Moore Sells Western To ABC
1 min readA new Western drama pitch by Star Trek Writer/Producer Ron Moore and Caprica‘s Matt Roberts has been purchased by ABC.
The new series is called Hangtown and would be set in the early 1900s.
Hangtown would be the story of “a frontier town that’s begun rapidly expanding with the coming of the railroad. It centers on three characters: the Marshal, a Matt Dillon/Clint Eastwood type who prefers to solve crimes by his instinct; a young doctor from the East Coast who is interested in using the new field of forensics to solve crimes; and a young woman writer who is trying to sell dime novels to the publishing houses in New York about crime in the Wild West. Every week the instincts of the Marshal, the science of the doctor, and the young woman’s drive to tell a rousing good yarn to her editors combine to solve crimes in a wide-open, lawless town.”
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