October 14, 2025 • 24 mins
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular western radio drama series that ran from 1958 to 1960. It debuted as a television series in 1957 and was one of only a few American television programs that paved the way for a radio version. Although the radio show initially featured stories adapted from television, many of the 106 radio episodes were original stories. The stories follow the adventures of Paladin, played by John Dehner.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
If killers laugh at the law in a town, it
isn't long before they take over. That's happening in your town, mister,
what are you going to do about it? Have Gun,
(00:33):
Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco,
eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man
called Paladin.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We start Paladin.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh well, you're looking very pleased with yourself, hey boy.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh well, biggie wedding will happen?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Wedding? Who's wedding? Not yours?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
No, no, no, no, no, cause I'm too Hey boy.
He saw a Chinese wedding many people much he celebrated.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well that's fine, I'd say, by the way you're acting
that this doesn't happen too often.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Huh no, no, no, meal does not happen often. Oh,
hey boy, very happy. Oh make many preparations, everybody, have
a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You have come to wedding, Hey boy. If I'm in
San Francisco, I guarantee I'll be there. You just let
me know when and where.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh very good, hey boy, let you know I go now.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, No wait, wait a minute. Didn't you want to
see me about something?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Oh? Almost forgot the telegram come for you.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh well, let's see are you send the answer? Yes?
Tell him have gun, will travel.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
This is Frank Knight speaking for the world's most honored watch, Lawneene.
In the Conquest of the Old West, men won fame
through feats of bravery and daring. To day, things are different,
but fame can still be won. How wonderful to win
a Nobel Prize in science, a Pulitzer Award in literature,
an Olympic Gold medal in sports. These great honors are symbols.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Of achievement in the field of time.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Did you know that lawn Gene watches have won more
great public honors than any other watch in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
This is true.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
The highest authorities have ranked lown Gene watches as the
finest achievement in the science and art of watchmaking. Yet
a Lawneen, the world's most honored watch, styled with distinction,
cased in precious metal, promising a lifetime of faultless timekeeping,
is not costly. Many models are priced as low as
(03:00):
seventy five dollars. Visit your authorized launching with no jeweler.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
He will be honored to serve you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
The telegram took me to a town near the Nevada border,
and when I got there, my job was completed swiftly,
without bullets. I collected my fee and started a long
ride back to San Francisco. The third day brought me
to a town called Woodland, nestled in the foothills of
the Sierra Nevada Range. It was like a thousand other towns,
(03:31):
one dusty street with boardwalks on each side, flanked by
rows of wooden false front of buildings, and the inevitable
saloon and general store. I decided I might as well
get some supplies. Hello, anybody here?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh help me? Please?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh well here, let me help you up. Get you
to a chair.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Cool easy. He's a doctor. I need a doctor.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
What happened? Old man? Who did this to you?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Get the doctor? Please?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Where is he?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And of the street?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
And a white house, a white house. I'll get him
and be right back.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
For three days, the little old man hobbed near death.
I found out his name was Hans Riker, and he
owned the store. I also found out he was alone
and needed help, so I decided to stay on. On
the fourth day, the doctor said Hans was going to
be all right, and by the end of the week.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
He was beginning to move around.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Give me a cup, poor hear some more coffee.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Thank you, sir. Well, good to see you up and around.
Mister Riker. You better take it easy. Remember what the
doctor said.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
What does the doctor know? She asked him. Is a
man going to live?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
What I He will tell you he doesn't know. So
the man lives or he dies. Either way, the doctor
can see you right, just.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
The same, You're not as strong as you may think
you were.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, that is true. I am not strong, but I
would not be here at all if it were not
for a man named Paladin.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I did nothing, mister Ricker, That, of course is nonsense,
and I want you to know that an old man
is great.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Wow. I did only what anyone would do. Well.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Perhaps I am more cynical than you, perhaps you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Ster Riker. Will you tell me now who did this
to you?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
That is not important, not now.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It is to me who beat you why.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I'll show you something now, my friend, show you something
only a few people have seen. It is what is
in this box that courses my fear. Ah, you will
open it, please, m beautiful take it out, look at
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it closely.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
That's wonderful. Craftsmanship. It's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It's a good gun, yeah, it certainly is.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
The balance is perfect, it's just perfect. Where'd you get
this gun, mister Ricker?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Ah you see me now as a storekeeper, mister Palattin.
But in the old country, in Germany, I was a gunsmith.
Ain't a fairy good gunsmith?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You made this gun? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I have made many hundreds of guns in my lifetime,
and those aroun you hold. I carve it a mate
twin Yeah yeah, yeah yeah a tweet.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You spoke of a fear mister Riker, what fear well
to a lifelong friend.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I gave the twin.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Weapon and crafted by my own hands, and it killed him.
It exploded the first time he shot it. There was
a floor somewhere that I did not see, and my
friend died.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Well, you shouldn't blame yourself for that.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The day my friend died, I swore never to make
another gun, mister Peladin, and I have not No. I
sold my guns, all of them, put the run that
you hold, and came to America.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I see.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Then two weeks ago a gunfighter was called linked Dobee
Road in the town and he found something he wanted here,
a gun this gun. Yeah, that gun?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, how did he know about it?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
One of my friends I have showed it to. He
was drinking too much and he talked loudly. And at
first this link Toby was was nice. He asked me
to sell the gun to him, but I couldn't do that.
Then what Then he went back to the saloon and drank,
and then he came back again and asked me. And
then when I still said no, he beat me.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Why don't you just give the gun the Doobe? Mister Riker,
you said yourself, it's defective.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Nine nine, I said, the twin to the skun has
a floor. But is this gun here?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It is perfect?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
What about the law here?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Sheriff King he is like me, He's old and a
man like Dobe, a gunfighter. The sheriff cannot stop him. No,
everybody here they are afraid of Doobie.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I think I'll talk to Sheriff King lye nine.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, you have done enough, my friend. Please do not concern.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yourself with this.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I will give Dobe the gun.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, don't do that, not yet. First, let me see
what I can do.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Be sociable, looks smart, to date with PESTI drink light refreshing,
Stay young, can there and j fun, be sociable and Pepsi.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
When friends drop in.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Let your hospitality show you a sociable in the modern manner. Pepsi,
you know, is the favorite of the smart and young
at heart.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Be sociable, looks smart to date with Petsy, drink light
refreshing Pepsi, stay long, care and the sociables.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Have you tried to pepsy? Lately?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
The Sheriff's office sat defiantly alone in woodland, faded and old,
like the man in it, who sat with his feet
propped on.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
The desktop that had been scarred by too.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Many years, And he looked at me with pale blue eyes,
dimmed and defeated by age.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
So that old fool went and hired a gunsling around.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
No, no, sheriff, mister Riker didn't hire anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I'm here on my own.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Well, now, why don't you just turn around and leave
on your own?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I'll leave when I find out what's going to be
done about this.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
What's done my business, mister, not yours.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I'm making it mine. Now what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What do you expect me to do?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Get dobey? Now?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
You listening to me mister Paladin, thing was all right
here till you come in.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
We ain't had no trouble.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You say you had no trouble, Sheriff, Well maybe not,
But you don't know what trouble is until a man
like lincd don't. He laughs at your law, and he's
going to keep right on laughing until he gets sick
of it, and then he's going to start shooting. Maybe
one of the people he kills. He'll be a tired
old sheriff. Now wait a minute, and he'll leave your town, Sheriff.
He'll only be the first. There'll be others, dozens of them,
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because this will be the town they know they can buffle.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Come over to the window, Paladin.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You see that street.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
It ain't much, but it used to be. Just a
few years ago. There wasn't a man or woman walked
down that street. Didn't have a lot of respect for me.
And then all of a sudden the gunfighters found out
out old couldn't handle a.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Gun no more.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
They started coming, and I was afraid to stop him, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
The man that says he isn't afraid is either a
liar or a fool.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Thanks Paladin, I can't eat nothing I can do, not
no more.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
All right, Sheriff, Then I'll handle it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Adobe will be leaving town tomorrow one way or another.
(12:41):
I'm looking for a man called Lincddobie.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Is he here?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I'm Doobe.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
My name is Paladin. Eh. What you've got to say
to me? Mister a few days ago? You'll be an
old man Adobie.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You beat him and you told him you were gonna
kill him if you didn't give you a certain gun.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
That's none of your affair. It's between a man Ryker
and me.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Not anymore. Adobe.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I represent mister Riker, and you're gonna have to kill
me to get that gun you're after.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Look here, I got no cause. Let no shoot out
of you.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
If I haven't given you cause yet, mister Adobie, maybe
this will.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Shun oh kill you.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Oh now you have caused, Adobie. But I'm gonna let
you off. I'm gonna let you leave time tomorrow morning,
by eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That's how much time you have to get out tomorrow morning,
eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Where are the.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
Germanist germs of all upstairs, downstairs or in the hall. No,
they're in the bathroom. And to wipe them out. Indeed,
a little dash of liceol all you need.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Did you say that a little dash of Lysol brand
disinfectant wipes out bathroom Germans, I.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Distinctly said, bathroom germs.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Yes, ladies, a little Lysol in your cleaning sids is
the really easy modern way to clean your bathroom each week.
Because lysol makes your favorite cleaners work better, including many
that claim to sanitize. Lisol kills disease and odor causing germs.
Many deadly viruses too, disinfect from one cleaning to the
next as nothing else. Can use liceol, either the new
(15:10):
pine scented or regular next time you clean the bathroom
and my dear.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
Boy, I distinctly said, the ball room, A little dish
of lysol does it all?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Costs as little as twenty nine cents.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I had breakfast with Hans Richer the next morning, which
was quite an experience. Hans called it gabble frustick or
a knife and fork breakfast. It consisted of eggs, bacon, sausage,
hot rolls, soup and potatoes. It was a good start
for any day.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You do not eat mussurpeladin. It is a German way
of cooking. You do not lie.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
This is a German way of cooking. I do like
there's a limit to what a man's stomach holds.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Ah, but you do not eat much already. I have
eaten more than you, and you are young here should
eat more than me. I think perhaps it is the
troubles with Linkedobie. I cannot stop you if I'm doing
this thing, my friend.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Oh, I don't think there'll be any showdown.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Adobe is brave when he knows he can win. I
doubt that he's in town now, but I better make
certain you stay here, mister Riker. I'll check delivery stable
to be sure he's gone. Adobe's horse wasn't that delivery stable?
Just to be sure he'd left town. I went to
the hotel. The clerk told me Adbe had checked out
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at seven o'clock that morning. I headed back for Hans Rikers.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
H Aladan, Oh, dobe, has she need worst?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Sheff? Where'd you see him?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Just coming out of my office? She named sneak in
the Riker's place.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Rikers, Come on, mister rider, it's the writer. Is the riker?
Where is he the gun? Where's Adobe?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Back Beck? He has the gun?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Sheriff, get the doctor. I'm going after Adobe.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Hold it, Candy, don't you even breathe?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Now, you do exactly what I tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Put that gun in your host real easy, like don't
move fast to your bed.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That's the way. Now you turn around.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Now you're looking me in the face, Palladin, and you're
gonna die, talking so big, making me dirt front of
all the people. You ain't so big now, just about my.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That's the way I like it. You should like him
hiding there, showing on your face the gun your stole.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
Better draw, Paladin, because you ain't never going to get
another chance.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Now, Dobby, Yeah, over here, Sheriff, I heard the shot.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
There was no shot, Sheriff. The gunny store from Hans
Ryker blew up in his face.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
And so once again, after so long a time, I
got out my tools and I worked on a gun
after you left me yesterday. I worked on it, mister Paladin,
and into the night I worked, and I created a floor,
a floor that would make the gun blow up when
it was shot.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Why don't you tell me this morning, mister Riker, when
I had breakfast with you, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Did not think I should.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
You told me you did not wish me to give
him the gun, and I fixed it because I feared
for you. If Dobie had killed you, then I would
give him the gun.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
So when Dobie came into your place after I left,
you thought he had killed me.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I was afraid and I gave him the gun. But
he hit me anyway. He was very angry.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Mister Riker, you saved my life. I thank you.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
A graded to it from the heart is more valuable
than gold, Is that not so, my friend?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yes, mister Riker, that is so.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
A package come for you. Pardon?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Oh, thank you? Hey boy, Hey boy, what's the matter
with you? You look terrible?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh you notice?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Huh notice? I'd have to be blind not to what happened.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh, well, you remember wedding I tell you about a
long time ago when you could not attend.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yes, I remember, Yes, wedding happened. Well, what does that
have to do with your condition?
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Hey boy?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh wedding? Was it Chinese? Missed the paladin?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Hey? But I know it was a Chinese wedding. But
what has that to do with you? Now?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
At that Chinese wedding is much celebrating many people, many
things to eat, many things to drink.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Oh, you needn't go on, Hey boy, I think I understand.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Oh please, he missed the paladine not he laughed so loud, honible,
headful of woo. You take your package now?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Oh yes, yes, of course, one moment before you go
lie down though, Hey boy, there may be an answer.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Required, hez, oh beautiful gun, mister piney.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yes, hey boy, it's an exquisite journey. Oh here there's
a note, my friend. These hands once again broke a
vow and crafted the guns. The hands have not lost
their touch. Please you will accept this from a grateful
old man, signed hands richer.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Oh very nice, easty apologies you said ansa No, no,
hey boy, no answer.
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Created by Herb Meadow and Sam raw He is protial
stand direct did by Norman McDonald and stars John Dayner
as Paladin. Hey Boy is played by Ben Wright, who
also appeared as Hans richer Tonight's story was written by
Ray Kemper. Featured in the cast were Ralph Moody as
the Sheriff and Laurence Stopton Asdobe. Hugh Douglas speaking Join
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us again next week for Have Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Everything's been a
If killers laugh at the law in a town, it
isn't long before they take over. That's happening in your town, mister,
what are you going to do about it? Have Gun,
(00:33):
Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco,
eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man
called Paladin.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We start Paladin.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh well, you're looking very pleased with yourself, hey boy.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh well, biggie wedding will happen?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Wedding? Who's wedding? Not yours?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
No, no, no, no, no, cause I'm too Hey boy.
He saw a Chinese wedding many people much he celebrated.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well that's fine, I'd say, by the way you're acting
that this doesn't happen too often.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Huh no, no, no, meal does not happen often. Oh,
hey boy, very happy. Oh make many preparations, everybody, have
a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You have come to wedding, Hey boy. If I'm in
San Francisco, I guarantee I'll be there. You just let
me know when and where.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh very good, hey boy, let you know I go now.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, No wait, wait a minute. Didn't you want to
see me about something?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Oh? Almost forgot the telegram come for you.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh well, let's see are you send the answer? Yes?
Tell him have gun, will travel.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
This is Frank Knight speaking for the world's most honored watch, Lawneene.
In the Conquest of the Old West, men won fame
through feats of bravery and daring. To day, things are different,
but fame can still be won. How wonderful to win
a Nobel Prize in science, a Pulitzer Award in literature,
an Olympic Gold medal in sports. These great honors are symbols.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Of achievement in the field of time.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Did you know that lawn Gene watches have won more
great public honors than any other watch in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
This is true.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
The highest authorities have ranked lown Gene watches as the
finest achievement in the science and art of watchmaking. Yet
a Lawneen, the world's most honored watch, styled with distinction,
cased in precious metal, promising a lifetime of faultless timekeeping,
is not costly. Many models are priced as low as
(03:00):
seventy five dollars. Visit your authorized launching with no jeweler.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
He will be honored to serve you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
The telegram took me to a town near the Nevada border,
and when I got there, my job was completed swiftly,
without bullets. I collected my fee and started a long
ride back to San Francisco. The third day brought me
to a town called Woodland, nestled in the foothills of
the Sierra Nevada Range. It was like a thousand other towns,
(03:31):
one dusty street with boardwalks on each side, flanked by
rows of wooden false front of buildings, and the inevitable
saloon and general store. I decided I might as well
get some supplies. Hello, anybody here?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh help me? Please?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh well here, let me help you up. Get you
to a chair.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Cool easy. He's a doctor. I need a doctor.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
What happened? Old man? Who did this to you?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Get the doctor? Please?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Where is he?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And of the street?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
And a white house, a white house. I'll get him
and be right back.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
For three days, the little old man hobbed near death.
I found out his name was Hans Riker, and he
owned the store. I also found out he was alone
and needed help, so I decided to stay on. On
the fourth day, the doctor said Hans was going to
be all right, and by the end of the week.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
He was beginning to move around.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Give me a cup, poor hear some more coffee.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Thank you, sir. Well, good to see you up and around.
Mister Riker. You better take it easy. Remember what the
doctor said.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
What does the doctor know? She asked him. Is a
man going to live?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
What I He will tell you he doesn't know. So
the man lives or he dies. Either way, the doctor
can see you right, just.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
The same, You're not as strong as you may think
you were.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, that is true. I am not strong, but I
would not be here at all if it were not
for a man named Paladin.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I did nothing, mister Ricker, That, of course is nonsense,
and I want you to know that an old man
is great.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Wow. I did only what anyone would do. Well.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Perhaps I am more cynical than you, perhaps you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Ster Riker. Will you tell me now who did this
to you?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
That is not important, not now.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It is to me who beat you why.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I'll show you something now, my friend, show you something
only a few people have seen. It is what is
in this box that courses my fear. Ah, you will
open it, please, m beautiful take it out, look at
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it closely.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
That's wonderful. Craftsmanship. It's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It's a good gun, yeah, it certainly is.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
The balance is perfect, it's just perfect. Where'd you get
this gun, mister Ricker?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Ah you see me now as a storekeeper, mister Palattin.
But in the old country, in Germany, I was a gunsmith.
Ain't a fairy good gunsmith?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You made this gun? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I have made many hundreds of guns in my lifetime,
and those aroun you hold. I carve it a mate
twin Yeah yeah, yeah yeah a tweet.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You spoke of a fear mister Riker, what fear well
to a lifelong friend.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I gave the twin.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Weapon and crafted by my own hands, and it killed him.
It exploded the first time he shot it. There was
a floor somewhere that I did not see, and my
friend died.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Well, you shouldn't blame yourself for that.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The day my friend died, I swore never to make
another gun, mister Peladin, and I have not No. I
sold my guns, all of them, put the run that
you hold, and came to America.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I see.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Then two weeks ago a gunfighter was called linked Dobee
Road in the town and he found something he wanted here,
a gun this gun. Yeah, that gun?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, how did he know about it?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
One of my friends I have showed it to. He
was drinking too much and he talked loudly. And at
first this link Toby was was nice. He asked me
to sell the gun to him, but I couldn't do that.
Then what Then he went back to the saloon and drank,
and then he came back again and asked me. And
then when I still said no, he beat me.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Why don't you just give the gun the Doobe? Mister Riker,
you said yourself, it's defective.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Nine nine, I said, the twin to the skun has
a floor. But is this gun here?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It is perfect?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
What about the law here?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Sheriff King he is like me, He's old and a
man like Dobe, a gunfighter. The sheriff cannot stop him. No,
everybody here they are afraid of Doobie.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I think I'll talk to Sheriff King lye nine.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, you have done enough, my friend. Please do not concern.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yourself with this.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I will give Dobe the gun.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, don't do that, not yet. First, let me see
what I can do.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Be sociable, looks smart, to date with PESTI drink light refreshing,
Stay young, can there and j fun, be sociable and Pepsi.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
When friends drop in.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Let your hospitality show you a sociable in the modern manner. Pepsi,
you know, is the favorite of the smart and young
at heart.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Be sociable, looks smart to date with Petsy, drink light
refreshing Pepsi, stay long, care and the sociables.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Have you tried to pepsy? Lately?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
The Sheriff's office sat defiantly alone in woodland, faded and old,
like the man in it, who sat with his feet
propped on.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
The desktop that had been scarred by too.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Many years, And he looked at me with pale blue eyes,
dimmed and defeated by age.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
So that old fool went and hired a gunsling around.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
No, no, sheriff, mister Riker didn't hire anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I'm here on my own.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Well, now, why don't you just turn around and leave
on your own?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I'll leave when I find out what's going to be
done about this.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
What's done my business, mister, not yours.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I'm making it mine. Now what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What do you expect me to do?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Get dobey? Now?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
You listening to me mister Paladin, thing was all right
here till you come in.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
We ain't had no trouble.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You say you had no trouble, Sheriff, Well maybe not,
But you don't know what trouble is until a man
like lincd don't. He laughs at your law, and he's
going to keep right on laughing until he gets sick
of it, and then he's going to start shooting. Maybe
one of the people he kills. He'll be a tired
old sheriff. Now wait a minute, and he'll leave your town, Sheriff.
He'll only be the first. There'll be others, dozens of them,
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because this will be the town they know they can buffle.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Come over to the window, Paladin.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You see that street.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
It ain't much, but it used to be. Just a
few years ago. There wasn't a man or woman walked
down that street. Didn't have a lot of respect for me.
And then all of a sudden the gunfighters found out
out old couldn't handle a.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Gun no more.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
They started coming, and I was afraid to stop him, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
The man that says he isn't afraid is either a
liar or a fool.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Thanks Paladin, I can't eat nothing I can do, not
no more.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
All right, Sheriff, Then I'll handle it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Adobe will be leaving town tomorrow one way or another.
(12:41):
I'm looking for a man called Lincddobie.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Is he here?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I'm Doobe.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
My name is Paladin. Eh. What you've got to say
to me? Mister a few days ago? You'll be an
old man Adobie.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You beat him and you told him you were gonna
kill him if you didn't give you a certain gun.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
That's none of your affair. It's between a man Ryker
and me.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Not anymore. Adobe.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I represent mister Riker, and you're gonna have to kill
me to get that gun you're after.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Look here, I got no cause. Let no shoot out
of you.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
If I haven't given you cause yet, mister Adobie, maybe
this will.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Shun oh kill you.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Oh now you have caused, Adobie. But I'm gonna let
you off. I'm gonna let you leave time tomorrow morning,
by eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That's how much time you have to get out tomorrow morning,
eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Where are the.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
Germanist germs of all upstairs, downstairs or in the hall. No,
they're in the bathroom. And to wipe them out. Indeed,
a little dash of liceol all you need.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Did you say that a little dash of Lysol brand
disinfectant wipes out bathroom Germans, I.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Distinctly said, bathroom germs.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Yes, ladies, a little Lysol in your cleaning sids is
the really easy modern way to clean your bathroom each week.
Because lysol makes your favorite cleaners work better, including many
that claim to sanitize. Lisol kills disease and odor causing germs.
Many deadly viruses too, disinfect from one cleaning to the
next as nothing else. Can use liceol, either the new
(15:10):
pine scented or regular next time you clean the bathroom
and my dear.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
Boy, I distinctly said, the ball room, A little dish
of lysol does it all?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Costs as little as twenty nine cents.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I had breakfast with Hans Richer the next morning, which
was quite an experience. Hans called it gabble frustick or
a knife and fork breakfast. It consisted of eggs, bacon, sausage,
hot rolls, soup and potatoes. It was a good start
for any day.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You do not eat mussurpeladin. It is a German way
of cooking. You do not lie.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
This is a German way of cooking. I do like
there's a limit to what a man's stomach holds.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Ah, but you do not eat much already. I have
eaten more than you, and you are young here should
eat more than me. I think perhaps it is the
troubles with Linkedobie. I cannot stop you if I'm doing
this thing, my friend.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Oh, I don't think there'll be any showdown.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Adobe is brave when he knows he can win. I
doubt that he's in town now, but I better make
certain you stay here, mister Riker. I'll check delivery stable
to be sure he's gone. Adobe's horse wasn't that delivery stable?
Just to be sure he'd left town. I went to
the hotel. The clerk told me Adbe had checked out
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at seven o'clock that morning. I headed back for Hans Rikers.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
H Aladan, Oh, dobe, has she need worst?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Sheff? Where'd you see him?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Just coming out of my office? She named sneak in
the Riker's place.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Rikers, Come on, mister rider, it's the writer. Is the riker?
Where is he the gun? Where's Adobe?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Back Beck? He has the gun?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Sheriff, get the doctor. I'm going after Adobe.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Hold it, Candy, don't you even breathe?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Now, you do exactly what I tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Put that gun in your host real easy, like don't
move fast to your bed.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That's the way. Now you turn around.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Now you're looking me in the face, Palladin, and you're
gonna die, talking so big, making me dirt front of
all the people. You ain't so big now, just about my.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That's the way I like it. You should like him
hiding there, showing on your face the gun your stole.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
Better draw, Paladin, because you ain't never going to get
another chance.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Now, Dobby, Yeah, over here, Sheriff, I heard the shot.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
There was no shot, Sheriff. The gunny store from Hans
Ryker blew up in his face.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
And so once again, after so long a time, I
got out my tools and I worked on a gun
after you left me yesterday. I worked on it, mister Paladin,
and into the night I worked, and I created a floor,
a floor that would make the gun blow up when
it was shot.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Why don't you tell me this morning, mister Riker, when
I had breakfast with you, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Did not think I should.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
You told me you did not wish me to give
him the gun, and I fixed it because I feared
for you. If Dobie had killed you, then I would
give him the gun.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
So when Dobie came into your place after I left,
you thought he had killed me.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I was afraid and I gave him the gun. But
he hit me anyway. He was very angry.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Mister Riker, you saved my life. I thank you.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
A graded to it from the heart is more valuable
than gold, Is that not so, my friend?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yes, mister Riker, that is so.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
A package come for you. Pardon?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Oh, thank you? Hey boy, Hey boy, what's the matter
with you? You look terrible?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh you notice?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Huh notice? I'd have to be blind not to what happened.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh, well, you remember wedding I tell you about a
long time ago when you could not attend.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yes, I remember, Yes, wedding happened. Well, what does that
have to do with your condition?
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Hey boy?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh wedding? Was it Chinese? Missed the paladin?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Hey? But I know it was a Chinese wedding. But
what has that to do with you? Now?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
At that Chinese wedding is much celebrating many people, many
things to eat, many things to drink.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Oh, you needn't go on, Hey boy, I think I understand.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Oh please, he missed the paladine not he laughed so loud, honible,
headful of woo. You take your package now?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Oh yes, yes, of course, one moment before you go
lie down though, Hey boy, there may be an answer.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Required, hez, oh beautiful gun, mister piney.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yes, hey boy, it's an exquisite journey. Oh here there's
a note, my friend. These hands once again broke a
vow and crafted the guns. The hands have not lost
their touch. Please you will accept this from a grateful
old man, signed hands richer.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Oh very nice, easty apologies you said ansa No, no,
hey boy, no answer.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Are you a game fan? Do you like Bridge? Perhaps?
Or Checkers?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
How about these games? Are you familiar with them? Games
like Spellett, What's in the house?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Can you take it?
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Created by Herb Meadow and Sam raw He is protial
stand direct did by Norman McDonald and stars John Dayner
as Paladin. Hey Boy is played by Ben Wright, who
also appeared as Hans richer Tonight's story was written by
Ray Kemper. Featured in the cast were Ralph Moody as
the Sheriff and Laurence Stopton Asdobe. Hugh Douglas speaking Join
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