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Duane EddyThe Ballad Of Paladin
Paladin, Paladin
Where do you roam
Paladin, Paladin
Far, far from home.

Have gun will travel
Reads the card of a man
A knight without armor
In a savage land.

His fast gun for hire
Heeds the calling wind
A soldier of fortune
Is the man called Paladin.

Paladin, Paladin
Where do you roam
Paladin, Paladin
Far, far from home.

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He travels on
To wherever he must
A chess knight of silver
Is his badge of trust.

There are campfire legends
That the plainsmen spin
Of the man with the gun
Of the man called Paladin.

Paladin, Paladin
Where do you roam
Paladin, Paladin
Far, far from home.

Far from home
Far from home...

Played with Shakespearean intensity by Richard Boone, Paladin was a well-educated, cultured man who lived an elegant life in a luxurious San Francisco hotel. Yet when he learned of trouble (he had newspapers from all over the West brought to him), he offered his services with that famous calling card "Have Gun, Will Travel-- Wire Paladin, San Franciso". Changing to an all-black outfit, he set out to resolve the situations. What made Paladin stand out was his passion for honor and justice. He had a strong sense of right and wrong, and he would stand up to the rich and powerful in his mission. He was in fact, a Paladin in the literal sense of the word.

The first episode of the final season of HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL, "Genesis" aired on September 15, 1962 and (surprisingly) told the origin of the man called Paladin. Available now from CBSVideo, it's a spellbinding half hour that has the resonance of mythology. Watching the looser, diffidently paced TV of today, one tends to forget how tightly plotted and paced early shows could be.

We still do not learn the real name of the man in black, which is for the best. The story opens in San Francisco with a young gambler (James Mitchum) making a bungled atttempt on Paladin's life. He has been forced to do this to settle his enormous debt, and Paladin is moved by the situation to tell how the same thing had happened to him...

Ten years earlier in that same hotel, a former Union Army officer and West Point graduate had run up $15,000 in gambling debts which HE had been unable to cover, and a vile IOU-holder named Norge (William Conrad), had offered him a chance to avoid jail and disgracing his family name-- by killing a dangerous outlaw named Smoke, who was settled outside of a small town. To hear Norge tell it, he was driven from that town, which is on land he wns, so that Smoke can claim it for his own.

The gambler reluctantly agrees to challenge the gunman to a duel, but is trapped in a pen by Smoke, who watches from a rocky ledge overhead. Played also by Richard Boone (without the mustache and with gray hair), Smoke is dressed all in black, the same outfit that Paladin will wear, right down to the silver knight's-head on the holster.

There is a strange period where Smoke (claiming the young gambler is not a fit opponent) gives advice and lectures to his would-be assassin. He sardonically calls the gambler "Paladin" (a knight with a mission of justice) and his words begin to have an effect. Smoke's severe cough indicates he has a mortal disease which will soon claim him (emphysema, maybe) and by the time of the showdown, as the gunfighter throws down a single bullet, Paladin has reflected enough to devise the trick of building a fire. That literal smoke makes the man Smoke cough at the critical moment and he falls to Paladin's shot.

Now the real power of the story kicks in. Dying, Smoke reveals that he was not terrorizing the townspeople but in fact protecting them from the greedy landowner who had sent Paladin on this mission-- the one worthwhile deed the aging gunfighter had done in a violent life. The stunned Paladin watches Smoke's funeral, sees the townpeople grieving for their murdered protector ("who can take his place?" they say of Smoke), and sees their scorn and hatred for him. Smoke's words haunt him, "Where is righteousness, noble Paladin? Where is your cause?"

Shortly, the landowner rides up in his buggy toward the town he intends to take over, but is stopped by a hard voice. High on a hill is an ominous figure in the same black outfit that Smoke had worn. For the first time, the disgraced gambler and former Army officer has started his new incarnation as Paladin.

Watching this is a half hour well spent. The faint mournful strains of that theme song at the funeral, the vaguely poetic ring of the dialogue ("There is another death that hunts you in the dark of the moon, and even I can hear it coughing through the canyon in the night.") and a solid performance by Richard Boone is a dual role (his voice for Smoke is great, wiser and more melancholy than Paladin's)-- all add up to a fine origin story for one of the best characters TV has produced.