TV series
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 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 1
On orders from Territorial Governor Gosper Wyatt Earp heads south to make peace when he learns that Old Man Clanton has sent his men into Mexico to rob the silver trains and steal the cattle of wealthy Mexican rancher Don Sebastian.
Guest stars Howard Petrie, William Phipps, Trevor Bardette, Anthony Caruso, Ralph Reed, Henry Rowland, Jack Tornek
Episode 2
During a robbery Doc Goodfellow is shot accidentally by the Hewitt gang. Doc Holliday says a real surgeon is needed to remove the bullet. The closest one is Dr. Mason who is now a prospector. Earp finds Mason is suffering from gold fever.
Guest stars Morgan Woodward, Douglas Fowley, Damian O'Flynn, Gregory Walcott, Walter Coy
Episode 3
Guest stars Jack Ging, Frank Mills, Douglas Fowley, Lane Bradford, Eddie Hice
Episode 4
Guest stars Howard Petrie, Tyler McVey, Diana Millay, Barney Phillips, Douglas Fowley, Damian O'Flynn, Don C. Harvey
Episode 5
Guest stars Paul Wexler, Douglas Fowley, Morgan Woodward, Henry Rowland, Steve Brodie, Trevor Bardette
Episode 6
Morgan Earp has been helping Wyatt for a month but Morgan's interest in drinking, women and hanging with Doc Holliday bother Wyatt. Wyatt decides Morgan marrying a nice girl like Lucy Tedder would help until he learns more about her.
Guest stars Morgan Woodward, Frank Mills, Douglas Fowley, John Anderson, Trevor Bardette, Sue Randall, Sherwood Price, Kermit Maynard
Episode 7
Guest stars Lloyd Corrigan, Morgan Woodward, Leonard P. Geer, Rita Lynn
Episode 8
Guest stars Jeanne Bates, Morgan Woodward, Mort Mills, Harold J. Stone, Gilman Rankin
Episode 9
Guest stars Morgan Woodward, James Seay, Damian O'Flynn, Stacy Harris, Wesley Lau, Robert Sampson
Episode 10
A man is found murdered in a stable but the weapon used is unique. The man was killed by shooting an air bubble into an artery in his neck. The primary suspect appears to be the fiancée of the dead man's daughter who was very popular.
Guest stars Ed Nelson, Morgan Woodward, Frank Mills, Douglas Fowley, Herschel Graham, Damian O'Flynn, Denver Pyle, Nina Shipman
Episode 11
Guest stars Glenn Strange, Trevor Bardette, Suzanne Lloyd, Lee Farr, Hal Taggart
Episode 12
Guest stars Alan Baxter, Damian O'Flynn, Sam Flint
Episode 13
Morgan Earp has been having a streak of good luck in Tombstone's gambling houses causing him to break with his fiancée Ruthie and have grand ideas. Wyatt wants to get him to quit while he's still ahead and return to his old self.
Guest stars Gloria Winters, Frank Mills, Douglas Fowley, John Anderson, Kermit Maynard, Walter Reed
Episode 14
Guest stars Morgan Woodward, Andy Clyde, Barney Phillips, Damian O'Flynn, Herschel Graham, Ann Robinson, Bartlett Robinson
Episode 15
Guest stars Douglas Fowley, James Seay, Steve Brodie, Trevor Bardette
Episode 16
Guest stars Stanley Clements, Richard Crane, James Seay, Steve Brodie, Francis McDonald, Jacqueline Scott, Richard Reeves, Sam Flint
Episode 17
Marshal Wyatt Earp faced the hatred and gunfire of many men in the towns of Wichita, Dodge City and Tombstone . . . but none hated him more than did the Ten Percent Ring. They could neither buy him nor drive him out of Arizona by force . . .
Guest stars James Seay, Trevor Bardette, Douglas Fowley, Damian O'Flynn, Stacy Harris, William Challee
Episode 18
Guest stars Morgan Woodward, Paula Winslowe, Frank Mills, Douglas Fowley, Richard Benedict, Michael Hinn, Herschel Graham
Episode 19
Guest stars Morgan Woodward, Leonard P. Geer, Steve Brodie, Trevor Bardette, Andy Albin, Jean Allison, Eddie Hice
Episode 20
Guest stars Morgan Woodward, R.G. Armstrong, Trevor Bardette, Stacy Harris, Willard Sage, Zon Murray, Sam Flint
Episode 21
Guest stars Douglas Fowley, Morgan Woodward, Steve Brodie, George D. Wallace, Gregg Palmer, Frank Mills, Douglas Fowley, Damian O'Flynn
Episode 22
Guest stars Trevor Bardette
Episode 23
Guest stars Clancy Cooper, Morgan Woodward, Dan White, Stephen Wootton, Damian O'Flynn, Stacy Harris, Norman Leavitt
Episode 24
Guest stars Douglas Fowley, Harlan Warde, Trevor Bardette
Episode 25
Guest stars Gene Roth
Episode 26
A young man just released from prison is determined to go straight. However, his efforts are being sabotaged by his girlfriend's brother, a no-account gambler who has massive gambling debts to a man who wants to collect.
Guest stars Morgan Woodward, Ken Mayer, Warde Donovan
Episode 27
Johnny Ringo and Curly Bill Brocius, outraged over crooked Sheriff Behan taxing the money they make on some of their illegal activities, enlist Doc Holliday to frame the Sheriff --- but Earp is suspicious the case seems a little too pat.
Guest stars Morgan Woodward, Kasey Rogers, Steve Pendleton, Steve Brodie, Douglas Fowley, Herschel Graham, Frank Mills, Stacy Harris
Episode 28
Guest stars Dale Van Sickel, Steve Raines, Eddie Hice, Dick Cherney, Leo Gordon, Barney Phillips, Douglas Fowley, Troy Melton
Episode 29
On the road to Tucson Earp finds a baby near a family killed by the Apaches. The Sheriff of Pima County refuses to take the baby so Earp is left to find someone to adopt it. He finds an unlikely couple but they are not married.
Guest stars Sean McClory, William Tracy, Barbara Bestar, Marie Windsor, Frank Ferguson, William H. O'Brien, Ollie O'Toole, Max Wagner
Episode 30
Tom McLowery's wife doesn't like ranch life so the couple decides to move to Tombstone against the wishes of Frank. Old Man Clanton decides to let them take over the OK Corral causing rancor with Curly Brocius and putting Earp on alert.
Guest stars Gregg Palmer, Douglas Fowley, Damian O'Flynn, Stacy Harris, Louise Fletcher, William Phipps, Trevor Bardette, George D. Wallace
Episode 31
Wyatt's deputy, Shotgun Gibbs, runs off a saddle bum who was hassling a pretty young widow who had hired him to help her go to Colorado. Her two kids immediately take a liking to Gibbs while Wyatt and Doc wonder if Gibbs needs a change.
Guest stars Kem Dibbs, Morgan Woodward, Kevin Brodie, Douglas Fowley, Stacy Harris, Jack Tornek, Dorothy Green
Episode 32
Guest stars Gloria Talbott, James Griffith, Douglas Fowley, Damian O'Flynn, Stacy Harris, Roy Engel, Herschel Graham
Episode 33
Marshal Wyatt Earp faced the hatred and gunfire of many men in the towns of Wichita, Dodge City and Tombstone . . . but none hated him more than did the Ten Percent Ring. They could neither buy him nor drive him out of Arizona by force . . .
Guest stars Douglas Fowley, Norman Alden, Joe Dominguez, Eddie Hice, William Phipps, Trevor Bardette, Don Haggerty, Buddy Roosevelt
Episode 34
Guest stars Adele Mara, James Seay, Leonard P. Geer, Steve Brodie, Frank Mills, Douglas Fowley, Stacy Harris, John Anderson
Episode 35
The famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral had its inception in the hold-up of a Sandy Bob Line Stage. After the death of Old Man Clanton, Marshal Earp thought he say a chance to split Clanton's outfit by tricking the outlaws into gunning each other down. Wyatt knew that if this failed there would have to be a fight to the finish between the John Law's of Tombstone and the Clanton outlaws.
Guest stars Gregg Palmer, Harry Harvey, Douglas Fowley, Norman Alden, Frank Hagney, John Anderson, William Phipps, Ralph Reed
Episode 36
The long struggle for law and order in Arizona, which exploded in thirty seconds of deadly gunfire at the O.K. Corral, placed Wyatt Earp among the great Marshals of the Western Frontier. But that famous gunfight has been a matter of controversy ever since 1881. Witnesses from the outlaw element contradicted one another on so many vital points that no reputable historian has taken their version seriously. Marshal Wyatt Earp's story of the fight was told under oath and transcribed verbatim. This is Wyatt's testimony of what happened that bloody day in Tombstone . . .
Guest stars Douglas Fowley, John Anderson, James Seay, Steve Brodie, George D. Wallace, Terry Frost, Gregg Palmer
Episode 37
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral is over---and Wyatt is charged with murder. Wyatt: Hugh O'Brian. Doc: Douglas Fowley. Clum: Stacy Harris. Judge: James Seay. Morgan: Dirk London. Virgil: John Anderson. Ringo: Norm Alden. Curly: William Phipps.
Guest stars James Seay, Steve Brodie, Douglas Fowley, Norman Alden, Stacy Harris, Jimmy Lydon, John Anderson, Herschel Graham
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