Posts from HSColonel in thread „Have Gun - Will Travel (1957-1963)“

Quote from The Tennesseean

Ever since I saw a marathon on the Western Channel of HGWT a few months ago, I plan my day for it coming on at 5:35 every M-F! Since I was only born in '61, I didn't have the priviledge of seeing this show in it's "hey-day," but I try never to miss an episode. My wife, who is 19 years my junior, is nearly as much a JW fan as I am, loves to watch the show, too!

I posted this on another thread, but Andrew McLaglen holds the distinction of directing the most episodes of HGWT (101), and Gunsmoke (96). That's VERY impressive! I always tell my wife that you can see right away whether it's an episode directed by Andy or not, as he was far superior to everyone else in every aspect of directing - from lighting, to getting the best out of his actors.

As for the "PC" experiences some are speaking about with in-laws and such: I too have dealt with this, and I was a teacher for many years. These folks that play these games about "everyone's a winner, and don't dare flunk my child because they cheated" really used to burn all of us up. They did these things because THEY grew up maladjusted and unable to deal with normal, everyday life, and they want everyone else to cave in to them. I grew up with a dad the gave us boys guns when we were very young (I was 10 when I received my 1st shotgun), and took us target shooting all the time, but we we NEVER allowed to touch those guns without his, or an older brother's (8 & 7 years older) supervision, and that was to clean them, and get them ready for transport. Dad wasn't a big fan of hunting as he got past 50, but my brothers still are, as are THEIR sons (I don't have the time), but ALWAYS responsibly.

I had toy pistols and rifles and hats and vests, and we played "Cowboys & Indians," "Cops & Robbers, and I had camaflauge outfit fatigue hat and poncho and a toy M-16, but I didn't grow up to be a psycho mass murderer, and no one else who played with toys did either, or you'd see millions of us baby boomers on the news!

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Absolutely correct. Boys need an outlet for their aggression and energy (it's ingrained) and playing Cowboy or Soldier is a good outlet for that. I grew up in Wisc, and there were always guns around, but the operative word is responsibility, as you said.

Quote from The Tennesseean

There aren't any REAL original ideas In Hollywood anymore, that's why! Another way to look at it (I suppose), is that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery...;)

I recall a few years ago there's was talk going around about a Sci Fi remake of The Searchers with Bruce Willis...urgh!

Quote from Laramie

Have gun Will Travel movie due out this year.
But don't expect much.....Paladin will be played by a Rapper named Eminem. Richard Boone would roll over in his grave.

That is horrifying information. Why must Hwood continue remaking great shows with awful results; anybody see the Wild Wild West movie? terrible.

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Firstly, Keith, I love these posts of yours and this one in particular. A huge fan of both Richard Boone and this series.

It reminds me of a story that kind of ties in with another thread that was also posted in the "off topics" area about the times we live in now / political correctness / etc.

I remember one of the best Christmas gifts I ever got when I was a kid was a holster with matching six shooters with the Paladin chess piece "Knights" on both the holster and the six shooters. God - I can still remember how thrilled I was when I opened up th present on Christmas morning and saw those beautiful toy guns and holster.

Well, fast forward a couple of decades later and now I'm an uncle for the first time and it's Christmas and I decide to buy my young nephew a hoslter with a couple of matching six shooters / cowboy hat / etc.

To this day, I'll never forget the look of horror on my sister-in-law's face when she saw the incredibly "inappropriate" gift that I bought my young nephew. She later took me aside and told me in no uncertain terms how unacceptable it was for me to purchas something as terrible as a couple of small "guns" for a young boy and she asked me what the hell I as thinking..??? Guns - for a small boy..!!!????

Well, I wasn't about to argue with her - not on Christmas Day and I certainly wasn't going to get into a debate with her about raising children, but I could only think back to the number of kids of my generation and older, who received similar types of gifts when they were kids and they turned out just fine.

But I guess in the 20th / 21st century,you're some kind of a mentally challenged dinosaur if you think a cowboy set with six shooters is an apporpriate gift for kids. ,

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I had that gun set also when I was a youngster. What a thrill it was! I handed out the cards that came with it but, of course, asked for them back. Wish I still had it. Boone was magnificent in HGWT; hell, he's always magnificent; Big Jake, Tall T, Rio Conchos, etc.

Little boys like to play with guns, big deal. A shame your sister in law doesn't understand that. My son, Ethan, played with toy guns all throughout his younger years (17 now) and he's a well-adjusted, loving kid.