Have Gun Will Travel started September 14th 1957 on the CBS television network. Richard Boone played "Paladin", the man in black. The half-hour show aired Saturday, at 9:30 p.m.,and ran for six seasons.
It came on just before another popular western,Gunsmoke.
The first year it was the fourth rated show and stayed in the number 3 slot for the next three years.
CBS ran a total of 255 Episodes were ran in the six seasons. Paladin was an educated knight-errant gunslinger who, upon payment of $1,000, would leave his well-appointed suite in San Francisco's Hotel Carlton to pursue whatever mission of mercy or justice a well-heeled client commissioned.
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