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Brutally Obnoxious
Johnny_West19 January 2024
Palladin arrives at a camp on the ledge of a mountainside. Up and coming actor Richard Rust, career tough guy Richard Shannon, and veteran actors Don Beddoe and John Hoyt are the fellow campers.

They want to leave behind a guy that got blown off the ledge, and who none of them liked. What's wrong with that? Nobody has an obligation to risk their lives going down the side of a mountain to try and rescue a guy that might be dead. As they all tell Palladin, at a minimum, he is seriously injured, and a long way from getting any medical care.

Palladin takes the contrary view, as he often does, and yells, bullies, and guilts everyone into deciding that they have to go down the side of the mountain to try and rescue the injured party.

Half of this episode is the bullying and guilting of the campers by Palladin, and the other half is watching a bunch of old guys trying to go down the side of a mountain using nothing but standard ropes. It starts off really obnoxious, and then it gets very boring. This is one of the worst episodes of Have Gun, and one of the few I will skip when it is on TV.
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5/10
Have Ledge, Will Repell
zsenorsock28 May 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Paladin is making his way through a mountain pass when he comes on a group of strangers camping. He agrees to go ahead with them through what might be a dangerous crossing. Before they can go anywhere, a small avalanche knocks a man off the ledge and into a gorge below. Getting to him is difficult, yet they don't know whether the man is alive or dead. While some want to leave, Paladin insists they have to find out if the man is alive or dead, regardless of cost.

Another pretty good morality play in the mode of the previous "Night the Town Died" only this isn't as good. While the issue is a good one, frankly it gets pretty boring watching these guys go up and down the ledge on ropes again and again. John Hoyt, who played the doctor on Roddenberry's "Star Trek" pilot, plays the doctor here, but besides him the other actors don't give Boone a whole lot of help.
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