The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
30min

Drama

Western

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.

Production Companies

sfm Entertainment

Desilu Productions

Wyatt Earp Enterprises

Episodes

Cast

1. Wyatt Earp Becomes A Marshal

6th Sep 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 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

13th Sep 1955

3. Bill Thompson Gives In

20th Sep 1955

4. Marshal Earp Meets General Lee

27th Sep 1955

5. Marshal Earp's Romance

4th Oct 1955

6. The Man Who Lied

11th Oct 1955

7. The Gambler

18th Oct 1955

8. The Killer

25th Oct 1955

9. John Wesley Hardin

1st Nov 1955

10. The Bank Robbers

8th Nov 1955

11. King of the Cattle Trails

15th Nov 1955

12. The Big Baby Contest

22nd Nov 1955

13. Frontier Journalism Was Fearless

29th Nov 1955

14. Trail's End for a Cowboy

6th Dec 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.

15. Rich Man's Son

13th Dec 1955

16. The Buntline Special

20th Dec 1955

17. Ben Thompson Returns

27th Dec 1955

18. Marshal Earp Plays Cupid

3rd Jan 1956

19. The Assassins

10th Jan 1956

20. It's a Wise Calf

17th Jan 1956

21. Mr. Cousin and Mr. Brother

24th Jan 1956

22. The Bribe

31st Jan 1956

23. The Frontier Theatre

7th Feb 1956

24. Killing at Cowskin Creek

14th Feb 1956

25. The Englishman

21st Feb 1956

26. The Desperate Half-Hour

28th Feb 1956

27. The Necktie Party

6th Mar 1956

28. One of Jesse's Gang

13th Mar 1956

29. The Pinkertons

20th Mar 1956

30. The Suffragette

27th Mar 1956

31. Hunt the Man Down

3rd Apr 1956

32. The War of the Colonels

10th Apr 1956

33. Bat Masterson Again

17th Apr 1956

First air date