“The Vigil”

 

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“The Vigil

 

Season:             5 episode 1
Series Episode: 156
Air Date:          September 16, 1961

 

Teaser

“Start unpiling those rocks, Deke. And when you’ve uncovered the dead man there’d better be an arrow in his back, for your sake.”

 

Employment Solicitation

The Weekly Nugget
Goldfield, Nevada, Mourns Passing of Only Doctor Within 100 Miles.

Letter:
“Doctor desperately needed. Mine accident with 30 injured; some may be dying. Find us a doctor, not a nurse.”

Fee

Undisclosed

 

 

 

Quotes

“Only in bread cast upon the water and sometimes that comes back soggy.”
Adella Liggett

“Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.”
Bible, Ecclesiastes 11:1 King James Version

 

“Distrust yourself, sleep before you fight.
‘Tis not too late tomorrow to be brave.”
Paladin

 

“Distrust yourself, and sleep before you fight.
‘Tis not too late to morrow to be brave ;
If honour bids, to morrow kill or die.
But calm advice against a raging fit
Avails to little ; and it braves the power
Of all that ever taught in prose or song,
To take the fiend, that sleeps a gentle lamb,
And wakes a lion. Unprovok’d and calm,
You reason well ; see as you ought to see,’
And wonder at the madness of mankind :
Seiz’d with the common rage, you soon forget
The speculations of your wise hours.
Beset with furies of all deadly shapes,
Fierce and insidious, violent and slow ;
With all that urge or lure us on to fate ;
What refuge shall we seek ? what arms prepare ?
Where reason proves tloo weak, or void of wiles
To cope with subtle or impetuous powers,
I would invoke new passions to your aid ;
With indignation would extinguish fear ;
With fear, or generous pity, vanquish rage ;
And love with pride ; and force to force oppose.”
John Armstrong, M.D. “The Art of Preseving Health” Book IV The Passions, 1744

 

 

“Is that your idea of ‘those who live by the sword’?
Adella Liggett

“Live by the sword, die by the sword”
Proverb

 

“Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place:
for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.”
Bible, Matthew 25;52 King James Version

 

 

“Evil to him what evil thinks”
Deke

“Honi soit qui mal y pense”
“May he be shamed who thinks badly of it.”
“Shame be to him who thinks evil of it.”
”Evil (or shame) be to him that evil thinks”
“Shame on anyone who thinks ill of it.”
Anglo-Norman maxim

 

 

“‘Tis not to late tomorrow to be brave”
Paladin

See above
John Armstrong, M.D. “The Art of Preseving Health” Book IV The Passions, 1744

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Paladin	An arbiter	Richard Boone	44	Credited
Kim Chan "Hey Boy"	Hotel Carlton porter	Kam Tong	54	Credited
Adella Forsythe		Mary Fickett	33	Credited
Reamer		Dan Stafford		Credited
Deke		George Kennedy	36	Credited
	Hotel Carlton desk clerk	Tony Reagan (Regan)	53	Uncredited
	Hotel guest	Herschel Graham	57	Uncredited
	Hotel guest	Hans Moebus	58	Uncredited
	Hotel guest	William (H.) O'Brien	89	Uncredited
	Hotel guest	Terry Terrill	38	Uncredited
	Poker player	George Ford	56	Uncredited
	Paladin's inamorata			Uncredited

 

 

Crew

Director	Andrew V. McLaglen
Assistant Director	Gary Nelson
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer	Shimon Wincelberg
Story Editor	Albert Ruben
Script Supervisor	Richard Chaffee
Producer	Frank R. Pierson
Associate Producers	Howard Joslin & Albert Ruben
Director of Photography	Frank (V.) Phillips
Art Director	Richard (Y.) Haman
Opening Theme Music	Bernard Hermann (Herrmann)
"Ballad of Paladin" Singer	Johnny Western
"Ballad of Paladin" written by	Johnny Western, Richard Boone, Sam Rolfe
Production Supervisor	Dewey Starkey
Film Editor	Everett Sutherland
Sound Mixer	Frederick (Fred) A. Kessler
Recording Company	Westrex Recording System
Property Master	Arthur Friedrich
Makeup Artist	Donald (W.) Roberson
Wardrobe	Joseph Dimmitt
Set Decorator	Fay Babcock
Casting	Peggy Rae
Titles and Opticals	Pacific Title
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

 

Exterior scenes
Bend, Oregon, United States of America

 

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

 

Geographic References

Arkansas, United States of America
Goldfield, Nevada, United States of America
San Francisco, 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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