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Paradise
Ethan Cord with the Carroll kids
Also known as	Guns of Paradise
Genre	Western
Created by	David Jacobs
Starring	Lee Horsley Jenny Beck Matthew Newmark Brian Lando Michael Patrick Carter Sigrid Thornton Dehl Berti
Composer(s)	Christopher Klatman
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	56
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	27 October 1988 – 10 May 1991
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Paradise (Guns of Paradise), was an American western family television series, broadcast by CBS from 1988 to 1991. It was also broadcast in syndication by The Family Channel for a couple years following its cancellation.

The series presents the adventures of fictitious gunfighter Ethan Allen Cord, whose sister left her four children in his custody when she died.

Paradise starred Lee Horsley as Cord, a professional gunfighter who was forced to take custody of the four children of his sister, a Saint Louis singer who was dying and unable to make any other arrangements for their care. Cord realized that his profession was unsuitable to child rearing and decided to change, renting a farm from Amelia Lawson (Sigrid Thornton), who also owned the local bank in the small town of Paradise, California (the origin of the title). Ethan tried to live a peaceful life, but was constantly haunted by his violent past and frequently called upon by the townspeople to defend them from lawlessness. Cord was close friends with John Taylor (Dehl Berti), a Native American medicine man, who often provided him with wise counsel and insights into human nature.

In the third and final season some changes were made. A new opening sequence introduced the series' new name, Guns of Paradise, an apparent attempt to remind viewers that the program, despite its title, was in fact a Western. Cord and Amelia were now engaged and in the process of building a new house, and Cord was in the process of achieving an official appointment to be the town's marshal, the role he had essentially been fulfilling unofficially.

In a memorable two-part episode, Gene Barry and Hugh O'Brian recreated their famous 1950s television roles of legendary gunslingers Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp.

Despite a loyal fan base and critical acclaim, the series was canceled in 1991 amid low viewer numbers in yet another example of America's current distaste for Westerns. "Paradise" was eventually replaced by the much more successful but less acclaimed, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

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• Paradise at the Internet Movie Database
• EpGuides