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.
Here is another great episode from the first season of Hogan's Heroes (1965-66) guest starring one of my very favorite actors from radio and television, John Dehner.
John Dehner was a one of the busiest actors during the golden age of radio in the 1940s and into the 50s with many supporting roles in Gunsmoke and starring roles in Have Gun, Will Travel and Frontier Gentleman.
Here he guest stars as the nazi inspector general reviewing Col. Klink and Stalag 13.
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
