Miniseries · CBS
Lonesome Dove
The epic film as big as the west.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Robert Duvall
Augustus "Gus" McCrae
4 eps
Tommy Lee Jones
Woodrow F. Call
4 eps
Diane Lane
Lorena Wood Parker
4 eps
Robert Urich
Jake Spoon
4 eps
D. B. Sweeney
Dish Boggett
4 eps
Danny Glover
Joshua Deets
4 eps
Rick Schroder
Newt Dobbs
4 eps
Glenne Headly
Elmira Boot Johnson
4 eps
Steve Buscemi
Luke
4 eps
Anjelica Huston
Clara Forsythe Allen
4 eps
Frederic Forrest
Blue Duck
4 eps
Barry Corbin
Roscoe Brown
4 eps
Chris Cooper
July Johnson
4 eps
William Sanderson
Lippy Jones
4 eps
Timothy Scott
Pea Eye Parker
4 eps
Barry Tubb
Jasper Fant
4 eps
Gavan O'Herlihy
Dan Suggs
4 eps
Frederick Coffin
Big Zwey
4 eps
Travis Swords
Allan O'Brien
4 eps
Kevin O'Morrison
Doctor
4 eps
Ron Weyand
Old Hugh
4 eps
Lanny Flaherty
Soupy Jones
4 eps
James McMurtry
Jimmy Rainey
4 eps
Sonny Carl Davis
Bert Borum
4 eps
Pierre Epstein
Xavier Wanz
1 eps
Helena Humann
Peach Johnson
1 eps
John Quijada
Pedro Flores
1 eps
Max Evers
Charlie Barnes
1 eps
Wallace Merck
Fowler
1 eps
Robert Donley
Old Sam
1 eps
Matthew Cowles
Monkey John
1 eps
David Ode
Dog Face
1 eps
O-Lan Jones
Sally Skull (as Olan Jones)
1 eps
Paul James Vasquez
Buffalo Hunter
1 eps
Brandon Smith
Bartender
1 eps
Jordan Lund
Hutto
1 eps
Matthew Posey
Jim #1
1 eps
Gene Sovo
Ermoke
1 eps
Michael Tylo
Dee Boot
1 eps
Nada Despotovich
Mary
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Lonesome Dove actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Lonesome Dove reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Leaving
Larry McMurtry's saga opens with two former Texas Rangers beginning a cattle drive to Montana.
- Directed by Simon Wincer
- Written by William D. Wittliff
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E03
The Plains
- Directed by Simon Wincer
- Written by William D. Wittliff
S01E02
On the Trail
- Directed by Simon Wincer
- Written by William D. Wittliff
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- William D. WittliffExecutive Producer
- Robert Halmi Jr.Producer
- Michael WeisbarthProducer
- Suzanne de PasseExecutive Producer
- Dyson LovellProducer
Writing
- William D. WittliffWriter
Direction
- Simon WincerDirector
Cinematography
- Douglas MilsomeDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
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