Bat Masterson (TV series)

*Bat Masterson*
Bat Masterson
	Gene Barry as Bat Masterson, 1958
Genre	Western
Starring	Gene Barry
Narrated by	Bill Baldwin, Bob LeMond
Theme music composer	Havens Wray (David D. Rose)
Ending theme	Bill Lee (Singer)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	108 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers	Frank Pittman; Andy White; Frederick W. Ziv;
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	Ziv Television Programs; (1958–1960); Ziv-United Artists; (1960–1961);
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	October 8, 1958 –; June 1, 1961

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which was a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal, gambler, and journalist Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry, and the half-hour black-and-white series ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The show was produced by Ziv Television Productions. "Bat" is a nickname for Masterson's first name, Bartholemew, although in both the 1958 pilot "Double Showdown" and 1961 episode "No Amnesty For Death", he says his name is William Barkley Masterson.

Although the series was fiction, it was based on the biography Bat Masterson, by Richard O'Connor, as noted by the closing credits.^: 143

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