“The Day of the Bad Man”

Chess knight courtesy of COCHISE LEATHER COMPANY

 

“The Day of the Bad Man”

 

Season: 3 episode 17
Series Episode: 95
Air Date: January 9, 1960

 

Teaser

“You’ve had your big day, Loredo Perkins, and now I’ll put you on that train back East. But not for money, for humanitarian reasons.”

 

Employment Solicitation

As verbally agreeed plus to put Travis Perkins on a train headed East.

Fee

$1200

 

Quotes

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers’
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother.”
Travis “Loredo” Perkins quoting Shakespeare

WESTMORLAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!
KING. What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin, Westmorland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
or care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmorland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall see this day, and live old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words—
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester—
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
The St. Crispin’s Day Speech by William Shakespeare,
Henry V, in Act IV Scene iii 18–67

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Paladin	An arbiter	Richard Boone	42	Credited
Ezra Heath	Cedar Wells mortician	Norman Shelly	48	Credited
Cynthia Palmer	Rancher	Eleanor Audley	54	Credited
Travis "Laredo" Perkins	school teacher / Cynthia Palmer's nephew	William Joyce	29	Credited
Bart Reynolds	Cedar Wells sheriff	Harry Fleer	43	Credited
Amos Saint	Gunfighter	Don Kelly	35	Credited
Theodore "Teddy" Thomas	School boy	Tony Haig	11	Credited
Ed	Gold Chance saloon owner	Kelly Thordsen	42	Credited
Ruth	Cedar Wells school teacher	Sue Randall	24	Credited
	Southwest Stage Lines station agent	Barry Brooks	50	Credited
	Cedar Wells hotel desk clerk	Ollie O'Toole	47	Credited
	Cedar Wells mayor	Joe Norden		Credited
	Gandy Dancer / Man in checkered shirt on Gold Chance saloon's steps	Hal Needham	28	Credited
	Saloon girl	Pamela Raymond	30	Credited
	Cedar Wells citizen	Stewart East	46	Credited
	Cedar Wells citizen	Ross Sturlin	48	Credited
	Saloon girl	Anne Howard	34	Uncredited
	Cedar Wells citizen	Jimmie Booth	34	Uncredited
	Cedar Wells citizen	William Meader	55	Uncredited
	Cedar Wells citizen	Robert Robinson	56	Uncredited
	Amos Saints' 2 henchmen			Uncredited
Latigo	Cedar Wells general store proprietor			Mentioned
Mrs. Perkins	Cynthia Palmer's sister / Travis Perkins' mother			Mentioned
Mami	Cedar Wells boarding house proprietor			Mentioned
	K-X foreman			Mentioned

 

 

Crew

Director	Ida Lupino
Assistant Director	Jack Voglin
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer	Robert E. Thompson
Script Supervisor	Richard Chaffee
Producer	Sam Rolfe
Associate Producer	Frank R. Pierson
Production Manager	Howard Joslin
Director of Photography	Stuart Thompson, A.S.C.
Art Director	Walter E. Keller
Opening Theme Music Composer	Bernard Hermann (Herrmann)
Episode Music by	Lyn Murray
"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 Editor	Roderick Sound, Inc.
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 & Charles Vassar
Casting	Stalmaster-Lister Co.
Richard Boone's Stunt Double	Hal Needham (Uncredited)
Production Companies	A CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Television Network Production
Recording Company'	Westrex Recording System

 

 

 

Filming Locations

Sets
Paramount Studios 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

 

Cedar Wells scenes
Jack Ingram Ranch – 22255 Mulholland Drive, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

 

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

 

Historical References

Billy the Kid
Gandy Dancer
Homer
Jesse James
Macbeth
Penny Dreadful
William Shakespeare

 

Geographic References

Albany, New York, United States of America
Cedar Wells
Sante Fe, New Mexico Territory, 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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