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“Champagne Safari”

Season: 3 episode 12
Series Episode: 90
Air Date: December 5, 1959

Teaser

“Show me the books a man doth read and I shall name his crying need.”

Employment Solicitation

Telegram
See today’s Dispatch regarding Indian killing. Come immediately.
Gravely

Dispatch
Hitherto peaceful Hawani Indians yesterday raided a hunting party led by William Gravely, Esq., killing one of the party before being driven off by gunfire.

Fee

Friendship

Quote

“Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters.”
Paladin

Enter HAMLET and PLAYERS

HAMLET and the PLAYERS enter.

HAMLET
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to
you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it,
as many of your players do, I had as lief the
town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air
too much with your hand thus, but use all gently,
for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,
whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget
a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it
offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who
for the most part are capable of nothing but
inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such
a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagan;.it
out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.

FIRST PLAYER
I warrant your honor.

HAMLET
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretio
n be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the
word to the action, with this special observance that you o’erstep not
the modesty of nature. For anything so overdone is
from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the
first and now, was and is to hold, as ’twere, the
mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature,
scorn her own image, and the very age and body of
the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone,
or come tardy off, though it make the unskillful
laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the
censure of the which one must in your allowance
o’erweigh a whole theatre of others.Oh, there be
players that I have seen playand heard others
praise (and that highly), not to speak it profanely,
that, neither having th’ accent of Christians nor
the gait of Christians, pagan, nor man, have so
strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of
nature’s journeymen had made men and not made them
well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

FIRST PLAYER

I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir.

HAMLET

O, reform it altogether! And let those that play
your clowns speak no more than is set down for them,
for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to
set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh
too, though in the meantime some necessary
question of the play be then to be considered
. That’s villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition
in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready.

Exeunt PLAYERS
Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, Act III Scene 2

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Paladin	An arbiter	Richard Boone	42	Credited
Kim Chan "Hey Boy"	Hotel Carlton porter	Kam Tong	52	Credited
William "Bill" Gravely, Esq.	Guide	Bill (William) Mims	32	Credited
Inahut	Hiwani chief	Gilman Rankin	48	Credited
Charles Trevington	English lord	Patric Knowles	48	Credited
Charity Trevington	Charles Trevington's sister	Valerie French	31	Credited
Antoine	French scout	Lou Krugman	45	Credited
Irmada	The Trevingtons' Arab servant	Carole Evern		Credited
	Actor on Hotel Carlton staircase reciting Shakespeare	Nick Borgani	55	Uncredited
Roddy Crane	Charles Trevington's distant cousin			Mentioned

Crew

Director	Andrew V. McLaglen
Assistant Director	Jack Voglin
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Teleplay	Frank R. Pierson & Whitfield Cook
Story	Whitfield Cook
Script Supervisor	Richard Chaffee
Producer	Sam Rolfe
Associate Producer	Frank R. Pierson
Production Manager	Howard Joslin
Director of Photography	Stuart Thompson, A.S.C.
Art Director	Walter E. Keller
Opening Theme Music Composer	Bernard Hermann (Herrmann)
Episode Music by	Lucien Moraweck
Conductor	Lud Gluskin
"Ballad of Paladin" Singer	Johnny Western
"Ballad of Paladin" written by	Johnny Western, Richard Boone, Sam Rolfe
Music Editor	Gene Feldman
Production Supervisor	Dewey Starkey
Film Editor	Samuel (Sam) Gold
Sound Editor	Roderick Sound, Inc.
Sound Effects	Gene Eliot, M.P.S.E.
Property Master	Arthur Friedrich
Makeup Artist	Donald (W.) Roberson
Hair Stylist	Madine Danks, C.H.S.
Wardrobe	Joseph Dimmitt
Set Decorator	Herman N. Schoenbrun & Charles Vassar
Casting	Stalmaster-Lister Co.
Richard Boone's Stunt Double	Hal Needham (Uncredited)
Production Companies	A CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Television Network Production, Filmaster Productions, Inc.
Recording Company'	Westrex Recording System
	ATFP (Alliance of TV Film Producers)

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

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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“Champagne Safari”

Chess knight courtesy of COCHISE LEATHER COMPANY