Overview
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1: Double Showdown
Oct 08, 1958
Bat responds to cry for help when a friend's small gambling house is threatened by rival casino owned by Big Keel Roberts. Roberts suggest that h...
Episode 2: Two Graves for Swan Valley
Oct 15, 1958
A vicious night rider reacts with murderous intent when he thinks Bat is flirting with his girl, pretty saloon girl Molly Doyle. Everyone tells Bat to...
Episode 3: Dynamite Blows Two Ways
Oct 22, 1958
Bat wins a herd of cattle in a card game in Laramie and discovers that in order to convert them into cash, he'll have to fight his way past a ran...
Episode 4: Stampede at Tent City
Oct 29, 1958
Bat encounters a group of wranglers who are stealing horses. A old flame of Bat's asks him to rescue her current beau, accused of murder and shac...
Episode 5: The Fighter
Nov 05, 1958
Bat arrives in Silverton, Colorado and gets involved with a crooked fight promoter. He saves the day for a young bareknuckle fighter.
Episode 6: Bear Bait
Nov 12, 1958
Bat is hired to guide a hunting party to Canada. The sheriff suspects that the three are wanted for robbery and murder but he needs proof. When Bat di...
Episode 7: A Noose Fits Anybody
Nov 19, 1958
While on his way to break his brother out of jail for a crime he did not commit, Ben Thompson saves Bat Masterson's life, but is wounded in the p...
Episode 8: Dude's Folly
Nov 26, 1958
When a bully threatens two youngsters if they won't sell the hardware store they inherited, Bat helps. He teaches the man how to defend himself w...
Episode 9: The Treasure of Worry Hill
Dec 03, 1958
Three cousins inherit pieces of map describing the location of their uncle's buried treasure. Not trusting each other, they hire Bat to guide the...
Episode 10: Cheyenne Club
Dec 17, 1958
Bat is hired by John Conant to discover if his daughter's fiancée cheats at cards. Bat discovers the crooked card sharp is really a powerful cat...
Episode 11: Sherman's March Through Dodge City
Dec 24, 1958
President Hayes is coming to Dodge City accompanied by General Sherman during an election stop. The Marshal will protect Hayes but he asking Bat to be...
Episode 12: Trail Pirate
Dec 31, 1958
Bat recommends himself to be a wagon guide to cross the desert after a wagon guide is brought in dead with bullets in him. Three wagon trains have bee...
Episode 13: Double Trouble in Trinidad
Jan 07, 1959
When Bat learns that a man sporting a derby and a cane and claiming to be "Bat Masterson" has set himself up as sheriff of Trinidad, Colorad...
Episode 14: Election Day
Jan 14, 1959
While leading a trail drive, Bat is confronted at a town by a gang who tries to extort money from him before they allow his cattle to pass. Bat refuse...
Episode 15: One Bullet from Broken Bow
Jan 21, 1959
Pawnee renegade Stone Calf and his braves have taken two white girls captive in a raid. The Army is leaving to back up Custer so Bat is asked to rescu...
Episode 16: A Personal Matter
Jan 28, 1959
Outlaw Bailey Harper steals Bat's horse, gun and money. Bailey laughs when Bat tells him he'll get all of his property back. He tells the ga...
Episode 17: License to Cheat
Feb 04, 1959
Bat sees a poker game break up when a player accuses the dealer of cheating. Bat learns that all the games in town are rigged with the Sheriff collect...
Episode 18: Sharpshooter
Feb 11, 1959
A casino owner hires a marksman with money problems to kill Bat to whom he is deeply in debt. When the man's pregnant wife convinces him to reneg...
Episode 19: River Boat
Feb 18, 1959
A gang of river pirates take over the paddle-wheeler Dakota Queen and relieve the passengers of jewels and furs and Bat of $10,000. Bat uses a barrel ...
Episode 20: Battle of the Pass
Feb 25, 1959
When an old railroad boss refuses to pay Bat the salary owed him, Bat decides to work for his competitor. Both men are racing to build a railroad thro...
Episode 21: Marked Deck
Mar 11, 1959
Bat is cheated at cards by a town boss with the cooperation of the local sheriff. When he meets a brother and sister who were cheated in a land swindl...
Episode 22: Incident in Leadville
Mar 18, 1959
Bat rides to Leadville, Colorado to confront an editor that wrote an article describing him as one of the West's most ruthless gunfighters. The e...
Episode 23: The Tumbleweed Wagon
Mar 25, 1959
Bat agrees to escort a murder suspect to trial, but he escapes with the help of his girl friend. Bat decides to take the woman to Fort Smith to stand ...
Episode 24: Brunette Bombshell
Apr 01, 1959
Bat buys a boxing club in Denver. When he arrives he sees that the police have posted "Property Condemned" signs on his building. He soon di...
Episode 25: Deadline
Apr 08, 1959
Two gunmen steal the horses from the stagecoach in which Bat and Lorna Adams are riding. Bat trades his cane for a horse so Lorna can get to Austin to...
Episode 26: Man of Action
Apr 22, 1959
Bat follows his favorite tailor to a New Mexico town to order custom made suits. Bat's order is put on hold when the crooked casino owner orders ...
Episode 27: A Matter of Honor
Apr 29, 1959
On his way to build a gambling casino in a boomtown, Bat is confronted by an inept robber - an Austrian nobleman who has been cheated at a crooked sal...
Episode 28: Lottery of Death
May 13, 1959
During a high stakes poker game Bat agrees to accept one-half of a lottery ticket as payment for a gambling IOU. His trouble starts when his ticket is...
Episode 29: The Death of Bat Masterson
May 20, 1959
Bat returns to the small mining town Bonanza, Colorado to withdraw his earnings from a cattle drive. He discovers he is dead and buried and his "...
Episode 30: The Secret Is Death
May 27, 1959
Bat is undercover to break up a gang of highly respected businessmen in Cheyenne. He has to work himself into their group to be the fall guy. His task...
Episode 31: Promised Land
Jun 10, 1959
Bat is kidnapped and asked to become the bank president in a town consisting entirely of former outlaws, because the former crooks don't trust ea...
Episode 32: The Conspiracy (Part 1)
Jun 17, 1959
Bat is asked by a woman to prevent a false story from being printed in a Cheyenne newspaper supposedly written by John Surratt, one of John Wilkes Boo...
Episode 33: The Conspiracy (Part 2)
Jun 24, 1959
Bat has discovered that John Watson, a bartender, posed as another man in order to sell a scandal-ridden story to a newspaper. After the discovery, Ba...
Episode 34: The Black Pearls
Jul 01, 1959
Bat is hired to join a man in jail to gain his confidence and help him escape. The hope is the man will lead Bat to a string of black pearls he stole ...
Episode 35: The Desert Ship
Jul 15, 1959
Two Dutch treasure hunters search for a legendary Spanish galleon that sank in the Colorado River. Bat attempts to rescue the unwary pair from a deser...
Episode 36: The Romany Knives
Jul 22, 1959
After Bat rescues an old gypsy from a brutal rancher, the old man offers him many valuable gifts, including a beautiful girl. When Bat learns she is n...
Episode 37: Buffalo Kill
Jul 29, 1959
Bat agrees to substitute for a bully as the leader of a party of buffalo hunters into Indian territory, but the man he supplanted stirs up trouble by ...
