On Paladin's business card was written HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL. Beneath that was WIRE PALADIN. I was 6 years old when the show debuted and I assumed that Wire was Paladin's first name. It was many years later that I realized WIRE meant one could reach him by sending a wire to Paladin in San Francisco.
I think "Wire" is a great first name for Paladin. If they remake a contemporary version of this TV series, his first name could be " Email."
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According to HeyBoy, it was Mr. (lol). But "Paladin" was a word for what he was -- a defender of the cause of good in an evil world -- rather than a proper name. In the episode "Genesis" it is explained by "Smoke" (also played by Richard Boone), the man who inspired him and turned him from a spoiled, upper-class drunkard and gambler into the super-hero of his time (no special weapons or powers other than his brains). His real name was never revealed.
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Heyboy called everyone Mr. or Lady.
He probably only knew him as Paladin. Ergo - MR. PALADIN
You were one of many hundreds of thousands of youngsters who made that same error, Randy.
In one of the three novels based on HGWT, Paladin's first name was Clay. It wasn't canon.
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It's like how parents who name their kid "Amadeus" are trying to groom him to be a musician. Paladin's parents wanted him to grow up tall and slender, and be a conductor. That's why (as we learned in "Genesis") they are frustrated with him and pay him a stipend to stay away.
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