Doctor Who_ The Gunfighters - Donald Cotton [0]
Their method of transportation was a mite peculiar though. After all, a police box materialising out of thin air sure ain’t the usual way to enter a sedate town like
Tombstone…
And when the Doctor and his pardners meet up with Wyatt Earp and the notorious Clanton brothers, they soon find out that the scene is all set for high noon at the O.K. Corral...
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Illustration by Andrew Skilleter
Science fiction/TV tie-in
DOCTOR WHO
THE GUNFIGHTERS
Based on the BBC television serial by Donald Cotton by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation DONALD COTTON
Number 101
in the Doctor Who Library
A TARGET BOOK
published by
The Paperback Division of
W. H. Allen & Co. PLC
A Target Book
Published in 1985
by the Paperback Division of
W. H. Allen & Co. PLC
44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB
First published in Great Britain by
W. H. Allen & Co. PLC in 1985
Novelisation copyright © Donald Cotton, 1985
Original script copyright © Donald Cotton, 1966
‘Doctor Who’ series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1966, 1985
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Anchor Brendon Ltd, Tiptree, Essex
The BBC producer of The Gunfighters was Innes Lloyd, the director was Rex Tucker.
ISBN 0426 20195 7
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
For TAMSIN,
with coloured moon clouds
CONTENTS
Prologue
1 Landfall in Tombstone
2 The Last Chance
3 The Brief Carreer of Dead-shot Steve
4 A Funeral is Arranged
5 Notice to Quit
6 Identity Parade
7 Open Mouth Surgery
8 An Offer Refused
9 A Pardonable Error
10 A Little Night Music
11 And Some Durn Tootin’
12 Arrest Is As Good As A Change
13 The Red Hand of Tradition
14 The Law and Doc Holliday
15 A Very Nasty Little Incident
16 Wyatt Plays It By The Book
17 Pa Clanton Keeps a Welcome
18 Ringo in the Morning
19 Post Mortem
20 Thought For Feud
21 Dodo Draws a Bead
22 The Entry of the Gladiators
23 Come Sun-Up...
Epilogue
Prologue
The Sanatorium at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, was never a place you’d visit for your health: but, at least, the management would usually arrange for you to die there in some sort of comfort; which is better, to my way of thinking, than meeting your Maker in some gun-loud back alley, without the benefit of booze.
So, for a few dollars more, supplies of your favourite hooch could continue to rot what was left of your carcass; until the therapeutic sulphur fumes, for which the place was renowned, finally clogged your breath beyond redemption.
‘Tomb Service’, it was called, by the moribund inmates; for if a man can’t joke at a time like that, when in hell can he? Except in hell, of course.
On the other hand, if your credit ran out before your lungs caved in, too bad, pardner! Then you would just have to spend your last days repenting of the wild ways which had brought you here; and hope that some celestial Wells Fargo would carry the news of this timely remorse to Headquarters, before you finally filed your claim for admittance to that Great Bar Room in the sky. Oh, ho!
Those golden