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 Vigil
Release Date: 1961-09-16Paladin agrees to accompany a nurse to the gold fields; she aspires to replace its deceased physician. Along the way, they encounter two men who have just buried their companion.
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Episode 2 - The Education of Sarah Jane
Release Date: 1961-09-23The Darrow and Tyler families have been feuding so long they don't remember who started it. It's up to Paladin to help them decide if the feud should continue.
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Episode 3 - The Revenger
Release Date: 1961-09-30Paladin takes a $500 stagecoach ride with an embezzler, a convicted cutthroat, and a murderer to collect the other half of that bill.
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Episode 4 - Odds for Big Red
Release Date: 1961-10-07Paladin trails a killer and bank robber to a saloon but while trying to capture him, the saloon's owner, Big Red, is shot.
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Episode 5 - A Proof of Love
Release Date: 1961-10-14Paladin urges a momma's boy farmer to win back his wayward mail-order bride, by besting party-animal neighbor Rud Saxon in a dance contest.
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Episode 6 - The Gospel Singer
Release Date: 1961-10-21Bugbear wants to change its image. When Paladin is hired, his idea of disarmament is working fine. Until a missionary rides to town with her own methods for doing the same thing.
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Episode 7 - The Race
Release Date: 1961-10-28Paladin is offered $1000 to win a horse race called a mule kalanta. When he arrives he finds out what the bet is, and he decides to make a change.
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Episode 8 - The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs
Release Date: 1961-11-04Singer Odetta plays Sarah Gibbs, who is barred by a marshal from visiting her condemned husband.
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Episode 9 - The Piano
Release Date: 1961-11-11European pianist Franz Lister comes to the United States to give a concert for Mona Lansing, a former saloon hostess. When Lister's piano is stolen, Mona hires Paladin to get it back.
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Episode 10 - Ben Jalisco
Release Date: 1961-11-18Escaped killer, Ben Jalisco, is a ruthless hunter who has murdered more than 30 men. Now he is after his wife, Lucy, who informed on him and Paladin, who brought him in.
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Episode 11 - The Brothers
Release Date: 1961-11-25Will prospector Possum Corbin rescue Paladin from dying in a desert, if Paladin reads the encyclopedia to him?
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Episode 12 - A Drop of Blood
Release Date: 1961-12-02Paladin is invited to best man at Rivka Shotness' wedding. When he arrives he finds that Billy Buckstone, the man the bride's family helped to convict, has been freed from prison and is on his way back.
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Episode 13 - A Knight to Remember
Release Date: 1961-12-09Paladin is hired to find Don Esteban, who has disappeared. When he finds him he is dressed as a knight in armor and thinks he is Don Quixote.
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Episode 14 - Blind Circle
Release Date: 1961-12-16Two years ago, the Cattleman's Association put a bounty of $500 on a rustler who was never caught. Now they don't want him pursued but a bounty hunter doesn't know or maybe he doesn't care.
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Episode 15 - The Kid
Release Date: 1961-12-23Paladin is sent a $100 bill and told there are 9 more like it if he travels to a town called Last Gasp.
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Episode 16 - Squatter's Rights
Release Date: 1961-12-30Costigan is a land owner and cattleman. He was shot by Clemenceau, a squatter on his land. Paladin has offered to help him get rid of the squatter but doesn't approve of his methods.
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Episode 17 - Lazarus
Release Date: 1962-01-06After local boozing champ Big Fontana cheats Paladin in a drink-off, sickly Boise Peabody convinced he'll die by morning, challenges the sneaky fast draw to a shootout.
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Episode 18 - Justice in Hell
Release Date: 1962-01-13Paladin goes after a wagon-master who led the massacre of his own wagon train. Rusty Doggett hides out in a town entirely populated by wanted outlaws.
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Episode 19 - Mark of Cain
Release Date: 1962-01-20Dr. Avatar hires Paladin to guide him to Jack Trueblood, a notorious western badman who has killed many men. Avatar wants to measure Trueblood's head to confirm his research on cranial measurements.
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Episode 20 - The Exiles
Release Date: 1962-01-27General Ortega hires Paladin to recover $16 million in French bonds. Where they are and who has them is already known.
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Episode 21 - The Hunt
Release Date: 1962-02-03Paladin is lured to Oregon under the pretense of a widow in distress. The real reason is to engage him in a deadly hunt with a bored prince.
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Episode 22 - Dream Girl
Release Date: 1962-02-10Paladin rides upon Buddy Webster's mining camp, who needs a big favor. He has been prospecting for gold dust the last five years.
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Episode 23 - One, Two, Three
Release Date: 1962-02-17Samuel Keel hires Paladin to find Seth Carter. Keel gives him the names of three people who can help him find Seth. As Paladin finds them, each is murdered. Paladin is determined to find out why.
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Episode 24 - The Waiting Room
Release Date: 1962-02-24After a 4 state murder spree, the Wilder Brothers head back to Texas for trial, under Paladin's gun.
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Episode 25 - The Trap
Release Date: 1962-03-03A lawman for 23 years, Jim Buell has always done what he believed was right. Taking in Davy Walsh for shooting at his jail while drunk seemed just that.
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Episode 26 - Don't Shoot the Piano Player
Release Date: 1962-03-10With no help from local law enforcement, a writer hires Paladin to find her fiancé; in the roughest gutter on the Barbary coast.
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Episode 27 - Alice
Release Date: 1962-03-17A daughter hires Paladin to help her look for an old friend of his - her mother.
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Episode 28 - The Man Who Struck Moonshine
Release Date: 1962-03-24Moses Kadish is an alcoholic. He moves to middle of nowhere to try to stop drinking and drills a well. The well produces whiskey instead of water.
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Episode 29 - Silent Death, Secret Death
Release Date: 1962-03-31Paladin is asked to look for a missing brother, no matter the cost. When he finds out he's been missing for seven years, he accepts this task.
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Episode 30 - Hobson's Choice
Release Date: 1962-04-07Alfred Nobel, staying at the Carlton, enlists the aid of resident Paladin to recover a mixed up shipment of mineral oil with his more potent nitroglycerin.
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Episode 31 - The Coming of the Tiger
Release Date: 1962-04-14An elder from the Japanese community informs Paladin that a Nationalistic Japanese Priest, accompanied by a Samurai Warrior, is attempting to enter the country illegally.
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Episode 32 - Darwin's Man
Release Date: 1962-04-21A rancher (Kent Smith) pits his sons (Richard Rust, Buzz Martin) against one another in a fight to determine which of them will be his heir.
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Episode 33 - Invasion
Release Date: 1962-04-28The State Department hires Paladin to stop an Irishman (Robert Gist) from invading Canada.
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Episode 34 - Cream of the Jest
Release Date: 1962-05-05Paladin tries to stay one step ahead of a prankster who may be on the point of playing one prank too many.
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Episode 35 - Bandit
Release Date: 1962-05-12A girl bandit robs and kills a stagecoach driver for $50,000. When Paladin catches up to her he finds out she is no lady but with his help is willing to learn.
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Episode 36 - Pandora's Box
Release Date: 1962-05-19Protecting the current administration from low gossip and sensationalism, Paladin is asked to discreetly bring the Secretary's son to justice for murder.
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Episode 37 - Jonah
Release Date: 1962-05-26$20,000 in gold bullion is stolen and dropped into a lake. Paladin decides to try to retrieve it but Jonah, a fisherman, has the spot staked out. He's after a huge trout and doesn't want anyone getting in his way. There's also the three thieves watching and waiting to ambush Paladin once he gets the gold.
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Episode 38 - The Knight
Release Date: 1962-06-02Paladin is hired to find a killer. His usual fee is paid for instead with a ring. A ring that may tie his employer to his quarry with him in the middle.