Scott Forbes
The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956)
Season 2
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.
Released Sept. 8, 1956
Episode 30 min
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Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western
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Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - 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.
Sept. 6, 1957, midnight
S2E2 - Flowers for McDonough
A wily Scotsman gets the better of Bowie on an important real estate deal.
Sept. 13, 1957, midnight
S2E3 - The Irishman
A indentured servant, whose contract is purchased by Bowie, deludes an innkeeper that he is the master and Bowie the servant.
Sept. 20, 1957, midnight
S2E4 - Counterfeit Dixie
Bowie solicits the help of a former pickpocket and a former horse thief to defeat a gang of counterfeiters.
Sept. 27, 1957, midnight
S2E5 - 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.
Oct. 4, 1957, midnight
S2E6 - Quarantine
Bowie risks his life to recover a stolen shipment of desperately needed smallpox vaccine.
Oct. 11, 1957, midnight
S2E7 - 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.
Oct. 18, 1957, midnight
S2E8 - 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.
Oct. 25, 1957, midnight
S2E9 - 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.
Nov. 1, 1957, midnight
S2E10 - 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.
Nov. 8, 1957, midnight
S2E11 - Charivari
Bowie becomes suspicious when an elderly man dies abruptly on the night of his wedding.
Nov. 15, 1957, midnight
S2E12 - Hare and Tortoise
Bowie uncovers a plot to increase the value of some land upriver by moving the state capital there.
Nov. 22, 1957, midnight
S2E13 - The Bridegroom
In order to hide from a waterfront gang, Bowie has to pretend to be a prospective bridegroom at a French home.
Nov. 29, 1957, midnight
S2E14 - The Alligator
Inside a doll he bought as a birthday gift, Bowie finds a clue to a homicide plot.
Dec. 6, 1957, midnight
S2E15 - Country Girl
Bowie and his brother's fiancee are duped by swindlers claiming that a relative has been unjustly imprisoned in Mexico.
Dec. 13, 1957, midnight
S2E16 - 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.
Dec. 20, 1957, midnight
S2E17 - 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.
Dec. 27, 1957, midnight
S2E18 - Choctaw Honor
When Jim Bowie is robbed, he learns that the man who robbed him is also wanted by an Indian tribe for murder.
Jan. 3, 1958, midnight
S2E19 - Close Shave
An assassin after Bowie kills an innocent man instead, but that doesn't stop him.
Jan. 10, 1958, midnight
S2E20 - Pirate on Horseback
Bowie tracks down an outlaw gang when he finds out that one of them is using his name.
Jan. 17, 1958, midnight
S2E21 - 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.
Jan. 24, 1958, midnight
S2E22 - 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.
Jan. 31, 1958, midnight
S2E23 - Deaf Smith
Now in Texas, Bowie encounters famous scout Deaf Smith while on the trail of an outlaw gang.
Feb. 7, 1958, midnight
S2E24 - Ursula
While negotiating with Mexican government officials to build a cotton mill in Texas, Bowie is attracted to the daughter of one of them.
Feb. 14, 1958, midnight
S2E25 - 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.
Feb. 21, 1958, midnight
S2E26 - 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.
Feb. 28, 1958, midnight
S2E27 - 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.
March 7, 1958, midnight
S2E28 - 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.
March 14, 1958, midnight
S2E29 - Horse Thief
Bowie almost loses the friendship of the Mexican governor of Texas when an old friend turns out to be a horse thief.
March 21, 1958, midnight
S2E30 - 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.
March 28, 1958, midnight
S2E31 - 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.
April 4, 1958, midnight
S2E32 - Patron of the Arts
Looking for an investment for his mother, Bowie considers purchasing artwork instead of another plantation.
April 11, 1958, midnight
S2E33 - 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.
April 18, 1958, midnight
S2E34 - 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.
April 25, 1958, midnight
S2E35 - 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.
May 2, 1958, midnight
S2E36 - 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.
May 9, 1958, midnight
S2E37 - 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.
May 16, 1958, midnight
S2E38 - 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.
May 23, 1958, midnight
ABC
30 min/ep
30 min
Sept. 8, 1956
May 23, 1958, midnight
Ended
NR
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