Black Saddle “Client: Travers”

 

This is the first episode of the two season ½ hour Western Black Saddle.

Our premise, ex-gunfighter Clay Culhane tries to turn over a new leaf and practice law.

Culhane is played by Peter Breck. Breck looks like a man who might be named Clay Culhane but, to this viewer at least, there seems to be little of the steely-eyed gunman or of the opposite nature, the man with a tortured past and a thirst for justice seeking new ways to apply that justice.

The fault may be the writing.

For a man committed to lawyerin’, jurisprudence is paid lip service so we can get to the neat and tidy 1950s third act gunplay.

Overall, mild familiar stuff.

Side-Note: We do have a young Russell Johnson as Marshall Gib Scott of Latigo.

Many of us remember Johnson as the “Professor” on Gilligan’s Island.

Based on this sample of a single episode, there is better nostalgia to be had.