Henry Fonda and the Deputy: The Film and Stage Star and His TV Western

"Henry Fonda did a TV show?" For years, that's been the reaction of many people when they learned that the Hollywood and Broadway legend starred in his own television series. Henry Fonda surprised a lot of people in 1959 when he agreed to star in a television western. He was the biggest star of the time to top line a weekly television program. Here is the never-before-told story of Fonda and his first television series, The Deputy, including interviews with co-star Read Morgan and series co-creator Norman Lear, both of whom talk about the series for the first time.