The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

📊 Series Specifications

Network ABC
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 6
Total Episodes 226
Original Language EN

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)

⭐ 3.4 / 5 (21 votes) 🎬 6 Seasons 📼 226 Episodes 🏷️ Drama, Western 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

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.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 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.

E2 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.

E3 Bill Thompson Gives In
E4 Marshal Earp Meets General Lee
E5 Marshal Earp's Romance
E11 King of the Cattle Trails
E12 The Big Baby Contest
E13 Frontier Journalism Was Fearless
E14 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.

E16 The Buntline Special
E17 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.

E18 Marshal Earp Plays Cupid
E21 Mr. Cousin and Mr. Brother
E23 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.

E24 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.

E26 The Desperate Half-Hour
E28 One of Jesse's Gang
E29 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.

E32 The War of the Colonels
E33 Bat Masterson Again
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