You know, I'm a sucker for old Westerns, and @MeTV delivers. I love “Gunsmoke," and right now I’m watching “Have Gun, Will Travel," which was a great show from the late 1950s/early 1960s.
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HGWT was my favorite as a kid and hasn't aged a bit. Richard Boone gave Paladin a Shakespearean quality and the theme song was terrific. Ida Lupino directed some of the best episodes, giving them a film noir cast she picked up from some of her movie work.
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And Paladin always tipped “Boy” well!
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Yeah, I know. That was racist as hell. If you ignore the "Hey Boy" part, though, the show was amazingly good, even by today's standards.
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The name was racist but the character was always portrayed as intelligent and treated with respect.
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Yes. I was amazed at that when I saw a rerun recently. And that was in the 1950’s I believe. My thought was that it was not only good modeling but subversive as well.
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Everything about HGWT was subversive. That’s why it plays so well today. First western show with an educated hero. First with a woman directing key episodes. Great stuff.
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It's true. The stories were not the simple "black and white" sort of stories typical of Westerns of the time.
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The other truly subversive western, although for different reasons, was Maverick with a hero that was a con man and a coward. Not surprisingly it also stands up very well today.
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