List of episodes of the series «The Adventures of Jim Bowie»

The Birth of the Blade

• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife

The Squatter

• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie tries to talk a neighbor out of throwing a couple of penniless German squatters off her land.

An Adventure with Audubon

• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie assists legendary painter/naturalist John James Audubon avoid French forces that are hunting for him.

Deputy Sheriff

• Episode number: 4
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Volunteering as a temporary deputy to guard a prisoner, Bowie comes to believe that the young man may be innocent.

Trapline

• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Broomstick Wedding

• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A trade of horses leads to an angry father mistaking Bowie for his neighbor, the potential object of a shotgun wedding.

Natchez Trace

• Episode number: 7
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A group of travelers ask Bowie for help against a rumored highwayman on the trail to Natchez.

Jim Bowie Comes Home

• Episode number: 8
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  On returning from a trip, Bowie finds that the town near his home has been taken over by a gang of young hoodlums.

The Ghost of Jean Battoo

• Episode number: 9
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

The Secessionist

• Episode number: 10
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Land Jumpers

• Episode number: 11
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

The Select Females

• Episode number: 12
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie encounters the headmistress of a school for young ladies, and she tells him that one of her students has been kidnapped.

Bowie and His Slave

• Episode number: 13
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Outlaw Kingdom

• Episode number: 14
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie goes after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.

The Swordsman

• Episode number: 15
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie runs into trouble when an attractive woman in New Orleans, where he has gone to purchase an estate, turns his head.

The Return of the Alcibiade

• Episode number: 16
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie goes after the thief who stole an expensive Christmas gift he bought for his mother.

Monsieur Francois

• Episode number: 17
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie comes to the aid of a French boy and his aunt, newly arrived in New Orleans, who are the victims of confidence tricksters.

A Horse for Old Hickory

• Episode number: 18
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bidding for a racehorse to present as a gift to President Jackson, Bowie finds that he is up against Sam Houston.

The Beggar of New Orleans

• Episode number: 19
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie tries to help a former champion fencer who has become a street beggar.

Osceola

• Episode number: 20
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Master of Arms

• Episode number: 21
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Convoy Gold

• Episode number: 22
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie tries to get a gold shipment safely through to New Orleans.

Spanish Intrigue

• Episode number: 23
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie meets Simon Bolivar, who wants to liberate all of Latin American from the yoke of Spanish rule.

Bayou Tontine

• Episode number: 24
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Naturalist Audubon returns to ask Bowie for help in protecting a young girl whose life is in danger after she inherits a fortune.

German George

• Episode number: 25
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie goes after the gambler who cheated and then killed Bowie's friend and partner.

An Eye for an Eye

• Episode number: 26
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

The Captain's Chimp

• Episode number: 27
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie goes after a thief who has trained a chimpanzee to climb up through people's windows.

Jackson Assassination

• Episode number: 28
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie is duped into helping a group that is plotting the President's assassination.

Rezin Bowie, Gambler

• Episode number: 29
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Unaware that it is a setup, Jim's brother wins big and decides to become a professional gambler.

Thieves' Market

• Episode number: 30
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  When Bowie escorts his young French friend to the notorious thieves' marketplace in New Orleans, they are set upon by - thieves.

The Pearl and the Crown

• Episode number: 31
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  After a newspaper prints a poem about him, Bowie confronts the editor, who is later found murdered.

The General's Disgrace

• Episode number: 32
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie suspects a connection between recent holdups and the heavy gambling losses of a general's son.

The Lottery

• Episode number: 33
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

The Intruder

• Episode number: 34
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie tries to help a young burglar who was caught robbing his friend Francois.

Country Cousin

• Episode number: 35
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie gets into trouble with his relatives when he cuts his visiting cousin in on a deal that turns out to be a hoax.

The Bound Girl

• Episode number: 36
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bowie resolves to help an indentured servant girl from Ireland, whose unwilling services have been purchased by a mean widower.

Bounty Hunter

• Episode number: 37
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  When Bowie and his newspaper friend unwittingly help a fugitive from justice, a bounty hunter pursues them all.

Gone to Texas

• Episode number: 38
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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.