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The Adventures of Jim Bowie(1956)

Western
First Air Date: 1956-09-07
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 5.3
Votes: 6
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 76

The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.

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Scott Forbes
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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 38
E01
The Birth of the Blade

Air Date: 1956-09-07

30m

How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife

E02
The Squatter

Air Date: 1956-09-14

30m

Bowie tries to talk a neighbor out of throwing a couple of penniless German squatters off her land.

E03
An Adventure with Audubon

Air Date: 1956-09-21

30m

Bowie assists legendary painter/naturalist John James Audubon avoid French forces that are hunting for him.

E04
Deputy Sheriff

Air Date: 1956-09-28

30m

Volunteering as a temporary deputy to guard a prisoner, Bowie comes to believe that the young man may be innocent.

E05
Trapline

Air Date: 1956-10-05

30m

A fur company is apparently trying to keep the Cajun fur trappers in line by killing anyone who trades with an indepe...

E06
Broomstick Wedding

Air Date: 1956-10-12

30m

A trade of horses leads to an angry father mistaking Bowie for his neighbor, the potential object of a shotgun wedding.

E07
Natchez Trace

Air Date: 1956-10-19

30m

A group of travelers ask Bowie for help against a rumored highwayman on the trail to Natchez.

E08
Jim Bowie Comes Home

Air Date: 1956-10-26

30m

On returning from a trip, Bowie finds that the town near his home has been taken over by a gang of young hoodlums.

E09
The Ghost of Jean Battoo

Air Date: 1956-11-02

30m

Bowie encounters a group of farmers who are being duped into paying protection money to an old woman against the ghos...

E10
The Secessionist

Air Date: 1956-11-09

30m

Bowie finds that a friend of his has been asked by President Andrew Jackson to try to talk a group of French planters...

E11
Land Jumpers

Air Date: 1956-11-16

30m

Just when Jim and his brother try to sell a large tract of land, a Frenchman shows up claiming to have the proper tit...

E12
The Select Females

Air Date: 1956-11-23

30m

Bowie encounters the headmistress of a school for young ladies, and she tells him that one of her students has been k...

E13
Bowie and His Slave

Air Date: 1956-11-30

30m

Bowie comes to the aid of a former slave who he had freed, but who has been captured and is being sold again at a sla...

E14
Outlaw Kingdom

Air Date: 1956-12-07

30m

Bowie goes after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.

E15
The Swordsman

Air Date: 1956-12-14

30m

Bowie runs into trouble when an attractive woman in New Orleans, where he has gone to purchase an estate, turns his h...

E16
The Return of the Alcibiade

Air Date: 1956-12-21

30m

Bowie goes after the thief who stole an expensive Christmas gift he bought for his mother.

E17
Monsieur Francois

Air Date: 1956-12-28

30m

Bowie comes to the aid of a French boy and his aunt, newly arrived in New Orleans, who are the victims of confidence ...

E18
A Horse for Old Hickory

Air Date: 1957-01-04

30m

Bidding for a racehorse to present as a gift to President Jackson, Bowie finds that he is up against Sam Houston.

E19
The Beggar of New Orleans

Air Date: 1957-01-11

30m

Bowie tries to help a former champion fencer who has become a street beggar.

E20
Osceola

Air Date: 1957-01-18

30m

Bowie comes to the aid of the native Seminoles, whom the army is trying to move from their traditional home to a trac...

E21
Master of Arms

Air Date: 1957-01-25

30m

An expert French swordsman sells Bowie a lottery ticket, but then after Bowie wins he decides that the winings should...

E22
Convoy Gold

Air Date: 1957-02-01

30m

Bowie tries to get a gold shipment safely through to New Orleans.

E23
Spanish Intrigue

Air Date: 1957-02-08

30m

Bowie meets Simon Bolivar, who wants to liberate all of Latin American from the yoke of Spanish rule.

E24
Bayou Tontine

Air Date: 1957-02-15

30m

Naturalist Audubon returns to ask Bowie for help in protecting a young girl whose life is in danger after she inherit...

E25
German George

Air Date: 1957-02-22

30m

Bowie goes after the gambler who cheated and then killed Bowie's friend and partner.

E26
An Eye for an Eye

Air Date: 1957-03-01

30m

Trying to stop an Indian uprising, Bowie only gets into more trouble after telling a native Cherokee princess the sto...

E27
The Captain's Chimp

Air Date: 1957-03-08

30m

Bowie goes after a thief who has trained a chimpanzee to climb up through people's windows.

E28
Jackson Assassination

Air Date: 1957-03-15

30m

Bowie is duped into helping a group that is plotting the President's assassination.

E29
Rezin Bowie, Gambler

Air Date: 1957-03-22

30m

Unaware that it is a setup, Jim's brother wins big and decides to become a professional gambler.

E30
Thieves' Market

Air Date: 1957-03-29

30m

When Bowie escorts his young French friend to the notorious thieves' marketplace in New Orleans, they are set upon by...

E31
The Pearl and the Crown

Air Date: 1957-04-05

30m

After a newspaper prints a poem about him, Bowie confronts the editor, who is later found murdered.

E32
The General's Disgrace

Air Date: 1957-04-12

30m

Bowie suspects a connection between recent holdups and the heavy gambling losses of a general's son.

E33
The Lottery

Air Date: 1957-04-19

30m

Bowie organizes a lottery to help an orphanage, unaware that the men he has hired plan to fix the drawing so that the...

E34
The Intruder

Air Date: 1957-04-26

30m

Bowie tries to help a young burglar who was caught robbing his friend Francois.

E35
Country Cousin

Air Date: 1957-05-03

30m

Bowie gets into trouble with his relatives when he cuts his visiting cousin in on a deal that turns out to be a hoax.

E36
The Bound Girl

Air Date: 1957-05-10

30m

Bowie resolves to help an indentured servant girl from Ireland, whose unwilling services have been purchased by a mea...

E37
Bounty Hunter

Air Date: 1957-05-17

30m

When Bowie and his newspaper friend unwittingly help a fugitive from justice, a bounty hunter pursues them all.

E38
Gone to Texas

Air Date: 1957-05-24

30m

As if his passport difficulties weren't enough, when Bowie crosses the border into Texas he finds out that someone is...

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