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 5 Episodes

E1
The Vigil
1961

Paladin agrees to accompany a nurse to the gold fields; she aspires to replace its deceased physician. Along the way, th…

E2
The Education of Sarah Jane
1961

The Darrow and Tyler families have been feuding so long they don't remember who started it. It's up to Paladin to help t…

E3
The Revenger
1961

Paladin takes a $500 stagecoach ride with an embezzler, a convicted cutthroat, and a murderer to collect the other half …

E4
Odds for Big Red
1961

Paladin trails a killer and bank robber to a saloon but while trying to capture him, the saloon's owner, Big Red, is sho…

E5
A Proof of Love
1961

Paladin urges a momma's boy farmer to win back his wayward mail-order bride, by besting party-animal neighbor Rud Saxon …

E6
The Gospel Singer
1961

Bugbear wants to change its image. When Paladin is hired, his idea of disarmament is working fine. Until a missionary ri…

E7
The Race
1961

Paladin is offered $1000 to win a horse race called a mule kalanta. When he arrives he finds out what the bet is, and he…

E8
The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs
1961

Singer Odetta plays Sarah Gibbs, who is barred by a marshal from visiting her condemned husband.

E9
The Piano
1961

European pianist Franz Lister comes to the United States to give a concert for Mona Lansing, a former saloon hostess. Wh…

E10
Ben Jalisco
1961

Escaped killer, Ben Jalisco, is a ruthless hunter who has murdered more than 30 men. Now he is after his wife, Lucy, who…

E11
The Brothers
1961

Will prospector Possum Corbin rescue Paladin from dying in a desert, if Paladin reads the encyclopedia to him?

E12
A Drop of Blood
1961

Paladin is invited to best man at Rivka Shotness' wedding. When he arrives he finds that Billy Buckstone, the man the br…

E13
A Knight to Remember
1961

Paladin is hired to find Don Esteban, who has disappeared. When he finds him he is dressed as a knight in armor and thin…

E14
Blind Circle
1961

Two years ago, the Cattleman's Association put a bounty of $500 on a rustler who was never caught. Now they don't want h…

E15
The Kid
1961

Paladin is sent a $100 bill and told there are 9 more like it if he travels to a town called Last Gasp.

E16
Squatter's Rights
1961

Costigan is a land owner and cattleman. He was shot by Clemenceau, a squatter on his land. Paladin has offered to help h…

E17
Lazarus
1962

After local boozing champ Big Fontana cheats Paladin in a drink-off, sickly Boise Peabody convinced he'll die by morning…

E18
Justice in Hell
1962

Paladin goes after a wagon-master who led the massacre of his own wagon train. Rusty Doggett hides out in a town entirel…

E19
Mark of Cain
1962

Dr. Avatar hires Paladin to guide him to Jack Trueblood, a notorious western badman who has killed many men. Avatar want…

E20
The Exiles
1962

General Ortega hires Paladin to recover $16 million in French bonds. Where they are and who has them is already known.

E21
The Hunt
1962

Paladin is lured to Oregon under the pretense of a widow in distress. The real reason is to engage him in a deadly hunt …

E22
Dream Girl
1962

Paladin rides upon Buddy Webster's mining camp, who needs a big favor. He has been prospecting for gold dust the last fi…

E23
One, Two, Three
1962

Samuel Keel hires Paladin to find Seth Carter. Keel gives him the names of three people who can help him find Seth. As P…

E24
The Waiting Room
1962

After a 4 state murder spree, the Wilder Brothers head back to Texas for trial, under Paladin's gun.

E25
The Trap
1962

A lawman for 23 years, Jim Buell has always done what he believed was right. Taking in Davy Walsh for shooting at his ja…

E26
Don't Shoot the Piano Player
1962

With no help from local law enforcement, a writer hires Paladin to find her fiancé; in the roughest gutter on the Barbar…

E27
Alice
1962

A daughter hires Paladin to help her look for an old friend of his - her mother.

E28
The Man Who Struck Moonshine
1962

Moses Kadish is an alcoholic. He moves to middle of nowhere to try to stop drinking and drills a well. The well produces…

E29
Silent Death, Secret Death
1962

Paladin is asked to look for a missing brother, no matter the cost. When he finds out he's been missing for seven years,…

E30
Hobson's Choice
1962

Alfred Nobel, staying at the Carlton, enlists the aid of resident Paladin to recover a mixed up shipment of mineral oil …

E31
The Coming of the Tiger
1962

An elder from the Japanese community informs Paladin that a Nationalistic Japanese Priest, accompanied by a Samurai Warr…

E32
Darwin's Man
1962

A rancher (Kent Smith) pits his sons (Richard Rust, Buzz Martin) against one another in a fight to determine which of th…

E33
Invasion
1962

The State Department hires Paladin to stop an Irishman (Robert Gist) from invading Canada.

E34
Cream of the Jest
1962

Paladin tries to stay one step ahead of a prankster who may be on the point of playing one prank too many.

E35
Bandit
1962

A girl bandit robs and kills a stagecoach driver for $50,000. When Paladin catches up to her he finds out she is no lady…

E36
Pandora's Box
1962

Protecting the current administration from low gossip and sensationalism, Paladin is asked to discreetly bring the Secre…

E37
Jonah and the Trout
1962

$20,000 in gold bullion is stolen and dropped into a lake. Paladin decides to try to retrieve it but Jonah, a fisherman,…

E38
The Knight
1962

Paladin is hired to find a killer. His usual fee is paid for instead with a ring. A ring that may tie his employer to hi…

Cast

Richard Boone
Richard Boone
Paladin

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