History Series / AliasSmithAndJones

* SickEpisode: "The Fifth 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.

* HardHead: Frequently.

* Heterosexual Life Partners: Both cousins and lifelong best friends, these fellows are a prime example.

* Mugging the Monster: Any random fellow who challenges the amiable blue-eyed curly-haired guy to a gunfight, and then finds out that he's challenged Kid Curry.

* [[Heterosexual LIfe Partners]]: Both cousins and lifelong best friends, these fellows are a prime example.

* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Any random fellow who challenges the amiable blue-eyed curly-haired guy to a gunfight, and then finds out that he's challenged Kid Curry.

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

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

Eventually they tire of the outlaw life and petition for a pardon. 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.

* HeelFaceTurn: The show's premise.

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

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

* TheOtherDarrin: Pete Duel committed suicide and was replaced by Roger Davis for the final season.
** The OpeningNarration went back and forth between two actors. Ralph Story was TheNarrator in the PilotMovie. When the series began, Roger Davis took over from Story. When Davis replaced Duel as Hannibal Heyes, Story was brought back.
*** Also, Sheriff Trevors was played by three different actors during the series' run.

-> "I sure wish the Governor'd let a few more people in on our secret!"

* 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 Handleyburg 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]].

* TheGunslinger: Kid Curry was THE fast gun.

* SelfRestraint: In "Jailbreak in Junction city", an imprisoned Heyes and Curry arrange a jailbreak for several other prisoners, but don't take advantage of it themselves. Heyes gambles that this--along with the larger scheme he has going that leads to the prisoners' recapture and the return of the money they stole--will sufficiently impress the local judge that he'll quietly let them go without endangering the amnesty. It works.

* TheOtherDarrin: Pete Duel comitted suicide and was replaced by Roger Davis for the final season.

* SerialKillingSpecificTarget: 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.

** The OpeningNarration went back and forth between two actors. Ralph Story was TheNarrator in the PilotMovie. When the series began, Roger Davis took over from Story. When Davis replaced Duel as Hannibal Hayes, Story was brought back.

* RetiredOutlaw

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