>>>Looking at your picture here, I'll say the King of the River was Charles. *G*
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>>No, as Alan recognized, that's Yancy Derringer who defined cool in the cowboy days. This was when the biggest thing on TV was Gunsmoke and the sheriff was the hero. Yancy was a riverboat gambler in New Orleans. His sidekick, Pahoo, looked like a cigar store Indian, never talked except to Yancy in sign language, carried a sawed off shotgun under his blanket and a huge knife in a rig behind his neck. Madame Francine ran a "dancehall" - the Sazarak , Jody Baker the pickpocket was a confidant and Yancy lived on a riverboat - the Sultana. He carried a number of 4 barreled Sharps derringers concealed (including in his sleeve and in his hat) and a friggin' sword-cane ! ( to this day I have a collection of real sword-canes )
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>>The only character even close to as cool was Paladin.
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>Funny you should mention him. I've been using my Netflix subscription to revisit the TV programs of my youth. Right now I'm going through "Have Gun Will Travel." It's a little bit hokey, but ......ummmmmmmm.... travels reasonably well through time.
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>I've also gone through most of the way through Maverick. I always remembered the third one (Beau played by Roger Moore) but was astonished to find another cousin appearing in two episodes. (Seniorits hits as I can't remember either the name of the role or the actor after seeing it a month ago)

Don't remember a fourth Maverick, but I just added one of his ol' pappyism to my tag line

HGWT actually holds up pretty well - or at least the main character does. I'm a lot less embarrassed about loving it when I was 10 than the adults of that era should be over watching My Three Sons, Green Acres, Donna Reid, Beaver etc. <g>