The adventures of frontier hero Jim Bowie are brought to life in this popular children's television series.
In the Louisiana Territory around 1830, wealthy planter Jim Bowie encounters many famous people in New Orleans or the backwoods, relying for protection on the knife he supposedly invented after his regular one broke in a fight with a grizzly bear.
Aired: Sep 7, 1956 An encounter with an unfriendly she-bear nearly becomes fatal for Jim Bowie w...
Aired: Sep 14, 1956 Jim Bowie persuades Regina Bienbeau, an imperious plantation owner, to allow ...
Aired: Sep 21, 1956 Jim Bowie watches with amusement and then with concern as his friend, John Ja...
Aired: Sep 28, 1956 Jim volunteers to be a temporary deputy sheriff in order to guard a prisoner....
Aired: Oct 5, 1956 Jim begins to suspect that a fur company is trying to drive him out and is ki...
Aired: Oct 12, 1956 A horse trade leads an angry farmer to mistakenly believe that Jim is the man...
Aired: Oct 19, 1956 A group on their way to Natchez ask Jim to protect them against a bandit who ...
Aired: Oct 26, 1956 The Bowie family seeks to keep their hometown respectable, however, the local...
Aired: Nov 2, 1956 Jim runs into a group of farmers who are paying protection money to an old wo...
Aired: Nov 9, 1956 A friend of Jim's is asked by President Andrew Jackson to dissuade a group of...
Aired: Nov 16, 1956 Jim Bowie is riding along the Mississippi when he is bushwhacked by Manion an...
Aired: Nov 23, 1956 JIm Bowie is in a hurry on his way to New Orleans to take a lady to the Opera...
Aired: Nov 30, 1956 Jim discovers that a former slave he had freed has been captured and enslaved...
Aired: Dec 7, 1956 Jim sets out after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.
Aired: Dec 14, 1956 Jim travels to New Orleans to purchase an estate, but he gets himself in trou...
16. The Return of the Alcibiade
Aired: Dec 21, 1956An expensive gift that Jim bought for his mother for Christmas is stolen, and...
Aired: Dec 28, 1956 Bowie assists a French boy who has traveled from France to reunite with his a...
Aired: Jan 4, 1957 Jim goes to an auction to bid on a racehorse he wants to give as a present to...
Aired: Jan 11, 1957 Jim set out to help a former champion fencer who has fallen on hard times and...
Aired: Jan 18, 1957 When the army attempts to move the Seminole Indians from their own lands to a...
Aired: Jan 25, 1957 Bowie buys a lottery ticket from Jean Dubois a former champion swordsman who ...
Aired: Feb 1, 1957 Jim has to get a gold shipment through safely to New Orleans.
Aired: Feb 8, 1957 Bowie agrees to sell supplies to Don Carlos Miro. He later discovers that Mir...
Aired: Feb 15, 1957 Jim is asked by famous naturalist James Audubon to protect a young girl who h...
Aired: Feb 22, 1957 Jim's friend and partner is cheated out of money by a gambler, who then kills...
Aired: Mar 1, 1957 In order to head off an Indian uprising, Jim tells a Cherokee princess the ta...
Aired: Mar 8, 1957 When Captain Paolo is kidnapped from his hotel room, his frightened chimpanze...
Aired: Mar 15, 1957 Jim is tricked into aiding a plot to assassinate President Jackson.
Aired: Mar 22, 1957 Jim's brother, unaware that he is being set up, wins big gambling and gets it...
Aired: Mar 29, 1957 Jim takes a young French friend on a tour of New Orleans' infamous "Thieves M...
Aired: Apr 5, 1957 A newspaper publishes a poem about Jim. Irritated, he confronts the editor. U...
Aired: Apr 12, 1957 A rash of holdups leads Jim to suspect that they may be the work of an army g...
Aired: Apr 19, 1957 In order to help an orphanage raise money, Jim organized a lottery. What he d...
Aired: Apr 26, 1957 A young man is caught burglarizing the home of Jim's friend Francois. However...
Aired: May 3, 1957 Jim winds up in trouble with his family when he lets his visiting cousin in o...
Aired: May 10, 1957 An indentured young servant girl from Ireland has been "purchased" by a nasty...
Aired: May 17, 1957 Jim and his newspaper friend unknowingly help a fugitive escape. A bounty hun...
Aired: May 24, 1957 Hoping to buy land in the Mexican state of Texas, Jim Bowie visits Nacogdoche...
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Current Status: Ended
Network: ABC
Production Country: United States
The Adventures of Jim Bowie: Where to Watch Online?
Currently you are able to watch "The Adventures of Jim Bowie" streaming on Peacock Premium, fuboTV or for free with ads on Tubi TV, Crackle, Pluto TV, Amazon Freevee, Plex. It is also possible to rent or buy on Amazon online.
