Ep. 117 The OK Corral

So the Earps and the Clantons
Are aimin' to meet,
At the OK Corral
Near Calamity Street.
It's the OK Corral
Boys of gunfighting fame,
Where the Earps and the Clantons,
They played out the game.
They played out the game
And we nevermore shall,
Hear a story the like
Of the OK Corral!

   This turned out to be my least favorite historical to date, mostly due to the way that the Doctor and Steven were written.  Once I got over the bad American accents that the guest cast was sporting, I had to say that they were generally pretty good in their parts and were decently written.  Especially Doc Holliday.
   The Doctor is written as Lawful Stupid (a reference that may only be gotten by fellow gamers) and Steven just stupid.  I know that they are going for farce, but it worked much better in The Romans and The Myth Makers when the regular cast played it straighter and the situation they were in was farce.
   This was a good serial for Dodo for the most part.  She firmly held the idiot ball at the end of The Celestial Toymaker, but relinquished it to Steven for this story.  She is given a very nice bit with Holliday, forcing him, very politely, at gunpoint, to bring her back to tombstone.
   The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon became slightly more bearable as the story progressed.  If we were to watch all four episodes of this story in one sitting, I probably wouldn't feel the same way.