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(More customer reviews)"The Gunfighters" is hardly one of William Hartnell's best "Doctor Who" stories. In fact, this story, in which the Doctor (Hartnell), Steven (Peter Purves) and Dodo (Jackie Lane) get mixed up in the legendary Gunfight At The OK Corral, had the reputation for many years as being the all-time worst "Doctor Who" story ever made! It's horribly acted (with the exception of the three leads), with several supporting actors doing horrible American accents (or not even trying to), the script is poorly written, the direction is misguided, and the big final gunfight is horribly staged (all that shooting at each other at close range and *missing*---pathetic!). And then there's that annoying song about The Last Chance Saloon that plays over and over and over and OVER again throughout the whole damm story!
But the one saving grace of "The Gunfighters" is that it's funny, even if most of the laughs are unintentional. Hartnell and Purves are both a hoot in this one---the Doctor and his amusing toothache problem, and Steven hilariously being forced to sing "The Last Chance Saloon" song at gunpoint---and, of course, the mistakes I've mentioned above. And, to it's credit, the story never commits the crime of being boring. "The Gunfighters" is a trainwreck, but at least it's a funny, entertaining trainwreck. A masterpiece it ain't, but, in it's own very strange, very goofball way, "The Gunfighters" still manages to be fun. In short, it's the best bad "Doctor Who" story ever made. How's that for a review?
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