The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

  • Premiered: Sep 1955
  • Episodes: 226
  • Followers: 4
  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Unknown
  • Action Adventure Western

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Season 1
1x1
Wyatt Earp Becomes A Marshal
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 06, 1955
Ellsworth, Kansas 1873. Young Wyatt arrives in town fresh from a buffalo hunt looking to clean up and find his friend Sheriff Whitney who has sent for him. Despite it's peaceful .. show full overview
1x2
Mr. Earp Meets a Lady
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 13, 1955
Concerned that his fellow marshal Bat Masterson has been spending time with a woman whose jealous boyfriend is a notorious outlaw, Earp tries to reduce the possibility of bloodshed by banning firearms from the city of Ellsworth.
1x3
Bill Thompson Gives In
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 20, 1955
Although the town is clamoring for Earp to form a posse to shoot it out with killer Bill Thompson, Earp decides to try a more stealthy means of tracking him down by using Indian scouts.
1x4
Marshal Earp Meets General Lee
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 27, 1955
Earp must defuse the situation when cowboys arriving from Texas think that their hero Robert E. Lee has been insulted by the townspeople of Ellsworth.
1x5
Wyatt Earp Comes to Wichita
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 04, 1955
Wyatt leaves Ellsworth and becomes the Marshall of Wichita. His first challenge is a group of local vigilantes so intent on hanging a local Faro dealer that they are concealing evidence that he was acting in self-defense.
1x6
The Man Who Lied
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 11, 1955
After outlaws put a bounty on killing Marshal Earp, he immediately becomes a target for the first foolhardy gunman who needs the money.
1x7
The Gambler
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 18, 1955
Earp is blamed for the back shooting of the saloon owner Bennett after exposing his crooked games. Earp is the only person to use copper jacketed bullets in Wichita which is what was dug out of the wounded Bennett's back.
1x8
The Killer
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 25, 1955
After Earp kicks Bennett out of Wichita for a crooked Faro game, Bennett hires the killer Manon Clemens to kill Earp and have his cowboys tree the town. Earp uses trickery to defeat Clemens who kills Bennett for deceiving him.
1x9
John Wesley Hardin
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 01, 1955
Jehn Wesley Hardin comes to Wichita to revenge Earp running his friend Clemens out of Wichita. Hardin has told his wife he is happy to leave and continue to Nebraska but he has several gun tricks one of which he plans to use on Earp.
1x10
The Bank Robbers
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 08, 1955
Wounded bank robber Clem Parker and his girl Bonnie Dawson want no part of Tarp Anders' brash gang of thieves, but Wyatt isn't sure whether to believe Bonnie's story that the Anders gang plans to rob the Union Bank without Parker.
1x11
King of the Cattle Trails
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 15, 1955
Texan A.H. 'Shanghai' Pierce tries to use his money and influence to make Wichita an open town again by hiring a well known actress to get to Earp. Next, after a card game he tries offering Earp a partnership in the saloon he bought.
1x12
The Big Baby Contest
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 22, 1955
Earp is pushed into being chairman of the Wichita baby contest run by the local women. When a broke, hungry woman with a baby arrives in Wichita, the doctor and Earp enter her in the contest but find a hidden rule may ruin their plans.
1x13
Frontier Journalism Was Fearless
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 29, 1955
Local gamblers feeling pressure from Marshal Earp concoct a scheme to force the mayor of Wichita, Kansas to get rid of Wyatt. A fearless journalist backs Wyatt despite pressure from gambling interests.
1x14
Trail's End for a Cowboy
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 06, 1955
An immature rancher's son forced to sell a herd at at a low price tries to make up the difference in a poker game while drunk and loses. Earp refuses to help since no law was broken so the son takes matters into his own hands.
1x15
Rich Man's Son
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 13, 1955
The young runaway son of a powerful railroad executive wants to become a gun-toting cowhand, but Wyatt manages to teach him some far more important lessons about honor and self-reliance.
1x16
The Buntline Special
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 20, 1955
A little man with a brash manner and a large gun visits Wichita hoping to interest Marshall Earp in joining a Wild West Show. He provides Earp with a new gun that becomes a Wyatt Earp trademark - his Buntline Special.
1x17
Ben Thompson Returns
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 27, 1955
Earp has been using sanitary laws to close crooked saloons as Ben Thompson comes to Wichita to open one. Ben feels a debt of gratitude toward Earp but it causes problems as the rest of the saloon operators have men gunning for Earp.
1x18
Marshal Earp Plays Cupid
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 03, 1956
Earp takes an interest in Mamie Perkins but there is something amiss in the relationship even though his friends hope they marry. Earp learns she loves another man who needs Earp's protection from Fog MacMurray's gang of cattle rustlers.
1x19
The Assassins
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 10, 1956
Earp kicks a crooked gambler out of Wichita so three saloon owners decide they are tired of the pressure. They decide to hire two gunmen to assassinate Earp but he gets wind of the plot. Earp brings in some special outside help to stop it.
1x20
It's a Wise Calf
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 17, 1956
Bill Slocum is accused by Duke Wilson of rustling. They take him in Wichita with plans to lynch him outside town but Earp stops them. Slocum is put on trial while Earp does some investigation which produces a major surprise for the jury.
1x21
Mr. Cousin and Mr. Brother
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 24, 1956
Two Indians who have helped Earp previously are being held by a renegade selling rifles to the Indians. They are in the Oklahoma Territory so the Army has asked Earp to go in as a US Marshal to rescue them.
1x22
The Bribe
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 31, 1956
Earp returns to Wichita to find a crooked gambler has been given a saloon license by his deputies. Murdock wants the license revoked as Earp's desk is found to contain a $300 bribe framing Earp who has to give up his Marshal badge.
1x23
The Frontier Theatre
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 07, 1956
Earp closes a show because the men attending are being ripped off by the girls in it. The owner wants to get even with Earp. He decides to attack the stars of a competing play hoping to trap Earp on his own terms but Earp has other plans.
1x24
Killing at Cowskin Creek
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 14, 1956
Big winners at the Keno House are being killed and robbed on the way back to the their camps. Wyatt is unsure if it's crooked casino owners or if someone else is to blame.
1x25
The Englishman
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 21, 1956
George Peschauer hates Earp and was kicked out of Ben Thompson's gang for his ruthlessness. He is trying to sell an Englishman a ranch loaded with rustled cattle but a nosy female hotel owner is trying to protect the likable Englishman.
1x26
The Desperate Half-Hour
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 28, 1956
The Kansas Kid is wanted by the Kingman Sheriff for robbery, murder, and wounding one of his deputies. The Kid returns to his parents' home where Earp arrests him. However, there is a question of his guilt and the intentions of the Sheriff.
1x27
The Necktie Party
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 06, 1956
Horses are being stolen around Wichita pushing the ranchers to want a necktie party. Their sights are set on a group of gypsies nearby.
1x28
One of Jesse's Gang
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 13, 1956
A local merchant kills a robber during an attempted hold-up, and the townsfolk consider him a hero. Marshal Earp investigates when things don't quite add up.
1x29
The Pinkertons
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 20, 1956
Marshal Earp and the legendary detective Allan Pinkerton butt heads when they both go after a vicious gang of train-robbers.
1x30
The Suffragette
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 27, 1956
Trouble breaks out in Wichita when a suffragette comes to town to campaign for the right of women in the state to vote.
1x31
Hunt the Man Down
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 03, 1956
Wyatt and Mr. Cousin travel to the badlands to hunt down a killer. However, when the man refuses to kill them despite several opportunities, Wyatt begins to question the man's guilt.
1x32 Season finale
The War of the Colonels
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 10, 1956
Two land barons pitch a range war to obtain valuable land. One of their granddaughters takes an interest in Wyatt has he tries to intervene.
1x33 Season finale
Bat Masterson Again
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 17, 1956
Earp learns Masterson has dropped out of school and is a scout for the Army. He is being threaten by the killer Sgt. King over a woman using Bat as leverage to keep King away. Earp tries unsuccessfully to talk Bat into leaving her.

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