The Have Gun -Will Travel (1957) series is set in the 1870s. At the beginning of this episode Paladin (Richard Boone) is getting ready to see the play "Cyrano Bergerac", however the play wasn't even written until a couple of decades later when, in 1897, the French poet Edmond Rostand published a play, Cyrano de Bergerac, on the subject of Cyrano's life.