Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
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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Episode 1 - First, Catch a Tiger
Release Date: 1959-09-12Two of the three men who brought in and helped to hang an outlaw have been killed by an assassin. The third man, Paladin, is staying at a hotel where one of the guests is the killer.
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Episode 2 - Episode in Laredo
Release Date: 1959-09-19Kovak is reserving the entire hotel in Laredo, Texas for Sam Tuttle, a famous unbeatable gunfighter. After Paladin is forced to kill Kovak, Tuttle must challenge Paladin in order to keep his reputation in tact.
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Episode 3 - Les Girls
Release Date: 1959-09-26Paladin is hired to deliver three mail-order brides to Bend-In-The-River.
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Episode 4 - The Posse
Release Date: 1959-10-03Paladin stops to ask a stranger for directions and is invited to share his campsite. Later, when a posse arrives, the man announces that Paladin is the murderer they have been looking for.
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Episode 5 - Shot by Request
Release Date: 1959-10-10Ainslee is a well-dressed, middle-aged gentleman and a reluctant gunfighter. He hires Paladin for a very strange task.
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Episode 6 - Pancho
Release Date: 1959-10-24Mexican rancher Don Luis Ortega hires Paladin to escort his daughter across the border into the United States. However a peon from her father's ranch is determined to stop them and take her for himself.
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Episode 7 - Fragile
Release Date: 1959-10-31Paladin is hired by the owner of ""The Frenchman's"" restaurant to take a plate glass window to the town of Panamint, a wild gold-mining town.
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Episode 8 - The Unforgiven
Release Date: 1959-11-07Retired and wealthy General Crommer is dying. He asks Padadin, who holds an old grudge against him, to do him a favor. He asks him to take a message of forgiveness to another man who hates Crommer. A favor which might get Paladin killed.
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Episode 9 - The Black Handkerchief
Release Date: 1959-11-14A young man convicted of murder is scheduled for execution, and Paladin attempts to intervene before it's too late.
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Episode 10 - The Golden Toad
Release Date: 1959-11-21Paladin is drawn into a dispute between a male farmer and a female cattle rancher, with a fortune in buried treasure at stake.
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Episode 11 - Tiger
Release Date: 1959-11-28Ellsworth believes he has had an old tiger curse put on him and that a tiger is coming to kill him. He hires Paladin to protect him from the tiger.
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Episode 12 - Champagne Safari
Release Date: 1959-12-05An old friend of Paladin's requests his help after a family member is killed in an Indian raid.
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Episode 13 - Charley Red Dog
Release Date: 1959-12-12The town of Santa Maria, New Mexico is in need of a new town marshal, and one man, Charley Red Dog, is out to get the job. However, he may not survive unless Paladin lends a hand.
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Episode 14 - The Naked Gun
Release Date: 1959-12-19While in Oregon, Paladin makes a new friend, Monk, who he helps get out of a group of unruly herders.
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Episode 15 - One Came Back
Release Date: 1959-12-26When his five-year prison term for crimes committed during the Civil War is up, Ben Harvey is eager to return to his hometown of Gila. Harvey hires Paladin to keep him protected on the way to Gila.
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Episode 16 - The Prophet
Release Date: 1960-01-02The Army asks Paladin to find an Army colonel who disappeared with his Apache wife. There are rumors of an Army officer working with the Apaches and inciting them to war. Paladin is asked to find and stop him at all costs.
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Episode 17 - Day of the Badman
Release Date: 1960-01-09Cynthia Palmer hires Paladin to clean up the town of Cedar Wells and get a gang out. She also wants him to send her schoolteacher nephew named Laredo back east. Paladin decides he can restore Laredo's self-respect and get rid of the gang at the same time.
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Episode 18 - The Pledge
Release Date: 1960-01-16Ike Brennan hires Paladin to escort him through Indian country in order to exchange goods for his wife who is being held hostage by the Indians.
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Episode 19 - Jenny
Release Date: 1960-01-23Jenny Lake goes to Paladin for help to ward off Wilson, a suitor who is pursuing her. But when Jenny disappears, Paladin must follow a trail to find her.
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Episode 20 - Return to Fort Benjamin
Release Date: 1960-01-30Paladin is hired to help an Indian chief whose son is awaiting execution by the U.S. Army. The chief wants Paladin to bring his body back following the execution to ensure he has a proper burial. However, once Paladin makes contact with the chief's son, he begins to wonder if he's actually guilty.
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Episode 21 - The Night the Town Died
Release Date: 1960-02-06Aaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell.
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Episode 22 - The Ledge
Release Date: 1960-02-13Richard Boone as Paladin is on the road with 4 others when a man in the distance yells to them and then falls off a ledge in an 'impossible to get to space.' John Hoyt plays a doctor who begins to assume the man is dead, but really, everyone is unsure, and worried. The entire episode concerns the issue of mercy killing. Richard Rust plays a young man named Corey who is deathly afraid of heights but who tries to get down to the man to make certain. At one point, they even feel perhaps they should shoot the man just in case he's alive. This episode shows exactly why the show is called a psychological drama western. It is very intense and intellectual, with superb acting. The other two characters are a man who hides his fear by constantly laughing and a man who cannot stop saying he cannot take risks because he has a family.
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Episode 23 - The Lady on the Wall
Release Date: 1960-02-20Paladin is accused of stealing a painting in the small town of Bonanza.
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Episode 24 - The Misguided Father
Release Date: 1960-02-27An old friend of Paladin is shot and killed in Paladin's hotel room. After returning the body for burial, Paladin sets out to find the killer.
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Episode 25 - The Hatchet Man
Release Date: 1960-03-05San Francisco hires Paladin to protect a Chinese detective.
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Episode 26 - Fight at Adobe Wells
Release Date: 1960-03-12Paladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country.
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Episode 27 - The Gladiators
Release Date: 1960-03-19Allison Windrom hires Paladin to stop her father and Graham Beckley from dueling.
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Episode 28 - Love of a Bad Woman
Release Date: 1960-03-26Tamsen Sommers is advertising for a husband, which presents a problem since she already has one. The husband hires Paladin to protect him from the men competing for the right to marry her.
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Episode 29 - An International Affair
Release Date: 1960-04-02A Hawaiian prince is killed in Paladin's hotel room and Paladin must find out why the prince was targeted.
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Episode 30 - Lady with a Gun
Release Date: 1960-04-09After she attempts to shoot Rudy Rossback and fails, Eve McIntosh offers Paladin $1,000 to kill him. After Paladin turns her down she hires another gunman.
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Episode 31 - Never Help the Devil
Release Date: 1960-04-16Doggie Kramer wins a gunfight, as the whole town he had been bullying watches, but ends up wounded. He needs Paladin to help him get out of town before the townspeople take their revenge.
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Episode 32 - Ambush
Release Date: 1960-04-23Paladin is taking Blandings back to stand trial and stops at a ferry crossing. They are captured and held along with three others. Someone is coming and they are being held until he arrives. Each thinks it's their worst enemy coming to kill them and all they can do is wait.
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Episode 33 - Black Sheep
Release Date: 1960-04-30Ben Huttner is a fugitive wanted for manslaughter. He is also the illegitimate son of a very wealthy man and stands to inherit his five million dollar estate, but he must first come back and stand trial. Paladin is hired to find him and either bring him back to stand trial or get him to sign a paper giving up his inheritance.
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Episode 34 - Full Circle
Release Date: 1960-05-14A man who left Paladin to die in his place writes to Paladin and asks for his help.
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Episode 35 - The Twins
Release Date: 1960-05-21Adam Mirakian is wanted for a murder he claims his twin brother Sam committed. He hires Paladin to find his brother and clear his name. The only person who can tell them apart is Adam's wife, Beth.
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Episode 36 - The Campaign of Billy Banjo
Release Date: 1960-05-28Billy Banjo, a friend of Paladin, asks Paladin to help with a fair election.
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Episode 37 - Ransom
Release Date: 1960-06-04Paladin is hired to find Colonel Celine in order to get him to sign an important document.
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Episode 38 - The Trial
Release Date: 1960-06-11Paladin is hired by Morgan Gibbs to bring in his son, who is wanted for murder. There is a $500 dead or alive bounty on him and Morgan offers to pay Paladin $5000 to bring him in alive. When Paladin brings him in draped over his horse, Paladin is put on trial for killing him.
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Episode 39 - The Search
Release Date: 1960-06-18Mrs. Kilmer is dying and asks Paladin to find her missing son, Martin Kilmer. Edwards, a detective, managed to trace Martin as far as Harper City, where Edwards was then killed. Fred Harper, a half crazy man who runs Harper City, doesn't want Paladin to succeed.