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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

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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.

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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp premiered September 6, 1955. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.

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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.

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Episode 3

Tombstone!

Wyatt Earp came to Tombstone as a land agent for the Earp Brothers, Inc. - voluntarily unarmed - and unwilling to heed the warnings of Doc Holliday, who maintained that Dodge City and its violence was mild in comparison to the lawless activities of Tombstone. Wyatt's encounters with Tombstone's silver miners and cowboys, and his narrow escapes from Death, bore out Doc's admonitions, and the revelation of Wyatt's true identity - while it temporarily saved him - only made him a better target for dangers to come.

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Guest stars Trevor Bardette, Douglas Fowley, Damian O'Flynn, Sam Flint, Richard Reeves

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Episode 12

The Fugitive

Earp arrests the son of a Mexican for a murder before he crosses the Mexican border. Earp must get his prisoner back to Tombstone but a posse sent by Behan is after the same man as the man's family decide to kill Earp to protect a secret.

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Guest stars Felix Locher, Frank Mills, John Carradine, Anna Navarro, James Seay, Kermit Maynard, Jack Tornek

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Episode 15

The Clantons' Family Row

The heat is on Earp from everyone when Curly Bill Brocius and Johnny Ringo threaten to shoot it out in Tombstone over a dead horse. Each man's side kick keeps the pressure on the two while Doc takes bets on the outcome of the shootout.

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Guest stars Douglas Fowley, Stacy Harris, William Phipps, Trevor Bardette, James Seay, Morgan Woodward, Kermit Maynard, Frank Mills

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Episode 18

Wells Fargo Calling Marshall Earp

When Wells, Fargo called on Marshal Wyatt Earp to put an end to stage robberies on its Charleston-to-Benson line, the Company was putting Wyatt's reputation in peril. During the times when Wyatt rode shotgun for Wells, Fargo, no road agent had ever gotten away with a dime of money shipments. But this was Arizona Territory where robbing stages was a highly organized business. In this instance, Wyatt outlined a daring plan - the outcome of which no one could be sure.

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Guest stars Robert B. Williams, Morgan Woodward, Don Kennedy

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Episode 19

A Murderer's Return

Every day the stagecoach rolled into Tombstone, bringing men from every corner of the world - from every kind of past. One such man was Dobie Jenner. His past had been a terrifying one, and it took a lot of maneuvering and quick thinking on Wyatt's part in order to keep Dobie alive to face his future.

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Guest stars Morgan Woodward, Rachel Ames, Randy Stuart, Denver Pyle, George Bruggeman, George Sowards

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Episode 22

Let's Hang Curly Bill

After a warning by Earp Marshal Fred White tries to take the pistol from a drunk Curly Bill Brocius. White's actions cause the gun to fire mortally wounding him. Earp a witness is forced to protect Brocius from a city lynch mob.

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Guest stars Morgan Woodward, Douglas Fowley, Damian O'Flynn, Sam Flint, William Phipps, Trevor Bardette, Herman Hack, Chick Hannan

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Episode 29

China Mary

Like all the mining towns in the West, Tombstone was a magnet to men and women from all over the world. It had a large foreign population, a large segment of which was Chinese. Several hundred, most of whom did not speak English, were newly arrived from China. It was inevitable that such a large group might bring trouble to Wyatt Earp.

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Guest stars Aki Aleong, Morgan Woodward, Anna May Wong

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Episode 35

The Court vs. Doc Holliday

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Guest stars Morgan Woodward, James Seay, Forrest Lewis, Steve Pendleton, Trevor Bardette, Preston Hanson, Douglas Fowley, Herschel Graham

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Episode 41

Wyatt's Bitterest Enemy

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Wyatt Earp had managed to stay alive in Wichita, Dodge City and Tombstone because he was more intelligent than the gunslingers, outlaws and hoodlums who hated him. But Old Man Clanton, who controlled Cochise County, Arizona, had never really worked at the job of killing him. To slay a John Law, even in Arizona Territory, was a last resort which sensible hoodlums shrank from. Marshal Earp, however, had become an intolerable menace to the Clantons and the Ten Percent Ring in Tucson. The time had come to kill Wyatt Earp and Clanton had no intention of failing.

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Guest stars Morgan Woodward, John Milford, Steve Pendleton, Douglas Fowley, William Phipps, Trevor Bardette, Eddie Hice, Rudy Doucette

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Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026

More about The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Cast

Hugh O'BrianWyatt Earp
Lash LaRue
Carol Stone
Lloyd Corrigan
Steve Pendleton
Steve Brodie
Douglas FowleyDoc Holliday
Morgan WoodwardShotgun Gibbs

Credits

Written by
Daniel B. Ullman, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
226
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • ABCUnited States
  • sfm EntertainmentUnited States
  • Desilu ProductionsUnited States
  • Wyatt Earp Enterprises

Themes

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