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The Adventures of Jim Bowie

The Adventures of Jim Bowie: Season 1

1956, Show

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.

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Some TV shows that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Adventures of Jim Bowie include The Texan, Bat Masterson, Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, Hawkeye (The First Frontier), Have Gun - Will Travel, Damnation.