The Adventures of Jim Bowie

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The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Genre	Western Adventure
Starring	Scott Forbes
Theme music composer	Ken Darby
Opening theme	"Jim Bowie" by The King's Men
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	76
Production
Executive producer(s)	Louis F. Edelman
Producer(s)	William H. Wright Lewis R. Foster
Editor(s)	John Woodcock
Running time	22–24 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original run	September 7, 1956 (1956-09-07) – August 29, 1958 (1958-08-29)

The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958.

1 Synopsis
2 Theme Music
3 Recurring cast members
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Synopsis

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 his ever-present weapon the Bowie Knife, something he designed in the first episode The Birth of the Blade. Although Bowie used the blade quite a bit in early episodes, its prominence was downplayed as the show went on.

Gradually the series shifted from the country to the city, having Bowie instead spend the majority of his time in New Orleans. He was frequently shown looking to invest his money in real estate, or coming to the aid of someone who had been swindled.

Story lines focused on the exploits of Bowie before he moved to Texas (then part of Mexico), and his death at the Alamo in 1836. During the series' two season run, Bowie encountered many historical figures of the era, such as President Andrew Jackson, Jefferson Davis, John James Audubon, Sam Houston, and Davy Crockett.

Among the actors and actresses who guest-starred more than once on the series were William Schallert, Denver Pyle, Michael Landon, Chuck Connors, Walter Coy, June Carter Cash, and Lurene Tuttle. Those making single guest appearances included Douglas Kennedy.

Jim Bowie did not appear in the last episode of the series. Instead, he was said to be away on an important assignment, and the attention was placed on criminal Jess Miller. Miller was given the task to retrieve a great sum of money, and the episode focused on whether Miller would complete his assignment or take the money for himself. At the end thereis an indication that Miller would join up with Bowie on further adventures, but no further episodes were produced.