Lonesome Dove: Tales Of The Plains - Western chronicles of Newt Call, the son of Texas Ranger, Woodrow Call, whose fictional tales were featured on the western adventure LONESOME DOVE: THE SERIES/SYN/1994-95. On the first episode, an elderly Newt Call opened a leather bound volume of his book Lonesome Dove: Tales of the Plains and began to reminisce about his early days in the town of Curtis Wells. The program was based in part on the characters created by author Larry McMurtry from his novel Lonesome Dove and the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove starring Tommy Lee Jones as Woodrow Call and Ricky Schroder as Newt Dobbs, Woodrow's son.