The Gunfighters

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11 Sep 65 - 02 Oct 65
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T/A
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09 Oct 65
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U
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16 Oct 65 - 06 Nov 65
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V
21
13 Nov 65 - 29 Jan 66
12
W
22
05 Feb 66 - 26 Feb 66
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X
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05 Mar 66 - 26 Mar 66
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24
02 Apr 66 - 23 Apr 66
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30 Apr 66 - 21 May 66
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28 May 66 - 18 Jun 66
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25 Jun 66 - 16 Jul 66
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1.  A Holiday for the Doctor.
30th April 1966
5:51 p.m.
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2.  Don't Shoot the Pianist.
7th May 1966
5:50 p.m.
23.47
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3.  Johnny Ringo.
14th May 1966
5:56 p.m.
23.52
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4.  The OK Corral.
21st May 1966
5:52 p.m.
23.53
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The Doctor, Steven and Dodo arrive in Tombstone on 25 October 1881. The Doctor has a toothache and finds the local dentist is none other than the infamous gunslinger, Doc Holliday, who is feuding with the Clanton family. The Clantons' gunfighter, Harper, nearly shoots the Doctor by mistake.  MarshalWyatt Earp arrests the Doctor and rescues Steven from lynching. Pa Clanton hires gunfighter Johnny Ringo, but Earp wins the famous shoot-out at the OK corral.




The Doctor:
 William Hartnell
Steven Taylor: Peter Purves
Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet: Jackie Lane

Guest Appearances:
Ike Clanton: William Hurndell
Phineas Clanton: Maurice Good
Billy Clanton: David Cole
Kate: Sheena Marshe
Seth Harper: Shane Rimer
Charlie: David Graham
Wyatt Earp: John Alderson
Doc Holliday Anthony Jacobs
Bat Masterson: Richard Beale
Pa Clanton: Reed de Rouen
Johnny Ringo: Laurence Payne
Warren Earp: Martyn Huntley
Virgil Earp: Victor Carin

Producer: Innes Lloyd.
Script Editor: Gerry Davis.
Writer: Donald Cotton.
Director: Rex Tucker
Designer: Barry Newbery.
Costume: Daphne Dare.
Make up:
Sonia Markham.
Music: 
Tristram Cary. (Ballard played by Tom McCall and Winifred Taylor).



1985 1st Edition with cover by Andrew SkilleterNovelised as "Doctor Who - The Gunfighters" by Donald Cotton (0 426 20195 7) first published by W.H. Allen (now Virgin Publishing Ltd.) in 1985 with cover by Andrew Skilleter.  Target library number 114.

Image of Bat Masterson (Richard Beale), Wyatt Earp (John Alderson), The Doctor , Dodo, and StevenImage of Steven, & DodoImage of Billy Clanton (David Cole), Seth Harper (Shane Rimmer), and Ike Clanton (William Hurndell)
Image of Billy Clanton (David Cole) and Dodo
Image of The Clanton gang riding into town


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"The Ballard of The Last Chance Salon," was written by Tristram Cary and Donald Cotton, and was sung by Lynda Baron, who later appeared as Wrack in the episode "Enlightenment".
This was the last story in which episodes had individual titles.

All four episodes exist as 16mm telerecordings. A print of episode four was held by the Film & TV Library when audited in 1978. Negative film prints of all four episodes were recovered by BBC Enterprises circa 1978.

Ealing filming. (28-31 March 1966)
Studio recording in TC4.
(15 April 1966)
Studio recording in Riverside 1. (22, 29 April; 6 may 1966)
Callow Hill Sandpit, Callow Hill, Virginia Water, Surry. (1 May 1966)

Episode 3 - After Dodo holds a gun on Doc Holliday, he flubs his line: "For the first time in my life, I have just been taken, beaten ... to the draw".
Episode 3 - The Doctor enters the jail to tell Wyatt Earp that Steven has ridden off to find Dodo and Doc Holliday, but seems to have some trouble recalling the gender of his companion. Earp: "You mean Regret has gone after Holliday alone?" Hartnell: "No, no, my dear marshal, no, she's gone with a young man by the name of Ringo."
Episode 3 - A bulb blows at the end of this episode.

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