Memory is a very strange thing….

I’m not now nor have I ever been much of a television watcher.  When I was very young and we first had a TV, I watched some of the Disney offerings (Mickey Mouse Club, Zorro….) and Saturday cartoons (what child didn’t?) – but by the time I was a pre-teen, I simply didn’t have the interest.  I read instead (still do….)

I did watch the original Star Trek (in B&W – we were the last family in Vegas to own a color TV!) in the mid 60s.  And the rest of my family WERE TV junkies.  But I really didn’t pay much attention to what they watched.

Just now, a whole TV-show intro swam through my fall-allergy-wrong-meds soggy brain:  “Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man; a knight without armor in a savage land.  His fast gun for hire, he’s the calling win.  A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin….”  complete with music and the singer (whose name I never would have known I’m reasonably sure).

A bit of research on the ‘net convinces me that it must have been my dad who watched this show.  Richard Boone, ex-army, Civil War vet, professional gunfighter…. yup, had to be Daddy…. who was a man out of his own time, which would have been (had he had the option) the West of the 1800s….

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