S01:E13 - Frontier Journalism Was Fearless

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Season 1 Episode 13 - Frontier Journalism Was Fearless

1955 · 26 min

TV-PG

Western · Adventure

Local gamblers feeling pressure from Earp concoct a scheme to force the mayor of Wichita to get rid of Earp.

Subtitles: English

Starring:Hugh O'Brian Douglas Fowley

Directed by:Paul Landres

S01:E01 - Wyatt Earp Becomes a Marshal

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

S01:E02 - Mr. Earp Meets a Lady

Earp jails Ben Thompson in the hope that his brother Bill will attempt a jailbreak, but the Marshall underestimates the naive Abbie Crandall, who is also determined to help Ben escape.

S01:E03 - Bill Thompson Gives In

Earp's insistence on patiently stalking the Thompson brothers with a pair of Indian scouts doesn't set well with some Ellsworth citizens who demand immediate capture of the two fugitives.

S01:E04 - Marshal Earp Meets General Lee

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

S01:E05 - Wyatt Earp Comes to Wichita

Wyatt leaves Ellsworth and becomes the Marshall of Wichita. His first challenge is a group of local vigilantes intent on hanging a man that may have been acting in self-defense.

S01:E06 - The Man Who Lied

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.

S01:E07 - The Gambler

Earp is blamed for the back shooting of the saloon owner Bennett after exposing his crooked games.

S01:E08 - The Killer

After Earp kicks Bennett out of Wichita for a crooked Faro game, Bennett hires the killer Mannon Clemens to kill Earp and have his cowboys tree the town.

S01:E09 - John Wesley Hardin

John Wesley Hardin comes to Wichita to seek revenge on Earp for running his friend Clemens out of Wichita.

S01:E10 - The Bank Robbers

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 them or not.

S01:E11 - King of the Cattle Trails

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.

S01:E12 - The Big Baby Contest

Earp is appointed chairman of a baby contest run by the local women. When a poor woman with a baby arrives in town, Earp enters her in the contest but finds a hidden rule may ruin the plans.

S01:E13 - Frontier Journalism Was Fearless

Local gamblers feeling pressure from Earp concoct a scheme to force the mayor of Wichita to get rid of Earp.

S01:E14 - Trail's End for a Cowboy

An immature rancher's son forced to sell a herd at a low price tries to make up the difference in a poker game while drunk and loses.

S01:E15 - Rich Man's Son

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.

S01:E16 - The Buntline Special

A man with a brash manner and a large gun visits Wichita hoping to interest Marshall Earp in joining a Wild West Show.

S01:E17 - Ben Thompson Returns

Earp has been using sanitary laws to close crooked saloons as Ben Thompson comes to Wichita to open one.

S01:E18 - Marshal Earp Plays Cupid

Earp takes an interest in Mamie Perkins but there is something amiss in the relationship even though his friends hope they marry.

S01:E19 - The Assassins

Earp kicks a crooked gambler out of Wichita so three saloon owners decide to hire two gunmen to assassinate Earp, but he gets wind of the plot.

S01:E20 - A Wise Calf

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.

S01:E13 - Frontier Journalism Was Fearless

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