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Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 76
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Networks: ABC
Status: Ended
First Air Date: Sep 7, 1956
Recent Air Date: May 23, 1958
Run Time: m
In Production: No
Original Language: English
Age Rating: NR
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Episodes
Episode 1
06 September 1957 - Epitaph 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.
Episode 2
13 September 1957 - Flowers for McDonough
A wily Scotsman gets the better of Bowie on an important real estate deal.
Episode 3
20 September 1957 - The Irishman
A indentured servant, whose contract is purchased by Bowie, deludes an innkeeper that he is the master and Bowie the servant.
Episode 4
27 September 1957 - Counterfeit Dixie
Bowie solicits the help of a former pickpocket and a former horse thief to defeat a gang of counterfeiters.
Episode 5
04 October 1957 - Bullet 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.
Episode 6
11 October 1957 - Quarantine
Bowie risks his life to recover a stolen shipment of desperately needed smallpox vaccine.
Episode 7
18 October 1957 - A 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.
Episode 8
25 October 1957 - House 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.
Episode 9
01 November 1957 - The 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.
Episode 10
08 November 1957 - Pearls 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.
Episode 11
15 November 1957 - Charivari
Bowie becomes suspicious when an elderly man dies abruptly on the night of his wedding.
Episode 12
22 November 1957 - Hare and Tortoise
Bowie uncovers a plot to increase the value of some land upriver by moving the state capital there.
Episode 13
29 November 1957 - The Bridegroom
In order to hide from a waterfront gang, Bowie has to pretend to be a prospective bridegroom at a French home.
Episode 14
06 December 1957 - The Alligator
Inside a doll he bought as a birthday gift, Bowie finds a clue to a homicide plot.
Episode 15
13 December 1957 - Country Girl
Bowie and his brother's fiancee are duped by swindlers claiming that a relative has been unjustly imprisoned in Mexico.
Episode 16
20 December 1957 - Mexican 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.
Episode 17
27 December 1957 - Silk 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.
Episode 18
03 January 1958 - Choctaw Honor
When Jim Bowie is robbed, he learns that the man who robbed him is also wanted by an Indian tribe for murder.
Episode 19
10 January 1958 - Close Shave
An assassin after Bowie kills an innocent man instead, but that doesn't stop him.
Episode 20
17 January 1958 - Pirate on Horseback
Bowie tracks down an outlaw gang when he finds out that one of them is using his name.
Episode 21
24 January 1958 - Curfew 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.
Episode 22
31 January 1958 - Home 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.
Episode 23
07 February 1958 - Deaf Smith
Now in Texas, Bowie encounters famous scout Deaf Smith while on the trail of an outlaw gang.
Episode 24
14 February 1958 - Ursula
While negotiating with Mexican government officials to build a cotton mill in Texas, Bowie is attracted to the daughter of one of them.
Episode 25
21 February 1958 - Apache 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.
Episode 26
28 February 1958 - A 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.
Episode 27
07 March 1958 - Up 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.
Episode 28
14 March 1958 - The 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.
Episode 29
21 March 1958 - Horse Thief
Bowie almost loses the friendship of the Mexican governor of Texas when an old friend turns out to be a horse thief.
Episode 30
28 March 1958 - Jim 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.
Episode 31
04 April 1958 - The 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.
Episode 32
11 April 1958 - Patron of the Arts
Looking for an investment for his mother, Bowie considers purchasing artwork instead of another plantation.
Episode 33
18 April 1958 - Bad 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.
Episode 34
25 April 1958 - A Night in Tennessee
Bowie decides to run for Congress from Louisiana, and meets another frontiersman who did the same thing from Tennessee, Davy Crockett.
Episode 35
02 May 1958 - Bowie'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.
Episode 36
09 May 1958 - The 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.
Episode 37
16 May 1958 - Man 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.
Episode 38
23 May 1958 - The 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.
Crew
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Production | Producer |
Louis F. Edelman
Lewis R. Foster
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