"Have Gun Will Travel" was a prime time staple of Saturday nights for the six seasons it ran on CBS-TV where it aired Saturday nights in prime time at the 9:30 eastern/8:30 central time slot. The series was so successful that it was the third and fourth highest rated television series where it dominated the Nielsens every year throughout the first four seasons of its six year run airing from September 14,1957 until the final episode of the series on April 20,1963. The series was produced by Filmaster Productions in association with the CBS Television Network. Actor Richard Boone appeared as Paladin in all 225 episodes of the series which were all broadcast in black and white. "Have Gun Will Travel" was one of the few television shows in its era to spawn a successful radio version of the program that starred John Dehner(in the radio version) that premiered in 1958 lasting until 1960. The television series was the created force of Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow who also served as executive producers and was produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman.
Out of the 225 episodes of the television series a total of 24 were written by Gene Roddenberry(later of "Star Trek" fame). Other writers that contribute to this series were Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley, Lee Erwin, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Sam Peckinpah, Richard Matheson, Harold Jack Bloom, along with Albert Aley and Fred Freiburger. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes of Have Gun Will Travel while it's star Richard Boone directed 19 episodes of the series and he also served as a writer for several episodes too. Other directors were Sam Peckinpah, Ida Lupino, Lamont Johnson, Don Taylor, William Conrad, Sutton Roley, Gary Nelson, Jerry Hopper, Robert Butler along with future Hollywood director Richard Donner and Buzz Kulik. Big name guest stars ranging from Vincent Price, Jack Lord, James Coburn, Angie Dickinson, Denver Pyle, Claude Akins, Harry Morgan, Lee Van Cleef, Charles Bronson, Jack Elam, James Franciscus, June Lockhart, George Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Michael Landon, DeForest Kelley, James Best, Ken Curtis, Warren Oates, Werner Klemperer, Buddy Ebsen, Kevin Hagen, Pernell Roberts, Martin Balsam and John Carradine to name a few of the guest stars that were with the series.
The show's sponsors throughout it's run were the R.J. Reynolds Company the makers of Winston and Salem Cigarettes and the Ford Motor Company.
Out of the 225 episodes of the television series a total of 24 were written by Gene Roddenberry(later of "Star Trek" fame). Other writers that contribute to this series were Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley, Lee Erwin, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Sam Peckinpah, Richard Matheson, Harold Jack Bloom, along with Albert Aley and Fred Freiburger. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes of Have Gun Will Travel while it's star Richard Boone directed 19 episodes of the series and he also served as a writer for several episodes too. Other directors were Sam Peckinpah, Ida Lupino, Lamont Johnson, Don Taylor, William Conrad, Sutton Roley, Gary Nelson, Jerry Hopper, Robert Butler along with future Hollywood director Richard Donner and Buzz Kulik. Big name guest stars ranging from Vincent Price, Jack Lord, James Coburn, Angie Dickinson, Denver Pyle, Claude Akins, Harry Morgan, Lee Van Cleef, Charles Bronson, Jack Elam, James Franciscus, June Lockhart, George Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Michael Landon, DeForest Kelley, James Best, Ken Curtis, Warren Oates, Werner Klemperer, Buddy Ebsen, Kevin Hagen, Pernell Roberts, Martin Balsam and John Carradine to name a few of the guest stars that were with the series.
The show's sponsors throughout it's run were the R.J. Reynolds Company the makers of Winston and Salem Cigarettes and the Ford Motor Company.