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Dead Man's Gun

TV·1997–1999·2 seasons, 44 episodes·Showtime·Western·30m·Created by Ed Spielman, Howard Spielman

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Dead Man's Gun is a western anthology series broadcast on Showtime from 1997 to 1999. The series follows the travels of a magical revolver as it passes to a new character in each episode. The gun would change the life of whomever possessed it.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Dead Man's Gun S01E15The MesmerizerS01E15 · 7.5without 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 husband's suffering. But as hubby sinks deeper and deeper into death, the hypnotist sees an opportunity to achieve fame by keeping conssciousness and motor nerves alive in a corpse, at the same time arresting decay, and creating an immortal dead man! Only after the wife finds out that she can't inherit anything as long as her husband is still considered alive, and the hypnotist finds out he can't remove the hypnotic state do things start to literally fall apart! The twist ending is particularly gruesome and ironically fitting

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Episodes by season

Season0122Episodes1997–98Aired 7.5Season avg
  1. S01E01The Great McdonacleMarch 2, 1997Harry McDonacle is part of a traveling group of performers going from town to town. Using a prop pistol which fires buckshot instead of bull
  2. S01E02Fool's GoldMarch 2, 1997A 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
  3. S01E03My Brother's KeeperMarch 2, 1997When 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 sho
  4. S01E04The ImposterJuly 13, 1997When 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
  5. S01E05Buryin' SamJuly 13, 1997Buryin' Sam (Larry Drake) and his partner (W. Pogue) are two dishonest morticians who steal from the dead. They soon begin to fight over th
  6. S01E06HighwaymanJuly 16, 1997When 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 l
  7. S01E07The Bounty HunterJuly 30, 1997A 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 f
  8. S01E08The Black WidowAugust 13, 1997A 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'
  9. S01E09The HealerAugust 20, 1997A 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 c
  10. S01E10Medicine ManSeptember 10, 1997When 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
  11. S01E11Next of KinOctober 1, 1997A 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 G
  12. S01E12Death WarrantOctober 15, 1997There'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
  13. S01E13Mail Order BrideOctober 22, 1997Aaron 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
  14. S01E14Fortune TellerOctober 29, 1997Will 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
  15. S01E15Dead Man's Gun S01E15The MesmerizerJanuary 7, 1998 7.5without acknowledgement to Edgar Allen Poe's ""The Facts In The Case of M. Valdemar"", this bizarre tale is of a womanizing hypnotist who fa
  16. S01E16Stagecoach MartyJanuary 14, 1998Marty (JoBeth Williams) is a woman stagecoach robber with a sordid past. When she comes across the Dead Man's Gun she considers using it fo
  17. S01E17The PhotographerJanuary 17, 1998A photographer, seeking fame and fortune, discovers that action follows the Dead Man's Gun and decides to follow it to reap the benefits. B
  18. S01E18The Resurrection of Joe WheelerJanuary 28, 1998Joe 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
  19. S01E19The GamblerFebruary 4, 1998When 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 wi
  20. S01E20The DeserterFebruary 11, 1998When his cavalry platoon is ambushed by Indians with red bandanas in a corn field, Lt. Matthew Ryan cowardly hides and watches them, includi
  21. S01E21Wages of SinFebruary 18, 1998When 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
  22. S01E22Snake FingerFebruary 25, 1998Stuart ""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

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0222Episodes1998–99AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01The Judgement of Joe Dean BonnerAugust 7, 1998Joe Dean Bonner (Brian Austin Green) is a professional killer who cares for nothing but himself. After his latest killing, he rides into a
  2. S02E02Ties That BindAugust 14, 1998Blood 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 D
  3. S02E03Sheep's ClothingAugust 21, 1998The 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 w
  4. S02E04Winner Takes AllSeptember 4, 1998An 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
  5. S02E05Sisters of MercySeptember 11, 1998Kendall Cross (as Sister Elizabeth) and Susan Hogan (as Sister Katherine) are two criminals making their way west dressed as nuns, robbing b
  6. S02E06HangmanSeptember 18, 1998Phineas 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
  7. S02E07The CollectorSeptember 25, 1998A German collector of antiquities (Michael York) travels to the American west in search of goods to trade for, with the hopes of taking his
  8. S02E08The TrapperOctober 2, 1998A man with no appreciation for nature begins trapping near the home of old native, Charlie Three Claws (Gordon Tootoosis), and becomes enrag
  9. S02E09The MimsersOctober 9, 1998An English couple flee to America after being caught stealing from their employers, and soon find a new victim in a scatterbrained old Colon
  10. S02E10The PinkertonOctober 30, 1998When 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
  11. S02E11Seven Deadly SinsNovember 6, 1998The 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 respons
  12. S02E12The RipperNovember 27, 1998When a bizarre slashing murder takes place in a small western town, an English inspector soon turns up asking questions about the crime. It
  13. S02E13The RegulatorJanuary 22, 1999When a Regulator comes across the Dead Man's Gun, he believes he is set for life ... until other Regulators come after HIM!
  14. S02E14The WomanizerJanuary 29, 1999Patrick 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 c
  15. S02E15SleepwalkerFebruary 5, 1999Gruesome, 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 t
  16. S02E16Four of a KindFebruary 12, 1999Years 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 Dea
  17. S02E17The OathFebruary 19, 1999A woman helps carry out an oath she made to her murdered husband ... thanks to the Dead Man's Gun!
  18. S02E18The Good ChefFebruary 26, 1999Chef Emil (Jay Thomas) gets the cash for his dream of setting up his own high class French restaurant by poisoning his employers, and also i
  19. S02E19The VineMarch 5, 1999An Italian immigrant, on his way to California with a grapevine from his family's winery in Italy, comes across a group of murdered people a
  20. S02E20Bad BoysMarch 12, 1999Three 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, whos
  21. S02E21The PhrenologistMarch 19, 1999C. 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,
  22. S02E22A Just RewardMarch 26, 1999An outlaw (William Forsythe) retrieves the Dead Man's Gun by murdering its latest owners for a mysterious, eccentric, incredibly rich man, k

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