Stand Gun — May Travel was one of the pack tv show to spawn a successful radio version. A radio series debuted on November 23, 1958. For radio Champion was played by John Dehner.

Story and characters
the indicate followed a dangerous undertaking of Fighter, a gentleman-turned-gunfighter (played by Richard Boone), who favorite to settle problems while forgoing violence, eventually, while forced to fight, excelled. Fighter sleep around the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, where he dressed around semi-semiformal have on, ate gastronome food, & attended opera. Once working, he dressed within black, bore the holster sustaining the chess knight emblem, and carried the derringer under his belt.

Hero was the previous Army officer & the graduate of West Point. He was the linguist, capable of speaking any foreign tongue mandatory per plot. He too got a thorough cognition of ancient history & authoritative literature, & he exhibited the hard passion for legal information & the rule of law. A indicate generally portrayed him when jolly very much a sole enlightened human this side of the Pecos.

Hero charged steep fees for his services-- often the thousand dollars the job. Sustaining this kindthe money he was easily-equipped; his custom-customized sise shooter (his independent weapon) was perfectly balanced & experienced a rifled barrel. A big rifle strapped to his horse's saddle was seldom utilized, however a horse's head insignia raised thereon rifle's equity suggests that this weapon wequally when meticulously crafted as a six-six-gun. A derringer Champion hid under his belt redeemed his life innumerous days. Ever the human of filtratiin, Palladaround possibly carried two or three expensive cigars in his boot once retired on risky venture.

Fighter's low benefit all over his resister wwhen non his telling devices, or his ability as a crack shot (superior as this was). Hero's edge was his rich education; he got an infallible ability to recognize ancient antecedents to his todays situations. After a enemy was surrounding him, Hero can unremarkably produce occasionally insightful quip all about General Marcellus and the siege of Syracuse, or something, so pull the trick that put him in top. It was by virtue of this ability that Hero seldom required to actually shoot anybody; rather an expert chess piece, he sought control of the board across superior position, non attrition.

A a single more major semi-regular character in a indicate wwhen a Chinese belhop at the Carlton Hotel, cheerfully known just as Hey Son. Possibly Fighter, clearly the cosmopolite & unfeeling sensitive character (& the character in the paws of a select few clearly sensitive & sophisticated writers, at that), never bothers to study or even utilize Hey Son's rattling title. Hey Son was played by Kam Tong. Late episodes replaced him by having a taking Hey Girl, played by Lisa Lu. At chance of confusing a issue, it should become noted that in the 1957 episode "Hey Boy's Revenge," Lu appears swimming Hey Son's sister, Kim Li. Therein episode i likewise view that Hey Son's title is Kim Chang. However Hero however calls his friend Hey Son anyway.

Radio show

A Keep close at hand Gun — Might Travel radio indicate broadcast 106 episodes in CBS between November 23, 1958 and November 22, 1960. It was one of a survive radio dramas featuring continuing characters. John Dehner played Paladin & Ben Wright usually, but not always, played Hey Son. Numbers of of the episodes were adapted from either tv program broadcast sooner, however a bit of were original to radio.

Novels

There were triad novels according to a tv indicate, altogether by having a equivalent title when a tv indicate. the number one was a hardcover written for kids, published by Whitman in 1959 as the share of a series of novelisation of tv shows. It was written by Barlow Meyers and illustrated by Nichols S. Firfires. the 2nd was a paperback original written for adults by Noel Lomis, published in 1960. A endure, written by Frank Robertson and published in 1963 by Collier-Macmillan in both hardcover & soft-cover book, is according to a origin story tv episode "Genesis" by Frank Rolfe. This novel is the single place that the title is given to the Fighter character, "Clay Alexander", however fans of the series don't assume this title canonical.

Comic books

Dell Comics published a total of comedian books according to a tv series, by using original stories. Writers
Numbers of of the writers world health organizatiin worked in Keep close at hand Gun — Might Travel went on to benefit fame elsewhere. Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek and Harry Julian Fink is one of the writers world health organization created Dirty Harry.

Availability
Everthing of the episodes were freed in VHS by Columbia House. When of September 2005, a foremost both seasons were available in DVD. Note: In the 2nd year DVD, 2 of the episodes come misbranded. In disk Ternary, "Treasure Trail" is really "Hunt the Man Down", & in disk Little joe, "Hunt the Man Down" is really "Treasure Trail", a "Wire Paladin" in every example refers to the more episode.