Lonesome Dove: A four-part Western often hailed as the finest miniseries

Lonesome Dove, a four-part CBS miniseries that aired in February 1989, adapts Larry McMurtry's 843-page Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Led by Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, the series has been called the finest miniseries ever made, won seven Primetime Emmys and ranks #151 on IMDb's Top 250 TV Shows.

The story follows retired Texas Rangers Gus McCrea and Woodrow Call as they escort a fugitive friend, Jake Spoon, on a 1,500-mile cattle drive to Montana. Split into four distinct 90-minute parts, it plays like four consecutive feature films and centers on the clash between Gus’s easygoing ways and Call’s strict code amid misadventures and dangerous rivals.

CBS supported the production with a $20 million budget and a 90-day shoot, partially filmed at Alamo Village to achieve a movie-caliber result.

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