All Yellowstone Duttonverse TV Shows In Order
The Western has a long and storied tradition in television, from old-school interpretations like 1957’s Wagon Train and Have Gun, Will Travel to more contemporary, Texas-based shows like 1978’s Dallas. In 2013, actor Taylor Sheridan started pitching a film he equated to “The Godfather in Montana” he called Yellowstone. The series would follow the lives of a Montana rancher named John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and his family, chronicling how he navigated the changing world of ranching on his Yellowstone estate and dealing with in-fighting between his three grown children.
When the film idea didn’t pan out, Sheridan turned it into a TV series that HBO acquired but didn’t do anything with. After Sheridan obtained the property from HBO in 2017, he approached Viacom, who were looking for content for their new cable channel, the Paramount Network. Yellowstone became the first scripted series Paramount Network greenlit, debuting in 2018 and finding ratings success. By the time season 4 debuted, the series had amassed 12.7 million viewers.
Before Yellowstone ended its run in 2024, the universe it inhabited documenting the Duttons and their ancestors had already expanded. In 2021, the prequel series 1883 arrived. Following John Dutton’s great-grandfather James Dillard Dutton (Tim McGraw), 1883 showcased how the Dutton Ranch in Montana was initially settled. The following year in 2022, the next spin-off series, 1923 arrived. Leaping forward 40 years from 1883, this series focused on John Dutton’s great-uncle Jacob and aunt Cara (Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, respectively).
In March of 2026, CBS premiered its first true Yellowstone spin-off, Marshalls. This was the first series directly associated with John Dutton’s children, specifically his youngest son Kayce (Luke Grimes), and his work with an elite team of U.S. Marshals. And on May 15th, Paramount+ unveiled Dutton Ranch, a spin-off looking at John’s only daughter Beth (Kelly Reilly) and her husband Rip (Cole Hauser) as they leave the Yellowstone ranch behind to start over in Texas. The series’ first season earned a Certified Fresh 89% on the Tomatometer and an 83% on the Popcornmeter. Nick Schager of The Daily Beast called it “the most straightforward and satisfying franchise entry since the original.”
If you’ve never caught any of the Duttonverse shows but you’d like to see what all the fuss is about, here’s how you can watch all of the series in chronological order, starting with good old James Dillard Dutton and continuing up to the present day.
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