“The Mountebank” / “The Puppeteer”

Chess knight courtesy of COCHISE LEATHER COMPANY

 

 

“The Mountebank”
“The Puppeteer”

 

Season:             4 episode 15
Series Episode: 132
Air Date:          December 24, 1960

 

Teaser

“Burnaby, what are you gonna do without your puppets?”

 

Employment Solicitation

Personal decision

 

Fee

None

 

Quotes

“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
Jack Burnaby

 

William Shakespeare. “Julius Caesar”, Act III Scene 2, Line 74

 

 

“A man indulge himself in murder soon cares little for robbing and …”
Jack Burnaby quotes DeQuincy and Paladin finishes it
“…and from robbing he comes to Sabbath-breaking and drinking and from there to procrastination and incivility.”

 

“If once a man indulges himself in murder,
very soon he comes to think little of robbing;
and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking,
and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.
Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.”
Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (1827).

 

 

“I have heard
That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,
Have by the very cunning of the scene
Been so struck to the soul that
They have proclaim’d their malefactions;
For murder, though it hath no tongue, speaks
With most miraculous organ, the play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”
Jack burnaby quoting William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare,
“The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” Act II Scene 2

 

 

“He who loses a sixpence and his wife, loses a sixpence.”
Jack Burnaby quoting a saying from Scotland

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Paladin	An arbiter	Richard Boone	43	Credited
Jack Burnaby "Dr. Humbug"	Puppeteer / Owner of Dr. Humbug's Articulated Marionettes in The Tragickal Comedy "Punch and Judy" show	Crahan Denton	46	Credited
George "Pawnee" Croft	Plains Cavalry general / Commander of Fort Pawnee / Hero of the Pawnee Creek Raid / Presidential candidate	Denver Pyle	40	Credited
Maryanne Croft	George Croft's wife	Natalie Norwick	37	Credited
	Plains Cavalry sergeant	Edward (Ed) Faulkner	28	Credited
	Young boy	Peter Boone	7	Credited
Hessie	Adolescent girl			Uncredited

 

 

Crew

Diretor	Richard Boone
Assistant Director	Gordon McLean
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer	Shimon Wincelberg
Story Editor	Albert Ruben
Script Supervisor	Richard Chaffee
Producer	Frank R. Pierson
Associate Producer	Howard Joslin
Director of Photography	Frank (V.) Phillips
Art Director	Walter E. Keller
Opening Theme Music Composer	Bernard Hermann (Herrmann)
Episode Music by	Rene Garriguenc
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 Mixer	Frederick (Fred) A. Kessler
Recording Company	Westrex Recording System
Re-recording by	Joel Moss
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
Casting	Stalmaster-Lister Company
Titles and Opticals	Pacific Title
Richard Boone's Stunt Double	Hal Needham (Uncredited)
Puppetry	Walker Edmiston
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

 

Historical References

Daniel Boone
George Armstrong Custer
Andrew Jackson
George Washington

 

Geographic Reference

Fort Pawnee

 

 

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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