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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)

Name: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Genre: Drama, Western
Cast: Hugh O'Brian

★ 6.8 Drama · Western Latest: S6 E37

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.

Cast: Hugh O'Brian
Country: United States of America
First aired: September 6, 1955

Seasons

Season 1 · 33 episodes
Season 2 · 39 episodes
Season 3 · 39 episodes
Season 4 · 37 episodes
Season 5 · 41 episodes
Season 6 · 37 episodes

Season 1 Episodes

1. Wyatt Earp Becomes A Marshal
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 appearance, Ellsworth is an ornery little town in need of cleaning up. When his frind is shot, Wyatt feels he must take a stand.
2. Mr. Earp Meets a Lady
Earp jails Ben Thompson in the hope that his mentally unstable brother Bill will attempt a jailbreak, but the Marshal underestimates the misguided and naive ruthlessness of young Abbie Crandall, who is also determined to help Ben escape.
3. Bill Thompson Gives In
4. Marshal Earp Meets General Lee
5. Marshal Earp's Romance
6. The Man Who Lied
7. The Gambler
8. The Killer
9. John Wesley Hardin
10. The Bank Robbers
11. King of the Cattle Trails
12. The Big Baby Contest
13. Frontier Journalism Was Fearless
14. Trail's End for a Cowboy
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.
15. Rich Man's Son
16. The Buntline Special
17. Ben Thompson Returns
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.
18. Marshal Earp Plays Cupid
19. The Assassins
20. It's a Wise Calf
21. Mr. Cousin and Mr. Brother
22. The Bribe
23. The Frontier Theatre
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.
24. Killing at Cowskin Creek
Big winners at the Keno House are being killed and robbed on the way back to the their camps. Earp is unsure if it is crooked casino owners or someone else doing it. A volunteer comes forward to solve it but Earp is then faced with a mob.
25. The Englishman
26. The Desperate Half-Hour
27. The Necktie Party
28. One of Jesse's Gang
29. The Pinkertons
When a man is murdered in Wichita, Earp wants the Newton gang for it but Allen Pinkerton is interfering and more interested in recovering some stolen money. Due to Earp's actions, the Judge at Pinkerton's request takes Earp's badge.
30. The Suffragette
31. Hunt the Man Down
32. The War of the Colonels
33. Bat Masterson Again