The Gunfighters (1966) The Story: A Holiday for the Doctor: The Clanton brothers, fearsome cattle rustlers, ride into Tombstone, Arizona in 1881, in search of Doc Holliday, who's killed their brother Reuben. The TARDIS materializes in Tombstone in search of a dentist, because the Doctor's got a toothache, and prefers extraction to any more modern method of oral surgery. The Clanton brothers gather at the local bar, the Last Chance Saloon, where they meet hired bounty hunter Seth Harper, who'd lead them to Holliday if only he knew what Doc Holliday looked like. The TARDIS crew dress up in Western attire, but Steven's attempt at gunplay is cut short by a rather bemused Wyatt Earp. "It's your last chance for boozin' when there's no-one to mind
It's your last chance for losin', and the first place you'll find
Four days ride from the station and you'll leave it at noon,
Then your one consolation is the Last Chance Saloon." Don't Shoot the Pianist: It's Kate to the rescue at the Last Chance, as she enters to distract the Clantons from their pursuit of the (real) Holliday. She helps the Doctor disarm the gunfighters, as the Doctor is now warming to his role as Holliday. Earp and Masterson enter the saloon and keep up the charade they arrest the Doctor, as Holliday, to keep him away from the Clantons' wrath. The *real* Doc Holliday keeps Dodo and Kate in an upstairs bedroom, away from the action, while Steven enlists some unlikely help from the Clantons in arranging a jailbreak. | |
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