HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL
SEASON TWO

FROM PARAMOUNT TELEVISiON

Release Date: June 1st, 2005

MSRP Price: $44.99 (estimated price)
Amazon Price: $33.74
Costco Price: $34.99 
Wallmart: $35.99

Episodes:  39 half-hour episodes
Format: full-screen 1.33:1
Studio: Paramount Television
Run Time: 16 hrs, 33 min.
Number of Discs -  6
Sound - Mono
Network: CBS

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Have Gun - Will Travel Season 2 Boxed Set Rating: "B" 
Video:  B (Black & White)
Audio:  C
Content:  B
Acting:  B
Bonus Material:  F
Overall:  B

STARS: Richard Boone, Kam Tong & Lisa Lu

Richard Boone stars as the legendary Paladin. The western era version of private eye. It is what shows like Mannix, the Equalizer, Stingray, and others would become. Being a half-hour western was a unique format. 

Paladin was a good guy dressed in black in a black and white television series. Richard Boone was excellent in the starring role and the acting was good from the guest stars. 

Have Gun - Will Travel was even a bit unique during it's run on television. The series was darker and grittier with an intelligent writing making the series very good. The show had no set guidelines which it had to follow and left Paladin with a wide range of opportunities with the stories told. 

PACKAGING 
Paramount used the same packaging as on MacGyver. Single layer dvds in the micro cases. The images on the cases, the same as the outside box but using different images of Paladin in the left side of the cover sheets. 

VIDEO: 
Hopefully no one really expected a huge effort to clean up the video. I found the video itself more than respectable for the shows age and you can see the bits of popping debris all over the video. Paramount should have cleaned up the video and audio.  The blacks were a bit washed out. It was decent. The shows masters were in a severe need of work which Paramount and CBS DVD were not willing to do. 

The music on the menu is horrible and annoying. You have to manually select main menu when the running episode is complete to get back to the episode list, so you know already there is no autoplay feature. 

AUDIO: 
What audio? It's serviceable, but not good.  

BONUS FEATURES: 
Limited... Production Notes, Cast Biographies, Behind the Scenes Episodic Information. 

SUMMARY: 
It's old, it's black and white and it a western series. The video and audio are barely acceptable for dvd and it's freakin' awesome that Have Gun - Will Travel is on DVD. I say it's "Come and get it Boys and Girls". 

This is a must have for any dvd mogul or western fan. The writing for the show was cutting edge for its day and interesting for even today's viewers. It's just so cool that these old series are available for the opportunity to created new fans. 

HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL Season 2 Rating: "B"

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