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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Loosely based on historical fact, this series portrays the gunslinging Wyatt Earp and his successful determination for law and order.
195633 episodes13+
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Wyatt Earp Becomes a Marshal
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    September 6, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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.
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  2. S1 E2 - Mr. Earp Meets a Lady
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    September 13, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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.
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  3. S1 E3 - Bill Thompson Gives In
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    September 20, 1955
    26min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  4. S1 E4 - Marshal Earp Meets
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    September 27, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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.
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  5. S1 E5 - Wyatt Earp Comes to Wichita
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    October 4, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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.
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  6. S1 E6 - The Man Who Lied
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    October 11, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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.
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  7. S1 E7 - The Gambler
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    October 18, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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.
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  8. S1 E8 - The Killer
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    October 25, 1955
    24min
    13+
    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.
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  9. S1 E9 - John Wesley Hardin
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    November 1, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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.
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  10. S1 E10 - The Bank Robbers
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    November 8, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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.
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  11. S1 E11 - King of the Cattle Trails
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    November 15, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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. Next, after a card game he tries offering Earp a partnership in the saloon he bought.
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  12. S1 E12 - The Baby Contest
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    November 22, 1955
    25min
    13+
    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.
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  13. S1 E13 - Frontier Journalism was Fearless
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    November 29, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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.
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  14. S1 E14 - Trail's End for a Cowboy
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    December 6, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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. Earp refuses to help since no law was broken so the son takes matters into his own hands.
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  15. S1 E15 - Rich Man's Son
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    December 13, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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.
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  16. S1 E16 - The Buntline Special
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    December 20, 1955
    25min
    13+
    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.
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  17. S1 E17 - Ben Thompson Returns
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    December 27, 1955
    26min
    13+
    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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  18. S1 E18 - Marshal Earp Plays Cupid
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    January 3, 1956
    25min
    13+
    Earp takes an interest in Mamie Perkins but there is something amiss in the relationship even though his friends hope they marry. Earp learns she loves another man who needs Earp's protection from Fog MacMurray's gang of cattle rustlers.
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  19. S1 E19 - The Assassins
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    January 10, 1956
    25min
    TV-PG
    Earp kicks a crooked gambler out of Wichita so three saloon owners decide they are tired of the pressure. They decide to hire two gunmen to assassinate Earp but he gets wind of the plot. Earp brings in some special outside help to stop it.
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  20. S1 E20 - A Wise Calf
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    January 17, 1956
    26min
    TV-PG
    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. Slocum is put on trial while Earp does some investigation which produces a major surprise for the jury.
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  21. S1 E21 - Mr. Cousin and Mr. Brother
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    January 24, 1956
    26min
    13+
    Two Indians who have helped Earp previously, are being held by a renegade selling rifles to the Indians. They are in the Oklahoma Territory so the Army has asked Earp to go in as a US Marshal to rescue them. He does but as a doctor.
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  22. S1 E22 - The Bribe
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    January 31, 1956
    26min
    TV-PG
    Earp returns to Wichita to find a crooked gambler has been given a saloon license by his deputies. Murdock wants the license revoked as Earp's desk is found to contain a $300 bribe framing Earp who has to give up his Marshal badge.
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  23. S1 E23 - The Frontier Theater
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    February 7, 1956
    26min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  24. S1 E24 - Killing at Cowskin Creek
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    February 14, 1956
    26min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  25. S1 E25 - The Englishman
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    February 21, 1956
    26min
    TV-PG
    George Peschauer hates Earp and was kicked out of Ben Thompson's gang for his ruthlessness. He is trying to sell an Englishman a ranch loaded with rustled cattle but a nosy female hotel owner is trying to protect the likable Englishman.
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Content advisory
Violencesubstance usealcohol usesmoking
Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
Frank McDoanldRoy RowlandPaul LandresSidney Salkow
Producers
Louis F. EdelmanRobert Sisk
Cast
Hugh O'BrianMorgan WoodwardDouglas FowleyWilliam Tannen
Studio
FilmRise
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