The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp1955

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is the first Western television series written for adults, premiering four days before Gunsmoke on September 6, 1955. It is loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour, black-and-white pr… more »



Wyatt Earp:
[Opening Narration] The quarrel between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, which all of Wyatt's friends had long predicted, began as a rough-and-ready frontier joke. Dodge City in 1878 had growing pains and had wanted to tax the residents of Pinkytown, a hamlet of shacks and shanties beyond the city limits. Pinkytown resisted and Doc Holliday, noted for his cantankerous humor, joined the Pinkytown citizens in their rebellion. This brought Doc into conflict with Marshal Earp. It seemed inevitable that the two fastest guns on the western prairie meet in a showdown with .45s.

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