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Lonesome Dove

1989CBSDrama

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Basil Poledouris scoring a cattle drive from Texas to Montana — the miniseries that proved the western was not finished after all.

Lonesome Dove opens with a main title sequence of 126 seconds.

At 126 seconds, it opens well above the 50-second median for drama sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on CBS in 1989, when Candid Camera, Guiding Light and As the World Turns were also on the network.

1 sequence11th most looked up of 248 in the 1980sIMDb ↗
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Season 1

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The opening credits.

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