Paradise (tv show cast)

American Western television series

For the British costume drama, see The Paradise (TV series). For the American political thriller, see Paradise (2025 TV series).

Paradise (later renamed Guns of Paradise) is an American family Western television series, broadcast by CBS from October 27, 1988, to May 10, 1991.

Created by David Jacobs and Robert Porter, the series presents the adventures of fictitious gunfighter Ethan Allen Cord, whose sister left her four children in his custody when she died.

Synopsis

Paradise, set from 1890 and on, starred Lee Horsley as Cord, a professional gunfighter who was forced to take custody of the four children of his sister Lucy (Kathryn Leigh Scott), a St.

Louis singer who was dying and unable to make any other arrangements for their care. Cord realized 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).

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