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GO SPOTTING: Have Gun (and a go board) – Will Travel

In Episode 171 ("The Coming of the Tiger", episode 30, season 5, available in streaming video on Netflix) of the classic TV Western Have Gun - Will Travel, the hero, Paladin (Richard Boone) is shown playing a game of go in San Francisco, reports David Saunders.

 “To the dismay of his Japanese opponent, Paladin announces that the position is seki,” Saunders writes. “The game is interrupted by a crisis and resumed at the end of the episode.  I was amazed to see this in a national TV show from c. 1961.” Screenshot at left courtesy Paul Barchilon