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Episodes

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    1. Epitaph for an Indian

    1957-09-06 · 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.

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    2. Flowers for McDonough

    1957-09-13 · 30m

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

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    3. The Irishman

    1957-09-20 · 30m

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

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    4. Counterfeit Dixie

    1957-09-27 · 30m

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

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    5. Bullet Metal

    1957-10-04 · 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.

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    6. Quarantine

    1957-10-11 · 30m

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

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    7. A Fortune for Madame

    1957-10-18 · 30m

    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.

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    8. House Divided

    1957-10-25 · 30m

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

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    9. The Whip

    1957-11-01 · 30m

    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.

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    10. Pearls of Talimeco

    1957-11-08 · 30m

    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.

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    11. Charivari

    1957-11-15 · 30m

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

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    12. Hare and Tortoise

    1957-11-22 · 30m

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

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    13. The Bridegroom

    1957-11-29 · 30m

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

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    14. The Alligator

    1957-12-06 · 30m

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

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    15. Country Girl

    1957-12-13 · 30m

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

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    16. Mexican Adventure

    1957-12-20 · 30m

    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.

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    17. Silk Purse

    10.0

    1957-12-27 · 30m

    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.

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    18. Choctaw Honor

    1958-01-03 · 30m

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

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    19. Close Shave

    8.0

    1958-01-10 · 30m

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

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    20. Pirate on Horseback

    10.0

    1958-01-17 · 30m

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

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    21. Curfew Cannon

    1958-01-24 · 30m

    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.

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    22. Home Sweet Home

    7.0

    1958-01-31 · 30m

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

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    23. Deaf Smith

    8.0

    1958-02-07 · 30m

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

  • 24. Ursula

    1958-02-14 · 30m

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

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    25. Apache Silver

    8.0

    1958-02-21 · 30m

    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.

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    26. A Grave for Jim Bowie

    1958-02-28 · 30m

    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.

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    27. Up the Creek

    7.0

    1958-03-07 · 30m

    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.

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    28. The Lion's Cub

    1958-03-14 · 30m

    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.

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    29. Horse Thief

    8.0

    1958-03-21 · 30m

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

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    30. Jim Bowie, Apache

    1958-03-28 · 30m

    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.

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    31. The Brothers

    1958-04-04 · 30m

    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.

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    32. Patron of the Arts

    8.0

    1958-04-11 · 30m

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

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    33. Bad Medicine

    8.0

    1958-04-18 · 30m

    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.

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    34. A Night in Tennessee

    1958-04-25 · 30m

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

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    35. Bowie's Baby

    1958-05-02 · 30m

    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.

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    36. The Cave

    8.0

    1958-05-09 · 30m

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

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    37. Man of the Streets

    9.0

    1958-05-16 · 30m

    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.

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    38. The Puma

    1958-05-23 · 30m

    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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Cast

  • Scott Forbes

    Scott Forbes

    Jim Bowie

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