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"Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957): Season 1: Episode 33 -- Paladin helps settle the dispute between a dead man's wife and business partner
"Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957): Season 1: Episode 30 -- When helping to promote a prizefighter, circumstances cause Paladin to take his place in the ring
"Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957): Season 1: Episode 19 -- Paladin offers to help investigate the death of a gold mine owner.
"Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957): Season 1: Episode 7 -- Paladin grants a dying nobleman's request to be returned to his homeland.
"Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957): Season 1: Episode 4 -- Paladin helps settle a cattle dispute between a peaceful Cherokee rancher and angry cattlemen.

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Seasons:
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Release Date:
14 September 1957 (USA) more
Genre:
Western more
Plot:
Professional gunfighter Paladin was a West Point graduate who, after the Civil War, settled into San... more
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. more
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Cast

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Richard Boone ... Paladin / ... (226 episodes, 1957-1963)
Kam Tong ... Hey Boy / ... (98 episodes, 1957-1963)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
30 min (226 episodes)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
USA:Approved | Argentina:Atp

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Trivia:
While many television series are taken from radio shows, the radio show “Have Gun Will Travel” with John Dehner as Paladin appeared after the television show. more
Quotes:
Paladin: I don't think you got a very good look at this gun while you had it. The balance is perfect. This trigger responds to a pressure of one ounce. If you look carefully in the barrel you'll see the lines of the rifling. It's a rarity in a hand weapon. This gun was handcrafted to my specifications and I rarely draw it unless I mean to use it. Would you care for a demonstration? more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Like Low Noon (#3.35)" (1962) more
Soundtrack:
Ballad of Paladin more

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27 out of 30 people found the following comment useful.
Half Hour Dramas, 20 February 2003
Author: schappe1 from N Syracuse NY

We are used to 40 years of hour-long dramas and half-hour comedies. We think those time limits were somehow decreed by God. But once upon a time, half hour dramas were common. I've got a large collection of Gunsmokes, (it was ½ hour for the first six years- the most popular year sit ever had), Have Gun Will Travels, as well as Naked City and Secret Agent, (Danger Man), both of which were ½ hour in their first seasons. So were many other shows, including man Westerns, like Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and the Rifleman. My experience is that these shows were uniformly strong and interesting and that they packed as much drama and action in 30 minutes as most shows do in 60. Occasionally, there's a plot that could have used some fleshing out and maybe an ending that seemed too pat, as if they lacked the time for something appropriately complex. One thing ½ hour dramas didn't do very well is allow for ensemble casts. They usually concentrate on single stars with supporting players mostly in the background and stock villains. There wasn't time for subtle shadings. The drama was as stark as a shoot-out.

Still, there are so many hour-90 minute and even two hour dramas I've seen over the years that were padded with irrelevant subplots, pointless red herrings and other nonsense that the spare, to the point storytelling of these early efforts has a strong appeal. Have Gun Will travel was probably the best of the half hour dramas because it was perfect for it. Other than Hey-Boy, (and Hey Girl), there was just one cast member- the Hero. He was a constant, allowing for all the character development to be about the villain, or perhaps whoever was threatened by him. Despite Paladin's efforts at avoiding violence, the show typically came down to the inevitable shoot-out, where he had even better luck than Matt Dillon, (he was wounded far fewer times). Into this form was injected a series of shot, pithy poetry reading by the Shakespearean trained Richard Boone. That, plus the complexity of the villains, made this show a cut above the many other westerns of it's time. Ironically, what the show did not do well was comedy. Boone's stoic visage registered disgust better than amusement and disgust isn't very funny.



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