Hank Patterson was the main guest star in Have Gun - Will Travel: In an Evil Time from season two of this Richard Boone western. Oddly, I don’t really have a lot to say about it. Patterson did an excellent job as an old man Paladin comes …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Manhunter opens the second season. Basically, it’s Paladin going after a killer who has crossed state lines. He ends up having to kill the man, and when he returns the body to the home town, he finds an unhappy welcome, even …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Statue of San Sebastian is the final episode of the first season of this western series that stars Richard Boone. This was the 39th episode. Can you imagine that? 39 first run shows, and that was normal. Today, we’re …

The reason I like Have Gun - Will Travel: Deliver the Body is because this first season episode guest stars James Franciscus as Tom Nelson, a young frontier lawyer. He’s so young here. I have always enjoyed this actor and this is a nice-size role for him. …

There’s some drama for sure in Have Gun - Will Travel: The Protégé when Richard Boone’s Paladin teaches Peter Breck’s Kurt Sprague in gun use and etiquette. It’s so weird to see Breck playing this kind of role. He was all decked out in a proper city …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Young Gun is the ninth episode of this second season. It actually feels like a response to, or an extension of, the sixth show, The Protegé that had Peter Breck as a guest star. The circumstances are a little different, but …

About the first thing I noticed about Have Gun - Will Travel: A Sense of Justice is that once again Karl Swenson is guest starring. He really did a bunch of these shows. I feel like he’s in every third episode. I’m sure that’s an exaggeration, …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Road to Wickenberg, from season two of the western, has drama, romance, and a few chuckles along the way. There’s also a really good supporting group of guest stars in this episode, and they all play relatives. Harry Carey Jr. …

Code Geass Episode 1 is a Japanese Anime that recently aired on Adult Swim last year. It’s about a high school student named Lelouch Vi Britannia, who is very smart and academically gifted. He lives in a world where Britannia took over the world and conquered Japan. …

Code Geass is a Japanese anime that aired on Adult Swim last year. Episode 2 begins as Lelouch uses his newfound powers to steal a Knightmare Frame from Villetta. He then contacts the “terrorist” Japanese resistance and uses his tactical genius to turn the tide of battle. …

Trigun is a Japanese Anime space western that takes place on a distant planet called Gunsmoke. It involves bounty hunters trying to collect the bounty on Vash the Stampede, who has a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. He’s known as the “Humanoid Typhoon” because he causes a …

Cowboy Bebop is a Japanese anime space western, about a bounty hunter named Spike Spiegel and his pilot named Jet Black. They travel through space collecting bounties in their ship the Bebop. The first episode has Spike tracking down Asimov Solensan, a man who sells a drug …

I haven’t mentioned yet how the opening ‘theme’ as it is for Have Gun - Will Travel changes with each episode. I don’t recall if that continues throughout the series run, but thus far, star Richard Boone draws his weapon, aims the gun at us, the viewers, and …

In Have Gun - Will Travel: The Bride, Mike Connors guest stars as Johnny Dark and I didn’t even recognize him. There was something about his voice, but it wasn’t until I checked the credits that I realized it was him. He’s just so young here. …

The Virginian: 50 Days to Moose Jaw guest starred James Gregory as Slim Jessup. Gregory is a very talented actor and you never know if he’s going to be a good guy, bad guy, crazy guy, or just funny guy. That’s how good he is. You …

Have Gun - Will Travel: A Matter of Ethics continues with another one of the opening themes that so often happens. Paladin (Richard Boone) reads the newspaper, and we hear him reading it) and then sends his card, offering his services, for a fee, of course. In …

The Virginian: Say Goodbye to All That just did nothing for me. It’s one of the reasons why I didn’t watch this series originally. It left me cold. I really didn’t get all the nuances. Maybe I blinked and missed something important and didn’t realize …

The Virginian: The Judgment is a flashback tale, told by Judge Henry Garth (Lee J. Cobb) to his daughter, Betsy (Roberta Shore), about something that happened ten years earlier. As a result, the show is Cobb-centric. Outside of Shore’s short bits in the opening and the ending, …

The problem with The Virginian, as I’ve said before, is that it bores me more often than not. I couldn’t watch it as a kid because none of the characters captured my heart or imagination. This episode, The Exiles, exemplifies those feelings. It’s a show towards …

The incomparable Betty Davis stars in The Virginian: The Accomplice. Davis was one of those movie stars who didn’t appear to have qualms about television. If she did, something compelled her to do these shows as she was in a bunch of TV series from the beginning …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Show of Force from season one pits Paladin in the middle of a range war. However, before we get there, there’s some comedy involved. Paladin loves to play poker. He makes a bet with a man during a game in San …

Have Gun - Will Travel: High Wire was definitely something you don’t see every day in a western, even today. This season one show guest starred Strother Martin as Dooley Delaware, a former high wire walker in the circus. He’s since lost his nerve and goes from …

I’m not really sure how to describe Have Gun - Will Travel: The Colonel and the Lady. It’s almost like a fairytale in a sense. It’s about secrets and double lives. I had it figured out about halfway through; others might get it from the beginning.
Robert …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Long Night is definitely one of the best episodes from the first season of this western. I really enjoyed it. It kept me guessing and was exciting. I honestly can’t say that the heavy last minute, and it really was …

June Lockhart appears as Dr. Phyllis Thackeray in Have Gun - Will Travel: No Visitors from season one. She’s essentially tolerated but little more in this outpost where she resides. She meets Paladin after he stumbles upon a woman and her baby who had been left behind …

There’s always something humorous about seeing the proverbial duck out of a water, someone thrown into something that isn’t their element, and as the title here — Have Gun - Will Travel: The Englishman — notes, this story from season one is about an Englishmen who comes to the …

While the story of Have Gun - Will Travel: Silver Convoy does very little for me, this entry from season one has some attraction because of its guest stars, specifically two of them — Nico Minardos and Barbara Luna.
Minardos has played the jovial, playboy-like Mexican in numerous TV shows …

I find the opening scene of Twenty-Four Hours at North Fork extremely funny. Just one week after having Paladin so serious about marriage with a lady doctor, we see him back to his playboy self. It’s just hysterical because it opens up almost like a covert ops …

The funny thing about Have Gun - Will Travel: The Return of Dr. Thackeray is that Paladin actually talks marriage, and the thing is that he’s such a playboy as a rule. They don’t really show much, but it’s there and prevalent in his lifestyle. In this …

When watching Have Gun - Will Travel: Three Sons, I had to chuckle. The story revolves around an old man who some want to have declared insane and put away. He lives by himself with an owl named Jasper. The part that made me laugh is …

Jack Warden, Jacqueline Scott, and Roger Mobley guest star in episode 3, season 1 known as The Virginian: Throw a Long Rope. However, before I say anything else, I want to note that this was Arnold Lessing’s final appearance as the cowboy guitarist. He was in the …

The Virginian: Woman from White Wing is the second episode of this western series. It told a bit of the Garth background in that we learn that Betsy (Roberta Shore) was adopted and wasn’t the natural daughter of Judge Henry Garth (Lee J. Cobb).
The guest star is Barry …

When The Virginian aired originally, I just wasn’t a fan. It was a ninety minute show, in color, and starred Lee J Cobb, Doug McClure, Gary Clarke, James Drury, and Roberta Shore. Honestly, the shore bored me. I tried watching it, but I wasn’t attracted to …

From 1959, The Loretta Young Show: Sister Ann starred Loretta Young in this recurring character of Sister Ann. This series was an anthology show that lasted for several seasons. Loretta appeared in several of the stories throughout the seasons, but not all. This role of Sister …

I remember years ago as a child watching The Loretta Young Show. The actress was quite beautiful and was very talented. Her shows were a delight. All I remember, though, is watching. I couldn’t tell you an episode. That’s because Loretta Young kept a …

Star in the Night from way back in 1945 is a really simple, modern day simile of the Nativity. It’s set out in the middle of a little town and opens with three cowboys on horseback, riding along with Christmas presents. They see a bright star shining …

The Christophers Present … A Link in the Chain is another show I just stumbled upon while searching out something new. I’m just tired of the junk we see on TV these days. I wanted new shows, even if those new shows were decades old, like this …

I’ve heard about Dora the Explorer for quite a while, and I’ve seen the character’s image here and there, but I’ve never actually seen an episode of the animated show; that is, until I flicked on Dora’s Christmas Carol over the holidays. I just really wanted to watch …

Richard Boone is in practically every scene of this western series. He’s the star, and that comes through loud and clear. He was a very talented actor and taught acting for years, too. Have Gun - Will Travel: Winchester Quarantine lets him show off a …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Great Mojave Chase, episode 3 of season 1, starts out with some fun humor, all stemming from Paladine buying a camel to take across the Mojave Desert. It creates quite a stir. Written by Gene Roddenberry, the best part was the …

There are a couple of notable things to say about Have Gun - Will Travel: The Outlaw, episode 2 of season 1. Whereas in the first episode, the show ended with the familiar and catchy Paladin theme song, the situation at the end of The Outlaw was such …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Three Bells to Perdido is the first episode of this series and it dates back to 1957. That’s a time when black and white was all that was on the TV screen and back when stereotypes existed. I mention this because this …

Joyful Hour is a show I ran across while surfing the dial one night, looking for something to watch. I found it on one of the religious channels that I’ve been checking out lately but haven’t really watched in the past. These channels are proving to be …

It’s funny how we change as we age. As a young girl, I wanted nothing to do with The Lawrence Welk Show. I recall giving my mother and grandmother such grief over watching it. As I’ve aged, though, I like it more and more. …

The Virginian: Duel at Shiloh from season one guest stars Brian Keith, who was always fun to watch on screen. The episode also features Geraldine Brooks as the new owner of a ranch near Medicine Bow, where the story takes place. As a woman, she faces a …

In The Virginian: The Man from the Sea, Shirley Knight and Carol Lynley play twin sisters, Susan and Judith Morrow, respectively, who are visiting with Judge Henry Garth. Knight and Lynley aren’t related, but they way they were made up, they really did look like twins. Bravo …

The Virginian: Riff-Raff was half drama and half comedy. It guess starred Ray Danton and Don Durant, who both had some funny moments, but the real smiles came with Karl Swenson as Teddy Roosevelt. This was Teddy beginning his Rough Riders. In a comedy of …

For a western, The Virginian did do some very different things. For example, The Virginian: Big Day, Great Day includes a day at the lake with visitors in their swimming suits. Not only that, but the opening scene includes a phone call in Denver. A western …

The Virginian: The Brazen Bell brought a very interesting portrayal, courtesy of George C. Scott. Royal Dano also did his usual good job. Dano is a character actor who has done more roles than I can count. He’s in at least two shows from season 1 …

The Virginian: The Big Deal, episode 4 of season 1, brings back Pippa Scott as Molly Wood, the publisher of the town newspaper. She’s a recurring character on this western. I haven’t checked to see how far she goes, but she’s in several episodes from the first …