Have Gun - Will Travel: The Poker Fiend TV Show 1 votes Feel free to rate it! |
- That wasn't a common perception when this western series aired, so I was impressed with that
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- From season 4, Have Gun - Will Travel: The Poker Fiend begins with guest star Betsy Jones-Moreland, as Mrs. Neal, hiring Paladin to find her husband who left to play poker 5 1/2 months ago. He’s wealthy, and she wants him to stay that way. I’m just amused by all these women who find Paladin for jobs
like this. It’s not about love; it’s all about the money.Jack Weston plays Neal, the husband. He’s totally in the gambling zone, and Paladin has to figure out a way of getting him out. Also guest starring is Brett Somers as Sarah. She’s not anxious for Neal to return to his wife. Then there’s ...
- Peter Falk as Waller. He’s forcing Neal to stick around, using his casino as the lure.
This really is an episode about the addiction of gambling and actually is pretty modern as Paladin calls it a sickness. That wasn’t a common perception when this western series aired, so I was impressed with that. It doesn’t end with an ‘all is well’ attitude either. Rather, Falk says he lost the battle, but not the war. He expects Neal to return, as does Sarah.On the negative side, the big poker game is just too slow and melodramatic. I was bored after the first minute of it. However, the message of the show is a strong one.
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Paladin The Poker Fiend
Poker Fiend: Wife of man obsessed with high-stakes poker game hires Paladin to cut hubby's losses and bring him home: Compelling battle for a lost man's soul: 11/19/60: Crowbait: Old prospector enlists Paladin's aid in finding secret Indian silver mine: Silver, not gold: 11/26/60: The Marshall's Boy. It was Boone’s second television series, Have Gun – Will Travel, which made him a national star with his role as Paladin, the intelligent and sophisticated, but tough gun-for-hire in the late 19th century American west.
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- 'Have Gun - Will Travel' The Poker Fiend (TV Episode 1960) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- AIRED: 11/12/60 Mrs. John Neal hires Paladin to retrieve her husband, who, five and a half months previously, got involved in a poker game in Cavinaw City and cannot bring himself to stop playing.