“Out at the Old Ballpark”
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“Out at the Old Ballpark”
Season: 4 episode 4
Series Episode: 121
Air Date: October 1, 1960
Teaser
“Mr. Goodbaby, your baseball game has turned a peaceful town into a battlefield. What you need is an umpire with a gun.”
Employment Solicitation
Four Killings in Two Days Close Whiskey Slide Mines
Baseball game ends in multiple murder. Mayor of town calls for armistcce after seventh inning massacre. “Our only hope,” says the mayor, “is an honest umpire. But one is not to be found in Whiskey Slide.
Fee
$1000
Quotes
“Though small boys throw stones at frogs in sport. Yet the frogs die not in sport, but die in earnest.”
Paladin claiming to quote Plutarch
“Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.”
Bion of Borysthenes
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Paladin An arbiter Richard Boone 43 Credited
Kim Li "Hey Girl" Hotel Carlton porter Lisa Lu 33 Credited
Mrs. Cassell Whiskey Slide citizen Jan Harrison 35-36 Credited
Fix Sheriff Perry Cook Credited
Marcus Goodbaby Bears team promoter J. Pat O'Malley 56 Credited
McNagle Captain of the Whiskey Slide team John Larch 45 Credited
Oudry Sandy Kenyon 38 Credited
Whiteside
Mayor Jack Albertson 53 Credited
Whiskey Slide catcher Ted Hamilton Credited
Shaw First batter and catcher for the Bears Hal Needham 29 Credited
Whisky Slide pitcher John J. Day (John Daheim) 44 Credited
Peggy Woman in the window of Peggy's Shoppe Peggy Rea 39 Credited
Whiskey Slide ball player Jack Perkins 39 Uncredited
Ball player Ted Smile 39 Uncredited
Ball player diving through window Troy Melton 39 Uncredited
Scorekeeper John George 62 Uncredited
Town Council member Burt Stevens 55 Uncredited
Whiskey Slide citizen Danny Borzage 63 Uncredited
Whiskey Slide citizen Jack Kenny 73 Uncredited
Whiskey Slide citizen Tom Smith 68 Uncredited
Whiskey Slide citizen Jack Tornek 73 Uncredited
Whiskey Slide citizen Rex Andrews Uncredited
4 Whiskey Slide saloon girls Uncredited
Johnny McCoy Whiskey Slide ball player Mentioned
Crew
Director Richard Boone
Assistant Director Gordon McLean
Creators Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer Frank R. Pierson
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)
"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
Production Sound Mixer
John Muchmore
Recording Company Westrex Recording System
Re-recording by Charles Grenzbach
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 Co.
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
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
Geographic References
Gallup, New Mexico, United States of America
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Tucson, Arizona Territory, United States of America
Whiskey Slide, 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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