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Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · TV series · 25 min episodes · 6 seasons
Created by Sam Rolfe, Herb Meadow
Have Gun – 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 – 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.
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Indeed, I have a future project/goal of "restoring" Have Gun - Will Travel radio episodes to listenable quality using tech like this. There are so many lines where sound effects and tape rot and other "bad recording" things make it very difficult to understand what was sad. Will be amazing, but as with all tech the potential for abuse is very real
I had the good fortune to grow up when Have Gun Will Travel was first broadcast. One of my favorite episodes was Gun Shy, where Paladin travels to Montana and visits Ma Warren's boarding house.
Ma's house was famous for its food. Paladin lived in San Francisco and enjoyed the city's finest, and he was surprised and delighted with what Ma Warren prepared in this remote area. She was obviously a talented cook, but Paladin wondered how she got such a variety of quality ingredients. She explained.
Ma knew all the local farmers and ranchers, and they would bring her their best produce and meats to serve in her boarding house. In return, she cooked for them too!
Ma didn't have a reputation for poisoning her customers.
I wonder if Chipotle's problems had to do with being a big nationwide chain trying to be hyper-local, instead of just being someone who knew her neighbors and what they grew?