The Adventures of Jim Bowie - "Counterfeit Dixie" - 11:30 pm Wednesday, October 22 on KTLN WEST Network

Scott Forbes (Actor) .. Jim Bowie

Born: January 01, 1920
Died: January 01, 1997

Trivia: American actor Scott Forbes, who spent most of his formative days travelling throughout the world before settling down to a performing career, was seemingly groomed in the early stages of his career to be a "young Gregory Peck", whom Forbes resembled both physically and vocally. Consigned to action roles in such Warner Bros. films as Rocky Mountain (1950), Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) and Operation Pacific (1952), Forbes was afforded more in-depth characters on television: one of his best TV outings was as a Captain Queeg-like naval officer on "The Deep Six," a 1953 installment of NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents which in recent years has made the videocassette rounds in kinescope form. In 1957, Forbes was cast in the title role of Jim Bowie, a TV "gimmick western"--the gimmick being that Bowie preferred using his knife rather than his guns. The series (and its accompanying theme song) scored an immediate hit with the younger set, though several adult critics found the program crude and Forbes' interpretation of Bowie "uncouth." After Jim Bowie, Forbes was limited to character parts. By the '70s Scott Forbes had left acting for the more rewarding pursuit of owning and operating Studio One, a popular Hollywood nightclub.

Peter Hansen (Actor) .. Rezin Bowie

Born: December 05, 1921
Died: April 09, 2017

Robert Cornthwaite (Actor) .. Audubon

Born: April 28, 1917
Died: July 20, 2006

Trivia: Already a character player in his 30s, American actor Robert Cornwaithe was frequently called upon to play scientific and learned types in such films as War of the Worlds (1953) and The Forbin Project (1971). He was also busy on TV, portraying lawyers, officials and the like on such series as The Andy Griffith Show, Batman (in the "Archer" episode with Art Carney), Gidget, Laverne and Shirley and The Munsters. Cornwaithe earned his niche in the Science Fiction Film Hall of Fame for his performance in The Thing (1951); grayed up, bearded, and looking suspiciously Russian, the actor played the foolhardy Professor Carrington, whose insipidly idealistic efforts to communicate with the extraterrestrial "Thing" nearly gets him killed. In honor of this performance, Robert Cornwaithe was cast as a similar well-meaning scientist in "Mant," the giant-insect film within a film in Joe Dante's Matinee (1993), wherein Cornwaithe shared screen time with two equally uncredited horror-film icons, William Schallert and Kevin McCarthy.

Minerva Urecal (Actor) .. Ma Bowie

Born: January 01, 1894
Died: January 01, 1966

Trivia: Actress Minerva Urecal claimed that her last name was an amalgam of her family home town of Eureka, California. True or not, Urecal would spend the balance of her life in California, specifically Hollywood. Making the transition from stage to screen in 1934, Ms. Urecal appeared in innumerable bits, usually as cleaning women, shopkeepers and hatchet-faced landladies. In B-pictures and 2-reelers of the 1940s, she established herself as a less expensive Marjorie Main type; her range now encompassed society dowagers (see the East Side Kids' Mr. Muggs Steps Out) and Mrs. Danvers-like housekeepers (see Bela Lugosi's The Ape Man). With the emergence of television, Minerva Urecal entered the "guest star" phase of her career. She achieved top billing in the 1958 TV sitcom Tugboat Annie, and replaced Hope Emerson as Mother for the 1959-60 season of the weekly detective series Peter Gunn. Minerva Urecal was active up until the early '60s, when she enjoyed some of the most sizeable roles of her career, notably the easily offended Swedish cook in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) and the town harridan who is turned to stone in Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (1964).

The Adventures of Jim Bowie: Counterfeit Dixie

11:30 pm - 12:00 am, Wednesday, October 22 on KTLN WEST Network (68.4)

Counterfeit Dixie

Season 2, Episode 4