Episode 398 – Man in Black (Have Gun – Will Travel)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
The man called Paladin - a gentleman gunfighter for hire in the west of 1875 - rode from television to radio in Have Gun - Will Travel. A rare radio spin-off of a TV series, it continued the adventures of the gunman who dressed in black and hired himself out to anyone who could pay his fee - a sort of cowboy private eye. John Dehner stars as Paladin in "Three Bells to Perdido" (originally aired on CBS on January 18, 1959); "The Monster of Moon Ridge" (originally aired on CBS on March 8, 1959); and "The Colonel and the Lady" (originally aired on CBS on April 12, 1959).
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.0 | The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. |
| 0:22.0 | The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize |
| 0:25.4 | Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account |
| 0:30.6 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 0:33.0 | Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets a weekly roundup of old time radio |
| 1:00.3 | detectives and crime fighters. |
| 1:03.4 | Today were bound for the Old West with a radio rarity, |
| 1:07.8 | a show that began on television, but spawned a radio incarnation |
| 1:12.2 | in the final days of network radio drama. |
| 1:16.4 | It's the hybrid Western detective show Have Gun will Travel. |
| 1:27.0 | Created by Herb Meadows and Sam Rolf, the series followed Pallidin, a gentleman gunfighter who lived in luxury in a fabulous San Francisco hotel, but who earned his living by hiring his gun to anyone who could pay his steep fee. |
| 1:39.0 | He was closer to a private eye than most of the stars of 50s TV Westerns and the stories in the show reflected |
| 1:47.0 | Palladon's unusual position as a hero for hire. |
| 1:52.4 | His jobs ranged from tracking down fugitives to acting as bodyguard to even bringing |
| 1:58.0 | errant bridegrooms back for their weddings. |
| 2:02.8 | The show aired on CBS on Saturday nights from 1957 to 1963, and for much of its run, it ranked |
| 2:10.3 | in the top three or four shows on network television. |
| 2:14.5 | If you've ever seen the movie Stand By Me, |
| 2:17.0 | you've heard some of the show's closing theme songs |
| 2:19.4 | sung by the boys on their track. A gun will travel, reach the card of a man. |
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