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The Adventures of Jim Bowie

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Western
PG-13
2 Seasons
21m
Set in the Louisiana Territory around 1830, wealthy planter Jim Bowie encounters many famous people in New Orleans, or the backwoods, relying on the knife he supposedly invented for protection.

Season 1, 38 Episodes

S1 E1
The Birth of the Blade,
Jim Bowie encounters a bear and must flee for his life, the event which inspired the first Bowie knife to be made.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E2
The Squatter,
Jim Bowie gives an arrogant Southern belle a lesson in manners and wins her sympathy for an impoverished immigrant family.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E3
The Adventure with Audubon,
Jim Bowie intervenes when the French elements attempt to identify John James Audubon as their missing Dauphin — but he prefers American citizenship. Audubon was world-famous as a painter of birds.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E4
Deputy Sheriff,
Jim Bowie accepts an appointment as a deputy to protect a prisoner from mob violence, who, being son of a French society at odds with Americans, is falsely accused of a crime committed by his father.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E5
Trapline,
Jim Bowie smashes a fur monopoly and makes open bidding available for Louisiana trappers.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E6
Broomstick Wedding,
A colorful old Louisiana custom almost makes Bowie an involuntary bridegroom when he is mistake for Rafe Bradford, who tried to escape the Broomstick Wedding.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E7
Natchez Trace,
The Hawk, a highwayman whose boldness and cruelty strike terror into the hearts of all who hear his name, sets out to rob Jim Bowie and his friends.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E8
Jim Bowie Comes Home,
Jim Bowie returns to Opelousas from a business trip to find the Louisiana town taken over by a gang of tough guys who plan to drive his family out next.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E9
The Ghost of Jean Battoo,
Bowie breaks up a plot by Louisiana racketeers to extort money from superstitious Cajun farmers.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E10
The Secessionist,
Commissioned by President Andrew Jackson to aid an Army Major sent to foil a plot to withdraw Louisiana from the Union, Jim Bowie is forced to impersonate him when assassins arrive on the scene.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E11
Land Jumpers,
Duprez, the owner of a land grant that gives him the prior title to a large tract that Jim Bowie and his brother have recently sold, is forcibly evicting the buyers, alleging they were defrauded.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E12
The Select Females,
Jim Bowie comes to the aid of young ladies of a finishing school and their teacher when he finds himself involved in an elopement — which turns into an abduction.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E13
Jim Bowie and His Slave,
Jim discovers that a former slave he had freed has been captured and enslaved again — and is about to be sold at a slave auction.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E14
Outlaw Kingdom,
Jim Bowie loses a fortune in trade goods to river pirates and almost loses his life in recovering them.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E15
The Swordsman,
Jim Bowie has a fling in New Orleans’ high society, climaxing in a duel with a count over a glamorous aristocrat whom Bowie fancies.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E16
The Return of the Alcibiade,
Jim Bowie takes a detour on a trip home from Christmas when a thief steals the gift he was taking to his mother. In pursuit, he lands on a plantation where he is mistaken for someone.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E17
Monsieur Francois,
Jim Bowie teaches a 10-year-old French Marquis a lesson in Americanism.
PG-13 21m 1956
S1 E18
A Horse for Old Hickory,
Jim Bowie, Sam Houston (later to be the first governor of Texas) and Jean LaFitte, the pirate, are clashing characters, all in competition in bidding for a racing mare for President Jackson.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E19
The Beggar of New Orleans,
When an alms-seeker, who has brought good luck to Jim Bowie, is brutally attacked for no apparent reason, Bowie finds him a haven with the 10-year-old Marquis and his aunt.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E20
Osceola,
Jim Bowie and Osceola, Seminole renegade chief, match knife against lance, with complications for Bowie in trying to get Osceola to compromise with the United States.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E21
Master at Arms,
Bowie buys a lottery ticket from Jean Dubois, a former champion swordsman, who is trying to raise money for his daughter's dowry.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E22
Convoy Gold,
With the cooperation of the United States Army, Bowie sets out to carry half a million dollars in gold from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, but before he reaches his destination he runs into trouble.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E23
Spanish Intrigue,
Jim Bowie earns monetary profit and helps Simon Bolivar liberate Latin America from Spain.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E24
Bayou Tontite,
Jim Bowie learns the evil effects of a Tontite under which a large fund goes to the last surviving child of a group who provide the capital.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E25
German George,
Jim Bowie breaks up a crooked casino in New Orleans when his partner gambles away mutual funds.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E26
An Eye for an Eye,
Jim Bowie finds himself in the middle of a dispute between American settlers and Cherokee Indians when he seeks help in driving a herd of cattle home from Texas.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E27
The Captain's Chimp,
When Captain Paolo is kidnapped from his hotel room, his frightened chimpanzee ends up in Bowie's room. Bowie enlists reporter Tebbs and the captain's daughter in a plan to expose the kidnappers.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E28
Jackson's Assassination,
Jim is tricked into aiding a plot to assassinate President Jackson.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E29
Rezin Bowie, Gambler,
When Jim Bowie’s brother, Rezin, takes a try at being a professional gambler, Jim sets out to frame Rezin into a big loss at the hands of some real gamblers.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E30
Thieves' Market,
Jim Bowie and his 10-year old friend Francois become embroiled in the New Orleans underworld when Francois buys a valuable string of rubies for his aunt at the Thieves Market.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E31
The Pearl and the Crown,
An angry Jim Bowie arrives at a New Orleans newspaper office to protest a satirical poem about him just in time to be accused of murdering the editor.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E32
The General's Disgrace,
Jim Bowie suspects an inside leak when, despite U.S. Army protection, he becomes the victim of highwaymen and finds out the General’s son is involved with the holdups.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E33
The Lottery,
Jim Bowie almost becomes party to a scheme to cheat the generous supporters of a New Orleans orphanage when he engages several men to organize a lottery to raise funds for the orphanage.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E34
The Intruder,
Bowie and his young friend Francois become involved with a gang of river vandals when the river men send Spud to burglarize the home of Francois and his aunt.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E35
Country Cousin,
Jim Bowie aids the underdog in a waterfront brawl and finds he is a relative. When he lets his newfound cousin in on a business deal and it turns out to be a swindle, he finds he, too, is a victim.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E36
The Bound Girl,
Jim Bowie unravels a strange story of love and loyalty, and his sympathies are torn when he suspects the motives of a man who has brought a girl from Ireland under an indenture of servitude.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E37
The Bounty Hunter,
Jim Bowie’s friend Justinian Tebbs is mistaken for a fugitive from justice. The error leads to a chase. Neither Jim nor Justy knows that the fugitive is a real killer with the U.S. Army after him.
PG-13 21m 1957
S1 E38
Gone to Texas,
When a renegade American, now a Mexican Army officer, plots to kill Bowie because he’s a friend of Sam Houston, Bowie is detained on pretext of lacking a passport to Texas.
PG-13 21m 1957

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The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Western
PG-13
2 Seasons
21m
Set in the Louisiana Territory around 1830, wealthy planter Jim Bowie encounters many famous people in New Orleans, or the backwoods, relying on the knife he supposedly invented for protection.

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