The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Shooting Starts
TV Flash files “The Shooting Starts” as hour 217 of 226 in the TV Flash guide — The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961) on ABC, season 6, episode 28, aired 1961-04-18, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E28: listed hour 217 of 226 in the The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp guide, hour 28 of 37 in season 6. It aired 1961-04-18 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Until Proven Guilty” (S06E27). Next is “Wyatt Earp's Baby” (S06E29).
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Shooting Starts sit in the The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp guide?
S06E28 is listed hour 217 of 226 — hour 28 of 37 in season 6, season 6 episode 28.
When did The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp S06E28 air?
The Shooting Starts aired 1961-04-18 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with O'Brian's upright marshal as the career path moves town to town — the Buntline Special is the visual, the badge is the plot.
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Why this series still plays
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is Hugh O'Brian's Buntline Special justice: a badge polished for prime time, Earp's path across towns rather than pure wandering. Watch it now as the adult-western pioneer that hit big the same week as Gunsmoke — upright marshal myth before revisionism got the keys.
The work is a badge polished across towns. Hugh O'Brian's Wyatt Earp keeps order from Ellsworth to Dodge to Tombstone on ABC's *The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp* (1955–1961), a more serialized climb through the lawman's career than pure anthology wandering. Six seasons, on the order of 229–232 episodes in the record (226 in this catalog file), Buntline Special mythos, Mason Alan Dinehart's Bat Masterson, Douglas Fowley's Doc Holliday, the Clanton orbit tightening toward the O.K. Corral. History as half-hour…
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- Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp
Hugh O'Brian's Wyatt Earp polished a Buntline Special for prime time — The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as adult-western pioneer, a badge walking towns rather than pure wandering, the same-week giant as Gunsmoke. Upright marshal myth…
- Mason Alan Dinehart as Bat Masterson
Mason Alan Dinehart wore the other legend as Bat Masterson on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp — Hugh O’Brian’s Buntline Special justice, a badge polished for prime time, Earp’s path across towns rather than pure wandering. Adult-western…
- Douglas Fowley as Doc Holliday
Douglas Fowley played Doc Holliday opposite Hugh O'Brian's marshal on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp — Buntline Special justice, town-to-town badge myth, and adult-western pioneer heat the same week as Gunsmoke. TV Flash files him as…