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Have Gun – Will Travel

April 28, 2023

For other uses, see Have Gun – Will Travel (disambiguation).

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 starring Richard Boone was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons.

Have Gun – Will Travel
Richard Boone as Paladin
GenreWestern
Created by
Directed by
Starring
Narrated byRichard Boone
Ending theme"The Ballad of Paladin"
Composers
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes225 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers
Running time25 mins.
Production companies
Release
Original networkCBS
Picture format4:3 black and white
Audio formatMono
Original releaseSeptember 14, 1957 (1957-09-14) –
April 20, 1963 (1963-04-20)

Set in the period of the Old West, the series follows the adventures of "Paladin", played by Richard Boone, a gentleman investigator/gunfighter who travels around the Old West working as a gunfighter for hire. 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.

A radio series starring John Dehner debuted November 23, 1958, more than a year after the premiere of its televised counterpart, making Have Gun – Will Travel one of the few shows in television history to spawn a successful radio version.[1]

Premise

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 knights in Charlemagne's court. He is a gentleman investigator/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 in a time vaguely indicated to be some years after the American Civil War. The radio show announced the year of the story that followed in the opening of each episode.[2]

The season-five television episode, "A Drop of Blood", gives the specific date of July 3, 1879. In the 14th and 17th ("Lazarus", March 6 and 7, 1875) episodes of season five, it is 1875.

Characters

Paladin

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

Paladin prefers to settle the difficulties clients bring his way without violence, but this rarely 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 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a veteran of the American Civil War, in which he served as a Union cavalry officer.

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.[3]

When out working, 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[4] 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-action Marlin rifle (with a platinum chess knight symbol facing the rear seen in "The Hunt") strapped to his saddle. In some episodes, he has a two-shot Remington derringer concealed under his belt; in other episodes, it is a single-shot Merrimack Arms "Southerner" derringer.

 
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 an engraving of a white knight chess piece, which evokes the proverbial white knight and the knight in shining armor. A closeup of this card is used as a title card between scenes in the program.

A Man Called Paladin, Frank C. Robertson's novelization of the season-six premiere "Genesis", gives Paladin's real name as Clay Alexander.[5]

Other recurring characters

The one other major semiregular character in the show is the Chinese bellhop 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 is played by Kam Tong. According to author and historian Martin Grams Jr., Hey Boy is 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.[6] Lisa Lu had previously played Hey Boy's sister, Kim Li, in "Hey Boy's Revenge".

Character actor Olan Soule appears across all six seasons in 10 episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel as an employee of the Carlton Hotel, usually identified as the manager/desk clerk. The character's name is inconsistent, being given as "Cartwright" in two episodes, and "Matthews" in another. Tony Regan also appears as an unnamed desk clerk in over a dozen episodes, between seasons two and five. Hal Needham, later a noted director, worked on the show as a stunt performer and can be seen as a bit-part player (in a wide variety of roles) in nearly 50 episodes.

Notable guest stars

 
With Christine White, 1958
 
With Patricia Medina, 1960

Guest stars included:

Production

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.[7] Other major contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley, and Irving Wallace. Andrew V. McLaglen directed 101 episodes,[6] and 28 were directed by series star Richard Boone.[citation needed]

Filming locations

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.[8]

Writing

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.[9][citation needed]

Music

The program's opening was a four-note motif composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann.[10] 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 from the better-known television version.

The show's closing song, "The Ballad of Paladin", was written by Johnny Western (who had a role in season one, episode 35, "The Return of Dr. Thackeray"), 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 first-season episodes play a reprise of the opening theme; although the theme song was used in closing at least four times in season one, including episodes 33 and 34.[11]

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 season-si episode "Sweet Lady in the Moon" (episode 26, 1963), the ballad was played complete over the closing credits.[12]

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

When showing episodes with Paladin at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco, beautiful background music is often played. That instrumental was "Darling Nelly Gray", which is a 19th-century popular song written and composed by Benjamin Hanby.

Themes and analysis

Title

The title is a variation on a cliche used in personal advertisements in newspapers such as The Times, indicating that the advertiser is ready for anything. It has been used this way from the early 20th century.[14]

A trope common in theatrical advertising at the time was "Have tux, will travel" (originally from comedian Bob Hope in 1954[15]), and CBS has claimed this was the specific inspiration for the writer Herb Meadow. The television show popularized the phrase in the 1950s and 1960s, and many variations have been used as titles for other works, including the 1958 science-fiction novel Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein.[16]

Opening sequence

 
With Lisa Gaye, 1958
 
With Roxane Berard, who appeared in three episodes

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 ten 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.

As only the chess knight emblem in a black background is back, the name "RICHARD BOONE" appears across the screen for about five seconds. The name fades out and immediately the words "in HAVE GUN – WILL TRAVEL" fade in, again for about five seconds. Boone's name and the show's title are 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 five 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.[17]

A later version of the opening sequence (seasons three to six) has 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 six did have the most opening titles without the voice-over dialogue, especially as the season progressed, again as seen when the episodes opened.[18]

Release

Broadcast history and ratings

Further information: List of Have Gun – Will Travel episodes

September 14, 1957 – September 21, 1963: Saturdays at 9:30 pm[19]: 590 [20]: 363 

SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedRankAverage viewership (in millions)
First airedLast aired
139September 14, 1957 (1957-09-14)June 14, 1958 (1958-06-14)414.1[21]
239September 13, 1958 (1958-09-13)June 20, 1959 (1959-06-20)315.1[22]
339September 12, 1959 (1959-09-12)June 18, 1960 (1960-06-18)315.9[23]
438September 10, 1960 (1960-09-10)June 10, 1961 (1961-06-10)314.6[24]
538September 16, 1961 (1961-09-16)June 2, 1962 (1962-06-02)2910.8[25]
632September 15, 1962 (1962-09-15)April 20, 1963 (1963-04-20)2910.5[26]

Home media

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 siv, volumes one and two were first released on May 7, 2013.[27]

On May 10, 2016, CBS DVD was to release Have Gun – Will Travel – The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1.[28]

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.[29]

DVD name Ep # Release date
Season 1 39 May 11, 2004
Season 2 39 May 10, 2005
Season 3 39 January 3, 2006
Season 4- Volume 1 19 March 2, 2010
Season 4- Volume 2 19 July 6, 2010
Season 5- Volume 1 19 November 30, 2010
Season 5- Volume 2 19 February 22, 2011
Season 6- Volume 1 16 May 7, 2013
Season 6- Volume 2 16 May 7, 2013
Complete Series 225 May 10, 2016

Awards

The television show was nominated for three Emmy Awards:

  • Best Actor in a Leading Role (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series, for Richard Boone (1959)[30]
  • Best Western Series (1959)[31]
  • Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead or Support), for Richard Boone (1960).[32]

In 1957, Gene Roddenberry received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Script for the episode "Helen of Abajinian".[33]

Franchise in other media

Radio show

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 one of only a handful of American radio adaptations 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, this medium usually had 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 ("From Here to Boston", "Inheritance", and "Goodbye, Paladin") in which Paladin leaves San Francisco, perhaps forever, to claim an inheritance back east. The radio version was written by producer/writer Roy Winsor.[34]

Books

Three novels were 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.[35][36][37] 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.[38]

Film

In 1997, a film version of the television series was announced. 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. The film was never made.[39]

In 2006, a Have Gun – Will Travel film starring rapper Eminem was announced to be in production, but the film 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.[40]

Television reboot

In August 2012, several venues announced that David Mamet was developing a reboot of the television series for CBS.[41][42]

In other television series

In the television series Maverick, season two, episode 16, "Gun Shy", a send-up of the television series Gunsmoke, Marshal Mort Dooley, the marshal of Elwood, Kansas, comments that several strange people have been passing through his town lately, specifically referring to "that gunslinger who handed out business cards." A subsequent comedic Maverick episode titled "The Cats of Paradise" features a black-clad character obviously based on Paladin, albeit without using the name. Both episodes star James Garner.

In the 1962 Tom and Jerry cartoon "Tall in the Trap", Tom cat rolls into town on spurs with a card reading "Tall in the Trap" showing a mousetrap on a knight chess piece. In the third episode of the seventh season of Archer ("Deadly Prep," April 14, 2016) the titular character is seen cleaning his weapon as he sings the theme song from Have Gun - Will Travel.

Cultural influences

  • Boon, a hit British Drama series, 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.
  • 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 album Freaks & Motherfu*#@%! (later released as part of Beat the Boots).
  • In the third season, episode three 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.[43]
  • 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 miniseries 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 the recently deceased Paladin usually stayed; the film featured numerous cowboy actors from 1950s television series playing their earlier roles in cameo appearances three decades later, along with Claude Akins as President Theodore Roosevelt turning up at the game to assist in memorializing Paladin.
  • 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 (Vic Mignogna).
  • 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".
  • Desmond Bagley's 1968 novel The Vivero Letter has a moment when the protagonist/narrator, thinking about what he is getting into, ironically describes himself as an "adventurer at large – 'have gun, will travel'." Then he notes that he does not have a gun and said, "I doubted whether I could use one effectively, anyway."

Τrademark infringement litigation

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, called himself the "Paladin", handed out hundreds of business cards featuring a chess piece logo along with the phrase "Have gun will travel", and carried a concealed derringer pistol.[44] A year later, an appellate court overturned the lower court ruling on the basis that the plaintiff had failed to prove that likelihood of confusion had existed in the minds of the public—a necessary requirement for a suit over trademark infringement.[45] In 1977, De Costa was awarded a federal trademark for the Paladin character.[46]

De Costa kept pursuing his legal options, and in 1991—more than 30 years after his first lawsuit was originally filed—a federal jury awarded DeCosta $3.5 million from Viacom International, by then a CBS subsidiary, which has distributed the show's reruns in defiance of De Costa's registered trademark, ordering Viacom to pay DeCosta $1 million for his loss and $2.5 million in punitive damages.[47] Rhode Island District Judge Ernest C. Torres blocked the redistribution of the Paladin show by Viacom.[48]

De Costa died on 29 January 1993 at the age of 84, before he could receive the award.[49]

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Bibliography

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Have Gun – Will Travel.
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  • Have Gun – Will Travel 10 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine at the Museum of Broadcast Communications
  • Have Gun – Will Travel Tribute Site
  • The Entire Radio Series for download
  • Web-site for the Have Gun – Will Travel paperback book
  • Have Gun – Will Travel: The Radio Series by author Martin Grams, Jr.
  • "Ballad of Paladin" (closing theme) – written by Johnny Western, Richard Boone, and Sam Rolfe and performed by Johnny Western
  • Zoot Radio, free old time radio show downloads of Have Gun – Will Travel.
  • Collection of Stephen Lodge.

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For other uses see Have Gun Will Travel disambiguation 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 starring Richard Boone was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons Have Gun Will TravelRichard Boone as PaladinGenreWesternCreated bySam Rolfe Herb MeadowDirected byAndrew V McLaglen Richard Donner Lamont Johnson Ida Lupino Richard Boone William Conrad othersStarringRichard Boone Kam TongNarrated byRichard BooneEnding theme The Ballad of Paladin ComposersBernard Herrmann Johnny Western Richard Boone Sam RolfeCountry of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishNo of seasons6No of episodes225 list of episodes ProductionProducersJulian Claman Sam RolfeRunning time25 mins Production companiesCBS Productions Filmaster ProductionsReleaseOriginal networkCBSPicture format4 3 black and whiteAudio formatMonoOriginal releaseSeptember 14 1957 1957 09 14 April 20 1963 1963 04 20 Set in the period of the Old West the series follows the adventures of Paladin played by Richard Boone a gentleman investigator gunfighter who travels around the Old West working as a gunfighter for hire 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 A radio series starring John Dehner debuted November 23 1958 more than a year after the premiere of its televised counterpart making Have Gun Will Travel one of the few shows in television history to spawn a successful radio version 1 Contents 1 Premise 2 Characters 2 1 Paladin 2 2 Other recurring characters 2 3 Notable guest stars 3 Production 3 1 Filming locations 3 2 Writing 3 3 Music 4 Themes and analysis 4 1 Title 4 2 Opening sequence 5 Release 5 1 Broadcast history and ratings 5 2 Home media 6 Awards 7 Franchise in other media 7 1 Radio show 7 2 Books 7 3 Film 7 4 Television reboot 7 5 In other television series 8 Cultural influences 9 Trademark infringement litigation 10 References 11 Bibliography 12 External linksPremise EditThis 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 knights in Charlemagne s court He is a gentleman investigator 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 in a time vaguely indicated to be some years after the American Civil War The radio show announced the year of the story that followed in the opening of each episode 2 The season five television episode A Drop of Blood gives the specific date of July 3 1879 In the 14th and 17th Lazarus March 6 and 7 1875 episodes of season five it is 1875 Characters EditPaladin Edit Richard Boone in the episode Genesis 1962 before becoming the famed knight without armor Paladin Paladin prefers to settle the difficulties clients bring his way without violence but this rarely 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 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a veteran of the American Civil War in which he served as a Union cavalry officer 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 3 When out working 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 4 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 action Marlin rifle with a platinum chess knight symbol facing the rear seen in The Hunt strapped to his saddle In some episodes he has a two shot Remington derringer concealed under his belt in other episodes it is a single shot Merrimack Arms Southerner derringer 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 an engraving of a white knight chess piece which evokes the proverbial white knight and the knight in shining armor A closeup of this card is used as a title card between scenes in the program A Man Called Paladin Frank C Robertson s novelization of the season six premiere Genesis gives Paladin s real name as Clay Alexander 5 Other recurring characters Edit The one other major semiregular character in the show is the Chinese bellhop 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 is played by Kam Tong According to author and historian Martin Grams Jr Hey Boy is 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 6 Lisa Lu had previously played Hey Boy s sister Kim Li in Hey Boy s Revenge Character actor Olan Soule appears across all six seasons in 10 episodes of Have Gun Will Travel as an employee of the Carlton Hotel usually identified as the manager desk clerk The character s name is inconsistent being given as Cartwright in two episodes and Matthews in another Tony Regan also appears as an unnamed desk clerk in over a dozen episodes between seasons two and five Hal Needham later a noted director worked on the show as a stunt performer and can be seen as a bit part player in a wide variety of roles in nearly 50 episodes Notable guest stars Edit With Christine White 1958 With Patricia Medina 1960 Guest stars included Claude Akins Jack Albertson Martin Balsam Edward Binns Robert Blake Dan Blocker Charles Bronson Kathie Browne Edgar Buchanan Dyan Cannon John Carradine Lon Chaney Jr James Coburn Mike Connors William Conrad James Craig Angie Dickinson Buddy Ebsen Jack Elam Peter Falk James Franciscus Peggy Ann Garner Virginia Gregg Murray Hamilton Ben Johnson DeForest Kelley George Kennedy Werner Klemperer Patric Knowles June Lockhart Jack Lord Strother Martin Victor McLaglen James Mitchum Harry Morgan Jeanette Nolan Warren Oates Odetta Suzanne Pleshette Sydney Pollack Vincent Price Denver Pyle Pernell Roberts Janice Rule Albert Salmi Harry Dean Stanton Lee Van Cleef Jack Weston Stuart WhitmanProduction EditHave 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 7 Other major contributors included Bruce Geller Harry Julian Fink Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace Andrew V McLaglen directed 101 episodes 6 and 28 were directed by series star Richard Boone citation needed 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 8 Writing 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 9 citation needed Music Edit The program s opening was a four note motif composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann 10 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 from the better known television version The show s closing song The Ballad of Paladin was written by Johnny Western who had a role in season one episode 35 The Return of Dr Thackeray 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 first season episodes play a reprise of the opening theme although the theme song was used in closing at least four times in season one including episodes 33 and 34 11 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 season si episode Sweet Lady in the Moon episode 26 1963 the ballad was played complete over the closing credits 12 Johnny Western has sung a fully recorded version opening with the refrain and including a second verse never heard on the television series 13 When showing episodes with Paladin at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco beautiful background music is often played That instrumental was Darling Nelly Gray which is a 19th century popular song written and composed by Benjamin Hanby Themes and analysis EditTitle Edit The title is a variation on a cliche used in personal advertisements in newspapers such as The Times indicating that the advertiser is ready for anything It has been used this way from the early 20th century 14 A trope common in theatrical advertising at the time was Have tux will travel originally from comedian Bob Hope in 1954 15 and CBS has claimed this was the specific inspiration for the writer Herb Meadow The television show popularized the phrase in the 1950s and 1960s and many variations have been used as titles for other works including the 1958 science fiction novel Have Space Suit Will Travel by Robert A Heinlein 16 Opening sequence Edit With Lisa Gaye 1958 With Roxane Berard who appeared in three episodes 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 ten 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 As only the chess knight emblem in a black background is back the name RICHARD BOONE appears across the screen for about five seconds The name fades out and immediately the words in HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL fade in again for about five seconds Boone s name and the show s title are 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 five 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 17 A later version of the opening sequence seasons three to six has 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 six did have the most opening titles without the voice over dialogue especially as the season progressed again as seen when the episodes opened 18 Release EditBroadcast history and ratings Edit Further information List of Have Gun Will Travel episodes September 14 1957 September 21 1963 Saturdays at 9 30 pm 19 590 20 363 SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedRankAverage viewership in millions First airedLast aired139September 14 1957 1957 09 14 June 14 1958 1958 06 14 414 1 21 239September 13 1958 1958 09 13 June 20 1959 1959 06 20 315 1 22 339September 12 1959 1959 09 12 June 18 1960 1960 06 18 315 9 23 438September 10 1960 1960 09 10 June 10 1961 1961 06 10 314 6 24 538September 16 1961 1961 09 16 June 2 1962 1962 06 02 2910 8 25 632September 15 1962 1962 09 15 April 20 1963 1963 04 20 2910 5 26 Home media 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 siv volumes one and two were first released on May 7 2013 27 On May 10 2016 CBS DVD was to release Have Gun Will Travel The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 28 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 29 DVD name Ep Release dateSeason 1 39 May 11 2004Season 2 39 May 10 2005Season 3 39 January 3 2006Season 4 Volume 1 19 March 2 2010Season 4 Volume 2 19 July 6 2010Season 5 Volume 1 19 November 30 2010Season 5 Volume 2 19 February 22 2011Season 6 Volume 1 16 May 7 2013Season 6 Volume 2 16 May 7 2013Complete Series 225 May 10 2016Awards EditThe television show was nominated for three Emmy Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role Continuing Character in a Dramatic Series for Richard Boone 1959 30 Best Western Series 1959 31 Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series Lead or Support for Richard Boone 1960 32 In 1957 Gene Roddenberry received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Script for the episode Helen of Abajinian 33 Franchise in other media EditRadio show Edit John Dehner 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 one of only a handful of American radio adaptations 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 this medium usually had 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 From Here to Boston Inheritance and Goodbye Paladin in which Paladin leaves San Francisco perhaps forever to claim an inheritance back east The radio version was written by producer writer Roy Winsor 34 Books Edit Three novels were 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 35 36 37 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 38 Film Edit In 1997 a film version of the television series was announced 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 The film was never made 39 In 2006 a Have Gun Will Travel film starring rapper Eminem was announced to be in production but the film 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 40 Television reboot Edit In August 2012 several venues announced that David Mamet was developing a reboot of the television series for CBS 41 42 In other television series Edit In the television series Maverick season two episode 16 Gun Shy a send up of the television series Gunsmoke Marshal Mort Dooley the marshal of Elwood Kansas comments that several strange people have been passing through his town lately specifically referring to that gunslinger who handed out business cards A subsequent comedic Maverick episode titled The Cats of Paradise features a black clad character obviously based on Paladin albeit without using the name Both episodes star James Garner In the 1962 Tom and Jerry cartoon Tall in the Trap Tom cat rolls into town on spurs with a card reading Tall in the Trap showing a mousetrap on a knight chess piece In the third episode of the seventh season of Archer Deadly Prep April 14 2016 the titular character is seen cleaning his weapon as he sings the theme song from Have Gun Will Travel Cultural influences EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed November 2016 Learn how and when to remove this template message Boon a hit British Drama series 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 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 album Freaks amp Motherfu later released as part of Beat the Boots In the third season episode three 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 43 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 miniseries 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 the recently deceased Paladin usually stayed the film featured numerous cowboy actors from 1950s television series playing their earlier roles in cameo appearances three decades later along with Claude Akins as President Theodore Roosevelt turning up at the game to assist in memorializing Paladin 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 Vic Mignogna 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 Desmond Bagley s 1968 novel The Vivero Letter has a moment when the protagonist narrator thinking about what he is getting into ironically describes himself as an adventurer at large have gun will travel Then he notes that he does not have a gun and said I doubted whether I could use one effectively anyway Trademark infringement litigation EditIn 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 called himself the Paladin handed out hundreds of business cards featuring a chess piece logo along with the phrase Have gun will travel and carried a concealed derringer pistol 44 A year later an appellate court overturned the lower court ruling on the basis that the plaintiff had failed to prove that likelihood of confusion had existed in the minds of the public a necessary requirement for a suit over trademark infringement 45 In 1977 De Costa was awarded a federal trademark for the Paladin character 46 De Costa kept pursuing his legal options and in 1991 more than 30 years after his first lawsuit was originally filed a federal jury awarded DeCosta 3 5 million from Viacom International by then a CBS subsidiary which has distributed the show s reruns in defiance of De Costa s registered trademark ordering Viacom to pay DeCosta 1 million for his loss and 2 5 million in punitive damages 47 Rhode Island District Judge Ernest C Torres blocked the redistribution of the Paladin show by Viacom 48 De Costa died on 29 January 1993 at the age of 84 before he could receive the award 49 References Edit Richard Boone Dunning John Tune In Yesterday The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio 1925 1976 New York Prentice Hall 1976 ISBN 978 0139326165 Gould Berni Pascal Milton amp Kolb Ken Have Gun Will Travel Episode 1 21 The Bostonian first aired February 1 1958 retrieved November 6 2017 TV Acres Weapons at a Glance tvacres com accessed May 20 2018 Have Gun Will Travel Paladin s Real Name REVEALED YouTube a b Peter Orlick The Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television Have Gun Will Travel Archived 10 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine accessed May 20 2018 Series co creator Sam Rolfe would later write a script for the Roddenberry created Star Trek The Next Generation Studlar Gaylyn 2015 Have Gun Will Travel Wayne State University Press p 140 ISBN 978 0814339770 www hgwt com http www hgwt com indexold htm Retrieved 6 November 2017 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty title help Herrmann Music in Have Gun Will Travel and Other Classic CBS Television Series The Bernard Herrmann Society www bernardherrmann org Retrieved 6 November 2018 Have Gun Will Travel syndicated re run aired season one episodes and DVD release Have Gun Will Travel syndicated re run aired seasons 2 6 episodes and DVD release Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine Johnny Western Topic 1 September 2015 The Ballad Of Paladin retrieved 6 November 2018 Eric Partridge Paul Beale 1986 A dictionary of catch phrases British and American from the sixteenth century to the present day ISBN 978 0415059169 retrieved 20 May 2018 Haver Etymology origin and meaning of haver by etymonline J Daniel Gifford 2000 Robert A Heinlein a reader s companion p 98 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May 2007 Archived from the original on 16 May 2013 Retrieved 13 May 2013 Richard Boone Stars in The Complete Series 35 DVD Set Archived 24 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine tvshowsondvd com accessed May 20 2018 Paladin Paladin Retrieved 30 September 2019 Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series Nominees Winners 1959 Television Academy Retrieved 1 April 2023 Best Western Series Nominees Winners 1959 Television Academy Retrieved 1 April 2023 Best Actor Nominees Winners 1960 Television Academy Retrieved 1 April 2023 Reginald Robert 1979 Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Volume II Detroit Gale ISBN 978 0810310513 Dunning John 1998 On The Air The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio New York Oxford University Press p 311 ISBN 0195076788 Have Gun Will Travel Comic Book Cowboys by Boyd Magers www westernclippings com Retrieved 28 May 2019 Huxley David 2018 Lone Heroes and the Myth of the American West in Comic Books 1945 1962 Springer ISBN 978 3319930855 Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow Have Gun Will Travel Comics 931 983 1044 4 6 7 Rollins Peter C O Connor John E 2005 Hollywood s West The American Frontier in Film Television and History University Press of Kentucky ISBN 978 0813138558 Michael Fleming 15 May 1997 Krane Takes Bull by Horns Variety Retrieved 31 December 2007 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 Rose Lacey 21 August 2012 CBS David Mamet Developing Have Gun Will Travel Reboot The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved 28 February 2013 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 Have gun will travel The Word Detective www word detective com July 2013 Retrieved 11 May 2019 Baker Russell 17 April 1974 Court Rules C B S Pirated Paladin From a Cowboy The New York Times Retrieved 8 August 2021 About Trademark Infringement United States Patent and Trademarks Office Retrieved 8 August 2021 Paladin creator dead at 84 UPI 1 February 1993 Retrieved 8 August 2021 First Paladin now has justice will travel Tampa Bay Times 25 September 1991 Retrieved 8 August 2021 Laff Charles A Saret Larry L Winter 1976 Further Unraveling of Sears Compco Of Patches Paladin and Laurel amp and Hardy Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 7 1 33 56 Retrieved 8 August 2021 Have Gun Will Travel The Old Barx Archived from the original on 22 October 2013 Retrieved 8 August 2021 Bibliography EditHave Gun Will Travel Companion by Martin Grams Jr and Les Rayburn OTR Publishing 2001 ISBN 0970331002 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Have Gun Will Travel Have Gun Will Travel at IMDb Have Gun Will Travel at CVTA Have Gun Will Travel Archived 10 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine at the Museum of Broadcast Communications Have Gun Will Travel Tribute Site The Entire Radio Series for download Web site for the Have Gun Will Travel paperback book Have Gun Will Travel The Radio Series 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