Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
Starring Reese Witherspoon, Barbara Hershey, Oliver Reed
Directed by Miguel Rey
Return to Lonesome Dove, written by John Wilder, is a TV miniseries involving characters created in Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel Lonesome Dove. The story focuses on a retired Texas Ranger and his adventures driving mustangs from Texas to Montana. It is a sequel to the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove, but was not written by McMurtry, who instead wrote and published his own sequel novel Streets of Laredo in the same time frame.
It was nominated for an Emmy Award, and followed by two TV series, Lonesome Dove: The Series and Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years. Neither series lasted long.
McMurtry followed Streets of Laredo with two prequels, which with Laredo were also subsequently made into TV miniseries. Many fans of the Lonesome Dove series of novels do not consider Return to Lonesome Dove or the two derivative TV series to be canonical because of their divergence from McMurtry's storyline, and the apparent motivation of its production by the success of the original miniseries.
TV show
Rating: 6.6
 
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Genres: Drama,Western
Keywords: based on novel or book,montana,mexican standoff,texas ranger,sequel,miniseries,severed head,19th century
Cast
Ferris Dunnigan
Clara Allen
Gregor Dunnigan
Lord Henry
Martin
Lippy Jones
Isom Pickett
Woodrow F. Call
Agostina Vega
Nigel Winston, Cattleman's Alliance
Betsy Allen
Sara Pickett
Raab
Jasper Fant
Cowboy
Cherokee Jack Jackson
Captain Gideon Walker
Pea Eye Parker
Corporal
Newt Dobbs
July Johnson