A SUPERNATURAL prequel series?

Speaking with SCI FI Wire, Supernatural creator Eric Kripke says that he and the show's writers have been half-seriously mulling a prequel series set in the Old West that would follow the early days of the Colt pistol that can kill (almost) anything.

"When the writers and I are procrastinating in the room," Kripke says, "we sometimes discuss a possible Supernatural spinoff (...) a prequel that relates the adventures of Samuel Colt and the band of hunters who roamed the Old West. As I said, I consider Supernatural a kind of modern-day western, so it'd be cool to go all the way with it and make an actual horror western. And I like the idea that the Supernatural universe is a fleshed-out one with a history that goes back centuries. Who knows? Maybe one day I'll be able to tell that story."

I can sort of see it. But I can also see it lasting half a season. I'm having trouble remembering the last Old West network TV show that you could call a hit. Has there been anything since Dr. Quinn?

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