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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...
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Season 1

  • The Birth of the Blade
    6.4/1046 votes

    The 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

  • The Squatter
    7.4/1032 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

  • An Adventure with Audubon
    7.1/1028 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

  • Deputy Sheriff
    7.7/1029 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

  • Trapline
    7.0/1022 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

  • Broomstick Wedding
    6.9/1024 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

  • Natchez Trace
    7.4/1023 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

  • Jim Bowie Comes Home
    7.0/1022 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

  • The Ghost of Jean Battoo
    6.3/1020 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

  • The Secessionist
    6.8/1018 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

  • Land Jumpers
    6.9/1022 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

  • The Select Females
    6.7/1023 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

  • Bowie and His Slave
    7.2/1019 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

  • Outlaw Kingdom
    6.5/1017 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

  • The Swordsman
    6.7/1019 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

  • The Return of the Alcibiade
    6.6/1018 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

  • Monsieur Francois
    6.9/1019 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

  • A Horse for Old Hickory
    6.6/1013 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

  • The Beggar of New Orleans
    7.1/1014 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

  • Osceola
    6.4/1017 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

  • Master of Arms
    7.3/1014 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

  • Convoy Gold
    6.6/1014 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

  • Spanish Intrigue
    6.1/1014 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

  • Bayou Tontine
    6.1/1016 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

  • German George
    5.7/1014 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

  • An Eye for an Eye
    6.9/1016 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

  • The Captain's Chimp
    6.2/1013 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

  • Jackson Assassination
    6.4/1020 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

  • Rezin Bowie, Gambler
    6.5/1015 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

  • Thieves' Market
    6.8/1013 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

  • The Pearl and the Crown
    6.8/1015 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

  • The General's Disgrace
    6.7/1015 votes

    The 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

  • The Lottery
    6.2/1013 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

  • The Intruder
    5.9/1015 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

  • Country Cousin
    6.2/1014 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

  • The Bound Girl
    6.7/1015 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

  • Bounty Hunter
    6.3/1016 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

  • Gone to Texas
    6.5/1018 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