<P> The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is the first Western television series written for adults, premiering four days before Gunsmoke on September 6, 1955 . It is loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp . The half - hour, black - and - white program aired for six seasons (229 episodes) on ABC from 1955 to 1961, and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role . </P> <P> The first season of the series purports to tell the story of Wyatt's experiences as deputy town marshal of Ellsworth, Kansas (first four episodes) and then as town marshal in Wichita . In the second episode of the second season, first aired September 4, 1956, he is hired as assistant city marshal of Dodge City, where the setting remained for three seasons . The final episode set in Dodge City aired on September 1, 1959 . Beginning the next week, the locale for the series shifted for the remainder of the series to the southwest near Tombstone, Arizona Territory . </P> <Ul> <Li> Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp (229 episodes) </Li> <Li> John Anderson / Ross Elliott as Virgil Earp (5 episodes / 4 episodes) </Li> <Li> Ray Boyle as Morgan Earp (15 episodes) </Li> <Li> Douglas Fowley / Myron Healey as John H. "Doc" Holliday (49 episodes / 10 episodes) </Li> <Li> Carol Montgomery Stone / Collette Lyons as "Big Nose Kate" (10 episodes / 4 episodes) </Li> <Li> Mason Alan Dinehart as Bat Masterson (34 episodes) </Li> <Li> Steve Brodie / Lash La Rue as Sheriff Johnny Behan (9 episodes / 8 episodes) </Li> <Li> Jimmy Noel as townsman (144 episodes) </Li> <Li> Buddy Roosevelt as townsman (65 episodes) </Li> <Li> Rico Alaniz as Mr. Cousin (19 episodes) </Li> <Li> Rodd Redwing as Mr. Brother (8 episodes) </Li> <Li> Trevor Bardette as Newman Haynes Clanton (21 episodes) </Li> <Li> John Milford as Ike Clanton (8 episodes) </Li> <Li> Carol Thurston as Emma Clanton (7 episodes) </Li> <Li> William Phipps as Curly Bill Brocius (16 episodes) </Li> <Li> William Tannen as Deputy Hal Norton (56 episodes) </Li> <Li> Morgan Woodward as "Shotgun" Gibbs (42 episodes) </Li> <Li> Randy Stuart as Nellie Cashman (12 episodes) </Li> <Li> Paul Brinegar as James H. "Dog" Kelley (33 episodes) </Li> <Li> Margaret Hayes as Dora Hand (3 episodes) </Li> <Li> Don Haggerty as Marsh Murdock (21 episodes) </Li> <Li> James Seay as Judge Spicer (16 episodes) </Li> <Li> Damian O'Flynn as Judge Tobin / Dr. Goodfellow / Doc Fabrique </Li> <Li> Denver Pyle / Walter Coy as Ben Thompson (8 episodes / 1 episode) </Li> <Li> Bob Steele as Deputy Sam (4 episodes) </Li> </Ul> <Li> Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp (229 episodes) </Li>

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