Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series 1957-1963)

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Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)

TV-G Western, Action & Adventure, Drama

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Overview

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American 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. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958.

The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel.

Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

Sam Rolfe

Creator
Herb Meadow

Creator

Series Cast

Richard Boone

Paladin

225 Episodes
Kam Tong

Hey Boy

91 Episodes
Hal Needham

Cowhand, Wiggen - Wagonmaster, Little Horse, Gunman #1 - Joe and 23 more...

28 Episodes
John George

Townsman (uncredited), Barfly (uncredited), Score Keeper (uncredited), Hotel Carlton Shoe Shiner (uncredited) and 2 more...

16 Episodes
Herschel Graham

Hotel Guest (uncredited), Hotel Carlton Guest (uncredited), Townsman (uncredited), Father (uncredited)

12 Episodes
Harry Carey, Jr.

Sheriff Stander, Earl Tibner, Frank Gulley, Jess Turner and 8 more...

12 Episodes
Lisa Lu

Hey Girl, Kim Li

11 Episodes
Edward Faulkner

Body Guard #1, Bud McPhater, Ben (as Ed Faulkner), 2nd Guard and 7 more...

11 Episodes
Roy Barcroft

Jim Sherwood

10 Episodes
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Last Season

Season 6

1962 • 32 Episodes

The sixth and final season of Have Gun – Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 15, 1962 to April 20, 1963. The Region 1 DVD was released on May 7, 2013 in two volumes.

Face of a Shadow

(6x32, April 20, 1963) Season Finale

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A review by drystyx

40%

Written by drystyx on June 3, 2023

GUNMAN WHO PLAYS GOD Richard Boone stars as Palladin, the gunman with a card saying "Have Gun, Will Travel". In the days when this was made, he was seen as a forward thinking liberal gunman, even into the sixties and seventies, and especially today. It was like most TV series in that all the corrupt people were white males, and especially so in this one. A lot of people today don't realize this, but this was how nearly every Western was in the fifties, even on TV. The problem with Palladin was that he never minded his own business, even when he made it his business. He always wanted to pla... read the rest.

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