

Have Gun, Will Travel
“I don't think you got a very good look at this gun while you had it.”
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.
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Seasons
The first season of Have Gun — Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 14, 1957 to June 14, 1958. The Region 1 DVD was released on May 11, 2004.
- Ep 1
1.Three Bells to Perdido
14-09-195726mNew 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.
- Ep 2
2.The Outlaw
21-09-195726mManfred 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 Pal...
- Ep 3
3.The Great Mojave Chase
28-09-195726mA 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...
- Ep 4
4.Winchester Quarantine
05-10-195726mAt 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.
- Ep 5
5.A Matter of Ethics
12-10-195726mAn 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.
- Ep 6
6.The Bride
19-10-195726mWhen 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.
- Ep 7
7.Strange Vendetta
26-10-195726mPaladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.
- Ep 8
8.High Wire
02-11-195726mA 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 ev...
- Ep 9
9.Show of Force
4.009-11-195726mAfter winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.
- Ep 10
10.The Long Night
16-11-195726mA 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.
- Ep 11
11.The Colonel and the Lady
23-11-195726mA retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.
- Ep 12
12.No Visitors
30-11-195726mWhen 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...
- Ep 13
13.The Englishman
07-12-195726mPaladin escorts an Englishman to his female cousin's ranch they have inherited in Montana, but finds that an embittered trader is plotting against them.
- Ep 14
14.The Yuma Treasure
14-12-195726mAccompanying 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.
- Ep 15
15.The Hanging Cross
21-12-195726mOn Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.
- Ep 16
16.Helen of Abajinian
28-12-1957An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.
- Ep 17
17.Ella West
04-01-1958The 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.
- Ep 18
18.The Reasonable Man
11-01-1958A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.
- Ep 19
19.The High-Graders
18-01-1958When 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.
- Ep 20
20.The Last Laugh
25-01-195830mA rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.
- Ep 21
21.The Bostonian
02-02-195830mPaladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.
- Ep 22
22.The Singer
08-02-195830mA cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.
- Ep 23
23.Bitter Wine
15-02-195830mPaladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.
- Ep 24
24.Girl from Piccadilly
22-02-195830mLearning 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.
- Ep 25
25.The O'Hare Story
01-03-195830mHired 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.
- Ep 26
26.Birds of a Feather
08-03-195830mPaladin 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.
- Ep 27
27.The Teacher
15-03-195830mPaladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.
- Ep 28
28.Killer's Widow
22-03-195830mAfter 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.
- Ep 29
29.Gun Shy
29-03-195830mTrying 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.
- Ep 30
30.The Prizefight Story
05-04-195830mWhen 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.
- Ep 31
31.Hey Boy's Revenge
12-04-1958When 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.
- Ep 32
32.The Five Books of Owen Deaver
26-04-195830mPaladin 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.
- Ep 33
33.The Silver Queen
03-05-195830mLonely 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 co...
- Ep 34
34.Three Sons
10-05-195830mNewlyweds 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.
- Ep 35
35.The Return of Dr. Thackeray
17-05-195830mDr. 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 thin...
- Ep 36
36.24 Hours at North Fork
24-05-195830mWhen 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...
- Ep 37
37.Silver Convoy
31-05-195830mPaladin 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...
- Ep 38
38.Deliver the Body
07-06-195830mPaladin 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.
- Ep 39
39.The Statue of San Sebastian
14-06-195830mPaladin agrees to capture an outlaw in return for a statue belonging to the local mission.
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