Have Gun Will Travel – western TV show.
This western TV series was created by Herb Meadow and Sam Rolfe. The regular cast is Richard Boone, Kam Tong and Lisa Lu. This western television series has 225 episodes and originally aired from 1957 – 1963. Richard Boone stars as Paladin. A professional gun for hire who would rather settle things without having to use his perfectly balanced Colt 45. As a back up weapon Paladin also carried a secret hide away Derringer. Very Popular Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. There are 225 black and white half hour episodes.
June Lockhart was cast twice in the role of Dr. Phyllis Thackeray. Her first appearance was in the episode “No Visitors” in which she portrays a groundbreaking female physician who has diagnosed a case of three-day measles instead of the smallpox that a fire-and- brimstone wagonmaster had decided was reason enough to abandon a mother and child alone on the prairie. Paladin rescued them and finds a kindred spirit in the lovely Dr. Thackeray. In “The Return of Dr. Thackeray,” which aired May 17, 1958, Paladin’s physician friend diagnoses a cook with smallpox. Dr. Thackeray worries that the disease has infected the ranch hands employed by wealthy ranch owner Sam Barton, played by Grant Withers, coming in from a cattle drive because Barton and his weak son refuse to take responsibility for containing the outbreak on their ranch. Singer Johnny Western – who performed the series’ closing ballad – appears as an immature gunslinger. Paladin shows a softer side as he and the lovely Dr. Thackeray talk about why they are not ready to change their lives and marry.
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Perhaps as a favor to his son, Andrew, HGWT’s original and main director, famously craggy Oscar-winning actor, Victor McLaglen, one of the most reliable of director John Ford’s stock company, appeared in the first season as Mike O’Hare, an Irish architect trying to build a dam in the wilderness against the wishes of a nearby town in “The O’Hare Story”. As a mark of distinction the elder McLaglen was billed in the opening credits after Richard Boone. Kevin Hagen appeared five times, long before he was cast as kindly Dr. Hiram Baker on Michael Landon’s Little House on the Prairie. Roy Barcroft the character actor whose glance could shake planets in science fiction serials in the 1930s and 1940s, was well-remembered as kindly Colonel Logan in the “Spin and Marty” segments of The Mickey Mouse Club. He appeared in eleven episodes in various roles. Harry Carey, Jr., who also appeared in “Spin and Marty” as Bill Burnett, could be seen in segments of most every western television series made in the 1950s. He was part of the John Ford stock company and appeared in movies with John Wayne. He appeared thirteen times on Have Gun – Will Travel. Hal Needham, ace stuntman and character actor, who later directed several successful films, appeared in twenty-six episodes. Ben Wright, born in London, was one of the most prolific of actors on television in the 1950s–’60s. He appeared in six episodes when not doing voice-overs for Disney movies such as One Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Little Mermaid, or appearing in Gunsmoke or Twilight Zone among dozens of other series. His most visible role in films was as Herr Zeller, the Nazi official in The Sound of Music. It should be noted that Ben Wright regularly played Hey Boy in the radio version of HGWT. Olan Soule, who had a long career in movies and television, appeared in eleven episodes as Mitchell or Mr McGinnis or Matthews depending on the episode (perhaps his name is Mitchell McGinnis Matthews?) the Hotel Carlton’s manager/front desk clerk, although he’s also called Mr Cartwright, the assistant manager, in the episode, “Hobson’s Choice”. He was spelled a few times by Peter Brocco, another oft-seen character actor who also appeared in “The Cream of the Jest” as the scientist employed to make up Paladin’s custom-made bullets using Paladin’s own formulation for smokeless gun powder. Fintan Meyler was another busy actress in television of the era. She appeared in four episodes, twice appearing as Pegeen Shannon, an Irish lass with a penchant for getting into trouble. Denver Pyle bounced between films and television up to the 1990s when he hit it big in The Dukes of Hazzard. He appeared eight times. George Kennedy, years before he famously beat up Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke and starred on TV as Sarge, appears in six segments. Charles Bronson, later one of the screen’s most popular action stars, appeared in five different roles, from the second episode up to the last season. Jena Engstrom appeared in three episodes, and her mother, Jean Engstrom, appeared in two in 1961 and 1962. Jena first appeared in the 1961 episode “The Fatal Flaw” with guest stars Royal Dano and Allyn Joslyn as the resident of a mountain cabin where the three men, Paladin, a U.S. Marshal (Joslyn) and a captured outlaw (Dano) take refuge in a blizzard. Her second appearance was with guest star Duane Eddy in the episode “The Education of Sarah Jane” where the youngsters are the latest in the line of feuding families who have killed one another for years. In “Alice”, Jena appears as a former saloonkeeper’s daughter who hires Paladin to find her mother (Jeanette Nolan as Alice). Jena’s mother Jean Engstrom first appeared as an unwed, expectant mother befriended by a runaway bank teller (John Fielder) in “The Gold Bar,” and then as an ex-gunfighter’s widow in “Place for Abel Hix” with Robert Blake. Pernell Roberts, before starring as Adam Cartwright on Bonanza and Trapper John McIntyre on Trapper John, MD, was a scheming railroad employee in “Hey Boy’s Revenge”. Carol Thurston appeared twice, as Martha Whitehorse in “Winchester Quarantine” (1957) and as Nita in “Heritage of Anger” (1959).
Episode Guide for the Have Gun Will Travel – western TV show.
Season 1
1 1-01 14/Sep/57 Three Bells to Perdido
2 1-02 21/Sep/57 The Outlaw
3 1-03 28/Sep/57 The Great Mojave Chase
4 1-04 05/Oct/57 Winchester Quarantine
5 1-05 12/Oct/57 A Matter of Ethics
6 1-06 19/Oct/57 The Bride
7 1-07 26/Oct/57 Strange Vendetta
8 1-08 02/Nov/57 High Wire
9 1-09 09/Nov/57 Show of Force
10 1-10 16/Nov/57 The Long Night
11 1-11 23/Nov/57 The Colonel and the Lady
12 1-12 30/Nov/57 No Visitors
13 1-13 07/Dec/57 The Englishman
14 1-14 14/Dec/57 The Yuma Treasure
15 1-15 21/Dec/57 The Hanging Cross
16 1-16 28/Dec/57 Helen of Abajinian
17 1-17 04/Jan/58 Ella West
18 1-18 11/Jan/58 The Reasonable Man
19 1-19 18/Jan/58 The High Graders
20 1-20 25/Jan/58 The Last Laugh
21 1-21 02/Feb/58 The Bostonian
22 1-22 08/Feb/58 The Singer
23 1-23 15/Feb/58 Bitter Wine
24 1-24 22/Feb/58 Girl from Piccadilly
25 1-25 01/Mar/58 The O’Hare Story
26 1-26 08/Mar/58 Birds of a Feather
27 1-27 15/Mar/58 The Teacher
28 1-28 22/Mar/58 Killer’s Widow
29 1-29 29/Mar/58 Gun Shy
30 1-30 05/Apr/58 The Prize Fight Story
31 1-31 12/Apr/58 Hey Boy’s Revenge
32 1-32 26/Apr/58 The Five Books of Owen Deaver
33 1-33 03/May/58 The Silver Queen
34 1-34 10/May/58 Three Sons
35 1-35 17/May/58 The Return of Dr. Thackeray
36 1-36 24/May/58 24 Hours at North Fork
37 1-37 31/May/58 Silver Convoy
38 1-38 07/Jun/58 Deliver the Body
39 1-39 14/Jun/58 The Statue of San Sebastian
Season 2
40 2-01 13/Sep/58 The Manhunter
41 2-02 20/Sep/58 In an Evil Time
42 2-03 27/Sep/58 The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk
43 2-04 04/Oct/58 The Hanging of Roy Carter
44 2-05 11/Oct/58 Duel at Florence
45 2-06 18/Oct/58 The Protege
46 2-07 25/Oct/58 The Road to Wickenburg
47 2-08 01/Nov/58 A Sense of Justice
48 2-09 08/Nov/58 Young Gun
49 2-10 15/Nov/58 The Lady
50 2-11 22/Nov/58 A Snare for Murder
51 2-12 06/Dec/58 The Ballad of Oscar Wilde
52 2-13 13/Dec/58 The Solid Gold Patrol
53 2-14 20/Dec/58 Something to Live For
54 2-15 27/Dec/58 The Moor’s Revenge
55 2-16 03/Jan/59 The Wager
56 2-17 10/Jan/59 The Taffeta Mayor
57 2-18 17/Jan/59 Lady on the Stagecoach
58 2-19 24/Jan/59 Treasure Trail
59 2-20 31/Jan/59 Juliet
60 2-21 07/Feb/59 Hunt the Man Down
61 2-22 14/Feb/59 The Scorched Feather
62 2-23 21/Feb/59 The Return of the Lady
63 2-24 28/Feb/59 The Monster of Moon Ridge
64 2-25 07/Mar/59 The Long Hunt
65 2-26 14/Mar/59 Death of a Gunfighter
66 2-27 21/Mar/59 Incident at Borrasca Bend
67 2-28 04/Apr/59 Maggie O’Bannion
68 2-29 11/Apr/59 The Chase
69 2-30 18/Apr/59 Alaska
70 2-31 25/Apr/59 The Man Who Lost
71 2-32 02/May/59 The Return of Roy Carter
72 2-33 09/May/59 The Sons of Aaron Murdock
73 2-34 16/May/59 Commanche
74 2-35 23/May/59 Homecoming
75 2-36 30/May/59 The Fifth Man
76 2-37 06/Jun/59 Heritage of Anger
77 2-38 13/Jun/59 The Haunted Trees
78 2-39 20/Jun/59 Gold and Brimstone
Season 3
79 3-01 12/Sep/59 First, Catch a Tiger
80 3-02 19/Sep/59 Episode in Laredo
81 3-03 26/Sep/59 Les Girls
82 3-04 03/Oct/59 The Posse
83 3-05 10/Oct/59 Shot by Request
84 3-06 24/Oct/59 Pancho
85 3-07 31/Oct/59 Fragile
86 3-08 07/Nov/59 The Unforgiven
87 3-09 14/Nov/59 The Black Hankerchief
88 3-10 21/Nov/59 The Golden Toad
89 3-11 28/Nov/59 Tiger
90 3-12 05/Dec/59 Champaigne Safari
91 3-13 12/Dec/59 Charley Red Dog
92 3-14 19/Dec/59 The Naked Gun
93 3-15 26/Dec/59 One Came Back
94 3-16 02/Jan/60 The Prophet
95 3-17 09/Jan/60 Day of the Badman
96 3-18 16/Jan/60 The Pledge
97 3-19 23/Jan/60 Jenny
98 3-20 30/Jan/60 Return to Fort Benjamin
99 3-21 06/Feb/60 Night the Town Died
100 3-22 13/Feb/60 The Ledge
101 3-23 20/Feb/60 The Lady on the Wall
102 3-24 27/Feb/60 The Misguided Father
103 3-25 05/Mar/60 The Hatchet Man
104 3-26 12/Mar/60 Fight at Adobe Wells
105 3-27 19/Mar/60 The Gladiators
106 3-28 26/Mar/60 Love of a Bad Woman
107 3-29 02/Apr/60 An International Affair
108 3-30 09/Apr/60 Lady with a Gun
109 3-31 16/Apr/60 Never Help the Devil
110 3-32 23/Apr/60 Ambush
111 3-33 30/Apr/60 Black Sheep
112 3-34 14/May/60 Full Circle
113 3-35 21/May/60 The Twins
114 3-36 28/May/60 The Campaign of Billy Banjo
115 3-37 04/Jun/60 Ransom
116 3-38 11/Jun/60 The Trial
117 3-39 18/Jun/60 The Search
Season 4
118 4-01 10/Sep/60 The Fatalist
119 4-02 17/Sep/60 Love’s Young Dream
120 4-03 24/Sep/60 A Head of Hair
121 4-04 01/Oct/60 Out at the Old Ballpark
122 4-05 08/Oct/60 Saturday Night
123 4-06 15/Oct/60 The Calf
124 4-07 22/Oct/60 The Tender Gun
125 4-08 29/Oct/60 The Shooting of Jesse May
126 4-09 12/Nov/60 The Poker Fiend
127 4-10 19/Nov/60 Crowbait
128 4-11 26/Nov/60 Marshal’s Boy
129 4-12 03/Dec/60 Foggbound
130 4-13 10/Dec/60 The Legacy
131 4-14 17/Dec/60 The Prisoner
132 4-15 24/Dec/60 The Mountebank
133 4-16 31/Dec/60 The Sanctuary
134 4-17 07/Jan/61 A Quiet Night in Town (1)
135 4-18 14/Jan/61 A Quiet Night in Town (2)
136 4-19 21/Jan/61 The Princess and the Gunfighter
137 4-20 28/Jan/61 Shadow of a Man
138 4-21 04/Feb/61 Long Way Home
139 4-22 11/Feb/61 The Tax Gatherer
140 4-23 25/Feb/61 The Fatal Flaw
141 4-24 04/Mar/61 Fandango
142 4-25 11/Mar/61 The Last Judgement
143 4-26 18/Mar/61 The Gold Bar
144 4-27 25/Mar/61 Everyman
145 4-28 01/Apr/61 The Siege
146 4-29 08/Apr/61 The Long Weekend
147 4-30 15/Apr/61 El Paso Stage
148 4-31 22/Apr/61 Duke of Texas
149 4-32 29/Apr/61 Broken Image
150 4-33 06/May/61 Brother’s Keeper
151 4-34 13/May/61 Bearbait
152 4-35 20/May/61 The Cure
153 4-36 27/May/61 The Road
154 4-37 03/Jun/61 The Uneasy Grave
155 4-38 10/Jun/61 Soledad Crossing
Season 5
156 5-01 16/Sep/61 The Vigil
157 5-02 23/Sep/61 The Education of Sarah Jane
158 5-03 30/Sep/61 The Revenger
159 5-04 07/Oct/61 Odds for Big Red
160 5-05 14/Oct/61 A Proof of Love
161 5-06 21/Oct/61 The Gospel Singer
162 5-07 28/Oct/61 The Race
163 5-08 04/Nov/61 The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs
164 5-09 11/Nov/61 The Piano
165 5-10 18/Nov/61 Ben Jalisco
166 5-11 25/Nov/61 The Brothers
167 5-12 02/Dec/61 A Drop of Blood
168 5-13 09/Dec/61 A Knight to Remember
169 5-14 16/Dec/61 Blind Circle
170 5-15 23/Dec/61 The Kid
171 5-16 30/Dec/61 Squatter’s Rights
172 5-17 06/Jan/62 Lazarus
173 5-18 13/Jan/62 Justice in Hell
174 5-19 20/Jan/62 Mark of Cain
175 5-20 27/Jan/62 The Exiles
176 5-21 03/Feb/62 The Hunt
177 5-22 10/Feb/62 Dream Girl
178 5-23 17/Feb/62 One, Two, Three
179 5-24 24/Feb/62 The Waiting Room
180 5-25 03/Mar/62 The Trap
181 5-26 10/Mar/62 Don’t Shoot the Piano Player
182 5-27 17/Mar/62 Alice
183 5-28 24/Mar/62 The Man Who Struck Moonshine
184 5-29 31/Mar/62 Silent Death, Secret Death
185 5-30 07/Apr/62 Hobson’s Choice
186 5-31 14/Apr/62 Coming of the Tiger
187 5-32 21/Apr/62 Darwin’s Man
188 5-33 28/Apr/62 Invasion
189 5-34 05/May/62 Cream of the Jest
190 5-35 12/May/62 Bandit
191 5-36 19/May/62 Pandora’s Box
192 5-37 26/May/62 Jonah and the Trout
193 5-38 02/Jun/62 The Knight
Season 6
194 6-01 15/Sep/62 Genesis
195 6-02 22/Sep/62 Taylor’s Woman
196 6-03 29/Sep/62 The Fifth Bullet
197 6-04 06/Oct/62 A Place For Abel Hix
198 6-05 13/Oct/62 Beau Geste
199 6-06 20/Oct/62 Bird of Time
200 6-07 27/Oct/62 Memories of Monica
201 6-08 03/Nov/62 The Predators
202 6-09 10/Nov/62 Shootout at Hogtooth
203 6-10 17/Nov/62 A Miracle for St. Francis
204 6-11 24/Nov/62 Marshal of Sweetwater
205 6-12 01/Dec/62 Man in an Hourglass
206 6-13 08/Dec/62 Penelope
207 6-14 15/Dec/62 Trial at Tablerock
208 6-15 22/Dec/62 Be Not Forgetful of Strangers
209 6-16 29/Dec/62 The Treasure
210 6-17 05/Jan/63 Brotherhood
211 6-18 12/Jan/63 Bob Wire
212 6-19 19/Jan/63 The Debutante
213 6-20 26/Jan/63 Unforgiving Minute
214 6-21 02/Feb/63 American Primitive
215 6-22 09/Feb/63 The Burning Tree
216 6-23 16/Feb/63 Cage at McNaab
217 6-24 23/Feb/63 Caravan
218 6-25 02/Mar/63 The Walking Years
219 6-26 09/Mar/63 Sweet Lady of the Moon
220 6-27 16/Mar/63 The Savages
221 6-28 23/Mar/63 The Eve of St. Elmo
222 6-29 30/Mar/63 Lady of the Fifth Moon
223 6-30 06/Apr/63 Two Plus One
224 6-31 13/Apr/63 The Black Bull
225 6-32 20/Apr/63 Face of a Shadow