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.[1] It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958.
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[2][3] and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Richard Boone was a great actor. He directed 19 of the shows. Notice that Gene Roddenberry was one of the writers.
It can be fun in a totally emetic way to look at old TV through modern eyes of antiZion. Friends got an old Robin Hood series and in the middle of one episode somebody's trying to get Robin to join the Masons!
On a weekday afternoon mebbe 10 years ago I was twisting the dial and an episode of Bewitched was in progress. Samantha and Darrin had accidentally zipped back to the colonial era, and WHAT DO YOU KNOW, the colonists were INTOLERANT and menacing to the pair. "Ye speak differently then ourselves! Your clothing is different from ours", etc.
In a forum now tragically gone, I expostulated on how peecee the 1950s Gray Ghost series was when it wasn't being fantastic and noble. Of course they had an ugly New York half-breed play the stalwart Col. Mosby. Dixie was heard maybe once or twice in the music track while the Yellow Rose of Texas, a paean to race mixing at base, was trumpeted endlessly.
Mosby was a Virginia so that was crazily out of whack. But it's an all-time great series anyway. I shared it with a family of 4 homeschooled kiddies and they went absolutely ape for it.