“Jonah and the Trout”

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“Jonah and the Trout”

 

Season:             5 episode 37
Series Episode: 192
Air Date:          May 26, 1962

 

Teaser

“How does a man get like this, Jonah? How does a fish becomes so important to him that he keeps a fishing pole in one hand and a shotgun in the other?”

 

Employment Solicitation

Newspaper
Gold Shipment Troubles
Crystal Lake, Oregon – July 6, 1876. Hope has been abandoned for early recovery of $20,000 in gold bullion lying on the bottom of Crystal Lake, it is announced by the Barton Insurance Company today. Although the box containing the bullion can be seen in the clear water, the depth of the lake makes it impossible to retrieve it. Barton has sent to Baltimore for deep sea divers who are en route over land. Gold was thrown off stagecoach during a holdup attempt two weeks ago.

 

Fee

Half the price of the Eastern divers

 

Quote

“And man must make the angels laugh.”
Paladin

 

“Again, in your first fine consolatory epistle you say, you are a temporary sharer in human misery, that you may be an eternal partaker of the Divine Nature.’ What more than this do those men say who are exalting the man Christ Jesus into the second person of an unknown Trinity, men, whom you or I scruple not to call idolaters? Man, full of imperfections, at best, and subject to wants which momentarily remind him of dependence; man, a weak and ignorant being, ‘servile’ from his birth ‘to all the skiey influences, with eyes sometimes open to discern the right path, but a head generally too dizzy to pursue it; man, in the pride of speculation, forgetting his nature, and hailing in himself the future God, must make the angels laugh.”
Charles Lamb in a letter to Samuel Coleridge

 

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	55	Credited
Mr. Barton	Insurance agent	Hank Patterson	73	Credited
Jonah Quincy	Fisherman	Harry Carey, Jr.	41	Credited
Sanders	Thief	John Mitchum	42	Credited
Angel	Thief	Ross Sturlin	30	Credited
Orrie	Thief	Jerry Summers	31	Credited
	Boy commenting on Paladin's painting	Bill Mumy	8	Credited

 

 

Crew

Director	Andrew V. McLaglen
Assistant Director	Gary Nelson
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer	Lou Shaw & Peggy Shaw (O'Shea)
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)
Episode Music by	William Lava
Conductor	William Lava
"Ballad of Paladin" Singer	Johnny Western
"Ballad of Paladin" written by	Johnny Western, Richard Boone, Sam Rolfe
Film Editor	Everett Sutherland, A. C. E.
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
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

 

Historical References

Alfred Nobel
Leonardo da Vinci

 

Geographic References

Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Chicago, Illinois, 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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