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''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
Naturally, [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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* [[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 [[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
* [[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
* [[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.
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