Thursday, December 12, 2013

Have Gun Will Travel: The Complete Series



Excellent old 60's show
This was a wonderful show. I remembered it from my childhood as being a no-nonsense Western with a great lead character. In watching it as an adult I am struck by how imaginative all the stories are. You will find none of the standard Western cliches here, not a one. Every story is fresh and new.

As usual, the CBS vaults have yielded absolutely perfect quality episodes, just like they did for Perry Mason.

This is a really great example of why Westerns were so popular back then. I highly recommend it to everyone.

The Classic of all Classic Westerns!
My boyhood entailed nightly television watching. I grew up with Bonanza and Gunsmoke and Wild Wild West and countless other westerns. Have Gun Will Travel ended when I was only six and a half, but it never ceased to linger in my earliest memories. The series was written by some of the greatest of the era, like Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek) and Bruce Geller (Mission: Impossible). Theirs, all my favourites, become classics of the small screen... with justification. Have Gun Will Travel was nominated for three Emmy Awards. When I learned that this full series was to be released at long last, I was ecstatic. I had hoped that the set would be specially packaged in a single box or binder, with a booklet containing photographs and information about the series, etc., but they have chosen to simply bundle all of the previously issued seasons. In the end, it is the DVDs that count. All 225 episodes are included. This is the classic of all classic westerns, so what more could one want? There must...

Have Gun Need Gun
Except for Dead Mans Gun this is the only western that was actually good. Paladin taught people moral lessons and unlike the dead mans gun they survived them. At least most of them did. You should get this show.

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