| Bat Masterson |
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| NBC Network |
| 1958 - 1961 |
| Drama |
| 30 Minutes |
Gene Barry starred as William Barclay "Bat"
Masterson
(1853-1921), a dapper dandy with a derby
hat and gold-topped cane (that hid a sword). Bat
rode a horse named Stardust.
During his travels in the Southwest, Bat
Masterson had many careers, including a gambler,
frontiersman, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter,
army scout, prospector and US Marshal of Dodge City.
When he
wasn't working, or playing in a poker game, Bat found time to romance the
ladies and to help those in need.
A debonair charmer, Bat preferred to use his
wits rather than a gun, but if need be, he knew
how to use one effectively to subdue the bad
guys.
Listen to Theme Song
Theme Song Lyrics
Back when the West was very young
There lived a man named Masterson
He wore a cane and derby hat
They called him Bat, Bat Masterson.
A man of steel the stories say
But women's eyes all glanced his way
A gambler's game he always won
They called him Bat, Bat Masterson.
The trail that he blazed is still there
No one has come since to replace his name
And those with too ready a trigger forgot to figger
On his fighting fame.
So in the legends of the West
One name stands out from all the rest
The man who had the fastest gun
They called him Bat, Bat Masterson.
Here is a select list of Bat Masterson's many
adventures:
- Encounter saloon-keeper Big Keel Roberts
in Arizona
- Helps a women herding horses to be sold to
the army
- Rancher prevents Bat from moving his
cattle to market
- Wins a promising boxer's contact in a
poker game
- Acts as a guide for a bear hunting
expedition
- Teaches a man how to use a gun and stand
up for his rights
- Meets President Hayes and General Sherman
in Dodge City
- Investigates the destruction of multiple
wagon trains
- Rescues kidnapped sisters from hostile
Indians
- Tracks down a man who stole his horse,
money and gun
- Helps protect a railroad crew lay tracks
through a canyon
- Deputized as a federal officer to take
outlaw to Fort Smith
- The Denver Fire Dept. wants to tear down
Bat's building
- Wins half of a lottery ticket in a Tucson
poker game
- A Colorado bank believed Bat was dead and
closed his account
- Investigates a crime wave in Cheyenne,
Wyoming
- Bat is belatedly involved in the Lincoln
Assassination
- Challenges a blackmailing Confederate
deserter to a duel
- Visits St. Joe, Missouri opera house to
see his ex-girlfriend
- Thwarts a blackmail scheme in Sacramento,
CA
- Intervenes in a feud between the
Clementses and Bassetts
- Helps a sheriff collect revenues from
county tax evaders
- Breaks the plot to keep woman from voting
- Thwarts road agents robbing stagecoaches
-
Schemer in Liberal, Kansas assumes Bat's
identity
- Stops a bandit from terrorizing a region
in Southern California
- Prevents diseased cattle being smuggled
across the Rio Grande
- Protects Angie Pierce and her son from the
Doolin Boys
- Midas Creek town council hires Bat to
judge the turkey-shoot
- A blackjack gambler breaks the bank and
Bat looses his casino
- Bat races to Nora Grant's farm in
Beaumont, TX to help her
- Bat establishes justice in the desert town
of Eden, New Mexico
- Horse-thieves trigger a war between two
Indian tribes
- Travels to Monument City to work his old
silver claim
- Bat becomes a Pinkerton detective to
expose a crime boss
Memorabilia
TRIVIA NOTE:
In 1876,
the real W. B. Masterson
was a deputy marshal,
along side his brother, Jim Masterson with
the legendary Wyatt Earp
In 1907, Bat took a job as a sportswriter for the
Morning Telegraph in
New York City, where he died typing at his desk in 1921.
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