The Adventures of Jim Bowie (series)
- User score: 3.7
- Production country: United States of America
- Genre: Western
- Release date: 9/7/1956
- Release date of last episode: 5/23/1958
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 2 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 76
- Run time: 30 min.
Series description
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.
