Return to Lonesome Dove

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Return to Lonesome Dove
1993 newspaper advertisement for the miniseries
Written by	John Wilder
Directed by	Mike Robe
Starring	Jon Voight Barbara Hershey Rick Schroder
Music by	Ken Thorne
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Dyson Lovell
Cinematography	Kees Van Oostrum
Editor	Corky Ehlers
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	November 14 (1993-11-14) – November 17, 1993 (1993-11-17)
Related
Lonesome Dove Lonesome Dove: The Series
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Return to Lonesome Dove is a 1993 American four part television miniseries, written by John Wilder involving characters created in Larry McMurtry's Western novel Lonesome Dove which was broadcast by CBS and first aired on November 14–17, 1993.^[1] The story focuses on a retired Texas Ranger and his adventures driving mustangs from Texas to Montana. It was nominated for an Emmy Award, and followed by Lonesome Dove: The Series.

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. 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 and novels do not consider Return to Lonesome Dove nor the follow-up TV series to be canonical because of their divergence from McMurtry's storyline.