The BEST episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel season 1
Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel season 1!
Professional gunfighter Paladin was a West Point graduate who, after the Civil War, settled into San Francisco's Hotel Carlton were he awaited responses to his business card: over the picture of a chess knight "Have Gun – Will Travel ... Wire Paladin San Francisco."
#1 - Silver Convoy
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/31/1958
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.
#2 - The Five Books of Owen Deaver
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/26/1958
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.
#3 - Gun Shy
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/29/1958
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.
#4 - The O'Hare Story
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/1/1958
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.
#5 - The Yuma Treasure
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1957
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.
#6 - The Great Mojave Chase
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1957
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.
#7 - The Prizefight Story
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/5/1958
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.
#8 - The Statue of San Sebastian
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/14/1958
Paladin agrees to capture an outlaw in return for a statue belonging to the local mission.
#9 - The Return of Dr. Thackeray
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/17/1958
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.
#10 - Three Sons
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/10/1958
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.
#11 - Show of Force
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1957
After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.
#12 - No Visitors
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1957
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 - The Englishman
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1957
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 - Helen of Abajinian
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/28/1957
An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.
#15 - Winchester Quarantine
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1957
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.
#16 - A Matter of Ethics
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1957
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.
#17 - Deliver the Body
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/7/1958
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.
#18 - High Wire
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1957
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.
#19 - The Bride
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1957
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.
#20 - Girl from Piccadilly
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/22/1958
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.
#21 - The Bostonian
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/2/1958
Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.
#22 - The Reasonable Man
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/1958
A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.
#23 - Killer's Widow
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/22/1958
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.
#24 - Bitter Wine
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/15/1958
Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.
#25 - The Teacher
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/15/1958
Paladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.