History Series / AliasSmithandJones

''Alias Smith and Jones'' is a 1971-73 TV western starring Creator/PeteDuel as Hannibal Heyes and Creator/BenMurphy as Jedidiah "Kid" Curry, a pair of bank and train robbers who never hurt anyone during any of their robberies.

''Alias Smith and Jones'' is a 1971-73 TV western starring Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedidiah "Kid" Curry, a pair of bank and train robbers who never hurt anyone during any of their robberies.

* DelayedWire: Heyes and Soapy and pull this con on a (not so innocent) widow, using a horse racing scam, in “The Great Shell Game”. Also known as "the big store" con.

* SesquipedalianSmith: The boys' aliases: Joshua Smith and Thaddeus Jones.

* AlanSmithee: The "John Thomas James" who has story credit on many episodes is executive producer Roy Huggins. "Return To Devil's Hole" features ''two'' fake writing credits, as the "Knut Swenson" who has teleplay credit is Marion Hargrove.

The series was clearly inspired by ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'', to put it politely; Butch and Sundance try at one point for the same sort of deal that Heyes and Curry provisionally get, but the movie’s authorities don’t bite, and the whole “two likable rogues always on the run” is a slightly LighterAndSofter version of the movie set-up. Not to be confused with ''Series/AlasSmithAndJones'', a British sketch show named in parody of it.

Eventually they tire of the outlaw life and petition for an amnesty. The governor agrees to clear the charges against them--after an unspecified period of time--as long as they can keep their noses clean. They change their names to Joshua Smith and Thaddeus Jones and begin WalkingTheEarth.

Not to be confused with ''Series/AlasSmithAndJones'', a British sketch show named in parody of it.

* FollowTheLeader: The show was inspired by ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''.
* TheGunslinger: Kid Curry was THE [[QuickDraw fast gun]].

* JailBake: In "The Men That Corrupted Hadleyburg", the family that turned Heyes and Curry in for the reward ended up helping to break our boys of the Hadleyburg jail with a gun baked into a pie. [[LampshadeHanging The two even joke about how hilarious it would be if they ended up finding a file in the pie]].

* LastNameBasis: With the exception of one guest star, no one calls Heyes "Hannibal". Ever. Almost no one calls Curry by his first name either (he mentions his own name only twice (once as "Jed", once as Jedidiah'), and Heyes calls him 'Jed' exactly once in 33 episodes).

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* FollowTheLeader: The show was inspired by ''ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''.

* BountyHunter: Curry and Heyes encountered them from time to time, such as in "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Bounty Hunter]]."

* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp

* HeelFaceTurn[=/=]WinYourFreedom: The show's premise.

* QuickDraw: The Kid.

* TheTropeKid.

* TheWildWest: Obviously.

* BountyHunter: Curry and Heyes encountered them from time to time.

* LastNameBasis: With the exception of one guest star, no one calls Heyes "Hannibal" (almost no one calls Curry by his first name either; he mentions his own name only twice (once as "Jed", once as Jedidiah'), and Heyes calls him 'Jed' exactly once in 33 episodes).

* DelayedWire: Heyes and Soapy and pull this con on a (not so innocent) widow, using a horse racing scam, in “The Great Shell Game”.

* HardHead: "Exit From Wickenburg". Anyone who has been KO'd for long enough to be hauled twelve miles out of town in a wagon and left in a field isn't going to be anywhere near that functional the next day.

* LastNameBasis: With the exception of one guest star, no one calls Heyes "Hannibal".

* SickEpisode: "The 5th Victim" has Heyes get shot in the head (see OnlyAFleshWound) and is hors de combat for the rest of the episode. This was actually so the co-stars could shoot separate episodes during the same week.

* SternChase: The whole series is this.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Executive producer Jo Swerling, Jr. [[WordOfGod says]] that as soon as he learned of Pete Duel's death, he tried to end the show, but Creator/{{ABC}} wouldn't let him. The series was back in production 12 hours later.

* LegendaryImpostor: In "The Day They Hung Kid Curry", a man who fits the Kid's general description has been impersonating him to get respect. It backfires on our heroes when he's convicted of an unrelated murder and claims Heyes was involved.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Several episodes, including "The Fifth Victim" and "Journey from San Juan" feature this trope.

* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: In "The Fifth Victim", the killer tries to disguise the murder of his ex-lover's husband by killing men who were all in a particular poker game, after first faking evidence that someone in the game had been cheating. The issue gets confused when he does try to kill the husband; the man kills him instead but then keeps quiet, afraid he'll be accused of the other killings.