Name: Have Gun, Will Travel
Genre: Western, Action & Adventure, Drama
Released: 1957-09-14
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Richard Boone

Synopsis

Have Gun â€“ 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 â€“ 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.

Sam Peckinpah wrote one episode, "The Singer", which aired in 1958.

Other notable writers who contributed an episode include Gene L.

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.

Of the 225 episodes of the television series, 24 were written by Gene Roddenberry.

McLaglen directed 101 episodes, and 28 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

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).