“American Primitive”

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“American Primitive”`

 

Season:             6 episode 21
Series Episode: 214
Air Date:          February 2, 1963

 

Teaser

“I think I’m beginning to yearn for things pastorial. Trees, tall and green, that scrape the sky when the wind blows, and clouds, white and fat… Open spaces… vast, empty, untouched.”

 

 

Employment Solicitation

Letter

Orrville, Texas

Dear Paladin,

Spring is here. There are trout in the stream and deer in the mountains. My mouth is watering for fried trout and veison. Can you come down for some fishing or hunting?

Your friend,

Ernie Backwater

 

Followup
Weekly Sentinel
SEVEN MEN DEAD FOR NOTHING!
Murderers of Will Tybee’s Son Escape.
The vicious killers of young Tybee have escaped and it is believed theyare heading for West Texas.

 

 

Fee

$3/day

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Paladin	An arbiter	Richard Boone	45	Credited
Ernie Backwater	Sheriff	Henry (Harry) Morgan	47	Credited
Will Tybee	Accused killer	Robert J. Wilke	48	Credited
Maggie McGuire	Hotel Carlton housekeeper	Peggy Rea	41	Credited
Sim	Barber	Ptt Herbert	48	Credited
	Hotel Carlton guest	John Breen	52	Uncredited
	Hotel Carlton guest	Sam Harris	87	Uncredited
	Hotel Carlton guest	Joe Ploski	58	Uncredited
	Hotel Carlton guest	Sailor Vincent	61	Uncredited
	Townsman	Bert Madrid	47	Uncredited
	Townsman	Harry Mayo	64	Uncredited
	Townsman	Norman Stevans	46	Uncredited
Tybee	Will tybee's 15 year old son			Mentioned
Kim Chan "Hey Boy"	Hotel Carlton porter			Mentioned
	Deputy			Mentioned
	Sim's 4 children			Mentioned
	Posse member			Mentioned
	Sim's wife			Mentioned
	5 men who killed Will Tybee's son			Mentioned
Tomkin	Owner of Tomkin's Supplies Feed & Grain Mining Equipment
	5 dead men			Mentioned

 

 

Crew

Director	Jerry Hopper
Assistant Director	Gary Nelson
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer	Harry Julian Fink
Script Supervisor	Richard Chaffee
Producer	Don Ingalls
Production Manager	Howard Joslin
Director of Photography	Frank (V.) Phillips
Art Director	Richard (Y.) Haman
Opening Theme Music	Bernard Hermann (Herrmann)
Episode Music by	Nathan Scott
Conductor	Nathan Scott
"Ballad of Paladin" Singer	Johnny Western
"Ballad of Paladin" written by	Johnny Western, Richard Boone, Sam Rolfe
Film Editor	Samuel (Sam) Gold
Sound Mixer	Frederick (Fred) A. Kessler
Recording Company	Westrex Recording System
Re-recording by	Joel Moss
Property Master	Arthur Friedrich
Makeup Artist	Donald (W.) Roberson
Wardrobe	Joseph Dimmitt
Set Decorator	Claude E. Carpenter
Casting	Peggy Rae
Richard Boone's Stunt Double	Hal Needham (Uncredited)
Production Companies	A CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Television Network Production

 

 

 

Filming Locations

Sets
Paramount Studios 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

 

 

Closing Credits background
Lone Pine, California, United States of America

 

 

Geographic References

Orrvilee, Texas, United States of America
San Francisco, California, United States of America
West Texas, United States of America

 

Gastronomic Delights

Fried trout
Venison

 

Sources

Have Gun – Will Travel episodes (written, spoken and credits), Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Wikipedia, individual observations, and others as indicated by the links.

 

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