The Gunfighters (Doctor Who)

025 – The Gunfighters
Doctor Who serial
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo meet Wyatt Earp
Cast
Doctor William Hartnell – First Doctor
Companions Peter Purves – Steven Taylor Jackie Lane – Dodo Chaplet
Others John Alderson – Marshal Wyatt Earp Martyn Huntley – Warren Earp Victor Carin – Virgil Earp Richard Beale – Bat Masterson Anthony Jacobs – Doc Holliday Reed De Rouen – Pa Clanton William Hurndell – Ike Clanton Maurice Good – Phineas Clanton David Cole – Billy Clanton Sheena Marshe – Kate Laurence Payne – Johnny Ringo Shane Rimmer – Seth Harper David Graham – Charlie
Production
Directed by	Rex Tucker
Written by	Donald Cotton
Script editor	Gerry Davis
Produced by	Innes Lloyd
Executive producer(s)	None
Music by	Tristram Cary
Production code	Z
Series	Season 3
Running time	4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	30 April 1966 (1966-04-30)
Last broadcast	21 May 1966 (1966-05-21)
Chronology
← Preceded by The Celestial Toymaker Followed by → The Savages
List of episodes (1963–1989)

The Gunfighters is the eighth serial of the third season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 30 April to 21 May 1966.

The serial is set in and around the town of Tombstone, Arizona, in the Wild West. In the serial, the time traveller the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) and Dodo Chaplet (Jackie Lane) get themselves involved with the events leading up to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.