In an Evil Time (HGWT)

The legendary Pappy French has fallen in, and then fallen out, with a crew of bank robbers. Paladin finds the old coot and they make a run to retrieve the stolen 50k.

This episode has some great voice acting and some good dialogue. The more I listen to these Have Gun, Will Travel episodes, the more I think of Paladin as an impartial observer. Paladin has rules. His moral code comes first, then the contract, then the well-being of innocents, then his own well-being. That's all he cares about. Within those confines, he just lets things play out. If circumstances threaten one of his core values, he reacts decisively, otherwise he watches and waits for things to go the way they will go.

The script was used on the television show on June 14, 1958.

Have Gun, Will Travel #27
In an Evil Time
24 May 1959
19590524(027)_HGWT_InAnEvilTime.mp3
Sponsored by: Longines Watches, Mutual Of Omaha, Pepsi-Cola. John Dehner, Ben Wright, Joseph Kearns, Harry Bartell (doubles), Hugh Douglas (announcer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Shimon Wincelberg (writer), Ann Doud (adaptor), Frank Knight (Longines commercial), Sam Rolfe (creator), Herb Meadow (creator), Bill James (sound effects), Tom Hanley (sound effects)

Harry Bartell doubles up in this one