page_title: Bat Masterson (TV series)
hierarchical_section_title: Bat Masterson (TV series)
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Gene Barry as Bat Masterson from the program premiere.
context_page_description: Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which was 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 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 the series was fiction, it claimed in the closing credits to be based on the biography Bat Masterson, by Richard O'Connor.
context_section_description: Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which was 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 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 the series was fiction, it claimed in the closing credits to be based on the biography Bat Masterson, by Richard O'Connor.
caption: Gene Barry as Bat Masterson (1958)
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