"Have Gun - Will Travel"

[ToddPence]

I will go look that up on Monday if I have time.

One thing that I do have copied down and immediately to hand are all the TV teleplay winners for the most outstanding drama from the years 1961-1978 both in the anthology and non-anthology categories. I can reproduce that list if anyone is interested.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

One thing I recall (from reading Harlan Ellison's intros, etc.) is that there are several categories within each award. For Drama, I think it would go something like:

Half Hour -- Continuing Series
Half Hour -- Anthology Series

Hour -- Same as above

Plus allowances for telefilms, specials, etc. Thus, for example, Ellison's wins:

"Demon With a Glass Hand," from The Outer Limits, would fall under Hour/Anthology

"City" would fall under Hour/Continuing Series

"Phoenix Without Ashes," the pilot for The Starlost, probably under Hour/Continuing, or possibly Telefilm, if the pilot script was longer than an hour's length.

"Paladin of the Lost Hour," from The Twilight Zone (80s version), comes under under (hmm, that thing was like 40 minutes long) ?/Anthology.

Best as I can recall. I'm sure the categories have been tweaked to death over the years. PM me a copy of the list, ToddPence, if you get a chance.

Sorry for the hijack, Joe.

Sir Rhosis

 

[Esteban]

The third episode in, IIRC, was penned by GR, entitled "The Mojave Chase".

Clearly, Gene had a thing for the high desert.

Not bad, but HGWT was tough to pull in under a half hour, and some jerky editing and odd bits of acting make it kind of jarring for me.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Richard Boone threw me for a bit

Richard Boone was badass. Check out Big Jake or Rio Conchos sometime.

 

[Christopher]

The third episode in, IIRC, was penned by GR, entitled "The Mojave Chase".

Clearly, Gene had a thing for the high desert.

The show was a Western, and it was filmed in Los Angeles, with plenty of desert locations nearby. So a great many of its episodes would've been set in the desert. Doesn't suggest anything about the writer other than that he was able to adapt to the needs of the show he was writing for.

 

[Esteban]

The third episode in, IIRC, was penned by GR, entitled "The Mojave Chase".

Clearly, Gene had a thing for the high desert.

The show was a Western, and it was filmed in Los Angeles, with plenty of desert locations nearby. So a great many of its episodes would've been set in the desert. Doesn't suggest anything about the writer other than that he was able to adapt to the needs of the show he was writing for.

I was purely making the point that his fictional city "Mojave" (used in The Cage) and Gene's memo to Bobby Justman referring to his "vacation in the High Desert" (ca 10/66) suggested to me that he had an affinity for that area. I think they filmed "The Long Hunt of April Savage" there, too.

Actually, that's a pretty remote location by anyone's standards--at least a day's drive from Culver City by Union standards (2-4 hours for us mortals, depending on where. Of course, traffic was lighter then....).

Frankly, having been thereabouts many times, I don't think Mojave turned out the way he envisioned. Ever seen Barstow?

 

[M'Sharak]

Someone had better alert the citizens of Mojave (not to mention the fine folks at Scaled Composites) that theirs is a fictional city. I'm sure that they'll be suitably alarmed.

 

[Christopher]

Well, the city may not be fictional, but the lush forest around it in "The Cage" is.

 

[ToddPence]

I looked it up today and the category in which Gene won for "Helen" was "Best Television Western".
The odd thing is, 1957 appears to be the only year in WGA history in which that particular category existed. So it looks like Gene's award is the only one of its kind.

 

[Christopher]

^^Maybe the awards were sponsored by a certain motel chain that year...?

 

[webb3201]

Hiya, folks.

Anyone familiar with this show? I got the first disk on a whim from Netflix, and it is surprisingly good.

I haven't come across any Roddenberry-written episodes yet, but it seems right up his alley: humanist hero, villains with character, plenty of action. The characters are mostly well-rounded and real. The spoken-word theme, different every time, is interesting, too.

Richard Boone threw me for a bit, as he looks more like a dentist than a gun-for-hire, but he's grown on me after just a few episodes.

And yes, I know Roddenberry being the story editor of the series, or whatever his story was, is horseshit.

Joe, buckaroo

This is by far the best Western series ever produced. Deep characters and interesting stories. I bought the first three seasons on DVD and my young kiddos like to watch episodes with me.

I rarely watch any other western series, but this one was unique. Note, I also love the John Dehner radio versions of the series as well...download them and enjoy.

 

[Atavachron]

You are aware that you can watch almost the entire first season of HGWT online for free at CBS.COM.
When I was a kid I lived in Palmdale Ca just a few miles south of Mojave. I remember my brother had a HGWT Paladin gun set, complete with Paladin's Card! It was a great show, especially back when it first came on. (Look at me, showing my age and stuff.)

Atavachron

We always thought his first name was "Wire"

 

[Maurice]

I just watched a Roddenberry penned episode on CBS "The Great Mohave Chase" Clicky to watch!

 

[Atavachron]

I just watched a Roddenberry penned episode on CBS "The Great Mohave Chase" Clicky to watch!

See. I told ya!

I guess that was before they discovered camels don't store water in their hump!

By the way, I don't remember rock formations like that in mojave perse.

Atavachron

 

[ToddPence]

Here's another G-Rod credit from "Naked City". Screencapping is fun!