Have gun will travel episode

[crsides]

Watching a taped episode of Have Gun Will Travel. A character borrows Paladin's 45, shoots it a couple times, and hands it back saying "you use a lighter weight oil on the trigger mechanism than the hammer stud". that's a pretty fine touch there.

 

[Faulkner]

Hollywood and guns, just not a good mix.

 

[islandguy]

Watching a taped episode of Have Gun Will Travel. A character borrows Paladin's 45, shoots it a couple times, and hands it back saying "you use a lighter weight oil on the trigger mechanism than the hammer stud". that's a pretty fine touch there.

Yep. Nuttin much slicker than fresh Hollywood BS. Same folks who brought us the gansta cylinder flip-out/snap shut move and the horizontal bullet spraying shooting grip.

 

[Muley Gil]

Just remember Charlie, Paladin carried a hand built Hamilton with a one oz trigger pull. Funny though, it looked just like your standard Colt Single Action Army.

 

[DWalt]

There was one episode of HG-WT that featured a guy who custom reloaded ammunition for Paladin and even made the smokeless powder he used.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Today he'd carry some form of 1911 "hand built" by someone like Wilson Combat or Les Baer.......maybe even Cabot guns......shooting 200 gr Black Talon flying ashtrays hand loaded by...........................


in a Milt Sparks 55BN "Professional" with 2 spare mags on the off side ..................


that would look just like a Colt!

 

[chief38]

When I was a Kid, my favorite Western was Have Gun Will Travel! I'd watch it with my Parents and Grandparents (I believe Saturday evenings). I even dressed up in my Cowboy and six gun outfit to watch! A few years back I bough the complete set of HGWT (DVD's) and could not get over just how "corny" they seem now! A few good ones, but for the most part they don't live up to my memories.

 

[Muley Gil]

When I was a Kid, my favorite Western was Have Gun Will Travel! I'd watch it with my Parents and Grandparents (I believe Saturday evenings). I even dressed up in my Cowboy and six gun outfit to watch! A few years back I bough the complete set of HGWT (DVD's) and could not get over just how "corny" they seem now! A few good ones, but for the most part they don't live up to my memories.

I know what you mean. I think that while you can watch the shows again, you can't duplicate the living room with the little black & white screen TV, having an adult tell you to change the channel (all three of them). You can't duplicate the fresh pop corn, made in a covered pot or an old popcorn maker. You can't duplicate the feeling that you don't have hardly any responsibilities and that your family is there to take care of you.

 

[WR Moore]

Probably my favorite episode-about the only one I remember any details about-was set in San Francisco and Paladin was in his dude-about-town outfit. Possibly recall that one because of the comedy aspects.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I never missed an episode if I could help it. I had just got my old Colt SA & I enjoyed shooting the old gun, still do. Paladin could out draw me. LOL.

 

[growr]

The opening theme was SO out of tune with the french horns, it drives me nuts. Then there is HeyBoy and all of Paladins fine ladies....... and he is SO cultured.

But I still watch them when they are on as a fond remembrance of a simpler time in MY life.

Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man.
A knight without armor in a savage land.

His fast gun for hire heeds the calling wind.
A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin.

Paladin, Paladin
Where do you roam?
Paladin, Paladin,
Far, far from home.

Randy

 

[Breakaway500]

I liked Richard Boone as Hec Ramsey in the Mystery Movie series of the 70s. Not as much gun "play"....more like Colombo with a western twist. He was very good in The Shootist with John Wayne. TV was a LOT better back then..

 

[BigBill]

I purchased all the old western tv shows on dvd. Better than the garbage on tv today.

 

[chief38]

I purchased all the old western tv shows on dvd. Better than the garbage on tv today.

We have ALL the Cable movie channels with our Altice Gold package (actually cheaper than getting a lesser package the way I worked it out) and Netflix, Amazon and Hulu as well. With all of the different channels, we usually wind up watching an "oldie" that I routinely record for viewing at a later date when there is nothing but junk on. Bill, you are correct - todays movies stink for the most part! Once in a blue moon there is something worth watching - but blue moons are rare!

If you notice, back in the 30's 40's and early 50's there was an extensive, well done dialog and many times a movie was filmed in one setting (Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon etc.) instead of all Hollywoods special effects that are the biggest part of the movies today.

Getting back to Paladin (HGWT) I remember that my Dad would blow out the TV's tuner with some electronics spray cleaner to eliminate static before we'd retire to the living room to watch on Saturday evenings. Our B&W TV was always giving us problems.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

When I was a Kid, my favorite Western was Have Gun Will Travel! I'd watch it with my Parents and Grandparents (I believe Saturday evenings). I even dressed up in my Cowboy and six gun outfit to watch! A few years back I bough the complete set of HGWT (DVD's) and could not get over just how "corny" they seem now! A few good ones, but for the most part they don't live up to my memories.

I feel the exact same way, except for when I bought the entire box set of The Wild Wild West. I was hoping it wouldn’t be lame and corny to me now but I loved it! But this show, one of my faves as a kid, was already far fetched and goofy to begin with so now I enjoy the campiness of it and it’s still fun to watch.
BTW, Paladin was an extremely slow draw. I have a Paladin card Arvo Ojala gave me in a frame right behind me.

 

[NRA-Life-Member]

Back in the day, these shows were the best.

 

[Narragansett]

A few years ago, i got every episode out of the library, and watched them all starting with 1/1

 

[DWalt]

Back in the 1950s every Saturday night my friends and I would get together to watch HG-WT and Gunsmoke (I am pretty sure they ran together), eat potato chips and drink soda pop, then play cards.

I have noticed the same thing. Watching HG-WT, Gunsmoke, Maverick, or any number of other western shows of the time today is just not the same as it was back then, as they seem much more amateurish. Several months ago I couldn't sleep one night, and at about 3 AM I watched several episodes of the Roy Rogers show. I could hardly believe how hokey they were, nearly plotless and clearly made for 7 year-olds. I did get a kick out of watching Dale Evans cooking in her kitchen while wearing her six-gun.

 

[crankyoldlady]

Best thing about old movies/television is that you can understand what the actors say. They enunciated. The younger generation actors all mumble.

No,it isn't my hearing. I hear them just fine. But I can't catch what they are saying. Even Robert Osborn commented that actors mumble nowadays.

 

[mattallamerican]

im watching gunsmoke right now one of the old ones black and white dennis weaver as chester old tv westerns are the best