Have Gun, Will Travel

Overview

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958.

The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel.

Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

Episodes

S01E01 Three Bells to Perdido

September 14, 1957 26 min
New Mexico rancher Jesse Reade hires Paladin for $1,000 to bring back outlaw Dave Enderly, who has run off to Perdido, Mexico with Reade's daughter Nancy.

S01E02 The Outlaw

September 21, 1957 26 min
Manfred Holt breaks out of jail, killing two deputies. Is he on his way to kill the banker who testified against him, or to see his family for the last time? The banker hires Paladin.

S01E03 The Great Mojave Chase

September 28, 1957 26 min
A sportsman sponsors a contest, betting that no one can elude his posse in the Mojave Desert. When Paladin shows up riding a camel, the man decides that the only way he can still win...

S01E04 Winchester Quarantine

October 5, 1957 26 min
At a stagecoach stop, Paladin sees a peaceful Cherokee rancher being beaten by white men who think his cattle are spreading a sickness. Paladin offers his help.

S01E05 A Matter of Ethics

October 12, 1957 26 min
An accused murderer who fears that he will be lynched before he can be returned to Bender, Wyoming, for trial, hires Paladin to make sure he gets there alive.

S01E06 The Bride

October 19, 1957 26 min
When a mail-order bride from Philadelphia gets off the stagecoach in the middle of nowhere, Paladin decides to stay with her to make sure that she is safe.

S01E07 Strange Vendetta

October 26, 1957 26 min
Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.

S01E08 High Wire

November 2, 1957 26 min
A hobo who was once a circus performer bets a gambler that he can walk across the saloon on a tightrope. When Paladin sees that the gambler intends to cheat, he decides to help even...

S01E09 Show of Force

November 9, 1957 4.0 26 min
After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.

S01E10 The Long Night

November 16, 1957 26 min
A wealthy cattleman holds Paladin and two other men hostage. They will all die at dawn unless one of them admits to the murder of the rancher's wife.

S01E11 The Colonel and the Lady

November 23, 1957 26 min
A retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.

S01E12 No Visitors

November 30, 1957 26 min
When Paladin finds a woman and her apparently typhoid-afflicted child abandoned by a wagonmaster, he enlists the aid of a female doctor from a nearby town, but a religious fanatic then tries to bar them...

S01E13 The Englishman

December 7, 1957 26 min
Paladin escorts an Englishman to his female cousin's ranch they have inherited in Montana, but finds that an embittered trader is plotting against them.

S01E14 The Yuma Treasure

December 14, 1957 26 min
Accompanying a cavalry major on a mission to prevent a war by negotiating a treaty with an elusive Apache chief, Paladin must deal with soldiers who have caught gold fever.

S01E15 The Hanging Cross

December 21, 1957 26 min
On Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.

S01E16 Helen of Abajinian

December 28, 1957
An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.

S01E17 Ella West

January 4, 1958
The promoter of a wild west show asks Paladin for help taming down a very wild and famous female sharpshooter and show her how to act like a lady.

S01E18 The Reasonable Man

January 11, 1958
A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.

S01E19 The High-Graders

January 18, 1958
When his tailor is killed in an accident at a supposedly worthless gold mine, Paladin discovers that the man was murdered and his heirs are being swindled.

S01E20 The Last Laugh

January 25, 1958 30 min
A rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.

S01E21 The Bostonian

February 2, 1958 30 min
Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.

S01E22 The Singer

February 8, 1958 30 min
A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.

S01E23 Bitter Wine

February 15, 1958 30 min
Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.

S01E24 Girl from Piccadilly

February 22, 1958 30 min
Learning of his son's death, a rich man hires Paladin to locate the daughter-in-law he's never met, but Paladin finds two women both claiming to be her.

S01E25 The O'Hare Story

March 1, 1958 30 min
Hired to prevent the construction of a dam that would imperil a town's water supply, Paladin finds that he sympathizes more with the Irish engineer who's trying to build it.

S01E26 Birds of a Feather

March 8, 1958 30 min
Paladin must contend with other gunfighters as he tries to settle a right-of-way dispute between two railroads in a Colorado town that will die if they go elsewhere.

S01E27 The Teacher

March 15, 1958 30 min
Paladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.

S01E28 Killer's Widow

March 22, 1958 30 min
After having killed a bank robber, Paladin is accused of having taken the stolen money. He visits the dead man's widow and tries to make amends.

S01E29 Gun Shy

March 29, 1958 30 min
Trying to locate the thieves who stole a jade chess set, Paladin ends up in a small Montana town where he becomes involved in a romance with a landlady's daughter.

S01E30 The Prizefight Story

April 5, 1958 30 min
When Paladin goes to a mining town to promote a prizefight, his boxer is arrested and he ends up having to take the man's place in the ring -- against the Welsh champion.

S01E31 Hey Boy's Revenge

April 12, 1958
When Hey Boy's brother is killed for protesting the working conditions on a Chinese railroad gang in Utah, Paladin must get the boy out of jail and bring the killer to justice.

S01E32 The Five Books of Owen Deaver

April 26, 1958 30 min
Paladin comes to the aid of a young sheriff from the East whose attempts to keep law and order are particularly unsuitable for a cowboy town in Wyoming.

S01E33 The Silver Queen

May 3, 1958 30 min
Lonely Leadhead Kane dies and leaves his half of a mine to an actress. Kane's partner wants to challenge the will. Someone wants to make sure Paladin never gets the woman to the courtroom.

S01E34 Three Sons

May 10, 1958 30 min
Newlyweds with no place to stay end up in Paladin's suite. He learns that the groom's half-brothers are threatening to kill their father. Paladin goes to warn the father.

S01E35 The Return of Dr. Thackeray

May 17, 1958 30 min
Dr. Phyllis Thackeray diagnoses the cook at the Barton Ranch with smallpox. All the cowhands may be infected and need to be vaccinated. Dr. Thackeray sends for the one man she thinks can help.

S01E36 24 Hours at North Fork

May 24, 1958 30 min
When a blight kills all the crops except for one farmer's, Paladin must protect him from a greedy storekeeper who wants his farm and his hired gun who has a personal grudge against Paladin.

S01E37 Silver Convoy

May 31, 1958 30 min
Paladin is hired to find James Becker. He trails him to Monterey and discovers he has been arrested and is sentenced to work in a silver mine. Paladin finds that Becker has died in a...

S01E38 Deliver the Body

June 7, 1958 30 min
Paladin is hired to bring in the killer of the sheriff in a Nevada town. He brings him in but has some doubts about his guilt and decides to hang around for the trial.

S01E39 The Statue of San Sebastian

June 14, 1958 30 min
Paladin agrees to capture an outlaw in return for a statue belonging to the local mission.

Cast

Richard Boone
Richard Boone
Paladin

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