HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL "No Visitors" 1957
HAVE GUN – WILL TRAVEL was a Western series that ran on television between 1957 and 1963. The series was very popular and was always in the top ten of the television ratings. The series ran for a total of 225 episodes. Richard Boone headlines as "Paladin", a gun for hire, if the cause is right. Working out of San Francisco, Boone places ads in newspapers offering his services. $1,000 and he is your man. While handy with a gun or fists, he tries to settle the problem without violence. (Not very successfully as a general rule)
In this episode, the 12th the series, Boone comes across a lone wagon sitting in the middle of nowhere. He has a look and finds a woman and a baby. The woman, Ruth Storey, explains to Boone that she had been cut loose from a wagon train. The wagon master said that her sick child had typhoid and would infect the rest of the wagon train.
Boone rides into the nearest town to find a doctor. What he finds is the very man, Grant Withers, who had let Storey and her child to die. The man is a fire and brimstone sort who claims it was God's will. Boone asks about the doctor who turns out to be a woman. The doc, June Lockhart, rides out with Boone to administer to Storey and the baby. The townsfolk, led by Withers, tell Boone and Lockhart not to return.
After they reach the woman and child, Boone hooks up his horse to the wagon and starts back to town. Lockhart is not sure if the baby has typhoid but needs some of the medicine at her office. Withers and the mob appear with guns and threaten Boone and the doc. Boone ignores the rabble and pushes them aside.
The mob follows and burns the wagon up after the Boone and company have reached the office. Turns out the child did not have typhoid but a case of 3 day measles. We also learn that the real reason the woman and child had been cut loose, was Storey turning down Withers romantic advances.
Needless to say that Withers does not stop at burning the wagon. He comes to do the same to Lockhart's home and office. The old lead cure is applied to Withers in a most unhealthy dosage.
Decent little story.
HAVE GUN – WILL TRAVEL was a Western series that ran on television between 1957 and 1963. The series was very popular and was always in the top ten of the television ratings. The series ran for a total of 225 episodes. Richard Boone headlines as "Paladin", a gun for hire, if the cause is right. Working out of San Francisco, Boone places ads in newspapers offering his services. $1,000 and he is your man. While handy with a gun or fists, he tries to settle the problem without violence. (Not very successfully as a general rule)
In this episode, the 12th the series, Boone comes across a lone wagon sitting in the middle of nowhere. He has a look and finds a woman and a baby. The woman, Ruth Storey, explains to Boone that she had been cut loose from a wagon train. The wagon master said that her sick child had typhoid and would infect the rest of the wagon train.
Boone rides into the nearest town to find a doctor. What he finds is the very man, Grant Withers, who had let Storey and her child to die. The man is a fire and brimstone sort who claims it was God's will. Boone asks about the doctor who turns out to be a woman. The doc, June Lockhart, rides out with Boone to administer to Storey and the baby. The townsfolk, led by Withers, tell Boone and Lockhart not to return.
After they reach the woman and child, Boone hooks up his horse to the wagon and starts back to town. Lockhart is not sure if the baby has typhoid but needs some of the medicine at her office. Withers and the mob appear with guns and threaten Boone and the doc. Boone ignores the rabble and pushes them aside.
The mob follows and burns the wagon up after the Boone and company have reached the office. Turns out the child did not have typhoid but a case of 3 day measles. We also learn that the real reason the woman and child had been cut loose, was Storey turning down Withers romantic advances.
Needless to say that Withers does not stop at burning the wagon. He comes to do the same to Lockhart's home and office. The old lead cure is applied to Withers in a most unhealthy dosage.
Decent little story.