Best TV Shows Guide: Why Lonesome Dove Still Matters

Lonesome Dove (1989) — an evergreen reference for this TV series: the essentials, the cast, where to watch and what to watch next. The epic film as big as the west.

Where to watch

TMDB's U.S. watch-provider data lists Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Peacock Premium, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Peacock Premium Plus, Shout! Factory Amazon Channel. Availability changes by country and date, so check your streaming app before watching.

Cast

Robert Duvall as Augustus "Gus" McCrae; Tommy Lee Jones as Woodrow F. Call; Diane Lane as Lorena Wood Parker; Robert Urich as Jake Spoon; D. B. Sweeney as Dish Boggett; Danny Glover as Joshua Deets; Rick Schroder as Newt Dobbs; Glenne Headly as Elmira Boot Johnson

About Lonesome Dove

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.

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