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The Adventures of Jim Bowie(TV show/series, 1956-1958)

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| 30min per episode | Genre: Western

Scripted Reality in 2 seasons with 76 episodes

The Adventures of Jim BowieRating: 1.9/5 (with 2 votes)
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. ()
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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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The Adventures of Jim Bowie Seasons and Episodes

09/06/1957Season 2 - 38 episodes
#1 | 09/06/1957Epitaph for an Indian
When Bowie goes to his dead Indian friend's home town to deliver the news to his father, he finds that the father has just been shot.
#2 | 09/13/1957Flowers for McDonough
A wily Scotsman gets the better of Bowie on an important real estate deal.
#3 | 09/20/1957The Irishman
A indentured servant, whose contract is purchased by Bowie, deludes an innkeeper that he is the master and Bowie the servant.
#4 | 09/27/1957Counterfeit Dixie
Bowie solicits the help of a former pickpocket and a former horse thief to defeat a gang of counterfeiters.
#5 | 10/04/1957Bullet Metal
Bowie tries to purchase a lead mine, but the pacifist owner refuses to sell it to him if the metal will be used to make bullets.
#6 | 10/11/1957Quarantine
Bowie risks his life to recover a stolen shipment of desperately needed smallpox vaccine.
#7 | 10/18/1957A Fortune for Madame
When Bowie finds that he cannot purchase some land because the owners have just been swindled out of it, he decides to help them recover it.
#8 | 10/25/1957House Divided
Recovering from a gunshot wound in a fancy mansion, Bowie is asked by a young woman not to identify the person who shot him.
#9 | 11/01/1957The Whip
While on his way to inform the authorities of a plot to misuse the labor of prisoners, Bowie is trapped in a warehouse and attacked by a whip-wielding stranger.
#10 | 11/08/1957Pearls of Talimeco
When Bowie and an Indian friend make up a story to send an annoying acquaintance on a wild goose chase, it comes back to haunt them.
#11 | 11/15/1957Charivari
Bowie becomes suspicious when an elderly man dies abruptly on the night of his wedding.
#12 | 11/22/1957Hare and Tortoise
Bowie uncovers a plot to increase the value of some land upriver by moving the state capital there.
#13 | 11/29/1957The Bridegroom
In order to hide from a waterfront gang, Bowie has to pretend to be a prospective bridegroom at a French home.
#14 | 12/06/1957The Alligator
Inside a doll he bought as a birthday gift, Bowie finds a clue to a homicide plot.
#15 | 12/13/1957Country Girl
Bowie and his brother's fiancee are duped by swindlers claiming that a relative has been unjustly imprisoned in Mexico.
#16 | 12/20/1957Mexican Adventure
Bowie and his pirate friend Jean Lafitte, attempting to rescue a U.S. ambassador who has been captured by revolutionary forces in Mexico, take refuge in an inn at Christmastime.
#17 | 12/27/1957Silk Purse
When a hillbilly puts up his daughter as a stake in a poker game, Bowie goes along with the idea to teach him a lesson, and then decides to send her to a finishing school to become a lady.
#18 | 01/03/1958Choctaw Honor
When Jim Bowie is robbed, he learns that the man who robbed him is also wanted by an Indian tribe for murder.
#19 | 01/10/1958Close Shave
An assassin after Bowie kills an innocent man instead, but that doesn't stop him.
#20 | 01/17/1958Pirate on Horseback
Bowie tracks down an outlaw gang when he finds out that one of them is using his name.
#21 | 01/24/1958Curfew Cannon
When Bowie and his brother learn that the bank they own in New Orleans is being robbed, they try to keep the thieves from getting away by using the city's signaling cannon.
#22 | 01/31/1958Home Sweet Home
Bowie learns that foul play may be attempted at a concert arranged by his friend at the newspaper for composer John Howard Payne.
#23 | 02/07/1958Deaf Smith
Now in Texas, Bowie encounters famous scout Deaf Smith while on the trail of an outlaw gang.
#24 | 02/14/1958Ursula
While negotiating with Mexican government officials to build a cotton mill in Texas, Bowie is attracted to the daughter of one of them.
#25 | 02/21/1958Apache Silver
Bowie gets a lead on the location of the lost silver mine of the Apaches, but both hostile Apaches and Mexican officials make it difficult for him to follow it up.
#26 | 02/28/1958A Grave for Jim Bowie
Bowie comes to the aid of naturalist Johnny Appleseed, who has been captured by criminals who think that the riches in the ground he talks about are buried treasure.
#27 | 03/07/1958Up the Creek
When Bowie solicits help from his cousin after being swindled by a group of good-natured hillbillies, he almosts gets the poor fellow married to one of them.
#28 | 03/14/1958The Lion's Cub
Bowie manages to get back across the border into Texas by signing on as an Englishman's valet, but then the pair are attacked by both outlaws and Comanches.
#29 | 03/21/1958Horse Thief
Bowie almost loses the friendship of the Mexican governor of Texas when an old friend turns out to be a horse thief.
#30 | 03/28/1958Jim Bowie, Apache
Bowie becomes the blood brother of an Apache tribe whom he believes know the location of the lost silver mine he has been searching for, but discovers that his old friend has done the same thing with a tribe of Comanches who also know the secret.
#31 | 04/04/1958The Brothers
When young Jefferson Davis wants to join Bowie in his search for the lost mine, his older brother objects and challenges Bowie to a duel.
#32 | 04/11/1958Patron of the Arts
Looking for an investment for his mother, Bowie considers purchasing artwork instead of another plantation.
#33 | 04/18/1958Bad Medicine
At the President's urgent request, Bowie guides a doctor to a Choctaw village to cure a sick boy, only to discover that the doctor is an inexperienced youth fresh out of medical school.
#34 | 04/25/1958A Night in Tennessee
Bowie decides to run for Congress from Louisiana, and meets another frontiersman who did the same thing from Tennessee, Davy Crockett.
#35 | 05/02/1958Bowie's Baby
In Natchez, Bowie tries to find a new home for an infant who was the sole survivor of an Indian attack, but has trouble with the sheriff.
#36 | 05/09/1958The Cave
Bowie tries to find out what happened to his cousin's bride, who disappeared on her wedding day after being seen with a hypnotist.
#37 | 05/16/1958Man of the Streets
Owed a lot of money by a man who has no cash, Bowie makes him an offer for his land in New Orleans, and we learn the origin of some of the street names there.
#38 | 05/23/1958The Puma
Jess Miller, in Texas to collect some money for his friend Bowie, is mistaken for Bowie by the Mexican army, who try to take him prisoner.
09/07/1956Season 1 - 38 episodes

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 2 languages: German (DE), English (EN)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 09/07/1956
Last episode released on: 05/23/1958
Executive Producer: Louis F. Edelman
Composer: Ken Darby
Keywords: jim bowie
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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