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Season 03 / Story 025 / Production code Z

The Gunfighters

The Doctors?: William Hartnell
The Companions: Steven Taylor | Dodo Chaplet
Other Main Characters:

Donald Cotton: Writer
Rex Tucker: Director
Innes Lloyd: Producer

The TARDIS lands in the Wild West town of Tombstone in 1881. The Doctor, suffering from toothache, seeks out the local dentist, who turns out to be none other than the notorious Doc Holliday, currently engaged in a feud with Pa Clanton and his sons Ike, Phineas and Billy. Lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson are meanwhile doing their best to keep the peace.

For once, the Doctor is unable to help and, in the climactic shoot-out, the young Clanton brothers and their gunman ally Johnny Ringo are all killed by Holliday, Earp and Earp's brother Virgil.

4 episodes:

1. A Holiday for the Doctor - 30 April 1966
2. Don't Shoot the Pianist - 07 May 1966
3. Johnny Ringo - 14 May 1966
4. The OK Corral - 21 May 1966

Script available in print from Titan Books.