Transmitted originally: 30 April 1966 to 21 May 1966.
Episode 1: A Holiday for the Doctor
Episode 2: Don't Shoot the Pianist
Episode 3: Johnny Ringo
Episode 4: The OK Corral
THE STORY
The TARDIS arrives in the town of Tombstone in the Wild West and the Doctor, having hurt his tooth on one of Cyril's sweets, decides he must visit a dentist. The local dentist is Doc Holliday, currently engaged in a feud with the Clanton family. Lawman Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson are meanwhile doing their best to keep the peace. The Doctor, Steven and Dodo narrowly survive a lynch mob, the attentions of Holliday and Earp and various other dangers; they finally return to the TARDIS after witnessing the famous gunfight at the OK Corral, in which the young Clanton brothers and their gunman ally Johnny Ringo are all killed by Holliday, Earp and Earp's brother, Virgil.
CAST:
Dr Who (William Hartnell), Steven (Peter Purves), Dodo (Jackie Lane), Ike Clanton (William Hurndall), Phineas Clanton (Maurice Good), Billy Clanton (David Cole), Kate (Sheena Marshe), Seth Harper (Shane Rimmer), 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), Vigil Earp (Victor Carin).
FACTS:
'The Gunfighters' was the last story to have individual episode titles.
The story includes 'The Ballard of the Last Chance Saloon', sung by Lynda Baron, which summarises the the plot and the beginning and the end of each episode.
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