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The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956 - 1958 4.5 (4 votes) 2 Seasons
Genres
Western
Networks
ABC

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1956)

No overview available.

38 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Birth of the Blade
1956-09-07

How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: The Squatter
1956-09-14

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: An Adventure with Audubon
1956-09-21

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Deputy Sheriff
1956-09-28

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Trapline
1956-10-05

A fur company is apparently trying to keep the Cajun fur trappers in line by killing anyone who trades with an independent dealer - like Jim Bowie.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Broomstick Wedding
1956-10-12

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Natchez Trace
1956-10-19

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Jim Bowie Comes Home
1956-10-26

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: The Ghost of Jean Battoo
1956-11-02

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Secessionist
1956-11-09

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Land Jumpers
1956-11-16

Just when Jim and his brother try to sell a large tract of land, a Frenchman shows up claiming to have the proper title to the property, which is verified by a local judge.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: The Select Females
1956-11-23

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Bowie and His Slave
1956-11-30

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 slave auction.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Outlaw Kingdom
1956-12-07

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: The Swordsman
1956-12-14

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: The Return of the Alcibiade
1956-12-21

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Monsieur Francois
1956-12-28

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: A Horse for Old Hickory
1957-01-04

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: The Beggar of New Orleans
1957-01-11

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Osceola
1957-01-18

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Master of Arms
1957-01-25

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: Convoy Gold
1957-02-01

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Spanish Intrigue
1957-02-08

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: Bayou Tontine
1957-02-15

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: German George
1957-02-22

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: An Eye for an Eye
1957-03-01

Trying to stop an Indian uprising, Bowie only gets into more trouble after telling a native Cherokee princess the story of John Smith and Pocahontas.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: The Captain's Chimp
1957-03-08

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: Jackson Assassination
1957-03-15

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: Rezin Bowie, Gambler
1957-03-22

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: Thieves' Market
1957-03-29

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: The Pearl and the Crown
1957-04-05

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 32: The General's Disgrace
1957-04-12

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 33: The Lottery
1957-04-19

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 34: The Intruder
1957-04-26

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 35: Country Cousin
1957-05-03

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 36: The Bound Girl
1957-05-10

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 37: Bounty Hunter
1957-05-17

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 38: Gone to Texas
1957-05-24

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

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1957)

No overview available.

38 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Epitaph for an Indian
1957-09-06

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Flowers for McDonough
1957-09-13

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: The Irishman
1957-09-20

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Counterfeit Dixie
1957-09-27

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Bullet Metal
1957-10-04

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Quarantine
1957-10-11

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: A Fortune for Madame
1957-10-18

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: House Divided
1957-10-25

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: The Whip
1957-11-01

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Pearls of Talimeco
1957-11-08

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Charivari
1957-11-15

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Hare and Tortoise
1957-11-22

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: The Bridegroom
1957-11-29

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: The Alligator
1957-12-06

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Country Girl
1957-12-13

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Mexican Adventure
1957-12-20

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Silk Purse
1957-12-27

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Choctaw Honor
1958-01-03

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Close Shave
1958-01-10

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Pirate on Horseback
1958-01-17

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Curfew Cannon
1958-01-24

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: Home Sweet Home
1958-01-31

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Deaf Smith
1958-02-07

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: Ursula
1958-02-14

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: Apache Silver
1958-02-21

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: A Grave for Jim Bowie
1958-02-28

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: Up the Creek
1958-03-07

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: The Lion's Cub
1958-03-14

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: Horse Thief
1958-03-21

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: Jim Bowie, Apache
1958-03-28

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: The Brothers
1958-04-04

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 32: Patron of the Arts
1958-04-11

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 33: Bad Medicine
1958-04-18

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 34: A Night in Tennessee
1958-04-25

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 35: Bowie's Baby
1958-05-02

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 36: The Cave
1958-05-09

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 37: Man of the Streets
1958-05-16

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 38: The Puma
1958-05-23

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.

Runtime: 30 min

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