“The Lady of the Fifth Moon”
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“The Lady of the Fifth Moon”
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Season: 6 episode 29
Series Episode: 222
Air Date: March 30, 1963
Teaser
“As power, acquisition, and love, …and beauty… and even life itself are transient.”
Employment Solicitation
Personal request by Kim Sing
Fee
A statue of The Lady of the Five Moons”
This may be a reference to the separation of the sky into five regions in Chinese Astronomy.
Legends
“Legend of the Gates of the Five Moons”
“At the first gate hung the fragile moon of birth and of beauty. And she did enter there.
The second gate the moon loosed the silver darts of knowledge.
And at the third gate the golden darts of love.”
Paladin
“And at the third gate, love tends the disc with gold.
And at the fourth gate the jade white coldness of duty froze her heart.”
Kim Sing
“And so weeping, for she was a woman
The lady passed through the fifth gate
beneath the fifth moon, which was Death.”
Paladin
“I dreamed I was that man. And I was on a hillside and the sun was so bright, so warm, that I became sleepy. And I lay down on the grass and fell asleep and dreamed that I was a beautiful butterfly with silken wings; and I could fly. I flew to the very top of a hill. This hill. And I could see with a new vision all the world spread out beneath me. I felt a strange, wonderous ectasy. .. In my dream I awakened, and I wasn’t… I didn’t know if I was a man who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly that dreamed he was a man.”
Kim Sing
“Fable of the Man and the Butterfly”
“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
Zhuangzi, “The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu“
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Paladin An arbiter Richard Boone 45 Credited
Jin-Ho Hui-San's daughter Bethel Leslie 33 Credited
Jin Sing Hui-San's mother Bethel Leslie 33 Credited
Chee Yan Jin Sing's servant William Schallert 40 Credited
First assasin Uncredited
Second assassin Hal Needham Uncredited
Hui-San Paladin's friend Mentioned
Crew
Director Richard Boone
Assistant Director Gary Nelson
Creators Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer Don Ingalls
Script Supervisor Richard Chaffee
Producer Don Ingalls
Production Manager Gordon McLean
Director of Photography Frank (V.) Phillips
Art Director Richard (Y.) Haman
Opening Theme Music Bernard Hermann (Herrmann)
Episode Music by Leon Klatzkin
Conductor Leon Klazkin
"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
Edwin Butterworth
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
Historical Reference
Geographic References
Bay of Monterey, California, United States of America
China
Point Noble
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Sources
Have Gun – Will Travel episodes (written, spoken and credits). Internet Movie Database (IMDb), authors (cited), philosophers (cited), poets (cited) and individual observation.
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