Scott Forbes
Jim Bowie
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The Adventures of Jim Bowie.
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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Season 1.
01The Birth of the Blade
How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife
02The Squatter
Bowie tries to talk a neighbor out of throwing a couple of penniless German squatters off her land.
03An Adventure with Audubon
Bowie assists legendary painter/naturalist John James Audubon avoid French forces that are hunting for him.
04Deputy Sheriff
Volunteering as a temporary deputy to guard a prisoner, Bowie comes to believe that the young man may be innocent.
05Trapline
A fur company is apparently trying to keep the Cajun fur trappers in line by killing anyone who trades with an independent dealer - like Jim Bowie.
06Broomstick Wedding
A trade of horses leads to an angry father mistaking Bowie for his neighbor, the potential object of a shotgun wedding.
07Natchez Trace
A group of travelers ask Bowie for help against a rumored highwayman on the trail to Natchez.
08Jim Bowie Comes Home
On returning from a trip, Bowie finds that the town near his home has been taken over by a gang of young hoodlums.
09The Ghost of Jean Battoo
Bowie encounters a group of farmers who are being duped into paying protection money to an old woman against the ghost of a famous Louisiana pirate.
10The Secessionist
Bowie finds that a friend of his has been asked by President Andrew Jackson to try to talk a group of French planters out of seceding from the Union.
11Land Jumpers
Just when Jim and his brother try to sell a large tract of land, a Frenchman shows up claiming to have the proper title to the property, which is verified by a local judge.
12The Select Females
Bowie encounters the headmistress of a school for young ladies, and she tells him that one of her students has been kidnapped.
13Bowie and His Slave
Bowie comes to the aid of a former slave who he had freed, but who has been captured and is being sold again at a slave auction.
14Outlaw Kingdom
Bowie goes after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.
15The Swordsman
Bowie runs into trouble when an attractive woman in New Orleans, where he has gone to purchase an estate, turns his head.
16The Return of the Alcibiade
Bowie goes after the thief who stole an expensive Christmas gift he bought for his mother.
17Monsieur Francois
Bowie comes to the aid of a French boy and his aunt, newly arrived in New Orleans, who are the victims of confidence tricksters.
18A Horse for Old Hickory
Bidding for a racehorse to present as a gift to President Jackson, Bowie finds that he is up against Sam Houston.
19The Beggar of New Orleans
Bowie tries to help a former champion fencer who has become a street beggar.
20Osceola
Bowie comes to the aid of the native Seminoles, whom the army is trying to move from their traditional home to a tract of less desirable land.
21Master of Arms
An expert French swordsman sells Bowie a lottery ticket, but then after Bowie wins he decides that the winings should belong to him and comes after Bowie.
22Convoy Gold
Bowie tries to get a gold shipment safely through to New Orleans.
23Spanish Intrigue
Bowie meets Simon Bolivar, who wants to liberate all of Latin American from the yoke of Spanish rule.
24Bayou Tontine
Naturalist Audubon returns to ask Bowie for help in protecting a young girl whose life is in danger after she inherits a fortune.
25German George
Bowie goes after the gambler who cheated and then killed Bowie's friend and partner.
26An Eye for an Eye
Trying to stop an Indian uprising, Bowie only gets into more trouble after telling a native Cherokee princess the story of John Smith and Pocahontas.
27The Captain's Chimp
Bowie goes after a thief who has trained a chimpanzee to climb up through people's windows.
28Jackson Assassination
Bowie is duped into helping a group that is plotting the President's assassination.
29Rezin Bowie, Gambler
Unaware that it is a setup, Jim's brother wins big and decides to become a professional gambler.
30Thieves' Market
When Bowie escorts his young French friend to the notorious thieves' marketplace in New Orleans, they are set upon by - thieves.
31The Pearl and the Crown
After a newspaper prints a poem about him, Bowie confronts the editor, who is later found murdered.
32The General's Disgrace
Bowie suspects a connection between recent holdups and the heavy gambling losses of a general's son.
33The Lottery
Bowie organizes a lottery to help an orphanage, unaware that the men he has hired plan to fix the drawing so that they will collect the winnings.
34The Intruder
Bowie tries to help a young burglar who was caught robbing his friend Francois.
35Country Cousin
Bowie gets into trouble with his relatives when he cuts his visiting cousin in on a deal that turns out to be a hoax.
36The Bound Girl
Bowie resolves to help an indentured servant girl from Ireland, whose unwilling services have been purchased by a mean widower.
37Bounty Hunter
When Bowie and his newspaper friend unwittingly help a fugitive from justice, a bounty hunter pursues them all.
38Gone to Texas
As if his passport difficulties weren't enough, when Bowie crosses the border into Texas he finds out that someone is trying to kill him.
Cast.
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