Have Gun – Will Travel

I'm your host, Andrew Rhynes, and let's get into this episode.

This episode's gonna be Have Gun, Will Travel.

Original air date is October 4th, 1959, and the title is "The Contessa." Let's get into it, and I hope you enjoy.

[dramatic music] There's still one bullet left in this derringer, and I'll take you back whether you're alive or dead.

[dramatic music] Have Gun, Will Travel.

Starring Mr. John Dehner as Paladin.

San Francisco, 1875, the Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin.

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Rawhide, sorry, I've heard of that one.

Bonanza, The Rifleman, Have Gun – Will Travel, Wagon Train, and Bat Masterson.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, some of those are really famous.

Either way, it's a poor choice.

Have Gun, Will Travel Starring Mr. John Daner as Paladin

San Francisco, 1875.

The Carlton Hotel.

You read the printing on this card?

I see.

It says, have gun, will travel, wire paladin, San Francisco.

His name is Paladin.

You know, a lot of the film, obviously, we deal with, uh, the root, its roots in the '60s, a very turbulent time.

I think it's Dana Gould who says, "Oh, you know, Captain James T. Kirk is JFK Space Captain," right? But it-- the fact that we look at the origins of Star Trek in, uh, Gene Roddenberry's work on "Have Gun - Will Travel" in-

Mm-hmm

... "The Lieutenant" and how these are, uh, uh, the essential, uh, parts of its DNA and not just jump right into Star Trek, that, you know, we, we, we examine, you know, the building blocks of Star Trek.

I also seem to remember seeing some episodes of Sherlock Holmes back when I was really young.

I also know that Have Gun Will Travel made it to TV, as did Gunsmoke, which had a very long run on TV.

But what other shows made it from radio to TV? I'm just curious." Uh, from Robert in Nebraska.

Well, Robert, that's a good question, and to answer it completely would be a very exhaustive process.

And even while we were talking, I thought of, uh, People Are Funny, Art Linkletter's, uh, House Party, and You Bet Your Life as other series, you know, that had come to life, uh, from a radio beginning.

I'd also point out there were some radio programs that had, uh, either concurrent or they, uh, actually followed television programs.

For example, Have Gun Will Travel was originally a TV show, and they started doing a radio version.

And you had My Little Margie, which had concurrent radio and television versions.

The Virginian.

Have Gun, Will Travel.

Oh, my God.

Rawhide.

It's all Western shows.

Lawman, Have Gun, Will Travel, Rifleman.

um i mean the virginians on their gun smoke is on their bonanza is on there and there's a show called uh what is it the californians and it takes place in san francisco like during the 1800s it is a wild

wild i wish i could go back and live in those times for a while really my horse yeah no no no i have it all figured out i would live outside of a city And I'd have a big ranch and I'd have lots of I'd have lots of workers with me.