Season 1 • Episode 21
LatestCurtis Wells is cut off from the rest of the world until the snow clears in the passes. Newt and Kearny rescue a group of miners lost in the mountains and near frozen to death.
Set in the small western town of Curtis Wells, Lonesome Dove: The Series follows first the romance and later the marriage of Newt Call and Hannah Peale, and the obsession that Clay Mosby, who owns most of the town, has with young Hannah, who looks remarkably like his late wife, Mary. In addition to the talented regular Canadian cast of Scott Bairstow, Christianne Hirt, and Eric McCormack, the show also featured the recurring players of Dennis Weaver as legend Buffalo Bill Cody, Diahann Carroll as innkeeper and widow Ida Grayson, Paul Johansson as newspaperman and family member Austin Peale, and Paul Le Mat as Hannah's father and the editor of the local paper.
Acting
Eric McCormack's unhinged obsessive villain era before Will & Grace.
Production
They somehow got Dennis Weaver AND Bret Hart — Canadian TV went HARD.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bret Hart's casting wasn't random — the wrestling legend grew up in Calgary, where much of the series filmed.
This was part of a weird 90s trend of turning beloved miniseries into weekly soaps — see also: The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years. It rarely worked.
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