Source: Neatorama
One of the greatest of the 1950’s TV Westerns, Have Gun – Will Travel, premiered in 1957 and was so good it lasted until 1963, a full six seasons. This in itself is not all that impressive – look how long Gunsmoke lasted – but when one considers that this was a half-hour drama, it becomes a rarity indeed.
Tightly plotted, each episode was formulaic. Professional gunfighter/mercenary Paladin (Richard Boone) was a West Point graduate who, after the Civil War, settled into San Francisco’s Hotel Carlton (a real hotel and still in operation) where he awaited client requests for his professional services. In San Francisco, Paladin looked and acted the dandy, but when in the field on business, dressed in black and on a black horse, he quite looked the gunfighter that he was, even though he would often quote poetry (Boone was a Shakespearian-trained actor). From the IMDb:There was a lot of thought put into this TV series, which was not your typical Western. For one thing, his name: a Paladin was a lawful knight of…
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