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Have Gun, Will Travel

Have Gun, Will Travel

7,3 /10 (43 Votes)
1957 EN 6 Seasons

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.

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First air date

14/09/1957

Votes

43

Popularity

33.0

I don't think you got a very good look at this gun while you had it.

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Created by

Sam Rolfe, Herb Meadow

Networks

CBS

Language

EN

Last air date

1963-04-20

Episodes

225

Episode runtime

25 min

Website

www.hgwt.com
Season 1

Season 1

39 episodes • 1957 • ⭐ 4,0

The first season of Have Gun — Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 14, 1957 to…

Season 2

Season 2

39 episodes • 1958

The second season of Have Gun – Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 13, 1958 t…

Season 3

Season 3

39 episodes • 1959

The third season of Have Gun – Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 12, 1959 to…

Season 4

Season 4

38 episodes • 1960

The fourth season of Have Gun – Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 10, 1960 t…

Season 5

Season 5

38 episodes • 1961

The fifth season of Have Gun – Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 16, 1961 to…

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drystyx

drystyx

2023-06-03

⭐ 4

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 pl…

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BiginV3gas

2023-09-20

⭐ 9

Have Gun, Will Travel offers, in the character of Paladin, a protagonist who was atypical amongst the lineup of 1950's western drama heroes. He was the erudite gunslinger, the gentleman-bounty hunter, the fixer of situations gone bad and a constrained vigilante. Contrary to what has been written in another review, Paladin didn't seek to play "god"; however, his line of work may have required that he play any of the roles of judge, jury and executioner, depending on the situation. While not pretending to the status of "god," Paladin could quote with ease passages from the King James Bible or Sh…

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