Is Father Murphy coming back?

Father Murphy ended on September 18, 1983, on NBC. The series concluded after its second season, with the final episode airing on that date.

Father Murphy was a drama series set in the 1870s that aired from 1981 to 1983. It told the story of a good-hearted frontiersman who sometimes pretended to be a Catholic priest in order to keep officials from shutting down his orphanage school. The show focused on his efforts to care for orphaned children whose homes had been destroyed by an evil mining manager, blending elements of family, Western, and drama genres.

The cast included Merlin Olsen as John Michael Murphy, Moses Gunn as Moses Gage, Katherine Cannon as Mae Woodward, Timothy Gibbs as Will Adams, Scott Mellini as Ephram Winkler, Kirk Brennan as David Sims, Lisa Trusel as Lizette Winkler, and Byron Thames as Matt Sims. The series did not have a rated score on TVMaze and each episode ran for approximately 60 minutes.