Have Gun – Will Travel
The Fifth Man
TV Flash files “The Fifth Man” as hour 75 of 225 in the TV Flash guide — Have Gun – Will Travel (1957–1963) on CBS, season 2, episode 36, aired 1959-05-30, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E36: listed hour 75 of 225 in the Have Gun – Will Travel guide, hour 36 of 39 in season 2. It aired 1959-05-30 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Homecoming” (S02E35). Next is “Heritage of Anger” (S02E37).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Paladin is hired to bring in a vicious killer who has killed five men since he escaped jail. However, not everything is as it seems.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Fifth Man sit in the Have Gun – Will Travel guide?
S02E36 is listed hour 75 of 225 — hour 36 of 39 in season 2, season 2 episode 36.
When did Have Gun – Will Travel S02E36 air?
The Fifth Man aired 1959-05-30 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Boone's Paladin and the calling-card ritual. The knight-for-hire brief is clear in the weekly form; you do not need a origin-mythology marathon.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Have Gun – Will Travel is a chess-piece knight for hire: Paladin's calling card cooler than most heroes' faces, Richard Boone's Broadway grit in a gunbelt. Watch it now as adult-western antihero cool — sophistication as a gunslinger trait, and the Wire Paladin card as brand-before-branding.
The calling card is cooler than most heroes' faces. (I said spoiler-free. The card is the spoiler.) *Have Gun – Will Travel*, CBS 1957–1963, 225 episodes across six seasons, also a concurrent radio hit: Richard Boone's Paladin, a chess-piece knight for hire with San Francisco manners and a gunbelt. Kam Tong as Hey Boy for much of the run; Lisa Lu as Hey Girl. Adult-western antihero cool. The group chat would have made the chess knight a stan logo by lunch.
Filed against
- Richard Boone as Paladin
Richard Boone's Paladin sold Have Gun – Will Travel as a chess-piece knight for hire — calling card cooler than most heroes' faces, Broadway grit in a gunbelt. Adult-western antihero cool before the term got a think piece. TV Flash files…
- Kam Tong as Hey Boy
Kam Tong’s Hey Boy kept Have Gun – Will Travel’s hotel a chessboard — Paladin’s calling card cooler than most heroes’ faces, Richard Boone’s Broadway grit in a gunbelt, adult-western antihero cool. Sophistication as a gunslinger trait,…
- Lisa Lu as Hey Girl
Lisa Lu occupied Paladin’s household as Hey Girl on Have Gun – Will Travel — a chess-piece knight for hire, Richard Boone’s Broadway grit in a gunbelt, and a 1950s adult-western that sold sophistication as a calling card. Cooler than most…