The Alcoholic: The Sheriff in 'The Ripper' is always sipping from a flask or a glass of whiskey and even acknowledges himself a drunk.

Part of the reason the man is so quick to hand it over is because he has indeed been having bad luck since he got the gun.

While the fortune teller merely is trying to trick the man into giving her his (valuable looking) gun, that gun is the eponymous Dead Man's Gun and he really was in danger by having it. In 'The Fortune Teller' the eponymous character reads the fortune of a landowner (who allowed them to pass through his property) and tells him that his life will be in danger because of his gun.The fake gold mine in the second episode turns out to really have gold as the con artist is being chased through it by the people he cheated.

Accidental Murder: In 'Death Warrant', Bounty Hunter John Pike's troubles start when he gets in a shootout with an outlaw he is pursuing, and one of his wild shots hits and kills a young man in the street.

Of course, the gun itself may have had something to do with it. Despite not even looking where he is aiming, he hits the man at the far end of the street on a galloping horse.

Accidental Aiming Skills: In 'The Impostor', Leo reluctantly draws the gun and fires at at a fleeing bank robber.

In a similar fashion to The Twilight Zone, there are often twist endings to the stories. Each week, a different guest star would have the gun come into their possession in one way or another usually they end up dead. The executive producer was Henry Winkler.ĭead Man's Gun is about a pistol forged in hell which brings sorrow into the lives of those who possess it. Each episode was narrated by Kris Kristofferson.

The gun would change the life of whoever possessed it. The series followed the travels of a gun as it passed to a new character in each episode. Dead Man's Gun was a western anthology series that ran on Showtime from 1997 to 1999.

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