Important Stuff -- Or Not: Have Gun, Will Travel

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Have Gun, Will Travel

Nope, no double meaning to that headline. I just received season one of Have Gun, Will Travel on DVD. The program starred Richard Boone as hired gun, Paladin. The half-hour show aired Saturday, at 9:30 p.m., just before another popular western, Gunsmoke, and ran for six successful seasons. (It opened as the #4 rated show for the year, then followed up with three years ranked #3.) The show hasn't been widely syndicated, because liberals, who scream "censorship!" at every attempt to quash porn, say it is too "violent." No bursting blood packs, no profanity, no sex or nudity. Paladin was a perfect gentleman. But it was too "violent." It seems that Paladin killed bad guys, and for some reason (heh), that makes liberals uncomfortable. It was so successful that it was one of the few TV shows to spawn an excellent radio series the next year, starring John Dehner. Google that name. Whether you know the name or not, you've seen him, and you'll be surprised to see his picture. The video quality of these DVDs (six of them) is amazing. Considering the strides we've made in TV technology since the show originally aired, they are probably better than what you or your parents watched. You can actually see the texture in Paladin's big-city felt hat. I'd also forgotten what a great actor the ruggedly handsome (i.e. ugly) Richard Boone was. He was as comfortable and natural in front of a camera as my favorite actor, Charlton Heston. This is a truly great DVD collection. The boxed set includes 39 episodes. Thirty-nine episodes!!! That was television back in those days. A season would be 39 episodes long with 13 weeks off. Now, it's exactly the opposite, because TV shows have become so expensive to produce. I remember when Battlestar Galactica was the most expensive series ever produced, at a million dollars an episode. Now, greedy television stars are demanding a million-dollar salary a week! I wonder how much of their riches go to charity. By the way, if you order anything from Amazon.com, could you do it through the Radio Equalizer site? It won't cost you a cent, and it will benefit a really good blog.

8 comments:

tugboatcapn said...: I used to LOVE that show!

I can hear the theme song in my head now.

"Have gun, will travel reads the card of a man...

A knight without armor in a savage land..."

Enjoy your DVD's, my friend. I might order them myself, now that you have reminded me that they exist...

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=tvshow%3AHave_Gun_Will_Travel; 4:47 PM
Lone Ranger said...: That song was done by Johnny Western. I discovered, watching one of the episodes, that they used the same scripts for the radio show.

I was stationed in Thailand and turned on a recording of one of the radio episodes one morning. Paladin's opening speech was, "I know you have a woman in here, and I'm not leaving until I find her." Just so happens, the guy one partition over in the hooch had the Thai base commander's wife in bed with him. Scared the crap out of him.; 8:26 PM
Trader Rick said...: You had PARTITIONS in your hooch?

"His fast gun for hire heeds the calling wind..A soldier of fortune was the man called--PALLADIN!"

Hey Ranger, do you know Palladin's FIRST name?; 5:03 AM
Lone Ranger said...: Well, we lined up our lockers to make partitions.

As far as I know, they never revealed his first name, although SOME people thought it was "Wire."

Did you know that Richard Boone was the 7th generation nephew of Danial Boone?; 6:01 AM
Trader Rick said...: You had LOCKERS?

Yeah, "Wire Paladin, San Francisco"!

Did you know you're related to the Green Hornet?; 6:22 AM
Lone Ranger said...: Yes, Britt Reid was the son of my nephew, Dan Reid. The Green Hornet was my name on my first blog -- which I totally screwed up and abandoned after a week.

We also had outside walls on our hooch to keep the looky-loos out and the air conditioning in. Everybody else had wire screens. The broadcasters were always able to scrounge nearly anything.; 6:34 AM
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