The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Season: 1
Episode: 1
The Birth of the Blade
Air Date:07/09/1956
How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife
Episode: 2
The Squatter
Air Date:14/09/1956
Bowie tries to talk a neighbor out of throwing a couple of penniless German squatters off her land.
Guest Stars
Episode: 3
An Adventure with Audubon
Air Date:21/09/1956
Bowie assists legendary painter/naturalist John James Audubon avoid French forces that are hunting for him.
Episode: 4
Deputy Sheriff
Air Date:28/09/1956
Volunteering as a temporary deputy to guard a prisoner, Bowie comes to believe that the young man may be innocent.
Crew
Guest Stars
Name: Michael Landon
Character: Jerome Juventin
Department: Acting
Name: Celia Lovsky
Character: Mme. Juventin
Department: Acting
Name: Jorie Wyler
Character: Justine Juventin
Department: Acting
Name: Ray Teal
Character: Sheriff Carson Singletary
Department: Acting
Name: Jason Johnson
Character: Nelson
Department: Acting
Episode: 5
Trapline
Air Date:05/10/1956
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.
Guest Stars
Name: John Craven
Character:
Department: Acting
Name: Peter Brocco
Character:
Department: Acting
Name: Booth Colman
Character:
Department: Acting
Name: Ross Elliott
Character:
Department: Acting
Name: Anthony Caruso
Character:
Department: Acting
Name: Lisa Gaye
Character:
Department: Acting
Name: Don C. Harvey
Character:
Department: Acting
Episode: 6
Broomstick Wedding
Air Date:12/10/1956
A trade of horses leads to an angry father mistaking Bowie for his neighbor, the potential object of a shotgun wedding.
Episode: 7
Natchez Trace
Air Date:19/10/1956
A group of travelers ask Bowie for help against a rumored highwayman on the trail to Natchez.
Episode: 8
Jim Bowie Comes Home
Air Date:26/10/1956
On returning from a trip, Bowie finds that the town near his home has been taken over by a gang of young hoodlums.
Guest Stars
Name: Tommy Ivo
Character:
Department: Acting
Name: Peter Hansen
Character: Rezin Bowie
Department: Acting
Name: Kasey Rogers
Character:
Department: Acting
Name: Gary Gray
Character:
Department: Acting
Name: Minerva Urecal
Character: Ma Bowie
Department: Acting
Name: Anthony Caruso
Character:
Department: Acting
Name: Paul Brinegar
Character:
Department: Acting
Episode: 9
The Ghost of Jean Battoo
Air Date:02/11/1956
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.
Episode: 10
The Secessionist
Air Date:09/11/1956
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.
Episode: 11
Land Jumpers
Air Date:16/11/1956
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.
Crew
Guest Stars
Name: Val Dufour
Character: Armand Duprez
Department: Acting
Name: Claude Akins
Character: Manion
Department: Acting
Name: Willard Waterman
Character: Judge Jonas Koford
Department: Acting
Name: Peter Hansen
Character: Rezin Bowie
Department: Acting
Name: Minerva Urecal
Character: Ma Bowie
Department: Acting
Name: Dan White
Character: Settler
Department: Acting
Name: Hal Baylor
Character: Kneeland
Department: Acting
Name: Narda Onyx
Character: Marcella Duprez
Department: Acting
Episode: 12
The Select Females
Air Date:23/11/1956
Bowie encounters the headmistress of a school for young ladies, and she tells him that one of her students has been kidnapped.
Crew
Guest Stars
Episode: 13
Bowie and His Slave
Air Date:30/11/1956
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.
Episode: 14
Outlaw Kingdom
Air Date:07/12/1956
Bowie goes after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.
Crew
Episode: 15
The Swordsman
Air Date:14/12/1956
Bowie runs into trouble when an attractive woman in New Orleans, where he has gone to purchase an estate, turns his head.
Episode: 16
The Return of the Alcibiade
Air Date:21/12/1956
Bowie goes after the thief who stole an expensive Christmas gift he bought for his mother.
Episode: 17
Monsieur Francois
Air Date:28/12/1956
Bowie comes to the aid of a French boy and his aunt, newly arrived in New Orleans, who are the victims of confidence tricksters.
Episode: 18
A Horse for Old Hickory
Air Date:04/01/1957
Bidding for a racehorse to present as a gift to President Jackson, Bowie finds that he is up against Sam Houston.
Episode: 19
The Beggar of New Orleans
Air Date:11/01/1957
Bowie tries to help a former champion fencer who has become a street beggar.
Episode: 20
Osceola
Air Date:18/01/1957
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.
Episode: 21
Master of Arms
Air Date:25/01/1957
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.
Episode: 22
Convoy Gold
Air Date:01/02/1957
Bowie tries to get a gold shipment safely through to New Orleans.
Episode: 23
Spanish Intrigue
Air Date:08/02/1957
Bowie meets Simon Bolivar, who wants to liberate all of Latin American from the yoke of Spanish rule.
Episode: 24
Bayou Tontine
Air Date:15/02/1957
Naturalist Audubon returns to ask Bowie for help in protecting a young girl whose life is in danger after she inherits a fortune.
Episode: 25
German George
Air Date:22/02/1957
Bowie goes after the gambler who cheated and then killed Bowie's friend and partner.
Episode: 26
An Eye for an Eye
Air Date:01/03/1957
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.
Guest Stars
Episode: 27
The Captain's Chimp
Air Date:08/03/1957
Bowie goes after a thief who has trained a chimpanzee to climb up through people's windows.
Episode: 28
Jackson Assassination
Air Date:15/03/1957
Bowie is duped into helping a group that is plotting the President's assassination.
Episode: 29
Rezin Bowie, Gambler
Air Date:22/03/1957
Unaware that it is a setup, Jim's brother wins big and decides to become a professional gambler.
Crew
Episode: 30
Thieves' Market
Air Date:29/03/1957
When Bowie escorts his young French friend to the notorious thieves' marketplace in New Orleans, they are set upon by - thieves.
Episode: 31
The Pearl and the Crown
Air Date:05/04/1957
After a newspaper prints a poem about him, Bowie confronts the editor, who is later found murdered.
Episode: 32
The General's Disgrace
Air Date:12/04/1957
Bowie suspects a connection between recent holdups and the heavy gambling losses of a general's son.
Episode: 33
The Lottery
Air Date:19/04/1957
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.
Episode: 34
The Intruder
Air Date:26/04/1957
Bowie tries to help a young burglar who was caught robbing his friend Francois.
Episode: 35
Country Cousin
Air Date:03/05/1957
Bowie gets into trouble with his relatives when he cuts his visiting cousin in on a deal that turns out to be a hoax.
Episode: 36
The Bound Girl
Air Date:10/05/1957
Bowie resolves to help an indentured servant girl from Ireland, whose unwilling services have been purchased by a mean widower.
Episode: 37
Bounty Hunter
Air Date:17/05/1957
When Bowie and his newspaper friend unwittingly help a fugitive from justice, a bounty hunter pursues them all.
Episode: 38
Gone to Texas
Air Date:24/05/1957
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.
