Have Gun – Will Travel
The Poker Fiend
TV Flash files “The Poker Fiend” as hour 126 of 225 in the TV Flash guide — Have Gun – Will Travel (1957–1963) on CBS, season 4, episode 9, aired 1960-11-12, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E09: listed hour 126 of 225 in the Have Gun – Will Travel guide, hour 9 of 38 in season 4. It aired 1960-11-12 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Shooting of Jesse May” (S04E08). Next is “Crowbait” (S04E10).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A wife hires Paladin to bring back her gambling-addicted husband from a five-month series of poker games before he loses all of his fortune.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Poker Fiend sit in the Have Gun – Will Travel guide?
S04E09 is listed hour 126 of 225 — hour 9 of 38 in season 4, season 4 episode 9.
When did Have Gun – Will Travel S04E09 air?
The Poker Fiend aired 1960-11-12 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…