Paradise, also known as Guns of Paradise, was a family oriented western that originally aired on CBS from 1988 to 1991.   The story went something like this:

Ethan Allen Cord had lived his life by the code of the West -- a reluctant gunfighter who made a living guarding gold shipments and the like.  He enjoyed the freedom this life afforded and had no intentions of settling down. His life, quite simply, suited him.

All that changed, however, when four strangers arrived in Paradise looking for him.  They were his sister Lucy's children.  Believing Ethan to be a well-to-do merchant, she had sent the children to stay with him when she had fallen ill.

At first, Ethan wasn't keen on the arrangement.  He intended to send Claire, Joseph, Ben and George back to their mother as quickly as possible.  But this wasn't to be - his sister was dying.  Once again following the code of the West, Ethan did what he had to do.  He gave up his guns to try his hand at ranching and raising a family.

The first order of business was to get a ranch, which he did through the local banker, Amelia Lawson. Trouble was, he knew nothing at all about ranching, so Amelia was always checking up on her property (and the children). In truth, this simply gave her a convenient excuse to visit Ethan -- and he didn't really mind at all.

Unfortunately, giving up his guns was something easier said than done. Ethan's past as a hired gun was never far behind him and his heart of pure gold always made him the champion for justice.

Over the three year course of the series, the story followed the growing relationships between the Carroll children, Ethan and Amelia and how they handled the dangers of the wild west together.