Deadwood

9:30pm – Monday, March 28 on ABC2

Doc (Brad Dourif) contemplates a procedure that could cure Swearengen (Ian McShane) – or kill him. Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) attempts to settle into domesticity, while Sol (John Hawkes) gets a new student bookkeeper – Trixie (Paula Malcomson).

Alma (Molly Parker) cuts ties with Sofia’s (Bree Seanna Wall) tutor, Miss Isringhausen (Sarah Paulson). Joanie (Kim Dickens) and Maddie (Alice Krige) argue over the business. The County Commissioner’s arrival spawns rumours about the camp’s future and legal ownership of the gold claims.

9:30pm – Monday, March 21 on ABC2

Francis Wolcott (Garret Dillahunt), chief scout for a powerful mining operation, arrives to shake up the status quo – beginning with Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe).

Swearengen’s (Ian McShane) lackeys fret as he refuses visitors and medical attention. Joanie’s (Kim Dickens) new business partner, Maddie (Alice Krige), reveals she’s also running a game as their new brothel, the Chez Ami, services its first customer.

9:30pm – Monday, March 14 on ABC2

In part two of Deadwood: A Lie Agreed Upon, Alma (Molly Parker) and an increasingly self-destructive Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) face an abrupt decision on their future.

At the Gem, while Swearengen (Ian McShane) readies for another showdown with Bullock, infighting between Silas Adams (Tius Welliver) and Dan Dority (W. Earl Brown) yields more feed for Wu’s pigs.

Doc Cochran (Brad Dourif) is surprised by Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert), who has returned to camp in a state of inebriated deterioration.

9:30pm – Monday, March 7 on ABC2

1877. A new day is dawning in the Black Hills outlaw camp of Deadwood. For better or worse, times are changing, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent.

Unsavoury new arrivals – looking to cash in on the lucrative anarchy – and a government of outsiders usher in an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp’s founders. Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) is the new Sheriff and forced to stand his ground against two conniving brothel owners: cutthroat Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), and his chiefrival, the cunning Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe).

The women of Deadwood prove their mettle as Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert), Alma Garret (Molly Parker), and whores Trixie (Paula Malcomson) and Joanie (Kim Dickens) stake their claim in this dangerous town of scheming misfits, all learning the hard way… fortune comes with a price.

In Deadwood: A Lie Agreed Upon, tensions flare as the camp faces an uncertain future. Al Swearengen taunts Seth Bullock over his relationship with Alma Garret, and the resulting confrontation between sheriff and criminal turns violent.

With a new business venture on the horizon, Joanie Stubbs and Cy Tolliver await the arrival of some fancy new whores on the next stagecoach, which also bears two important reminders of Bullock’s past.

9:30pm – Tuesday, October 19 on ABC2

The U.S. Army – under General Crook a.k.a ‘Custer’s Avengers’ – rolls into Deadwood, prompting a parade … and business solicitations from E.B. Farnum (William Sanderson) and Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe).

Swearengen (Ian McShane) delivers a tortured soul from suffering; Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) reacts decisively to Russell’s (William Russ) intentions regarding Alma (Molly Parker); Con Stapleton’s (Peter Jason) new commission proves short-lived; Silas Adams (Titus Welliver) shows Clagett (Marshall Bell) where his loyalties lie; and Bullock and Alma have a late-night meeting.

9:30pm – Tuesday, October 12 on ABC2

Alma’s (Molly Parker) father, Otis Russell (William Russ), arrives from New York to ‘help’ with her claim.

Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) strikes a bargain with Silas Adams (Titus Welliver) to rid him of some legal baggage while Jewel (Geri Jewell) journeys to Doc Cochran’s (Brad Dourif) cabin for help with her leg.

Elsewhere in Deadwood Charlie Utter (Dayton Callie) hazards an opinion on the safety of Tom Nuttall’s (Leon Rippy) saloon. Leon (Larry Cedar) and Sawyer (Ricky Jay) resume work at the Bella Union. Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) is angered by the choice of a new sheriff; and Sol Star (John Hawkes) winds up paying for a free service.

9:30pm – Tuesday, October 5 on ABC2

An opium theft leaves Swearengen (Ian McShane) trying to find common language with his supplier Mr Wu (Keone Young), as well as navigating tricky waters to deal with the mess. Meanwhile, Silas Adams (Titus Welliver), bagman for the magistrate from Yankton, arrives with bad news for Swearengen: Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) regrets having raised his hand at the government meeting; Merrick (Jeffrey Jones) proposes Deadwood’s first ‘club’, and an unwelcome Rev. Smith (Ray McKinnon) gravitates to the Gem and its new piano.

9:30pm – Tuesday, September 28 on ABC2

With annexation looming, Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) ‘breaks out the peaches’ and calls a meeting to set up an informal government. Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) and the widow Alma Garrett (Molly Parker) compare notes on Ellsworth (Jim Beaver), and each other. E.B. Farnum (William Sanderson) gets a special-delivery letter from Hickok while Charlie Utter (Dayton Callie) offers Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) a job. The Madam of the Bella Union, Joanie Stubbs (Kim Dickens), prepares to make a go on her own, with Cy Tolliver’s (Powers Boothe) avowed blessings.

9:30pm – Tuesday, September 21 on ABC2

Deadwood breathes easier when riders arrive with precious vaccine – and word of a possible treaty with the Sioux. Awaiting Trixie’s (Paula Malcomson) return, a pragmatic Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) resists counsel from a bloody-minded E.B Farnum (William Sanderson). Results of Seth Bullock’s (Timothy Olyphant) assay of her gold claim moves Alma to reassess her plans and sets up a confrontation between Bullock and Swearengen. Elsewhere Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe) teaches Joanie Stubbs (Kim Dickens) a deadly lesson at the expense of a couple of con artists.

9:30pm – Tuesday, September 14 on ABC2

Deadwood: South Dakota … in an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American history draws a throng of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement where everything – and everyone – has a price.

Welcome to Deadwood…a hell of a place to make your fortune. The story begins two weeks after Custer’s defeat at Little Big Horn, combining fictional and real- life characters and events in an epic morality tale.

Located in the Black Hills Indian Cession, the ‘town’ of Deadwood is an illegal settlement, a violent and uncivilized outpost that attracts a colourful array of characters looking to get rich – from outlaws and entrepreneurs to ex-soldiers and racketeers, Chinese labourers, prostitutes, city dudes and gunfighters.

After tracking down a murderer, Bullock returns to Deadwood a changed man – and a marked one – while Charlie Utter (Dayton Callie) must pay final respects to a fallen friend. Dan Dority (W. Earl Brown) and Joanie Stubbs (Kim Dickens) both take special interest when teenagers Miles (Greg Cipes) and Flora Anderson (Kirsten Bell) arrive in camp in search of their father, each finding work at a rival saloon. Calamity Jane earns her moniker in the pest tent. Al Swearengen sees through Trixie’s latest subterfuge while Alma Garret (Molly Parker) remains cold on E.B. Farnum’s (William Sandersons) inappropriately advanced bid on her claim.