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Have Gun, Will Travel
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.
- Created by:
- Sam Rolfe, Herb Meadow
- Cast:
- Richard Boone
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- CBS
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 1
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 8.0Three Bells to Perdido
1957-09-14 · 26mNew 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.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 9.0The Outlaw
1957-09-21 · 26mManfred 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.
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E03
Episode 3
The Great Mojave Chase
1957-09-28 · 26mA 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 is to get rid of Paladin.
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E04
Episode 4
Winchester Quarantine
1957-10-05 · 26mAt 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.
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E05
Episode 5
A Matter of Ethics
1957-10-12 · 26mAn 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.
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Episode 6
★ 8.0The Bride
1957-10-19 · 26mWhen 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.
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Episode 7
★ 7.0Strange Vendetta
1957-10-26 · 26mPaladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.
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Episode 8
★ 8.0High Wire
1957-11-02 · 26mA 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 the odds.
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Episode 9
★ 6.0Show of Force
1957-11-09 · 26mAfter winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.
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Episode 10
The Long Night
1957-11-16 · 26mA 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.
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Episode 11
The Colonel and the Lady
1957-11-23 · 26mA retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.
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Episode 12
No Visitors
1957-11-30 · 26mWhen 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 from entry.
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Episode 13
★ 8.0The Englishman
1957-12-07 · 26mPaladin escorts an Englishman to his female cousin's ranch they have inherited in Montana, but finds that an embittered trader is plotting against them.
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Episode 14
★ 8.0The Yuma Treasure
1957-12-14 · 26mAccompanying 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.
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Episode 15
★ 9.0The Hanging Cross
1957-12-21 · 26mOn Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.
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Episode 16
★ 8.0Helen of Abajinian
1957-12-28An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.
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Episode 17
★ 7.0Ella West
1958-01-04The 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.
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Episode 18
★ 8.0The Reasonable Man
1958-01-11A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.
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Episode 19
★ 8.0The High-Graders
1958-01-18When 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.
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Episode 20
★ 7.0The Last Laugh
1958-01-25 · 30mA rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.
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Episode 21
★ 8.0The Bostonian
1958-02-02 · 30mPaladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.
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Episode 22
★ 7.0The Singer
1958-02-08 · 30mA cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.
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Episode 23
★ 7.0Bitter Wine
1958-02-15 · 30mPaladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.
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Episode 24
★ 8.0Girl from Piccadilly
1958-02-22 · 30mLearning 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.
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Episode 25
★ 8.0The O'Hare Story
1958-03-01 · 30mHired 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.
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Episode 26
★ 8.0Birds of a Feather
1958-03-08 · 30mPaladin 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.
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Episode 27
★ 9.0The Teacher
1958-03-15 · 30mPaladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.
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Episode 28
★ 9.0Killer's Widow
1958-03-22 · 30mAfter 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.
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Episode 29
★ 7.0Gun Shy
1958-03-29 · 30mTrying 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.
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Episode 30
★ 8.0The Prizefight Story
1958-04-05 · 30mWhen 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.
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Episode 31
★ 9.0Hey Boy's Revenge
1958-04-12When 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.
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Episode 32
★ 8.0The Five Books of Owen Deaver
1958-04-26 · 30mPaladin 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.
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Episode 33
★ 8.0The Silver Queen
1958-05-03 · 30mLonely 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.
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Episode 34
★ 8.0Three Sons
1958-05-10 · 30mNewlyweds 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.
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Episode 35
★ 8.0The Return of Dr. Thackeray
1958-05-17 · 30mDr. 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.
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Episode 36
★ 8.024 Hours at North Fork
1958-05-24 · 30mWhen 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.
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Episode 37
★ 7.0Silver Convoy
1958-05-31 · 30mPaladin 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 cave-in or so he is told. The owner of the mine hires Paladin to guard a silver convoy, but first Paladin wants to find out a little more about the mine.
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Episode 38
★ 8.0Deliver the Body
1958-06-07 · 30mPaladin 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.
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Episode 39
★ 7.0The Statue of San Sebastian
1958-06-14 · 30mPaladin agrees to capture an outlaw in return for a statue belonging to the local mission.
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Richard Boone
Paladin