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The Dakotas

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Dakotas is a western television series that ran for only 20 episodes on ABC in 1963. It starred Larry Ward as Federal Marshal Frank Ragan, and Jack Elam, Chad Everett and Mike Greene as his three deputies: JD Smith, Del Stark and Vance Porter. The show followed Ragan and his deputies as they tried to keep law and order in the Dakota Territory.Noticeably darker and more morally ambiguous than many contemporary Western series, The Dakotas was eventually cancelled due to the episode "Sanctuary at Crystal Springs", in which Del and JD shoot two murderous outlaws inside a church. Viewers wrote angry letters of complaint, and the network pulled the plug.
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 Beauty Equals Goodness
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 Beauty = Goodness: Averted. Several beautiful female characters were revealed to be rotten to the core. JD Smith was described as "the ugliest man you ever saw", but was very much one of the good guys.
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 Always Gets His Man
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 Always Gets His Man: Ragan, to the hilt. Incorruptible and morally certain that the lawful way was the best way to do things.
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 Broken Pedestal
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 Broken Pedestal: JD's mentor from his criminal days, with whom he had a father/son relationship, tries to lure him back to his life of crime, and is eventually willing to shoot him to save his own skin.
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 By-the-Book Cop
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 By-the-Book Cop: Ragan. He is severe on any of his deputies if they deviate from the letter of the law. Ragan is shown to believe passionately in the civilising effects of law and order in The Wild West, and believes that lawmen who break the rules are a corrosive force.
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 Berserk Button
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 Berserk Button: Deputy Vance Porter did not like to see anyone small and/or vulnerable bullied or threatened.
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