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COLLECTION · Series · 1997

Dead Man's Gun

Dead Man's Gun was a western anthology series that ran on Showtime from 1997 to 1999. The series followed the travels of a gun as it passed to a new character in each episode. The gun would change the life of whomever possessed it. Each episode was narrated by Kris Kristofferson. The executive producer was Henry Winkler.

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* 5.0 (12)WesternUnited States · Canada
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Creators
Ed Spielman · Howard Spielman
Countries
United States · Canada
Studios
Showtime · Alliance Films · MGM Television · Sugar Entertainment Ltd.
Runtime
30 min/ep
Age rating
TV-14
Release
02/03/1997
Score
5.0 / 10 (12)
Where to watch
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
22 episodes · 1997
Episode 1. The Great Mcdonacle
1997-03-02 · 30 min

Harry McDonacle is part of a traveling group of performers going from town to town. Using a prop pistol which fires buckshot instead of bullets, he never misses his target. That is until he runs into the Dead Man's Gun.

Episode 2. Fool's Gold
1997-03-02 · 30 min

A con man finds the Dead Man's Gun and the claim to what he believes is a barren mine, which he sells to a half-wit (Matt Frewer), but soon regrets it when the the half-wit shows up in town with gold nuggets to deposit. He quickly…

Episode 3. My Brother's Keeper
1997-03-02 · 30 min

When two brothers find the Dead Man's Gun on a skeleton, one of them develops a fascination with it and soon is forced to kill the local shootist in a duel. After this, he takes up with a gold-digging harlot, who, along with her shifty…

Episode 4. The Imposter
1997-07-13 · 30 min

When Leo Sunshine discovers the Dead Man's Gun and is mistaken for a man to be feared, he decides to play along and enjoy his new-found fame. But Wild Joe knows the truth about Leo and the powers of the Dead Man's Gun, and when he…

Episode 5. Buryin' Sam
1997-07-13 · 30 min

Buryin' Sam (Larry Drake) and his partner (W. Pogue) are two dishonest morticians who steal from the dead. They soon begin to fight over their latest find, the Dead Man's Gun, and the hand of a beautiful widow. When he's found out by a…

Episode 6. Highwayman
1997-07-16 · 30 min

When a Highwayman comes across the Dead Man's Gun, his job becomes a lot more difficult than he ever could have imagined. His Highway now leads directly into the fires of hell.

Episode 7. The Bounty Hunter
1997-07-30 · 30 min

A meek store owner seeks adventure in his life, and, after finding the Dead Man's Gun, aspires to become a bountie hunter, even though his friend the shootist tells him to get rid of the evil weapon. He, of course, does not listen, and…

Episode 8. The Black Widow
1997-08-13 · 30 min

A mysterious woman tends to get ahead in life by killing off her husbands and taking their money ... but when she comes across the Dead Man's Gun she just might get a taste of her own ""medicine"".

Episode 9. The Healer
1997-08-20 · 30 min

A faith healer arrives in town and begins bilking the people out of their money. But when he lays his hands on the Dead Man's Gun (having convinced a wife-beating, murdering scoundrel to turn his gun over and begin a new life ... little…

Episode 10. Medicine Man
1997-09-10 · 30 min

When a woman doctor arrives she is faced with a serious dilemma. Will she be able to save the small town from a mysterious illness, a shady mayor, and the Dead Man's Gun?

Episode 11. Next of Kin
1997-10-01 · 30 min

A peace-loving man seeks revenge against the men who killed his family in this episode. But will he himself fall victim to the Dead Man's Gun in the process?

Episode 12. Death Warrant
1997-10-15 · 30 min

There's nothing quite like a women scorned. Kate Jackson is out for vengeance in this exciting episode, and she just might get it with the help of her new gun ... The Dead Man's Gun!

Episode 13. Mail Order Bride
1997-10-22 · 30 min

Aaron Freemont (Meat Loaf) is a lonely and awkward man, but when his mail order bride finally arrives in town he grows much happier with her, and falls in love. But when he comes across the Dead Man's Gun, will he be able to defeat the…

Episode 14. Fortune Teller
1997-10-29 · 30 min

Will the rambling predictions of a mysterious Fortune Teller come to pass, or can a man still save himself from the clutches of the Dead Man's Gun? Of course, when you're dealing with the Dead Man's Gun, it's pretty easy to predict…

The Mesmerizer
Episode 15. The Mesmerizer
1998-01-07 · 30 min

without acknowledgement to Edgar Allen Poe's ""The Facts In The Case of M. Valdemar"", this bizarre tale is of a womanizing hypnotist who falls for the wife of a dying millionare. She persuades the hypnotist to use his talent to ease her…

Episode 16. Stagecoach Marty
1998-01-14 · 30 min

Marty (JoBeth Williams) is a woman stagecoach robber with a sordid past. When she comes across the Dead Man's Gun she considers using it for the evil purpose of revenge, but will she be able to sort out her past without ruining her…

Episode 17. The Photographer
1998-01-17 · 30 min

A photographer, seeking fame and fortune, discovers that action follows the Dead Man's Gun and decides to follow it to reap the benefits. But after winning aclaim for capturing an amazing picture of the execution of 14-year old outlaw…

Episode 18. The Resurrection of Joe Wheeler
1998-01-28 · 30 min

Joe Wheeler is a dead man ... or is he? Either he's dead, or he's back and looking for revenge against his enemies. The lines tend to get skewed when you're dealing with the Dead Man's Gun!

Episode 19. The Gambler
1998-02-04 · 30 min

When a no-good gambler comes across the Dead Man's Gun, he convinces himself that he just can't lose. But we all know that when you deal with the Dead Man's Gun, you're in for a surprise. In the biggest game of his life, the tables get…

Episode 20. The Deserter
1998-02-11 · 30 min

When his cavalry platoon is ambushed by Indians with red bandanas in a corn field, Lt. Matthew Ryan cowardly hides and watches them, including the man who saved his own life, Sgt. O'Connor, get slaughtered. After the bloodbath he picks…

Episode 21. Wages of Sin
1998-02-18 · 30 min

When the Reverend Jeremiah Early (Tim Matheson) comes to town he plans on taking them for all the money he can and splitting, until he spots a beautiful woman. With the help of the Dead Man's Gun he does way with her man so he can have…

Episode 22. Snake Finger
1998-02-25 · 30 min

Stuart ""Snake Finger"" Aikens (Matt Craven) is a professional safe-cracker by trade, who's had no use for a weapon until he finds the Dead Man's Gun. The Sheriff hot on his heals has no hope of catching this tricky thief, who is right…

Season 2
Season 2
22 episodes · 1998
Episode 1. The Judgement of Joe Dean Bonner
1998-08-07 · 30 min

Joe Dean Bonner (Brian Austin Green) is a professional killer who cares for nothing but himself. After his latest killing, he rides into a strange town populated by only one man, who he obtains the Dead Man's gun from. Soon, Bonner is…

Episode 2. Ties That Bind
1998-08-14 · 30 min

Blood is thicker than water as two brothers wrestle with each other over what they should do when one of them falls under the spell of The Dead Man's Gun, after finding it on a body. Will his brother be able to save him, and himself,…

Episode 3. Sheep's Clothing
1998-08-21 · 30 min

The town push-over, a school teacher, turns his life around when he discovers the Dead Man's Gun on a killed outlaw. He no longer puts up with the bullying of his peers, but ends up becoming a bully himself. Can he turn his life back…

Episode 4. Winner Takes All
1998-09-04 · 30 min

An aging manager and his talented pugilist travel town to town, winning money by boxing. They arrive one day in a boxing tycoon's town and quickly make waste of his best boxer; demanding a chance to win back his money, and the Dead Man's…

Episode 5. Sisters of Mercy
1998-09-11 · 30 min

Kendall Cross (as Sister Elizabeth) and Susan Hogan (as Sister Katherine) are two criminals making their way west dressed as nuns, robbing bad men on their way to a gold town. When they reach their destination they realize that the town…

Episode 6. Hangman
1998-09-18 · 30 min

Phineas Newman (Winkler) is a hangman by trade. Ostracized by the rest of society for his work, he takes pride in it, and strives to be the best executioner money can by. He explains to his assistant that he does his job because, as a…

Episode 7. The Collector
1998-09-25 · 30 min

A German collector of antiquities (Michael York) travels to the American west in search of goods to trade for, with the hopes of taking his riches back to Germany. He finds the Dead Man's Gun on a dead body while scavenging for goods,…

Episode 8. The Trapper
1998-10-02 · 30 min

A man with no appreciation for nature begins trapping near the home of old native, Charlie Three Claws (Gordon Tootoosis), and becomes enraged when Charlie begins springing his traps before animals can fall prey to them. The trapper…

Episode 9. The Mimsers
1998-10-09 · 30 min

An English couple flee to America after being caught stealing from their employers, and soon find a new victim in a scatterbrained old Colonel, who enjoys shooting at squirrels with the Dead Man's Gun. They worry that their employer may…

Episode 10. The Pinkerton
1998-10-30 · 30 min

When a wife and mother is murdered, and the local law can not find the killer, her widower calls in expert help in the form of John Eastman (Michael Dorn), a talented Pinkerton investigator. Eastman has troubles during his investigation,…

Episode 11. Seven Deadly Sins
1998-11-06 · 30 min

The prodigal son returns to his small-town roots just in time to miss his father's funeral. He inherits half the bank, but he wants responsibility to run it, which has been left to his responsible brother. However, destitute, having…

Episode 12. The Ripper
1998-11-27 · 30 min

When a bizarre slashing murder takes place in a small western town, an English inspector soon turns up asking questions about the crime. It is soon divulged that he is hot on the trail of Jack the Ripper, and thinks the killer is in the…

Episode 13. The Regulator
1999-01-22 · 30 min

When a Regulator comes across the Dead Man's Gun, he believes he is set for life ... until other Regulators come after HIM!

Episode 14. The Womanizer
1999-01-29 · 30 min

Patrick Duffy is a Womanizer. When the husband of one of his flings tracks him down, and dies after being thrown off his horse during the chase, the Womanizer loots his wallet, and picks up The Dead Man's Gun. Can he mend his ways, or…

Episode 15. Sleepwalker
1999-02-05 · 30 min

Gruesome, unmotivated killings soon begin to take place in a small town after a man finds the Dead Man's Gun, and soon he become convinced that he is performing the deeds himself while sleepwalking. His wife stays awake to watch him, but…

Episode 16. Four of a Kind
1999-02-12 · 30 min

Years after the town hooligan and three of his men murder a young woman's husband simply for beating them at poker, she returns with the Dead Man's Gun, seeking revenge. She leaves an Ace at each dead man's side, and soon a showdown is…

Episode 17. The Oath
1999-02-19 · 30 min

A woman helps carry out an oath she made to her murdered husband ... thanks to the Dead Man's Gun!

Episode 18. The Good Chef
1999-02-26 · 30 min

Chef Emil (Jay Thomas) gets the cash for his dream of setting up his own high class French restaurant by poisoning his employers, and also inherits the Dead Man's Gun. An ill-tempered man, he treats the people of the town terribly, but…

Episode 19. The Vine
1999-03-05 · 30 min

An Italian immigrant, on his way to California with a grapevine from his family's winery in Italy, comes across a group of murdered people and takes the lone survivor, a Polish woman with nowhere to go, under his wing, and the Dead Man's…

Episode 20. Bad Boys
1999-03-12 · 30 min

Three young boys find the Dead Man's Gun and use it to become tough, and to get money by rolling the town drunk. But one of the boy's, whose mother needs money, considers using it to kill his drunken, abusive father, but he can't bring…

Episode 21. The Phrenologist
1999-03-19 · 30 min

C. Thomas Howell is a habberdasher and phrenologist; a city boy who leaps at whatever the latest big-city fad is. He hires a new assistant, who has just witnessed an outlaw being bucked off his horse into quicksand and could not save…

Episode 22. A Just Reward
1999-03-26 · 30 min

An outlaw (William Forsythe) retrieves the Dead Man's Gun by murdering its latest owners for a mysterious, eccentric, incredibly rich man, known only as Mr. Smith. Upon delivery of the gun, the outlaw is treated to several stories about…

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