981
Release Date: October 26, 2004
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Description
Family is where you find it in the Wild West! Burly drifter John Murphy (Merlin Olsen) becomes the unlikely caretaker of a group of orphaned children growing up in America#s Wild West. Touched by their plight, he poses as a priest with lovely local school teacher Mae Woodward (Katherine Cannon) and his miner buddy (Moses Gunn) assisting with the children. Together this makeshift family gets involved in a series of adventures, encountering unscrupulous businessmen, gamblers, horse rustlers, bank robbers and much more! Created by Little House on the Prairie#s Michael Landon and originally aired from 1981 to 1983, Father Murphy provides quality entertainment for the entire family, touchingly exploring the bonds of family and friendship as tested by the trials of life on the rugged frontier.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
awesome show October 11, 2008
One of my favorite series of all time, even though i am not much of a Merlin Olsen fan.
LOL, they must have found every blue and green eyed cute kid in Hollywood to be on the show, not an ugly kid around.
Father Murphy Season 1 April 27, 2008
Father Murphy - Season 1
This is Family entertainment at it BEST!!!
It's what you'd expect from a series directed
by Michael Landon of Little House on the Prairie.
the importance of friendship, integrity, faith and tolerance September 21, 2007
great series, showing these important values.
I find it encouraging and beautiful and touching to see how one can stand against adversity with faith, friends, tolerance and integrity no matter what.
inspiring!
and like the space given to the catholic church for a change :-
Excellent September 10, 2007
I love this Box Set, my granddaughter got hooked on it too. It's a wonderful Family show.
 Pleasant March 4, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Merlin Olsen disguises himself as a priest so territory officials believe the church is supporting his friend Mae's orphanage and school, and do not send the children to the hated work-house.
This series often has a new child guest star in an episode. Has a villain who shows up regularly trying different ways to close the orphanage and send the children to the hated work-house.
In real life, Merlin Olsen was a star NFL football player for the LA Rams.
"Father Murphy" is closest to being "Bonanza" with kids. "Little House on the Prairie" and "Road to Avonlea" are a league above "Father Murphy". They have more of everything, bigger budgets, better writers, more charm (depth), more character-acting (Mrs. Olsen), and more character development (opportunity for personality). Several episodes of "Father Murphy" do reach the level of "Little House". The episode, "The Horse from Heaven", is good; the new priest is swindled into using the orphanage's last money to buy a race horse, to win money for food for the orphanage, but later finds that no one has ever been able to break and ride the horse. The tale of Amanda about the bank embezzler doing good deeds is good. Three of the 21 episodes did not interest me. In the league of the "Christy" series. The characters are likeable, but not the exceptional star charm of Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert. "Little House" and "Avonlea" had the advantage of being based on great books. There are so few good shows on TV, that I was willing to work with "Father Murphy", and enjoyed both seasons.
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