# Have Gun, Will Travel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-gun-will-travel/265592 "2004-09-23T01:08:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-gun-will-travel/265592/21 "2004-09-24T16:53:47Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > Oh, c’mon… the joke about his first name being “Wire” was a MAD magazine joke from the early 60s. > > And, yes, Gene Roddenberry (later of STAR TREK fame) wrote several of the episodes, including the one in the first season with the camel. No joke, Dex. I personally thought that, and before the MAD one came out (which I don’t remember, though I was reading MAD at the time. And despite Roddenberry’s frequent claim, he was not “head writer” on HGWT - in fact there was no head writer. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-gun-will-travel/265592/22 "2004-09-24T17:03:46Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > No joke, Dex. I personally thought that, and before the MAD one came out (which I don’t remember, though I was reading MAD at the time. No joke, here either. Of course, sometime between age 6 and age 12, I figured out that “Wire” meant telegram rather than his first name! Incidentally, the MAD parody you’re talking about can be found [here](http://www.hgwt.com/hgwtmad.htm). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-gun-will-travel/265592.md?page=1)