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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Seasons

33 Episodes • Premiered 1955

1. Wyatt Earp Becomes A Marshal

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

3. Bill Thompson Gives In

4. Marshal Earp Meets General Lee

5. Marshal Earp's Romance

6. The Man Who Lied

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7. The Gambler

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8. The Killer

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9. John Wesley Hardin

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10. The Bank Robbers

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11. King of the Cattle Trails

12. The Big Baby Contest

13. Frontier Journalism Was Fearless

14. Trail's End for a Cowboy

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.