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 - The Fatalist
Release Date: 1960-09-10A Russian Jewish immigrant and his daughter are coerced by a local town boss not to testify in court about a murder. The daughter comes to San Francisco to enlist Paladin's help.
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Episode 2 - Love's Young Dream
Release Date: 1960-09-17Monk (The Naked Gun, Episode #92) arrives in San Francisco to collect his inheritance, a half-interest in a night club. He ends up at the Carlton Hotel to ask Paladin for help.
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Episode 3 - A Head of Hair
Release Date: 1960-09-24An Apache indian has his eye on scalping Paladin.
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Episode 4 - Out at the Old Ballpark
Release Date: 1960-10-01Paladin serves as umpire for a Wild West baseball game.
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Episode 5 - Saturday Night
Release Date: 1960-10-08After being arrested along with several others for fighting in a barroom brawl, Paladin wakes up in a cell and discovers that one of the other men has been murdered.
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Episode 6 - The Calf
Release Date: 1960-10-15When a calf is found dead, a rancher seeks revenge on another.
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Episode 7 - The Tender Gun
Release Date: 1960-10-22During his travels, Paladin encounters a female sheriff.
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Episode 8 - The Shooting of Jesse May
Release Date: 1960-10-29When Jesse May is shot, Paladin begins to believe that a boy murdered him.
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Episode 9 - The Poker Fiend
Release Date: 1960-11-12A poker game takes a deadly turn and Paladin is caught in the middle.
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Episode 10 - Crowbait
Release Date: 1960-11-19A man risks his life to be able to protect his daughter's dowry.
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Episode 11 - Marshal's Boy
Release Date: 1960-11-26Paladin must track down a marshal's son accused of a shooting and persuade him to turn himself into the authorities.
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Episode 12 - Foggbound
Release Date: 1960-12-03Paladin is hired to travel with adventurer Phileas Fogg during his 80 day trip around the world.
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Episode 13 - The Legacy
Release Date: 1960-12-10After a man dies, the reading of his will causes three additional murders.
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Episode 14 - The Prisoner
Release Date: 1960-12-17Paladin is hired by a man who has been wrongly accused of murder.
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Episode 15 - The Mountebank
Release Date: 1960-12-24A puppeteer gives Paladin a wagon ride to an Army fort commanded by a general with presidential aspirations.
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Episode 16 - The Sanctuary
Release Date: 1960-12-31Coming off the trail, Paladin pulls into a mission seeking a night's rest and ends up helping a man running from a lynch mob.
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Episode 17 - A Quiet Night in Town (1)
Release Date: 1961-01-07Paladin arrives in the Texas border town of Jody with a murder suspect named Joselito Kincaid. Their appearance creates tension: this is cow country, and Kincaid is a sheepherder. (Part 1 of 2)
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Episode 18 - A Quiet Night in Town (2)
Release Date: 1961-01-14When a group of men kill Paladin's prisoner, Paladin must bring the group of murders to justice. (Part 2 of 2)
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Episode 19 - The Princess and the Gunfighter
Release Date: 1961-01-21Paladin is hired to find the princess of a tiny kingdom who disappeared while making a United States tour.
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Episode 20 - Shadow of a Man
Release Date: 1961-01-28Paladin is hired by the wife of a weak man who's terrorized by his hometown. The Southerner is hated because of his role in the Lincoln assassination.
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Episode 21 - Long Way Home
Release Date: 1961-02-04The hunter becomes the hunted. When Paladin captures a former slave turned outlaw, a gang of rough bounty hunters fight to take his prisoner, dead or alive. When Paladin is bitten by a rattlesnake, the outlaw has to choose between saving him and saving himself.
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Episode 22 - The Taxgatherer
Release Date: 1961-02-11Have gun - will collect taxes. Paladin teams up with a powerful rancher to collect taxes from some of the roughest cattle-rustlers in the West. But how will he get the money when the man he's riding with has vowed never to pay a cent?
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Episode 23 - The Fatal Flaw
Release Date: 1961-02-25Stranded in a mountain cabin during a snowstorm, a sinister, Satan-worshipping outlaw bets Paladin he can do the unthinkable: corrupt the soul of an honest lawman.
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Episode 24 - Fandango
Release Date: 1961-03-04As a favor to an old friend, Paladin captures two teenagers sentenced to hang. Then, he finds himself face-to-face with an old gunfighter who wants the pleasure of hanging the boys who killed his brother. In the end, Paladin wonders how young is too young to be responsible for your crime.
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Episode 25 - The Last Judgement
Release Date: 1961-03-11Arriving in a small Arkansas town Paladin finds Dr. Simeon Loving chained in the street. He is charged with murder and Paladin is pressured into serving as his defense attorney. Elroy Greenleaf, a self-appointed justice of the peace, has decided that Loving will hang unless Paladin can persuade the jury to oppose Greenleaf.
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Episode 26 - The Gold Bar
Release Date: 1961-03-18Paladin tries to help a timid bank clerk return the gold he stole from his employer before it's discovered missing.
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Episode 27 - Everyman
Release Date: 1961-03-25A fortune teller predicts trouble for Paladin in the extremely near future.
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Episode 28 - The Siege
Release Date: 1961-04-01A desert town hires Paladin to deal with three brothers who have been poisoning the municipal water supply.
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Episode 29 - The Long Weekend
Release Date: 1961-04-08Paladin is hired to protect a town from a mountain man who occasionally wreaks havoc there.
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Episode 30 - El Paso Stage
Release Date: 1961-04-15Paladin decides to end the reign of terror of a psychotic town marshal.
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Episode 31 - Duke of Texas
Release Date: 1961-04-22Franz, a young Austrian Duke, hires Paladin to guide him to meet with a general who has promised to help reclaim Mexico for the Austrian empire. Franz believes the people of Mexico will welcome him, but Padadin thinks that Franz's advisor has other reasons for making the trip.
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Episode 32 - Broken Image
Release Date: 1961-04-29Paladin and a local hero go in pursuit of a gang of bank robbers but the hero may not be what he seems.
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Episode 33 - Brother's Keeper
Release Date: 1961-05-06After being attacked by a puma in the wild, things go from bad to awful for Paladin when he's robbed and left for dead by two men.
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Episode 34 - Bearbait
Release Date: 1961-05-13Paladin becomes involved when a timid sheriff refuses to do anything about three young hooligans who are terrorizing a town.
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Episode 35 - The Cure
Release Date: 1961-05-20Paladin helps down on her luck Calamity Jane regain her mojo.
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Episode 36 - The Road
Release Date: 1961-05-27Paladin is robbed by scavengers and then forced to cross the mountain in winter without his horse, guns or coat.
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Episode 37 - The Uneasy Grave
Release Date: 1961-06-03After encountering a woman burying her fiancee in an unmarked grave, Paladin is persuaded to go after the deceased's killer.
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Episode 38 - Soledad Crossing
Release Date: 1961-06-10A diptheria scare slows the return of Paladin's prisoner to justice.