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{{quote|''"And of all the trains and banks they robbed, they never shot anyone..."''}}

''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.

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 [[Walking the Earth]].

Naturally, [[Hilarity Ensues]].

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* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Curry and Heyes encountered them from time to time.
* [[Boxed Crook]]: Heyes and Curry's deal states that technically, they're still wanted until they prove to the governor that they've really reformed.
* [[Delayed Wire]]: Heyes and Soapy and pull this con on a (not so innocent) widow, using a horse racing scam, in “The Great Shell Game”. 
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Executive producer Jo Swerling, Jr. [[Word of God|says]] that as soon as she learned of Pete Duel's death, she tried to end the show, but [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] wouldn't let her. The series was back in production 12 hours later.
* [[Fictional Counterpart]]: The Bannerman Detective Agency is this to the [[Pinkerton Detective|Pinkerton Detectives]].
* [[Follow the Leader]]: The show was inspired by ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''.
* [[The Gunslinger]]: Kid Curry was THE fast gun.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: The show's premise.
* [[Historical Domain Character|Historical Domain Characters]]: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in "Which Way to the OK Corral?"
* [[Jail Bake]]: 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. [[Lampshade Hanging|The two even joke about how hilarious it would be if they ended up finding a file in the pie]].
** In another episode, a gang arranges a jailbreak by having a gun smuggled to them in a bowl of soup.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Pete Duel comitted suicide and was replaced by Roger Davis for the final season.
** The [[Opening Narration]] went back and forth between two actors. Ralph Story was [[The Narrator]] in the [[Pilot Movie]]. When the series began, Roger Davis took over from Story. When Davis replaced Duel as Hannibal Hayes, Story was brought back.
*** Also, Sheriff Trevors was played by three different actors during the series' run.
* [[Retired Outlaw]]
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Georgette "George" Sinclair for Clementine "Clem" Hale.
* [[Talking Your Way Out]]: Heyes’ silver tongue can talk himself out of, and into, just about anything and everything.
* [[Walking the Earth]]: They tended to travel to avoid complications.
* [[The Wild West]]: Obviously.

{{quote|"I sure wish the Governor'd let a few more people in on our secret!"
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