The Gunfighters - Episode 4: The O.K. Corral

Home sick today, so we get two episodes instead of just the one.

Another Earp shows up just as the youngest Earp dies. Poor Charlie is still dead. In the big gunfight, all the good guys live, all the bad guys die. Yep, it's a Western, all right. The O.K. Corral didn't feel all that much like a corral, though. But it was made with a BBC budget, so it was decent enough, considering.

Overall, I really did enjoy this story. It's not nearly as horrible as most of fandom seems to think. The American accents aren't bad at all, the story zips along at a good pace, and there are some fine moments of humor throughout. That damn song still sucks, though. The story gets a "Thumbs up" from me.

Next up, it's (according to the end of this episode) "Dr. Who and the Savages". "The Gunfighters" was the last story to feature individual episode titles, from here on out it's just Episode 1, Episode 2, etc. Also interesting was the little bit of the end, which I believe was edited out of the Lionheart-distributed compilation back in the 80's when I first saw this. Just a bit leading into "The Savages", which no longer exists in the BBC archives. So, this was our last episode featuring Steven, who was a decent enough chap, though not around for too long, at least, not in the number of existing episodes. We're still stuck with Dodo, though, but thankfully not for long. She exits in the next story we are watching, "The War Machines", and we get two new companions!