The life and legend of Wyatt Earp - Season 1, episodes 1-17

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is the first Western television series written for adults. It premiered four days before Gunsmoke on September 6, 1955. Two weeks later came the Clint Walker western Cheyenne. The series is loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour, black-and-white program aired for six seasons (229 episodes) on ABC from 1955 to 1961, with Hugh O'Brian in the title role.

 
Plot 

The first season of the series purports to tell the story of Wyatt's experiences as deputy town marshal of Ellsworth, Kansas (first four episodes), and then as town marshal in Wichita. In the second episode of the second season, first aired September 4, 1956, he is hired as assistant city marshal of Dodge City, where the setting remained for three seasons. The final episode set in Dodge City (Season 5, Episode 1 - "Dodge City: Hail and Farewell") aired on September 1, 1959. Beginning the next week on September 8, 1959 (Season 5, Episode 2 - "The Trail to Tombstone"), the locale shifted to Tombstone, Arizona Territory, for the remainder of the series.

Main cast

Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp (229 episodes)

Morgan Woodward as "Shotgun" Gibbs (81 episodes)

Ray Kellogg as Deputy Ollie (13 episodes)

William Tannen as Deputy Hal Norton (56 episodes)

Douglas Fowley/Myron Healey as John H. "Doc" Holliday (49 episodes/10 episodes)

Mason Alan Dinehart as Bat Masterson (34 episodes)

Fred Coby as Pony Deal (5 episodes)

Damian O'Flynn as Judge Tobin/Dr. Goodfellow/Doc Fabrique (68 episodes)

Ray Boyle as Morgan Earp (15 episodes)

John Anderson/Ross Elliott as Virgil Earp (5 episodes/4 episodes)

Bill Cassady as Dr. McCarty (11 episodes)

Recurring cast

Jimmy Noel as Townsman (144 episodes)

Ethan Laidlaw as Townsman (138 episodes)

Bill Coontz as Townsman (99 episodes)

Chet Brandenburg as Townsman (79 episodes)

Buddy Roosevelt as Townsman (65 episodes)

Kermit Maynard as Townsman (48 episodes)

Frank Mills as Townsman (36 episodes)

Archie Butler as Townsman (32 episodes)

Milan Smith as Townsman (16 episodes)

Albert Cavens as Townsman (16 episodes)

Tex Palmer as Townsman (15 episodes)

Herman Hack as Townsman (10 episodes)

Chick Hannan as Townsman (6 episodes)

Alex Sharp as Townsman (4 episodes)

Paul Brinegar/Ralph Sanford as James H. "Dog" Kelley (34 episodes/21 episodes)

Rico Alaniz as Mr. Cousin (19 episodes)

Rodd Redwing as Mr. Brother (8 episodes)

James Seay as Judge Wells Spicer (25 episodes)

Don Haggerty as Marsh Murdock (21 episodes)

Trevor Bardette as Newman Haynes Clanton (21 episodes)

John Milford/Rayford Barnes as Ike Clanton (8 episodes)

Carol Thurston as Emma Clanton (7 episodes)

William Phipps as Curly Bill Brocius (16 episodes)

Episode 1 - Wyatt Earp becomes a marshal

Description: Initially resistant to becoming a lawman, Wyatt Earp has a change of heart after seeing the sheriff of Ellsworth, Kansas murdered in cold blood by the inebriated brother of town scourge Ben Thompson.

Episode 2 - Mr. Earp meets a lady

Description: 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.

Episode 3 - Bill Thompson gives in

Description: Wyatt Earp's insistence on patiently stalking the Thompson brothers with a pair of Indian scouts (rather than a posse) doesn't set well with some influential Ellsworth citizens who demand immediate pursuit and capture of the two fugitives.

Episode 4 - Marshal Earp meets General Lee

Description: A quick-tempered former Confederate officer with a grudge against Wyatt Earp threatens to assemble a mob and destroy Ellsworth if Wyatt is not immediately stripped of his badge and run out of town.

Episode 5 - Wyatt Earp comes to Wichita

Description: 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.

Episode 6 - The man who lied

Description: Bennett hires a gunman to shoot Earp who brags he has faced down Earp before. However, Earp doesn't know him so he suspects there is more to the gunman's story. After trying to determine who the gunman is, Earp decides he must face him.

Episode 7 - The gambler

Description: 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.

Episode 8 - The killer

Description: 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.

Episode 9 - John Wesley Hardin

Description: John 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.

Episode 10 - The bank robbers

Description: 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.

Episode 11 - King of the cattle trails

Description: A perfect couple's content suburban world is interrupted by a telephone threat ("I'm going to kill you") against the cocksure husband. His past misdeeds unravel his new life, terrifying his unknowing wife.

Episode 12 - The big baby contest

Description: 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.

Episode 13 - Frontier journalism was fearless

Description: Local gamblers feeling pressure from Marshall Earp concoct a scheme to force the mayor of Wichita, Kansas to get rid of Marshal Earp. A fearless journalist backs Wyatt despite pressure from gambling interests.

Episode 14 - Trail's end for a cowboy

Description: 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.

Episode 15 - Rich man's son

Description: 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.

Episode 16 - The Buntline special

Description: 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.

Episode 17 - Ben Thompson returns

Description: 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.

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Video : 550 MB, 2984 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 960x540 (16:9), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 163<br />

Audio : 18 MB, 96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

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