The Adventures of Jim Bowie

1956 – 1958
Ended
Western
~30m / ep
2 seasons
5.3/10

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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E1. Epitaph for an Indian
Sep 6, 1957 · 30m
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.
E2. Flowers for McDonough
Sep 13, 1957 · 30m
A wily Scotsman gets the better of Bowie on an important real estate deal.
E3. The Irishman
Sep 20, 1957 · 30m
A indentured servant, whose contract is purchased by Bowie, deludes an innkeeper that he is the master and Bowie the servant.
E4. Counterfeit Dixie
Sep 27, 1957 · 30m
Bowie solicits the help of a former pickpocket and a former horse thief to defeat a gang of counterfeiters.
E5. Bullet Metal
Oct 4, 1957 · 30m
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.
E6. Quarantine
Oct 11, 1957 · 30m
Bowie risks his life to recover a stolen shipment of desperately needed smallpox vaccine.