HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL "The Colonel and the Lady" 1957
HAVE GUN – WILL TRAVEL was a Western series that ran on television between 1957 and 1963. The series was very popular and was always in the top ten of the television ratings. The series ran for a total of 225 episodes. Richard Boone headlines as "Paladin", a gun for hire, if the cause is right. Working out of San Francisco, Boone places ads in newspapers offering his services. $1,000 and he is your man. While handy with a gun or fists, he tries to settle the problem without violence. (Not very successfully as a general rule)
In this episode, the 11th the series, Boone is hired by a retired Army officer for a job. The man, Robert F Simon, is writing a book on the old west, and needs Boone to do a spot of detective work for him. He sends Boone to Lodestar, a mining town out in the middle of nowhere. He is to seek information on a particular woman. The stories seem to suggest she was of less than stellar character.
Boone however has trouble gathering any info on the woman. He is told to leave town at gunpoint and told never to return. Of course he pops back in using his own gun to root out some info. It turns out that the woman he is looking into was far from a "fallen woman". She was a hero that had saved most of the town during a cholera epidemic.
Boone sees a picture of the woman and realizes that it is the wife, June Vincent, of the man who hired him. Boone returns to Simon with the info but tells him that the woman in question was a true hero and anything else he heard was a lie.
This is an interesting story which plays out more like a straight detective tale than a western.
HAVE GUN – WILL TRAVEL was a Western series that ran on television between 1957 and 1963. The series was very popular and was always in the top ten of the television ratings. The series ran for a total of 225 episodes. Richard Boone headlines as "Paladin", a gun for hire, if the cause is right. Working out of San Francisco, Boone places ads in newspapers offering his services. $1,000 and he is your man. While handy with a gun or fists, he tries to settle the problem without violence. (Not very successfully as a general rule)
In this episode, the 11th the series, Boone is hired by a retired Army officer for a job. The man, Robert F Simon, is writing a book on the old west, and needs Boone to do a spot of detective work for him. He sends Boone to Lodestar, a mining town out in the middle of nowhere. He is to seek information on a particular woman. The stories seem to suggest she was of less than stellar character.
Boone however has trouble gathering any info on the woman. He is told to leave town at gunpoint and told never to return. Of course he pops back in using his own gun to root out some info. It turns out that the woman he is looking into was far from a "fallen woman". She was a hero that had saved most of the town during a cholera epidemic.
Boone sees a picture of the woman and realizes that it is the wife, June Vincent, of the man who hired him. Boone returns to Simon with the info but tells him that the woman in question was a true hero and anything else he heard was a lie.
This is an interesting story which plays out more like a straight detective tale than a western.