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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.
Episode 38 : 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.
Episode 37 : 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.
Episode 36 : 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.
Episode 35 : 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.
Episode 34 : A Night in Tennessee
April. 25,1958
Bowie decides to run for Congress from Louisiana, and meets another frontiersman who did the same thing from Tennessee, Davy Crockett.
Episode 33 : Bad Medicine
April. 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.
Episode 32 : Patron of the Arts
April. 11,1958
Looking for an investment for his mother, Bowie considers purchasing artwork instead of another plantation.
Episode 31 : The Brothers
April. 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.
Episode 30 : Jim Bowie, Apache
March. 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.
Episode 29 : Horse Thief
March. 21,1958
Bowie almost loses the friendship of the Mexican governor of Texas when an old friend turns out to be a horse thief.
Episode 28 : The Lion's Cub
March. 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.
Episode 27 : Up the Creek
March. 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.
Episode 26 : A Grave for Jim Bowie
February. 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.
Episode 25 : Apache Silver
February. 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.
Episode 24 : Ursula
February. 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.
Episode 23 : Deaf Smith
February. 07,1958
Now in Texas, Bowie encounters famous scout Deaf Smith while on the trail of an outlaw gang.
Episode 22 : Home Sweet Home
January. 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.
Episode 21 : Curfew Cannon
January. 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.
Episode 20 : Pirate on Horseback
January. 17,1958
Bowie tracks down an outlaw gang when he finds out that one of them is using his name.
Episode 19 : Close Shave
January. 10,1958
An assassin after Bowie kills an innocent man instead, but that doesn't stop him.
Episode 18 : Choctaw Honor
January. 03,1958
When Jim Bowie is robbed, he learns that the man who robbed him is also wanted by an Indian tribe for murder.
Episode 17 : Silk Purse
December. 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.
Episode 16 : Mexican Adventure
December. 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.
Episode 15 : Country Girl
December. 13,1957
Bowie and his brother's fiancee are duped by swindlers claiming that a relative has been unjustly imprisoned in Mexico.
Episode 14 : The Alligator
December. 06,1957
Inside a doll he bought as a birthday gift, Bowie finds a clue to a homicide plot.
Episode 13 : The Bridegroom
November. 29,1957
In order to hide from a waterfront gang, Bowie has to pretend to be a prospective bridegroom at a French home.
Episode 12 : Hare and Tortoise
November. 22,1957
Bowie uncovers a plot to increase the value of some land upriver by moving the state capital there.
Episode 11 : Charivari
November. 15,1957
Bowie becomes suspicious when an elderly man dies abruptly on the night of his wedding.
Episode 10 : Pearls of Talimeco
November. 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.
Episode 9 : The Whip
November. 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.
Episode 8 : House Divided
October. 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.
Episode 7 : A Fortune for Madame
October. 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.
Episode 6 : Quarantine
October. 11,1957
Bowie risks his life to recover a stolen shipment of desperately needed smallpox vaccine.
Episode 5 : Bullet Metal
October. 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.
Episode 4 : Counterfeit Dixie
September. 27,1957
Bowie solicits the help of a former pickpocket and a former horse thief to defeat a gang of counterfeiters.
Episode 3 : The Irishman
September. 20,1957
A indentured servant, whose contract is purchased by Bowie, deludes an innkeeper that he is the master and Bowie the servant.
Episode 2 : Flowers for McDonough
September. 13,1957
Episode 1 : Epitaph for an Indian
September. 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.
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