LONESOME DOVE: PART I: LEAVING (TV)
Summary
Part one of this four-part western mini-series about Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, two former Texas Rangers who pick up stakes in the small Texas town of Lonesome Dove to lead a perilous cattle drive to Montana. Playful, idle Gus and taciturn Woodrow lead a peaceful if uneventful life in Lonesome Dove with their young charge Newt, tending to chores and spending the occasional evening playing cards in the local saloon. This bucolic idyll is interrupted by the arrival of their old friend, Jake Spoon, a charming, hedonistic gambler, who is accompanied by the friendly and resourceful Joshua Deets. Spoon, wanted by the authorities for the accidental shooting death of a town mayor, suggests the men join forces and drive a herd of cattle to Montana, the "cattleman's paradise." Excited by the promise of a change in the routine, Woodrow organizes the men to undertake a cattle-rustling trip to Mexico and they pick up a pair of young Irishmen on the way. Meanwhile, back in Lonesome Dove, Spoon becomes involved with the beautiful, remote prostitute Lorena Wood, and friction arises when Gus successfully competes for her favors. Woodrow and Gus assemble a colorful crew and head out toward Montana with the purloined herd. Spoon and Lorena decide to travel to San Francisco, accompanying the drive as far as Denver; Lorena, however, begins to regret this plan as Spoon's loutish, selfish personality asserts itself on the trail. Unbeknownst to Spoon, July Johnson, the lawman brother of the slain mayor, has set off on the gambler's trail with his young son in tow. And Johnson has unexpected problems of his own: his peevish wife mysteriously runs away from home in her husband's absence and winds up on a whiskey boat full of violent, lusty thugs. On the trail, Gus and Woodrow encounter hardships, including a violent storm and the tragic death of one of the young Irishmen, a sentimental boy and quick friend of Newt's, who runs afoul of a nest of water moccasins while crossing a river. Commercials deleted.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Broadcast Music, Inc., in honor of Basil Poledouris, 1997.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: February 5, 1989 Sunday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:34:28
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:49203
- GENRE: Drama, western
- SUBJECT HEADING: Cattle drives - Drama; Drama, western; She Made It Collection (Suzanne de Passe)
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1989
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Suzanne de Passe … Executive Producer
- Bill Wittliff … Executive Producer, Writer
- Robert Halmi … Co-Executive Producer
- Michael Weisbarth … Supervising Producer
- Dyson Lovell … Producer
- Simon Wincer … Director
- Larry McMurtry … Based on the novel by
- Basil Poledouris … Music by
- Robert Duvall … Cast, Gus McCrae
- Tommy Lee Jones … Cast, Woodrow F. Call
- Danny Glover … Cast, Joshua Deets
- Diane Lane … Cast, Lorena Wood
- Robert Urich … Cast, Jake Spoon
- Frederic Forrest … Cast, Blue Duck
- D.B. Sweeney … Cast, Dish Boggett
- Ricky Schroder … Cast, Newt
- Anjelica Huston … Cast, Clara Allen
- Chris Cooper … Cast, July Johnson
- Tim Scott … Cast, Pea Eye Parker
- Glenne Headly … Cast, Elmira
- Barry Corbin … Cast, Roscoe Brown
- William Sanderson … Cast, Lippy Jones
- Barry Tubb … Cast, Jasper Fant
- Gavin O'Herlihy … Cast, Dan Suggs
- Steve Buscemi … Cast, Luke
- Frederick Coffin … Cast, Big Swey
- Travis Swords … Cast, Allen O'Brien
- Kevin O'Morrison … Cast, the Doctor
- Ron Weyand … Cast, Old Hugh
- Leon Singer … Cast, Bolivar
- Lanny Flaherty … Cast, Soupy Jones
- Pierre Epstein … Cast, Xavier Wanz
- David Carpenter … Cast, Needle Nelson
- Helena Humann … Cast, Peach Johnson
- Adam Faraizl … Cast, Joe Boot
- Bradley Gregg … Cast, Sean O'Brien
- John Quijada … Cast, Pedro Flores
- Max Evers … Cast, Charlie Barnes
- Wallace Merck … Cast, Fowler
- Sonny Carl Davis … Cast, Bert Borum
- James McMurtry … Cast, Jimmy Rainey
- Charlie Haynie … Cast, Ben Rainey
- Jimmy Pickens … Cast, Bill Spettle
- Terry McIlvain … Cast, Cowboy