The best episodes of Deadwood Season 1
Season 1 only — ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Swearengen directs Farnum to buy back the Garret claim; Alma prevails on Calamity Jane and Hickok for help.
- 02
Swearengen transforms the Gem into a courtroom as Deadwood is forced to try a cowardly killer.
- 03
Deadwood breathes easier when riders bring a vaccine--and word of a possible Sioux treaty.
- 04
With annexation looming, Swearengen calls a meeting to set up an informal government.
- 05
Montana marshal Seth Bullock executes a last act of justice and relocates to a gold-mining camp known as Deadwood, where he and partner Sol Star look to start a hardware business.
- 06
As suspicions arise that 'road agents' may have been the true perpetrators of the massacre, Swearengen takes a special interest in the health of its sole survivor—a young girl ministered to by the unlikely team of Doc Cochran and Calamity Jane.
- 07
Competition arrives for Swearengen in the form of the Bella Union, a gambling outfit from Chicago.
- 08
Bullock encounters native resistance in his quest to bring a murderer to justice.
- 09
An opium theft leaves Swearengen trying to find common language with his supplier.
- 10
In the Season One finale, the U.S. Army--under General Crook, a.k.a. 'Custer's Avengers'--rolls into Deadwood.
- 11
After tracking down a murderer, Bullock returns to Deadwood a changed man--and a marked one.
- 12
Jewel's Boot Is Made For Walking
Alma's father, Otis Russell, arrives from New York to 'help' with her claim.
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