All Episodes of The Adventures of Jim Bowie
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Season 1
6.4/1051 votesThe Birth of the Blade
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1956
How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.6/1038 votes
The Squatter
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1956
Bowie tries to talk a neighbor out of throwing a couple of penniless German squatters off her land.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.1/1034 votes
An Adventure with Audubon
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1956
Bowie assists legendary painter/naturalist John James Audubon avoid French forces that are hunting for him.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 8.1/1037 votes
Deputy Sheriff
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1956
Volunteering as a temporary deputy to guard a prisoner, Bowie comes to believe that the young man may be innocent.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Tom Reed, William H. Wright
- 7.3/1028 votes
Trapline
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1956
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.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/1028 votes
Broomstick Wedding
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1956
A trade of horses leads to an angry father mistaking Bowie for his neighbor, the potential object of a shotgun wedding.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.5/1030 votes
Natchez Trace
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1956
A group of travelers ask Bowie for help against a rumored highwayman on the trail to Natchez.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.3/1028 votes
Jim Bowie Comes Home
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/1956
On returning from a trip, Bowie finds that the town near his home has been taken over by a gang of young hoodlums.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1028 votes
The Ghost of Jean Battoo
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1956
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.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/1026 votes
The Secessionist
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/1956
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.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/1028 votes
Land Jumpers
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/1956
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.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Tom Reed
- 6.8/1029 votes
The Select Females
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/23/1956
Bowie encounters the headmistress of a school for young ladies, and she tells him that one of her students has been kidnapped.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.5/1024 votes
Bowie and His Slave
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/30/1956
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.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/1021 votes
Outlaw Kingdom
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/7/1956
Bowie goes after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Tom Reed
- 6.8/1024 votes
The Swordsman
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/14/1956
Bowie runs into trouble when an attractive woman in New Orleans, where he has gone to purchase an estate, turns his head.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 6.5/1025 votes
The Return of the Alcibiade
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/21/1956
Bowie goes after the thief who stole an expensive Christmas gift he bought for his mother.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.3/1025 votes
Monsieur Francois
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/28/1956
Bowie comes to the aid of a French boy and his aunt, newly arrived in New Orleans, who are the victims of confidence tricksters.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.1/1017 votes
A Horse for Old Hickory
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/4/1957
Bidding for a racehorse to present as a gift to President Jackson, Bowie finds that he is up against Sam Houston.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.5/1018 votes
The Beggar of New Orleans
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/11/1957
Bowie tries to help a former champion fencer who has become a street beggar.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.1/1022 votes
Osceola
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/18/1957
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.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 7.7/1018 votes
Master of Arms
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1/25/1957
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.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 7.1/1018 votes
Convoy Gold
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/1/1957
Bowie tries to get a gold shipment safely through to New Orleans.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1018 votes
Spanish Intrigue
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/8/1957
Bowie meets Simon Bolivar, who wants to liberate all of Latin American from the yoke of Spanish rule.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: Unknown
- 6.4/1020 votes
Bayou Tontine
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/15/1957
Naturalist Audubon returns to ask Bowie for help in protecting a young girl whose life is in danger after she inherits a fortune.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 6.0/1018 votes
German George
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 2/22/1957
Bowie goes after the gambler who cheated and then killed Bowie's friend and partner.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 7.3/1020 votes
An Eye for an Eye
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/1/1957
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.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1018 votes
The Captain's Chimp
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/8/1957
Bowie goes after a thief who has trained a chimpanzee to climb up through people's windows.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/1025 votes
Jackson Assassination
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 3/15/1957
Bowie is duped into helping a group that is plotting the President's assassination.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1019 votes
Rezin Bowie, Gambler
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 3/22/1957
Unaware that it is a setup, Jim's brother wins big and decides to become a professional gambler.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Tom Reed
- 7.2/1018 votes
Thieves' Market
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 3/29/1957
When Bowie escorts his young French friend to the notorious thieves' marketplace in New Orleans, they are set upon by - thieves.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 7.5/1020 votes
The Pearl and the Crown
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/5/1957
After a newspaper prints a poem about him, Bowie confronts the editor, who is later found murdered.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Unknown
7.1/1019 votesThe General's Disgrace
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 4/12/1957
Bowie suspects a connection between recent holdups and the heavy gambling losses of a general's son.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 6.6/1017 votes
The Lottery
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 4/19/1957
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.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1020 votes
The Intruder
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 4/26/1957
Bowie tries to help a young burglar who was caught robbing his friend Francois.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 6.6/1017 votes
Country Cousin
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/3/1957
Bowie gets into trouble with his relatives when he cuts his visiting cousin in on a deal that turns out to be a hoax.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/1018 votes
The Bound Girl
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 5/10/1957
Bowie resolves to help an indentured servant girl from Ireland, whose unwilling services have been purchased by a mean widower.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Unknown
- 6.5/1019 votes
Bounty Hunter
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 5/17/1957
When Bowie and his newspaper friend unwittingly help a fugitive from justice, a bounty hunter pursues them all.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/1022 votes
Gone to Texas
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 5/24/1957
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.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Unknown