“The Fifth Bullet”

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“The Fifth Bullet”

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Season:             6 episode 3
Series Episode: 196
Air Date:          September 29, 1962

 

 

Teaser

“I promised your wife I’d see you home alive. When I’ve done that, I’ve settled it.”

 

 

Employment Solicitation

Personal decision

 

Fee

None

 

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Paladin	An arbiter	Richard Boone	45	Credited
Emmy Bartlett	John Bartlett's wife	Dorothy Dells	44	Credited
John Bartlett	Convicted in an unfair trial	Ben Johnson	34	Credited
John "Johnny" Tecumseh Bartlett	Emmy & John Bartlett's son	Peter Boone	9	Credited
Harry Kessler	Hotel clerk / Former convict	Shug Fisher	55	Credited
	Second man shot in field	Hal Needham	31	Uncredited
	First man shot in field			Uncredited
	Bushwacker in window			Uncredited
	Bushwacker on boardwalk			Uncredited
	Bushwacker behind J.B. Saffron's sign			Uncredited
"The Old Man"	Hired 5 men to kill John Bartlett			Mentioned
	"The Old Man's" nephew in New Hampire			Mentioned
	"The Old Man's" two sons			Mentioned
Sam Thurber	Gotomana warehouse owner			Mentioned
Forsythe	Owner of Forsythe's Livery & Freighting in Gotomana, Arizona Territory			Mentioned
Dunbar	Owner of Dunbar Mining Co. in Gotomana
I. Jenkins	Gotomana storeowner
J. B. Saffron	Onwer of the J.B. Saffron Co. Inc. of Gotomana, Arizona Territory			Mentioned

 

 

Crew

Director	Andrew V. McLaglen
Assistant Director	Gary Nelson
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer	Harry Julian Fink
Script Supervisor	Richard Chaffee
Producer	Robert Sparks
Associate Producer	Don Ingalls
Production Manager	Howard Joslin
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
Film Editor	Tony De Marco (Anthony DiMarco)
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
Set Decorator	Claude E. Carpenter
Casting	Peggy Rae
Richard Boone's Stunt Double	Hal Needham
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
Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park -10700 W. Escondido Canyon Road, Agua Dulce, California, United States of America

 

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

 

 

Historical References

George Armstrong Custer
Battle of Gettysburg
Henry Rifle
Remington-Keene
James Ewell Brown (J. E. B., “Jeb”) Stuart
Ten-gauge shotgun
Territorial Prison, Arizona Territory, United States of America
Walter Colt, 1838 model
War of the Texas Liberation
Winchester Model 76

 

 

Geographic References

Gotomana (Blackfoot “Heavenly place”), Arizona Territory, United States of America
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Kimstown, Arizona Territory, United States of America
New Hampshire, United States of America
San Francisco, California, United States of America

 

 

Gastronomic Delights

Buckwheat cakes
Pot roast

 

 

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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