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Have Gun, Will Travel

  • TV-G
  • 1957–1963
  • 6 seasons
  • Western, Action & Adventure
  • 7.3

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.

Episodes

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.

39 episodes
  1. 1Three Bells to Perdido

    26 minSep 14, 1957

    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.

  2. 2The Outlaw

    26 minSep 21, 1957

    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.

  3. 3The Great Mojave Chase

    26 minSep 28, 1957

    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 is to get rid of Paladin.

  4. 4Winchester Quarantine

    26 minOct 5, 1957

    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.

  5. 5A Matter of Ethics

    26 minOct 12, 1957

    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.

  6. 6The Bride

    26 minOct 19, 1957

    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.

  7. 7Strange Vendetta

    26 minOct 26, 1957

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

  8. 8High Wire

    26 minNov 2, 1957

    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 the odds.

  9. 9Show of Force

    26 minNov 9, 1957

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

  10. 10The Long Night

    26 minNov 16, 1957

    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.

  11. 11The Colonel and the Lady

    26 minNov 23, 1957

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

  12. 12No Visitors

    26 minNov 30, 1957

    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 from entry.

  13. 13The Englishman

    26 minDec 7, 1957

    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.

  14. 14The Yuma Treasure

    26 minDec 14, 1957

    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.

  15. 15The Hanging Cross

    26 minDec 21, 1957

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

  16. 16Helen of Abajinian

    Dec 28, 1957

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

  17. 17Ella West

    Jan 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.

  18. 18The Reasonable Man

    Jan 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.

  19. 19The High-Graders

    Jan 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.

  20. 20The Last Laugh

    30 minJan 25, 1958

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

  21. 21The Bostonian

    30 minFeb 2, 1958

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

  22. 22The Singer

    30 minFeb 8, 1958

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

  23. 23Bitter Wine

    30 minFeb 15, 1958

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

  24. 24Girl from Piccadilly

    30 minFeb 22, 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 two women both claiming to be her.

  25. 25The O'Hare Story

    30 minMar 1, 1958

    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.

  26. 26Birds of a Feather

    30 minMar 8, 1958

    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.

  27. 27The Teacher

    30 minMar 15, 1958

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

  28. 28Killer's Widow

    30 minMar 22, 1958

    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.

  29. 29Gun Shy

    30 minMar 29, 1958

    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.

  30. 30The Prizefight Story

    30 minApr 5, 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's place in the ring -- against the Welsh champion.

  31. 31Hey Boy's Revenge

    Apr 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.

  32. 32The Five Books of Owen Deaver

    30 minApr 26, 1958

    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.

  33. 33The Silver Queen

    30 minMay 3, 1958

    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.

  34. 34Three Sons

    30 minMay 10, 1958

    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.

  35. 35The Return of Dr. Thackeray

    30 minMay 17, 1958

    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.

  36. 3624 Hours at North Fork

    30 minMay 24, 1958

    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.

  37. 37Silver Convoy

    30 minMay 31, 1958

    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 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.

  38. 38Deliver the Body

    30 minJun 7, 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 guilt and decides to hang around for the trial.

  39. 39The Statue of San Sebastian

    30 minJun 14, 1958

    Paladin agrees to capture an outlaw in return for a statue belonging to the local mission.

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Series cast

Richard BoonePaladin225 episodes
Kam TongHey Boy91 episodes
Hal NeedhamEmmet Trager28 episodes
John GeorgeTownsman (uncredited)16 episodes
Lisa LuKim Li12 episodes
Herschel GrahamFather (uncredited)12 episodes
Harry Carey Jr.Sheriff Stander12 episodes
Edward FaulknerDeputy Ed Buhl11 episodes
Roy BarcroftJim Sherwood10 episodes
Hank Patterson9 episodes
Peggy Rea8 episodes
George KennedySam Tarnitzer7 episodes
Denver PylePete Hollister7 episodes
Dorothy DellsWoman7 episodes
Robert KarnesVern Potter6 episodes
Karl Swenson6 episodes
Ben WrightCount Gaspar di Cassals6 episodes
Perry CookBarfly6 episodes

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