One of the most successful series of its time, Have Gun--Will Travel became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1950s and made its star, Richard Boone, a nationwide celebrity.
The series offered viewers an unusual hero in the mysterious, Shakespeare-spouting gunfighter known only as Paladin and garnered a loyal fan base, including a large female following.
In Have Gun--Will Travel , film scholar Gaylyn Studlar draws on a remarkably wide range of episodes from the series' s.