Return to Lonesome Dove

Runtime : 480 mins

Genre : Drama Western

First Aired 14-November-1993

Return to Lonesome Dove, written by John Wilder, is a TV miniseries involving characters created in Larry McMurtrys Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel Lonesome Dove. The story focuses on a retired Texas Ranger and his adventures driving mustangs from Texas to Montana. It is a sequel to the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove, but was not written by McMurtry, who instead wrote and published his own sequel novel Streets of Laredo in the same time frame. It was nominated for an Emmy Award, and followed by two TV series, Lonesome Dove: The Series and Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years. Neither series lasted long. McMurtry followed Streets of Laredo with two prequels, which with Laredo were also subsequently made into TV miniseries. Many fans of the Lonesome Dove series of novels do not consider Return to Lonesome Dove or the two derivative TV series to be canonical because of their divergence from McMurtrys storyline, and the apparent motivation of its production by the success of the original miniseries.

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Cast Members

Ferris Dunnigan
played by
Reese Witherspoon

Cherokee Jack Jackson
played by
Dennis Haysbert

Clara Allen
played by
Barbara Hershey

Gregor Dunnigan
played by
Oliver Reed

Lord Henry
played by
Colin Fox

Martin
played by
John Quade

Lippy Jones
played by
William Sanderson

Isom Pickett
played by
Louis Gossett Jr.

Woodrow F. Call
played by
Jon Voight

Season 1 Episodes 4

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