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The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Season 2 1957 - 1958
NR

  • 1957-09-07T00:00:00Z on ABC
  • 30m
  • 19h (38 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Western
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.

38 episodes

Season Premiere

1957-09-07T00:00:00Z

2x01 Epitaph for an Indian

Season Premiere

2x01 Epitaph for an Indian

  • 1957-09-07T00:00:00Z30m

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.

1957-09-14T00:00:00Z

2x02 Flowers for McDonough

2x02 Flowers for McDonough

  • 1957-09-14T00:00:00Z30m

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

1957-09-21T00:00:00Z

2x03 The Irishman

2x03 The Irishman

  • 1957-09-21T00:00:00Z30m

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

1957-09-28T00:00:00Z

2x04 Counterfeit Dixie

2x04 Counterfeit Dixie

  • 1957-09-28T00:00:00Z30m

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

1957-10-05T00:00:00Z

2x05 Bullet Metal

2x05 Bullet Metal

  • 1957-10-05T00:00:00Z30m

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.

1957-10-12T00:00:00Z

2x06 Quarantine

2x06 Quarantine

  • 1957-10-12T00:00:00Z30m

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

1957-10-19T00:00:00Z

2x07 A Fortune for Madame

2x07 A Fortune for Madame

  • 1957-10-19T00:00:00Z30m

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.

1957-10-26T00:00:00Z

2x08 House Divided

2x08 House Divided

  • 1957-10-26T00:00:00Z30m

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

1957-11-02T01:00:00Z

2x09 The Whip

2x09 The Whip

  • 1957-11-02T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1957-11-09T01:00:00Z

2x10 Pearls of Talimeco

2x10 Pearls of Talimeco

  • 1957-11-09T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1957-11-16T01:00:00Z

2x11 Charivari

2x11 Charivari

  • 1957-11-16T01:00:00Z30m

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

1957-11-23T01:00:00Z

2x12 Hare and Tortoise

2x12 Hare and Tortoise

  • 1957-11-23T01:00:00Z30m

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

1957-11-30T01:00:00Z

2x13 The Bridegroom

2x13 The Bridegroom

  • 1957-11-30T01:00:00Z30m

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

1957-12-07T01:00:00Z

2x14 The Alligator

2x14 The Alligator

  • 1957-12-07T01:00:00Z30m

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

1957-12-14T01:00:00Z

2x15 Country Girl

2x15 Country Girl

  • 1957-12-14T01:00:00Z30m

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

1957-12-21T01:00:00Z

2x16 Mexican Adventure

2x16 Mexican Adventure

  • 1957-12-21T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1957-12-28T01:00:00Z

2x17 Silk Purse

2x17 Silk Purse

  • 1957-12-28T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-01-04T01:00:00Z

2x18 Choctaw Honor

2x18 Choctaw Honor

  • 1958-01-04T01:00:00Z30m

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

1958-01-11T01:00:00Z

2x19 Close Shave

2x19 Close Shave

  • 1958-01-11T01:00:00Z30m

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

1958-01-18T01:00:00Z

2x20 Pirate on Horseback

2x20 Pirate on Horseback

  • 1958-01-18T01:00:00Z30m

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

1958-01-25T01:00:00Z

2x21 Curfew Cannon

2x21 Curfew Cannon

  • 1958-01-25T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-02-01T01:00:00Z

2x22 Home Sweet Home

2x22 Home Sweet Home

  • 1958-02-01T01:00:00Z30m

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

1958-02-08T01:00:00Z

2x23 Deaf Smith

2x23 Deaf Smith

  • 1958-02-08T01:00:00Z30m

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

1958-02-15T01:00:00Z

2x24 Ursula

2x24 Ursula

  • 1958-02-15T01:00:00Z30m

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

1958-02-22T01:00:00Z

2x25 Apache Silver

2x25 Apache Silver

  • 1958-02-22T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-03-01T01:00:00Z

2x26 A Grave for Jim Bowie

2x26 A Grave for Jim Bowie

  • 1958-03-01T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-03-08T01:00:00Z

2x27 Up the Creek

2x27 Up the Creek

  • 1958-03-08T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-03-15T01:00:00Z

2x28 The Lion's Cub

2x28 The Lion's Cub

  • 1958-03-15T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-03-22T01:00:00Z

2x29 Horse Thief

2x29 Horse Thief

  • 1958-03-22T01:00:00Z30m

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

1958-03-29T01:00:00Z

2x30 Jim Bowie, Apache

2x30 Jim Bowie, Apache

  • 1958-03-29T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-04-05T01:00:00Z

2x31 The Brothers

2x31 The Brothers

  • 1958-04-05T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-04-12T01:00:00Z

2x32 Patron of the Arts

2x32 Patron of the Arts

  • 1958-04-12T01:00:00Z30m

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

1958-04-19T01:00:00Z

2x33 Bad Medicine

2x33 Bad Medicine

  • 1958-04-19T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-04-26T01:00:00Z

2x34 A Night in Tennessee

2x34 A Night in Tennessee

  • 1958-04-26T01:00:00Z30m

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

1958-05-03T00:00:00Z

2x35 Bowie's Baby

2x35 Bowie's Baby

  • 1958-05-03T00:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-05-10T00:00:00Z

2x36 The Cave

2x36 The Cave

  • 1958-05-10T00:00:00Z30m

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

1958-05-17T00:00:00Z

2x37 Man of the Streets

2x37 Man of the Streets

  • 1958-05-17T00:00:00Z30m

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.

Season Finale

1958-05-24T00:00:00Z

2x38 The Puma

Season Finale

2x38 The Puma

  • 1958-05-24T00:00:00Z30m

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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