Have Gun, Will Travel
Western • Series

Have Gun, Will Travel

"I don't think you got a very good look at this gun while you had it."

7.3/10 1957 6 Seasons 225 Episodes Ended

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.

Season: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Season 1 Episodes

E1
Three Bells to Perdido
26 min 1957

New Mexico rancher Jesse Reade hires Paladin for $1,000 to bring back outlaw Dave Enderly, who has run off to Perdido, M…

E2
The Outlaw
26 min 1957

Manfred Holt breaks out of jail, killing two deputies. Is he on his way to kill the banker who testified against him, o…

E3
The Great Mojave Chase
26 min 1957

A sportsman sponsors a contest, betting that no one can elude his posse in the Mojave Desert. When Paladin shows up rid…

E4
Winchester Quarantine
26 min 1957

At a stagecoach stop, Paladin sees a peaceful Cherokee rancher being beaten by white men who think his cattle are spread…

E5
A Matter of Ethics
26 min 1957

An accused murderer who fears that he will be lynched before he can be returned to Bender, Wyoming, for trial, hires Pal…

E6
The Bride
26 min 1957

When a mail-order bride from Philadelphia gets off the stagecoach in the middle of nowhere, Paladin decides to stay with…

E7
Strange Vendetta
26 min 1957

Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in …

E8
High Wire
26 min 1957

A hobo who was once a circus performer bets a gambler that he can walk across the saloon on a tightrope. When Paladin s…

E9
Show of Force
26 min 1957

After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.

E10
The Long Night
26 min 1957

A wealthy cattleman holds Paladin and two other men hostage. They will all die at dawn unless one of them admits to the…

E11
The Colonel and the Lady
26 min 1957

A retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.

E12
No Visitors
26 min 1957

When Paladin finds a woman and her apparently typhoid-afflicted child abandoned by a wagonmaster, he enlists the aid of …

E13
The Englishman
26 min 1957

Paladin escorts an Englishman to his female cousin's ranch they have inherited in Montana, but finds that an embittered …

E14
The Yuma Treasure
26 min 1957

Accompanying a cavalry major on a mission to prevent a war by negotiating a treaty with an elusive Apache chief, Paladin…

E15
The Hanging Cross
26 min 1957

On Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years be…

E16
Helen of Abajinian
1957

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

E17
Ella West
1958

The promoter of a wild west show asks Paladin for help taming down a very wild and famous female sharpshooter and show h…

E18
The Reasonable Man
1958

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

E19
The High-Graders
1958

When his tailor is killed in an accident at a supposedly worthless gold mine, Paladin discovers that the man was murdere…

E20
The Last Laugh
30 min 1958

A rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.

E21
The Bostonian
30 min 1958

Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.

E22
The Singer
30 min 1958

A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being…

E23
Bitter Wine
30 min 1958

Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.

E24
Girl from Piccadilly
30 min 1958

Learning of his son's death, a rich man hires Paladin to locate the daughter-in-law he's never met, but Paladin finds tw…

E25
The O'Hare Story
30 min 1958

Hired to prevent the construction of a dam that would imperil a town's water supply, Paladin finds that he sympathizes m…

E26
Birds of a Feather
30 min 1958

Paladin must contend with other gunfighters as he tries to settle a right-of-way dispute between two railroads in a Colo…

E27
The Teacher
30 min 1958

Paladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil Wa…

E28
Killer's Widow
30 min 1958

After having killed a bank robber, Paladin is accused of having taken the stolen money. He visits the dead man's widow …

E29
Gun Shy
30 min 1958

Trying to locate the thieves who stole a jade chess set, Paladin ends up in a small Montana town where he becomes involv…

E30
The Prizefight Story
30 min 1958

When Paladin goes to a mining town to promote a prizefight, his boxer is arrested and he ends up having to take the man'…

E31
Hey Boy's Revenge
1958

When Hey Boy's brother is killed for protesting the working conditions on a Chinese railroad gang in Utah, Paladin must …

E32
The Five Books of Owen Deaver
30 min 1958

Paladin comes to the aid of a young sheriff from the East whose attempts to keep law and order are particularly unsuitab…

E33
The Silver Queen
30 min 1958

Lonely Leadhead Kane dies and leaves his half of a mine to an actress. Kane's partner wants to challenge the will. Someo…

E34
Three Sons
30 min 1958

Newlyweds with no place to stay end up in Paladin's suite. He learns that the groom's half-brothers are threatening to k…

E35
The Return of Dr. Thackeray
30 min 1958

Dr. Phyllis Thackeray diagnoses the cook at the Barton Ranch with smallpox. All the cowhands may be infected and need to…

E36
24 Hours at North Fork
30 min 1958

When a blight kills all the crops except for one farmer's, Paladin must protect him from a greedy storekeeper who wants …

E37
Silver Convoy
30 min 1958

Paladin is hired to find James Becker. He trails him to Monterey and discovers he has been arrested and is sentenced to …

E38
Deliver the Body
30 min 1958

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 …

E39
The Statue of San Sebastian
30 min 1958

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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