My name is Jim Hendrickson and I have list of things I am trying to collect and it must be complete,my friends have called me a completeist(my spelling)for many years and this is my blog. I cover just about everything, so you never know what will show up here. I have very eclectic taste ranging from pop music to history to horse racing and many more things that catch my interest. Come along and see whats out there.
this is a classic episode of TAGS with a Gunsmoke connection, the "medicine man" in this episode is played by radio legend and Gunsmoke regular John Dehner.
Dehner's credits include Paladin in the radio version of "Have Gun Will Travel" and several small roles in the tv version of Gunsmoke.
On Saturday at 930pm, September 14th 1957 CBS television debuted a western that was to become just as legendary as Gunsmoke in the annals of TV westerns, Have Gun Will Travel.
Starring Richard Boone this was the story of a man called Paladin, a gun for hire in San Francisco.
The show ran on tv until the end of the 1962-63 season, a total of 225 episodes and became almost more famous for its tremendous closing theme song "Ballad of Paladin" written and performed by Johnny Western.
The premiere episode was titled "Three Bells to Perdido"
November 23rd of 1958"Have Gun Will Travel" debuted on the CBS Radio network as one of its last radio dramas to feature continuing characters. This version featured radio veteran and Gunsmoke regular John Dehner as Paladin.
The radio version ran until November 22nd 1960 and initially each episode was a radio version of the episode that aired on television earlier in the week. Eventually original stories were written and produced for the radio show including the finale when Paladin left San Francisco to collect an inheritance back east.
Thanks again to the great Buck Benny podcast for the posting of the debut radio episode and the second episode of Have Gun Will
Here are the Top 5 books on the NY Times Bestseller list for Fiction:
1 - Kill Me If You Can - James Patterson (Debut) When a young man finds a bag of diamonds, he gets the attention of the major assassin the Ghost, and a rival assassin who wants the Ghost gone forever.
4 - A Trick of the Light - Louis Penny
(Debut) Called to a case, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of homicide encounters a world where nothing is as it seems.
5 - Flash and Bones - Kathy Reichs
(2nd weeks on list) A turbocharged case unfolds for the forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in the series behind the show "Bones."
Billy The Kid was the first regularly scheduled episode of Gunsmoke. After 2 audition episodes that were recorded but never aired, the show would debut April 26th 1952 with William Conrad as US Marshall Matt Dillon.
Last time I had the legendary comedian/TV star Dick Van Dyke, today its his contemporary and also a legend in comedy and television, Andy Griffith.
Andy is one of my all time favorites and The Andy Griffith Show is preferred viewing at my house (well except the color episodes, just B&W for this family).
Our journey into the world of Old Time Radio takes us to 1941 and the audition show for The Great Gildersleeve. Played by Harold Peary on "Fibber McGee and Molly", this was one of the first spinoffs in radio and featured Throckmorton P Gildersleeve who was a kind but bombast sort who enjoyed a good laugh and a good argument. The Buck Benny Podcast brings us this show to kick off his weekly podcast of The Great Gildersleeve.
Surrounded by a great cast this was a one of the funniest and best written comedies of its day.
