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The Best Episodes of The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2

Every episode of The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2!

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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 Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 20 - Pirate on Horseback
    7.8/10(19 votes)

    S2:E20

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

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 10 - Pearls of Talimeco
    7.7/10(21 votes)

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 28 - The Lion's Cub
    7.6/10(10 votes)

    S2:E28

    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.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 15 - Country Girl
    7.5/10(20 votes)

    S2:E15

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

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 26 - A Grave for Jim Bowie
    7.5/10(19 votes)

    S2:E26

    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.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 11 - Charivari
    7.3/10(17 votes)

    S2:E11

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

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 27 - Up the Creek
    7.3/10(20 votes)

    S2:E27

    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.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 4 - Counterfeit Dixie
    7.2/10(18 votes)

    S2:E4

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

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 16 - Mexican Adventure
    7.1/10(18 votes)

    S2:E16

    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.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 19 - Close Shave
    7.1/10(20 votes)

    S2:E19

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

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 35 - Bowie's Baby
    7.1/10(17 votes)

    S2:E35

    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.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 37 - Man of the Streets
    7.1/10(20 votes)

    S2:E37

    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.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 3 - The Irishman
    7.0/10(18 votes)

    S2:E3

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

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 29 - Horse Thief
    7.0/10(20 votes)

    S2:E29

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

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 6 - Quarantine
    6.9/10(17 votes)

    S2:E6

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

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 18 - Choctaw Honor
    6.9/10(22 votes)

    S2:E18

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

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 25 - Apache Silver
    6.9/10(17 votes)

    S2:E25

    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.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 34 - A Night in Tennessee
    6.9/10(21 votes)

    S2:E34

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

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 2 - Flowers for McDonough
    6.8/10(15 votes)

    S2:E2

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

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 5 - Bullet Metal
    6.8/10(15 votes)

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 1 - Epitaph for an Indian
    6.7/10(16 votes)

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 13 - The Bridegroom
    6.7/10(17 votes)

    S2:E13

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

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 14 - The Alligator
    6.7/10(18 votes)

    S2:E14

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

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 23 - Deaf Smith
    6.7/10(18 votes)

    S2:E23

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

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 2 Episode 8 - House Divided
    6.6/10(17 votes)

    S2:E8

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

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Pirate on Horseback" is the best rated episode of "The Adventures of Jim Bowie" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by George Archainbaud and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/17/1958. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Pearls of Talimeco".