Hugh
O'Brian stars as the eponymous hero in this top-rated ABC Television series which
ran from 1955 until 1961. The series is loosely based on the real-life Wyatt Earp
The series begins with Earp in Ellsworth, Kansas, where he meets with Ned
Buntline who presents Marshal Earp with a pair of oversize Colt .45
revolvers with lengthened 16 inch barrels which Ned calls "Buntline
Specials". By season
two we find our hero in Dodge City, and in subsequent series he has travelled
to Tombstone.
The
consultant for the series is the journalist and writer Stuart N. Lake who actually
conducted a series of interviews with Wyatt Earp and these became the basis for
a biograpy entitled "Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal", published in 1931
and many of the stories in the television series are based on the book.
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