EXHIBIT 5.1
                            WILLIAM S. CLARKE, P.A.
                                ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
                   457  NORTH  HARRISON  STREET  -  SUITE 103
                        PRINCETON,  NEW  JERSEY   08540
                                   __________

                           TELEPHONE:  (609) 921-3663
                              FAX:  (609) 921-3933

                                  MAY 8, 1998


Gothic Production Corporation
5727 South Lewis Avenue - Suite 700
Tulsa, Oklahoma  74105


Gentlemen:

     I have acted as counsel for Gothic Production Corporation (the "Company")
in connection with the preparation of a Registration Statement filed by the
Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (File No. 333-__________)
relating to a proposed public offering of $235,000,000 principal amount of the
Company 11-1/8% Series B Senior Secured Notes due 2005 (the "Notes").

     In my capacity as counsel to you, I have examined the original, certified,
conformed photostats or xerox copies of all such agreements, certificates of
public officials, certificates of officers, representatives of the Company and
others and such other documents as I have deemed necessary or relevant as a
basis for the opinions herein expressed.  In all such examinations I have
assumed the genuineness of all signatures on original and certified documents
and the conformity to original and certified documents of all copies submitted
to me as conformed, photostat or duplicate copies.  As to various questions of
fact material to such opinions, I have relied upon statements or certificates of
officials and representatives of the Company and others.

     On the basis of such examination, I advise you that, in my opinion the
Notes when sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement will be the
binding obligations of the Company.

     I consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration
Statement and to the reference of my firm in the prospectus forming a part of
such Registration Statement.

                                          Very truly yours,

                                          William S. Clarke, P.A.


                                          By:    /s/ William S. Clarke
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                                              William S. Clarke