Quotes
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"Oh, good gracious. Absolutely absurd. Why you have to dress yourselves up like Tom Mix I can't imagine. You're asking for trouble. Why can't you wear inconspicuous clothes like I do?" ~ The First Doctor
The 1st Doctor: Oh, quite, quite so. Allow me, sir, to introduce Miss Dodo Dupont, wizard of the ivory keys, and er Steven Regret, tenor. And lastly sir, your humble servant Doctor Caligari.
Masterson: Doctor Who?
The 1st Doctor: Yes, quite right.
"Well, I had to find some sort of suitable cover. After all, you can't walk into the middle of a Western town and say that you've come from outer space. Good gracious me, we'd all be arrested on a vagrancy charge." ~ The First Doctor
"Well, I should hope not. I certainly disapprove of violence." ~ The First Doctor
"Oh, you flatter me, young man. Yes, reasonably accomplished I would say, but not great." ~ The First Doctor
"Under arrest? And don't you call me pop. You know very well who I am, sir!" ~ The First Doctor
"I have no intention of trying anything, only people keep giving me guns and do I wish they wouldn't. I wonder, would you mind looking after it for me?" ~ The First Doctor
"Yeah, well, I know how you feel friend, but if you don' quit hoppin' about like a jackrabbit I'm gonna have to lay you out so cold you'll freeze!" ~ Bat Masterson
"Oh certainly not, sir, certainly not. I mean, we're just going to er, well, er, reason with him." ~ The First Doctor
"Well. this is utterly absurd. Nothing will ever induce me to raise a gun in anger." ~ The First Doctor
"Oh, good heavens, what a relief. Here you are, Bat, there's your badge and there is your wretched weapon!" ~ The First Doctor
"Oh, my dear Dodo, my dear Dodo. You know you're fast becoming a prey to every cliché-ridden convention in the American West. And it's high time we left. Now, come along." ~ The First Doctor
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Trivia
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Thunderbirds voice artists David 'Brains' Graham and Shane 'Scott Tracy' Rimmer appear as Charlie the barman and Seth Harper respectively. Graham had also provided Dalek voices for a number of earlier Doctor Who stories.
The caption at the end of the final episode reads "Next Episode: Dr. Who and the Savages". The Gunfighters was the last story to have individual episode titles.
Patrick Troughton was one of the actors considered for the role of Johnny Ringo.
The serial features an original song, "The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon", the last time that an original song would be commissioned for the series until the rap song featured in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (discounting "The King's Song" in The King's Demons). "Ballad" is performed off-screen by Lynda Baron, who years later would play Captain Wrack in Enlightenment and Val in Closing Time.
Along with Lynda Baron, the "Ballad" was also performed by "Steven" and "Dodo"
Episode 1 carries the title "A Holiday for the Doctor", the first and only episode of the original series to incorporate the "correct" name of the Doctor (as opposed to an episode of The Chase called "The Death of Doctor Who" and the 1970 serial Doctor Who and the Silurians, both of which used the technically incorrect "Doctor Who"). The next televised episode to include the name "The Doctor" in its title was the 2005 episode The Doctor Dances, a practice later followed by several others.
This was the first full and only serial to take place completely within the United States. It would be thirty years until another US-set story was filmed, namely the 1996 TV movie, and the next regular episode to be set within the US would not air until Dalek in 2005.
The storyline of the serial makes several notable departures from the historical fact. In reality, Bat Masterson, Johnny Ringo, Warren Earp and Phineas Clanton were not present in Tombstone in October 1881. Consequently, neither Ringo nor Phineas Clanton participated in the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral and were therefore not casualties of it as portrayed here. Warren Earp did not die until July 1900, almost nineteen years after the events of this story take place. Phineas' brother Ike Clanton survived the gunfight whereas their father Pa Clanton had died the previous August. Conversely, no reference is made to four of the gunfight's actual participants: Warren, Wyatt and Virgil Earp's brother Morgan Earp and the Clanton brothers' fellow outlaw cowboys Billy Claiborne and Tom and Frank McLaury. Furthermore, Doc Holliday was only 30 years old in 1881 in real life whereas Anthony Jacobs was 48 in 1966.
Anthony Jacobs (Doc Holiday) was the father of Matthew Jacobs, who wrote Doctor Who (1996) 30 years later.
Laurence Payne (Johnny Ringo) would later play Morix in The Leisure Hive and Dastari in The Two Doctors, in which he also supplied the voice of the Space Station Chimera computer.
This would be the final televised Doctor Who story to feature an historical figure as an onscreen character until The Mark of the Rani in 1985, in which the Sixth Doctor met George Stephenson and Lord Ravensworth.
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Part 1: A Holiday for the Doctor
Part 2: Don't Shoot the Pianist
Part 3: Johnny Ringo
Part 4: The OK Corral
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