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EP1 Epitaph for an Indian Sep 06, 1957

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.

EP2 Flowers for McDonough Sep 13, 1957

A wily Scotsman gets the better of Bowie on an important real estate deal.

EP3 The Irishman Sep 20, 1957

A indentured servant, whose contract is purchased by Bowie, deludes an innkeeper that he is the master and Bowie the servant.

EP4 Counterfeit Dixie Sep 27, 1957

Bowie solicits the help of a former pickpocket and a former horse thief to defeat a gang of counterfeiters.

EP5 Bullet Metal Oct 04, 1957

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.

EP6 Quarantine Oct 11, 1957

Bowie risks his life to recover a stolen shipment of desperately needed smallpox vaccine.

EP7 A Fortune for Madame Oct 18, 1957

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.

EP8 House Divided Oct 25, 1957

Recovering from a gunshot wound in a fancy mansion, Bowie is asked by a young woman not to identify the person who shot him.

EP9 The Whip Nov 01, 1957

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.

EP10 Pearls of Talimeco Nov 08, 1957

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.

EP11 Charivari Nov 15, 1957

Bowie becomes suspicious when an elderly man dies abruptly on the night of his wedding.

EP12 Hare and Tortoise Nov 22, 1957

Bowie uncovers a plot to increase the value of some land upriver by moving the state capital there.

EP13 The Bridegroom Nov 29, 1957

In order to hide from a waterfront gang, Bowie has to pretend to be a prospective bridegroom at a French home.

EP14 The Alligator Dec 06, 1957

Inside a doll he bought as a birthday gift, Bowie finds a clue to a homicide plot.

EP15 Country Girl Dec 13, 1957

Bowie and his brother's fiancee are duped by swindlers claiming that a relative has been unjustly imprisoned in Mexico.

EP16 Mexican Adventure Dec 20, 1957

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.

EP17 Silk Purse Dec 27, 1957

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.

EP18 Choctaw Honor Jan 03, 1958

When Jim Bowie is robbed, he learns that the man who robbed him is also wanted by an Indian tribe for murder.

EP19 Close Shave Jan 10, 1958

An assassin after Bowie kills an innocent man instead, but that doesn't stop him.

EP20 Pirate on Horseback Jan 17, 1958

Bowie tracks down an outlaw gang when he finds out that one of them is using his name.

EP21 Curfew Cannon Jan 24, 1958

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.

EP22 Home Sweet Home Jan 31, 1958

Bowie learns that foul play may be attempted at a concert arranged by his friend at the newspaper for composer John Howard Payne.

EP23 Deaf Smith Feb 07, 1958

Now in Texas, Bowie encounters famous scout Deaf Smith while on the trail of an outlaw gang.

EP24 Ursula Feb 14, 1958

While negotiating with Mexican government officials to build a cotton mill in Texas, Bowie is attracted to the daughter of one of them.

EP25 Apache Silver Feb 21, 1958

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.

EP26 A Grave for Jim Bowie Feb 28, 1958

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.

EP27 Up the Creek Mar 07, 1958

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.

EP28 The Lion's Cub Mar 14, 1958

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.

EP29 Horse Thief Mar 21, 1958

Bowie almost loses the friendship of the Mexican governor of Texas when an old friend turns out to be a horse thief.

EP30 Jim Bowie, Apache Mar 28, 1958

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.

EP31 The Brothers Apr 04, 1958

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.

EP32 Patron of the Arts Apr 11, 1958

Looking for an investment for his mother, Bowie considers purchasing artwork instead of another plantation.

EP33 Bad Medicine Apr 18, 1958

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.

EP34 A Night in Tennessee Apr 25, 1958

Bowie decides to run for Congress from Louisiana, and meets another frontiersman who did the same thing from Tennessee, Davy Crockett.

EP35 Bowie's Baby May 02, 1958

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.

EP36 The Cave May 09, 1958

Bowie tries to find out what happened to his cousin's bride, who disappeared on her wedding day after being seen with a hypnotist.

EP37 Man of the Streets May 16, 1958

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.

EP38 The Puma May 23, 1958

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.

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Released: 07 September 1956 Ended

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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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