I drank a beer with Richard Boone at Flagler College in St Augustine FL in the student center pub...That was in 1971...He was a down to earth cool guy...
If anyone is interested, you can get the entire first and second season on DVD Netflix, I just finished about 60 episodes.
I met him in St Augustine too when I was a kid, he was a judge at an art show on the plaza about the same time frame, we were living on the backside of the barrier island.