

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.

Sep 7, 1956 - 30m
How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife

Sep 14, 1956 - 30m
Bowie tries to talk a neighbor out of throwing a couple of penniless German squatters off her land.

Sep 21, 1956 - 30m
Bowie assists legendary painter/naturalist John James Audubon avoid French forces that are hunting for him.

Sep 28, 1956 - 30m
Volunteering as a temporary deputy to guard a prisoner, Bowie comes to believe that the young man may be innocent.

Oct 5, 1956 - 30m
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.

Oct 12, 1956 - 30m
A trade of horses leads to an angry father mistaking Bowie for his neighbor, the potential object of a shotgun wedding.

Oct 19, 1956 - 30m
A group of travelers ask Bowie for help against a rumored highwayman on the trail to Natchez.

Oct 26, 1956 - 30m
On returning from a trip, Bowie finds that the town near his home has been taken over by a gang of young hoodlums.

Nov 2, 1956 - 30m
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.

Nov 9, 1956 - 30m
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.

Nov 16, 1956 - 30m
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.

Nov 23, 1956 - 30m
Bowie encounters the headmistress of a school for young ladies, and she tells him that one of her students has been kidnapped.

Nov 30, 1956 - 30m
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.

Dec 7, 1956 - 30m
Bowie goes after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.

Dec 14, 1956 - 30m
Bowie runs into trouble when an attractive woman in New Orleans, where he has gone to purchase an estate, turns his head.

Dec 21, 1956 - 30m
Bowie goes after the thief who stole an expensive Christmas gift he bought for his mother.

Dec 28, 1956 - 30m
Bowie comes to the aid of a French boy and his aunt, newly arrived in New Orleans, who are the victims of confidence tricksters.

Jan 4, 1957 - 30m
Bidding for a racehorse to present as a gift to President Jackson, Bowie finds that he is up against Sam Houston.

Jan 11, 1957 - 30m
Bowie tries to help a former champion fencer who has become a street beggar.

Jan 18, 1957 - 30m
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.

Jan 25, 1957 - 30m
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.

Feb 1, 1957 - 30m
Bowie tries to get a gold shipment safely through to New Orleans.

Feb 8, 1957 - 30m
Bowie meets Simon Bolivar, who wants to liberate all of Latin American from the yoke of Spanish rule.

Feb 15, 1957 - 30m
Naturalist Audubon returns to ask Bowie for help in protecting a young girl whose life is in danger after she inherits a fortune.

Feb 22, 1957 - 30m
Bowie goes after the gambler who cheated and then killed Bowie's friend and partner.

Mar 1, 1957 - 30m
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.

Mar 8, 1957 - 30m
Bowie goes after a thief who has trained a chimpanzee to climb up through people's windows.

Mar 15, 1957 - 30m
Bowie is duped into helping a group that is plotting the President's assassination.

Mar 22, 1957 - 30m
Unaware that it is a setup, Jim's brother wins big and decides to become a professional gambler.

Mar 29, 1957 - 30m
When Bowie escorts his young French friend to the notorious thieves' marketplace in New Orleans, they are set upon by - thieves.

Apr 5, 1957 - 30m
After a newspaper prints a poem about him, Bowie confronts the editor, who is later found murdered.

Apr 12, 1957 - 30m
Bowie suspects a connection between recent holdups and the heavy gambling losses of a general's son.

Apr 19, 1957 - 30m
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.

Apr 26, 1957 - 30m
Bowie tries to help a young burglar who was caught robbing his friend Francois.

May 3, 1957 - 30m
Bowie gets into trouble with his relatives when he cuts his visiting cousin in on a deal that turns out to be a hoax.

May 10, 1957 - 30m
Bowie resolves to help an indentured servant girl from Ireland, whose unwilling services have been purchased by a mean widower.

May 17, 1957 - 30m
When Bowie and his newspaper friend unwittingly help a fugitive from justice, a bounty hunter pursues them all.

May 24, 1957 - 30m
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.