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Genesis
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Paladin is assaulted in his room at the Hotel Carlton. In a furious fight, he beats down his attacker, Roderick Jefferson. The young man, it turns out, had gambling debts he couldn't repay; the holder of his gambling IOUs wanted Jefferson to kill Paladin. This spurs Paladin to tell Jefferson of a similar occurrence -- involving himself 10 years earlier. As that story unfolds, we learn that Paladin (whose real name we're never told) owed $15,000 to Norge. Paladin's only way out was to go to a valley, entirely owned by Norge, to challenge the mysterious Smoke to a duel....
Taylor's Woman
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A hen-pecked rancher, in San Francisco to marry his housekeeper, hires Paladin to help him get out doing so. For $1.000 he wants him to help break up the holy bonds of matrimony - before they can be forged. What he attempts to do is not quite what either of them had bargained for.
The Fifth Bullet
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After eight years, Paladin tries to repay a convict for the lie he was told when he arrested him. 'I promise you a fair trial' is what he said. The old man who turned that into a lie still wants him dead even from the grave. So he sends five to avenge him - or was it only four?
Place for Abel Hix
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Hix sends for Paladin. When he arrives in town, he finds that Hix was killed in a gunfight even though he's the fastest man with gun who ever lived.
Beau Geste
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A newspaper article and some money, sent to Paladin, tells of a Sheriff who is retiring. His reputation with a gun brings out those with a grudge or wanting to just make a name for themselves. Now he must find whoever sent it to him so he can help that sheriff before it is too late.
The Bird of Time
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Paladin rides upon a man named Stryker hanging from a tree. When he learns Paladin is after the same man but with a warrant, he says he has stronger reasons and hopes he won't get in his way. Later Paladin helps the man, now wounded and in his custody, get to what he remembers as a friendly place called Sky Blue.
Memories of Monica
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Repaying a debt, Paladin rides to Valley Heart. Sheriff Reagan awaits the return of a native son who has been jailed for the past six years. The sheriff's wife was once this native son's girlfriend, and he has vowed to see Reagan dead for taking her from him.
The Predators
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Paladin is after a man suspected of killing a marshal. After finally capturing him in the desert he claims his innocence. But he finds he may have to enlist his aid as they are without a horse, almost out of water and a group of bandit marauders are nearby.
Shootout at Hogtooth
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Hogtooth gets more ridicule than usual, when 3 gunmen take over the town, after cleaning it up. Each was hired in secret by a town council member, so the enforcers band together to suck Hogtooth dry. Hey Boy spots an article about the dilemma, and tells Mr. Paladin he's needed.
A Miracle for St. Francis
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Paladin rides to the San Luis Rey church in search of a very old brandy. When he is asked by the Padre to retrieve a statue of worship, they strike a bargain where they both may get what they want.
Marshal of Sweetwater
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Paladin's old army scout buddy is now the town marshal with his own rules. He has become an overbearing tyrant. The new lady saloon owner challenges his authority and Paladin notices the marshal's one weakness- women.
Man in an Hourglass
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A doctor who once saved Paladin's life calls upon him to find and safely bring back the son of a one-time sweetheart.The young man has 'taken to the hills' to track down his father's killer.Paladin locates the headstrong youth and his prey but finds the return trip will not be easy-the wanted man has four trailing confederates.
Penelope
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Paladin meets a drunken Col Lacey at the Carlton. He is there fearful of going home to his lovely wife after being away for some time seeking his fortune. Will she be as loving and faithful as he has been? Paladin decides to help him find out, regardless of the consequences.
Trial at Tablerock
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Adams, the prosecutor, wants to hire Paladin to rid the town of someone he says is getting away with murder. When this person is tried for a killing Paladin witnesses, he offers his services as defense when no one else wants the job.
Be Not Forgetful of Strangers
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Paladin rides into a Texas town at Christmas time and encounters a saloon full of merrymakers. Soon afterward a cowboy brings in a pregnant girl who may not survive the impending birth. The town doctor is down for his annual drunken stupor. Paladin tries to enlist help but the the patrons would rather party.
The Treasure
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Jess Harden, about to be released from prison for an $80K robbery he says he didn't commit, returns to the same town not knowing that it's a ghost town. He plans to meet his wife there. She wants Paladin there as well to ward off anyone who believes he does have the money after all.
Brotherhood
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Abe and Jim Redrock are both well educated. The only problem they always run into is they are also Indians. Abe stays true to his heritage, causing trouble for the elected sheriff of Latigo, his brother Jim.
Bob Wire
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Bob Wire hires Paladin, C.O.D., to escort him and his wagon load of barb wire to Anderson. What he doesn't say until they arrive is a range war is brewing and Paladin is now right in the middle of it.
Debutante
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Mrs Quincy longs to see her granddaughter who has been away since she was six. When her daughter and husband died in the mine fields, she was taken in. Now betrothed to be married, Paladin is hired to ensure she is this long lost relative.
Unforgiving Minute
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Fleeing banditos, Paladin seeks shelter from a peasant and his beautiful, scheming wife, their marriage at the breaking point. After being driven from their rural home, the husband hopes to appease his high-maintenance wife by returning to a city. However she eyes the urbane Paladin as the means to her own ends.
American Primitive
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Paladin is joined by his friend Ernie Backwater, an aging sheriff who is out to capture Will Tybee, a wanted fugitive who has spent his life searching for the man who murdered his son. Unfortunately, he's killed five innocent men while doing so, and is more than willing to kill Paladin and the sheriff if they get in his way.
The Burning Tree
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Paladin is escorting a unique prisoner to a trial and certain conviction. A man who has been married seven times and murdered all of them. Stopping for a night of rest, Paladin finds the man is wanted by the townsfolk as a 'sacrifice' to appease the local Indians. A spinsterish young girl has other plans for the 'charmer'.
Cage at McNaab
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Paladin is asked by the wife of a man who is condemned to die to visit him in prison and see if new evidence can be found to clear her husband. Not sure if he wants the job, Paladin agrees to the visit and it leads to quite an unexpected result. Paladin literally finds he now walks in another man's footsteps.
Caravan
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Paladin is hired to escort a Rani and her party across 150 miles of desert to a safe haven.The Rani is from a country fighting a civil war and she is to be the new leader if her side is victorious.On the journey it is noticed that they are being followed and treachery from within may be the cause of more worry.
The Walking Years
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A letter from a friend brings Paladin to a bar where he's drugged. He wakes up chained and in the company of a man with a similar story and a woman who's path they've both crossed before.
Sweet Lady of the Moon
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Carl Soddenberg committed a heinous, murderous act. When a doctor feels he should be freed because he was mentally imbalanced at the time and now is cured, Paladin is hired to get him to an asylum and keep the family's survivors at bay who are out for revenge.
The Savages
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An art collector hires Paladin to guide him, and his strangely childlike daughter, to the camp of a reclusive sculptor. But the collector does not tell Paladin his real reason for wanting to find the artist.
The Eve of St. Elmo
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When Paladin arrived, he thought it was a nice, quiet town. Indeed it was. A nice quiet town preparing to celebrate the eve of St. Elmo. But what will be the miracle they all await this night?
The Lady of the Fifth Moon
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Paladin agrees to help a Chinese woman flee back to her homeland, rather than take part in an arranged marriage. They are awaiting a ship that will arrive at an isolated spot outside of San Francisco. Paladin and the woman fall in love, complicating whether she will go back to China or not. At the same time, Paladin must protect her from assassins determined she not make it back to China.
Two Plus One
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Paladin is on his way to a very important appointment outside Los Angeles. He encounters and saves an Indian girl being run down by two men. Since then, he can't shake her because she says she is in his debt, until the two men return.
The Black Bull
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Paladin gets a letter from his past requesting him to come to Rancho San Tarquie. When he arrives he is not permitted to see the sender of the letter but the invitation may not have come from who he thought.
Face of a Shadow
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A bank hires Paladin to collect $10,000 from a rancher. When the rancher is found murdered, and the money missing, the rancher's associates accuse a band of gypsies of being responsible. Paladin rides into the gypsies' camp to find out the truth.
Have Gun – Will Travel
GenreWestern
Created bySam Rolfe
Herb Meadow
Directed byAndrew V. McLaglen
Richard Donner
Lamont Johnson
Ida Lupino
Richard Boone
William Conrad
others
StarringRichard Boone
Kam Tong
Narrated byRichard Boone
Opening themecomposed by
Bernard Herrmann
Ending theme'The Ballad of Paladin' composed by
Johnny Western
Richard Boone
Sam Rolfe
performed by
Johnny Western
Country of originUnited States
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes225 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)Julian Claman
Sam Rolfe
Running time25 mins.
Production company(s)CBS Productions
Filmaster Productions
DistributorCBS Films
(1964–1965)
Viacom Enterprises
Paramount Domestic Television
CBS Television Distribution
Release
Original networkCBS
Picture format4:3 black and white
Audio formatMono
Original releaseSeptember 14, 1957 –
April 20, 1963

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western series that was produced and originally broadcast by CBS on both television and radio from 1957 through 1963. The television version of the series was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons, and it is one of the few shows in television history to spawn a successful radio version.[1] That radio series debuted November 23, 1958, more than a year after the premiere of its televised counterpart.[1]

  • 4Characters
  • 11Franchise in other media

Production[edit]

Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. Of the 225 episodes of the television series, 24 were written by Gene Roddenberry.[2] Other major contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley, and Irving Wallace. Andrew V. McLaglen directed 101 episodes,[3] and 28 were directed by series star Richard Boone.[4]

Premise[edit]

This series follows the adventures of a man calling himself 'Paladin' (played by Richard Boone on television and voiced by John Dehner on radio), taking his name from that of the foremost knight warriors in Charlemagne's court. He is a gentleman gunfighter who travels around the Old West working as a mercenary for people who hire him to solve their problems.

Although Paladin charges steep fees to clients who can afford to hire him, typically $1000 per job, he provides his services for free to poor people who need his help. Like many Westerns, the television show was set during a nebulous period after the Civil War. The radio show explicitly states the year in the opening of every episode.[5]

The season 5 television episode, 'A Drop of Blood', gives the specific date of July 3, 1879.[6]

Title[edit]

The title was a variation ('snowclone') on a cliche used in personal advertisements in newspapers like The Times, indicating that the advertiser was ready for anything. It was used this way from the early twentieth century.[7]

A trope common in theatrical advertising was 'Have tux, will travel', and CBS claimed this was the inspiration for the writer Herb Meadow. The television show popularized the phrase in the 1960s, and many variations were used as titles for other works, including Have Space Suit – Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1958.[8]

Characters[edit]

Paladin[edit]

Richard Boone in the episode 'Genesis' (1962), before becoming the famed 'knight without armor', Paladin

Paladin prefers to settle without violence the difficulties brought his way by clients when possible, but this almost never happens. When forced, he excels in fisticuffs. Under his real name, which is never revealed, he was a dueling champion of some renown. Paladin is a former Union cavalry officer, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and a veteran of the American Civil War.

His permanent place of residence is the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco, where he lives the life of a successful businessman and bon vivant, wearing elegant custom-made suits, consuming fine wine, playing the piano, and attending the opera and other cultural events. He is an expert chess player, poker player, and swordsman. He is skilled in Chinese martial arts and is seen in several episodes receiving instruction and training with a Kung Fu master in San Francisco. He is highly educated, able to quote classic literature, philosophy, and case law, and speaks several languages. He is also president of the San Francisco Stock Exchange Club.[9]

While at work on the frontier, Paladin changes into all-black Western-style clothing. His primary weapon is a custom-made, first-generation .45 caliber Colt Single Action Army Cavalry Model revolver[10] with an unusual rifled barrel, carried in a black leather holster (with a platinum chess knight symbol facing the rear), hanging from a black leather gunbelt. He also carries a lever actionMarlin rifle strapped to his saddle, and a Remington derringer concealed under his belt.

This calling card was the identifying graphic of the Have Gun – Will Travel series.

Paladin gives out a business card imprinted with 'Have Gun Will Travel' and a drawing of a knight chess piece. A closeup of this card is used as a title card between scenes in the program.

Other recurring characters[edit]

The one other major semiregular character in the show was the Chinesebellhop at the Carlton Hotel, known as Hey Boy (real name Kim Chan or Kim Chang): in the first season in the episode called 'Hey Boy's Revenge', the character Hey Boy is sought by Paladin under the name Kim Chan which is written on a piece of paper and shown on screen. As the episode continues, Hey Boy is referred to (verbally) five times as Kim Chan and then on the sixth incident Paladin states Hey Boy's name as Kim Chang and thereafter he is referred to as Kim Chang every time. No explanation is given for the name change). Hey Boy was played by Kam Tong. According to author and historian Martin Grams, Jr., Hey Boy was featured in all but the fourth of the show's six seasons, with the character of Hey Girl, played by Lisa Lu, replacing Hey Boy for season four while Kam Tong worked on the Mr. Garlund television series.[3]

Notable guest stars[edit]

Richard Boone and Christine White in a 1958 episode

Guest stars included Jack Lord, Charles Bronson, Victor McLaglen, Vincent Price, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, George Kennedy, John Carradine, Angie Dickinson, Buddy Ebsen, Denver Pyle, June Lockhart, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts, DeForest Kelley, Lon Chaney, Jr., Warren Oates, Martin Balsam, Sydney Pollack, William Conrad, Dyan Cannon, Robert Blake, Suzanne Pleshette, Kathie Browne, Strother Martin, Albert Salmi, Werner Klemperer and Odetta.

Opening sequence[edit]

Originally, each show opened with the same 45-second visual. Over a slow four-note-repeat backbeat score, a tight shot of Paladin's chess knight emblem centered in a black background is seen, before the view widens to show the emblem affixed to Paladin's holster, with Paladin in his trademark costume seen from waist level in profile. Then as he draws his revolver from the holster, the four-note-repeat backbeat fades to a light, almost harp-like strumming. He cocks the hammer, and then rotates the gun to point the barrel at the viewer for 10 seconds, often delivering a line of dialogue from the coming episode, after which the pistol is uncocked and holstered briskly. As the weapon is reholstered and the view tightens to show only the chess knight, again, the four-note-repeat backbeat returns.

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As only the chess knight emblem in a black background is back, the name 'RICHARD BOONE' appears across the screen for about 5 seconds. The name fades out and immediately the words 'in HAVE GUN – WILL TRAVEL' fade in, again for about 5 seconds. Boone's name and the show's title is accompanied by a four-note 'stinger' that overshadows the four-note-repeat. The 'stinger' is roughly the same as that heard when Paladin's business card is flashed on screen (in almost every episode). The words fade away after those 5 seconds leaving only the chess knight emblem against the black background, and the four-note-repeat fades out. This opening then fades out and the show fades in on its opening scene.

In a later version of the opening sequence, there is a long-range shot, with Paladin in a full-body profile silhouette, and he fast-draws the revolver, dropping into a slight crouch as he turns, pointing at the camera. After the dubbed-over line, he straightens as he shoves the firearm into his holster. This silhouette visual remained for the run of the series. In later episodes, the teaser line was dropped; as seen in many of the episodes of the final two seasons' opening titles, when Paladin crouches and points his gun at the camera, first 'RICHARD BOONE', and then 'HAVE GUN – WILL TRAVEL' would appear as before, and Boone would reholster his gun as the words faded out. (Due to the networks not always airing episodes in the order they were filmed, the omission of the voice-over dialogue was inconsistent for some of the episodes, as seen in the opening titles. Season 6 did have the most opening titles without the voice-over dialogue, especially as the season progressed, again as seen when the episodes opened.)

Filming locations[edit]

Unlike many westerns, entire episodes were filmed outdoors and away from the Old West street set on Irving Street just below Melrose Avenue, the home of Filmaster television production company. Filmaster was located across the street from, later becoming part of, Paramount Studios' backlot. The area is now enclosed in the independent Kingsley Productions studio lot encompassing a city block. Beginning in season four, filming locations were often given in the closing credits. Locations included Bishop and Lone Pine, California; an area now known as Paladin Estates between Bend and Sisters, Oregon; and the Abbott Ranch near Prineville, Oregon.[11]

Music[edit]

The program's opening was a four-note motif composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann.[12]

For the opening theme, Herrmann reused a short sequence he had previously composed for the 1951 movie On Dangerous Ground, starring Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino. The 'Have Gun – Will Travel' theme (and fragments of incidental music also used in the television series) are featured in a chase scene across snowy fields; at the 35:25 mark of the film, the actual 'Have Gun – Will Travel' opening theme is played in recognizable form, although the scoring is slightly different than that heard in the better-known television version.

The show's closing song, 'The Ballad of Paladin', was written by Johnny Western, Richard Boone, and program creator Sam Rolfe, and was performed by Western. In the first season the closing song was a reprise of the opening theme. In syndication, the first (premise) episode concludes with the Johnny Western ballad. The rest of the run of the first-season episodes play a reprise of the opening theme.

In the second season the song was the only closing music. In the third season a new lyric was added to the five line 'The Ballad of Paladin' making it six lines long. In 1962–1963, the final season, the song's lyrics were cut to four lines, the original fourth and added sixth being dropped. This occurred because the production credits for writer, producer and director were pulled from the closing credits to appear over the opening sequences. However, in the episode 'Sweet Lady in the Moon' (1963), the ballad was played complete over the closing credits.

Johnny Western has sung a fully recorded version, opening with the refrain and including a second verse never heard on the television series.[13]

Broadcast history and ratings[edit]

September 1957 – April 1963: Saturdays at 9:30 p.m.

  • October 1957 – April 1958: #4 – 33.7
  • October 1958 – April 1959: #3 – 34.3
  • October 1959 – April 1960: #3 – 34.7
  • October 1960 – April 1961: #3 – 30.9
  • October 1961 – April 1962: #29 – 22.2
  • October 1962 – April 1963: #29 – 20.8

Awards[edit]

The television show was nominated for three Emmy Awards. These were for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series, for Richard Boone (1959); Best Western Series (1959); and Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead or Support), for Richard Boone (1960).[14]

In 1957, Gene Roddenberry received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Script for the episode 'Helen of Abajinian'.[15]

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Writers[edit]

Many of the writers who worked on Have Gun – Will Travel went on to gain fame elsewhere. Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek, Bruce Geller created Mission: Impossible, Samuel A. Peeples created The Tall Man, Custer, and Lancer, and Harold Jack Bloom created Boone's later series Hec Ramsey and the 1970s medical-adventure series Emergency!Harry Julian Fink is one of the writers who created Dirty Harry (the opening title and theme scene of the 1973 Dirty Harry sequel Magnum Force features a Paladin-like sequence of a handgun being slowly cocked and then finally pointed toward the camera, with a potent line of dialogue). Sam Peckinpah wrote one episode, 'The Singer,' which aired in 1958. Other notable writers who contributed an episode include Gene L. Coon, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Laurence Heath, and Fred Freiberger. Both Star Trek and Mission: Impossible were produced by Desilu Productions and later Paramount Television, which also now owns the rights to Have Gun – Will Travel through its successor company, CBS Television Distribution.[16]

Franchise in other media[edit]

Radio show[edit]

The Have Gun – Will Travel radio show broadcast 106 episodes on the CBS Radio Network between November 23, 1958, and November 27, 1960. It was one of the last radio dramas featuring continuing characters and the only significant American radio adaptation of a television series. John Dehner (a regular on the radio series version of Gunsmoke) played Paladin, and Ben Wright usually (but not always) played Hey Boy. Virginia Gregg played Miss Wong, Hey Boy's girlfriend, before the television series featured the character of Hey Girl. Unlike the small-screen version, in this medium there was usually a tag scene at the Carlton at both the beginning and the end of the episode. Initially, the episodes were adaptations of the television program as broadcast earlier the same week, but eventually original stories were produced, including a finale ('Goodbye, Paladin') in which Paladin leaves San Francisco, apparently forever, to claim an inheritance back east. The radio version was written by producer/writer Roy Winsor.[17]

Books[edit]

Dell Comics' Have Gun – Will Travel.

There were three novels based on the television show, all with the title of the show. The first was a hardback written for children, published by Whitman in 1959 in a series of novelizations of television shows. It was written by Barlow Meyers and illustrated by Nichols S. Firfires. The second was a 1960 paperback original, written for adults by Noel Loomis. The last book, A Man Called Paladin, written by Frank C. Robertson and published in 1963 by Collier-Macmillan in hardback and paperback, is based on the television episode 'Genesis' by Frank Rolfe.

This novel is the only source wherein a name is given to the Paladin character, Clay Alexander, but fans of the series do not consider this name canonical. Dell Comics published a number of comic books with original stories based on the television series.[18][19][20] In 2000, Martin Grams, Jr. and Les Rayburn self-published the 500-page trade paperback, The Have Gun – Will Travel Companion, documenting the history of the radio and television series.[21]

Film[edit]

In 1997, it was announced that a movie version of the television series would be made. John Travolta was named as a possible star in the Warner Bros. production, which was scripted by Larry Ferguson and to be directed by The Fugitive director Andrew Davis. However, the film was never made.[22]

In 2006, it was announced that a Have Gun – Will Travel movie starring rapper Eminem is in production. However, the film currently[when?] does not hold an official confirmed release date. Paramount Pictures extended an 18-month option on the television series and planned to transform the character of Paladin into a modern-day bounty hunter. Eminem was expected to work on the soundtrack.[23]

Television reboot[edit]

In August 2012, it was announced in several venues that David Mamet was developing a reboot of the television series for CBS.[24][25]

In other television series[edit]

In the television series Maverick, season 2, episode 16, 'Gun Shy', Marshal Mort Dooley, the marshal of Elwood, Kansas, comments that a lot of strange people have been passing through his town lately, specifically referring to 'that gunslinger who handed out business cards.' This could be no one other than Paladin, and obviously was a gentle dig at another TV Western.[citation needed]

Home video and DVD[edit]

All of the episodes were released on VHS by Columbia House. CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) has released all six seasons of Have Gun – Will Travel on DVD in Region 1. Season 6, Volumes 1 & 2 were first released on May 7, 2013.[26]

On May 10, 2016, CBS DVD was to release Have Gun, Will Travel – The Complete series on DVD in Region 1.[27]

In the second-season DVD, two episodes are mislabeled. On disk three, the episode titled 'Treasure Trail' is actually 'Hunt the Man Down', and on disk four, 'Hunt the Man Down' is 'Treasure Trail'; the 'Wire Paladin' in each case refers to the other episode.[citation needed]

DVD nameEp #Release date
Season 139May 11, 2004
Season 239May 10, 2005
Season 339January 3, 2006
Season 4- Volume 119March 2, 2010
Season 4- Volume 219July 6, 2010
Season 5- Volume 119November 30, 2010
Season 5- Volume 219February 22, 2011
Season 6- Volume 116May 7, 2013
Season 6- Volume 216May 7, 2013
Complete Series225May 10, 2016

Cultural influences[edit]

  • Boon was a hit British Drama series and was heavily influenced by Have Gun – Will Travel. The series followed the adventures an ex-fireman who was invalided out of the service and became a 'modern-day hero'. Of Have Gun – Will Travel's influence, co-creator Jim Hill said: 'Boon had been derived from an American TV series from the 1950s that Bill Stair and I both watched and liked. It was called Have Gun – Will Travel — a troubleshooting cowboy answered distress calls. He was called Paladin and was played by the actor Richard Boone. We dropped the E and we had BOON — a modern-day trouble shooter on a motorbike instead of a steed.' Boon ran from 1986 to 1992, with a special one-off episode in 1995.
  • Have Space Suit – Will Travel (1958) is a 'space opera' novel by Robert A. Heinlein. The narrator is called to space to do the typical hero's job of defending humanity and saving the earth.
  • Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel (1958) is an album by guitarist Duane Eddy.
  • Have Guitar Will Travel (1960) is an album by guitarist and vocalist Bo Diddley.
  • Have Guitar, Will Travel(2009) is an album by guitarist Joe Perry. The accompanying tour also used the name.
  • 'Have Love, Will Travel' is a song written and recorded in 1959 by Richard Berry.
  • In a scene in Stand By Me, the main characters sing the show's closing theme song as a way of evoking that film's era (it is set in late 1959); songwriter Johnny Western successfully sued the producers for not securing his permission beforehand. This scene is spoofed in the 'Stand by Me' segment of the Family Guy episode 'Three Kings'.
  • The Tom and Jerry cartoon Tall in the Trap (1962, directed by Gene Deitch) was a parody of Have Gun – Will Travel.
  • A feature of Frank Zappa's 1970 tour's performances was the 'Paladin Routine', a brief improvised comedy sketch based on the Have Gun – Will Travel characters, culminating in a vocalization of the music from the series' opening-credit sequence. One such performance is documented on the bootleg albumFreaks & Motherfu*#@%! (later released as part of Beat the Boots).
  • In the third season, episode 3 of Downton Abbey, aired January 6, 2013, in what appears to be an anachronism, the character Lady Cora tells her husband, 'I'm American: have gun, will travel.' But the general phrase Have X will travel does date back to the show's time period.[28]
  • 'Have Time, Will Travel', an episode of The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald.
  • Got Dust, Will Travel, a mission from Saints Row 2
  • Have Mask, Will Travel, the title of the second part of the Mask/Ace Ventura crossover and the final episode of the latter's second season.
  • In the 1972–74 series Hec Ramsey, set in New Prospect, Oklahoma in 1901, Boone is an older former gunfighter turned forensic criminologist. At one point Ramsey denies that, in his younger days as a gunfighter, he worked under the name Paladin. The origin of this myth is Boone's remark in an interview, 'Hec Ramsey is Paladin—only fatter.' Naturally, he merely meant the characters had certain similarities: Ramsey, for his part, was practically buffoonish, imparting a measure of humor to Hec Ramsey missing from the sterner, more erudite Paladin.
  • In the two-part 1991 TV mini-series The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, a poker game is played by the rules of 'the late Mr. Paladin' in the Carlton Hotel where Paladin usually stayed.
  • In the 1985 Star Trek novel Ishmael by Barbara Hambly, in which the Enterprise travels back in time, Spock plays chess against Paladin during a visit to San Francisco.
  • In the 2013 fan created series Star Trek Continues episode 'Pilgrim of Eternity', Visual Effects Artist Doug Drexler played the part of Paladin in a Holodeck creation. Drexler cited the special specifications of Paladin's revolver to an impressed Captain Kirk.
  • As a homage to Boone's character, in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, the Paladin features an archetype named 'Holy Gun', whose abilities are succinctly described as 'Have Gun'.
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Legal battle[edit]

In 1974, a rodeo performer named Victor De Costa won a federal court judgment against CBS for trademark infringement, successfully arguing that he had created the Paladin character and the ideas used in the show, and that CBS had used them without permission. For example, at his rodeo appearances he always dressed in black, he called himself the 'Paladin', he handed out hundreds of business cards with a chess piece logo and the phrase 'Have gun will travel', and he carried a concealed derringer. A year later, an appellate court overturned the lower court ruling on the basis that the plaintiff had failed to prove that there had been likelihood of confusion in the minds of the public—a necessary requirement for a suit over trademark infringement. However, De Costa kept pursuing his legal options, and in 1991—more than 30 years after his first lawsuit was originally filed—he was awarded more than US$3 million. De Costa died at the age of 83 before he could receive the award.[29]

In 1991, on the basis of De Costa's established claims, a Rhode Island federal judge blocked the redistribution of the Paladin show by Viacom.[30]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  2. ^Series co-creator Sam Rolfe would later write a script for the Roddenberry-created Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  3. ^ abPeter Orlick, The Museum of Broadcast Communications (Encyclopedia of Television) – Have Gun, Will Travel; accessed May 20, 2018.
  4. ^https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095524/?ref_=nv_sr_1#director. Boone is credited with directing 28 episodes from 1960 to 1963.
  5. ^Dunning, John. Tune In Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, 1925–1976 (New York: Prentice Hall), 1976; ISBN978-0139326165
  6. ^A Drop of Blood
  7. ^Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, A dictionary of catch phrases: British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day, retrieved 20 May 2018
  8. ^J. Daniel Gifford (2000), Robert A. Heinlein: a reader's companion, p. 98
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  11. ^Studlar, Gaylyn (4 May 2015). Have Gun—Will Travel. Wayne State University Press. p. 140. ISBN9780814339770.
  12. ^'Herrmann Music in Have Gun Will Travel and Other Classic CBS Television Series – The Bernard Herrmann Society'. www.bernardherrmann.org. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  13. ^Johnny Western - Topic (1 September 2015), The Ballad Of Paladin, retrieved 6 November 2018
  14. ^'Have Gun – Will Travel'.
  15. ^Reginald, Robert (1979). Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Volume II. Detroit: Gale. ISBN978-0-8103-1051-3.
  16. ^http://www.hgwt.com/indexold.htm. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  17. ^Dunning, John (1998), On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 311, ISBN0-19-507678-8
  18. ^'HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL- Comic Book Cowboys, by Boyd Magers'. www.westernclippings.com. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  19. ^Huxley, David (1 January 2018). Lone Heroes and the Myth of the American West in Comic Books, 1945-1962. Springer. ISBN9783319930855.
  20. ^Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow. Have Gun Will Travel Comics # 931, 983, 1044, 4, 6, 7.
  21. ^Rollins, Peter C.; O'Connor, John E. (11 November 2005). Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN9780813138558.
  22. ^Michael Fleming (15 May 1997). 'Krane Takes Bull by Horns'. Variety. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
  23. ^'Eminem to star in Have Gun – Will Travel film remake'. CBC News. 14 June 2006. Archived from the original on 14 June 2007. Retrieved 16 February 2008.
  24. ^Rose, Lacey (21 August 2012). 'CBS, David Mamet Developing 'Have Gun – Will Travel' Reboot'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  25. ^Tucker, Ken (22 August 2012). 'David Mamet's 'Have Gun, Will Travel' reboot: Why it's a great idea'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  26. ^'Have Gun Will Travel DVD news: Announcement for The 6th and Final Year, Volume 1 and The 6th and Final Year, Volume 2'. TVShowsOnDVD.com. 25 May 2007. Archived from the original on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  27. ^Richard Boone Stars in 'The Complete Series' 35-DVD SetArchived 24 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine, tvshowsondvd.com; accessed May 20, 2018.
  28. ^'Have gun, will travel « The Word Detective'. www.word-detective.com. July 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  29. ^'Have Gun, Will Travel'. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  30. ^Kleid, Beth (7 October 1991). 'Television'. Los Angeles Times.

Bibliography[edit]

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  • Have Gun – Will Travel Companion by Martin Grams, Jr. and Les Rayburn. OTR Publishing, 2001. ISBN0-9703310-0-2.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Have Gun – Will Travel.

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  • Have Gun – Will Travel on IMDb
  • Have Gun – Will Travel at TV.com
  • Have Gun – Will Travel at the Museum of Broadcast Communications
  • 'Ballad of Paladin' (closing theme) – written by Johnny Western, Richard Boone, and Sam Rolfe and performed by Johnny Western
  • Behind-the-scenes production photo Collection of Stephen Lodge.

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