The BEST episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel season 2
Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel season 2!
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 - The Wager
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1959
Sid Morgan hires Paladin to protect him from someone who is trying to kill him. After killing the gunfighter who was following them, Paladin finds out the real reason Morgan hired him. He then hands out his own brand of justice.
#2 - Hunt the Man Down
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/7/1959
Paladin finds himself reluctantly drawn into a deadly dispute between two brothers who are also old aquaintances.
#3 - Maggie O'Bannion
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/4/1959
After being bushwhacked and having 'everything' taken, Paladin walks to the nearest ranch and manages to get hired on as a handyman.
#4 - Lady on the Stagecoach
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/17/1959
Paladin is traveling on a stagecoach with four others, one of whom is Della White Cloud, the educated daughter of an Apache chief. The stage is also carrying a strongbox full of gold, which Ed Rance wants.
#5 - The Monster of Moon Ridge
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/28/1959
The townspeople of Moon Ridge, Colorado believe there are monsters in the mountains. Dan Bella's daughter is taken by something and he finds strange footprints outside his daughter's window. Paladin is hired to find out what is up on the ridge.
#6 - Incident at Borrasca Bend
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/21/1959
Arriving in a weird tent town to return money to a prospector, Paladin finds himself charged with the man's murder and tried by a kangaroo court.
#7 - The Scorched Feather
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/14/1959
Robert Ceilbleu hires Paladin to protect his father from a Comanche war chief who has sworn to kill him. After arriving at the remote cabin of William Ceilbleu, he learns the reason for the Indian's hatred.
#8 - Alaska
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/18/1959
Paladin play chess by mail with Boris, who is living in Alaska. Paladin receives what he assumes is Boris' next move but instead is a request for help. Boris is being forced out of territory he has hunted and trapped on for years. Paladin heads for Alaska to help.
#9 - Young Gun
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1958
An ex-gunfighter, Roy Calvert, blames the people of Benedict for his wife's death. The town is in the middle of a bad drought and Calvert and his son are blocking the only access to water in the area. Calvert has trained his son to be a gunfighter and Paladin has to face them both.
#10 - Comanche
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/16/1959
Corporal Henry Carver deserted from the Cavalry. Carver's mother hires Paladin to find him and get him to either return voluntarily or bring him back by force.
#11 - The Man Hunter
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1958
Paladin is forced to kill Jimmy Dawes, wanted for murder. When he takes him back to his home town, the townspeople, the sheriff and the boy's brothers give him a hostile welcome.
#12 - The Ballad of Oscar Wilde
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1958
Paladin is hired to protect Oscar Wilde. Another 3 men apply for the job, but after Paladin upstages them they kidnap Wilde for ransom. Paladin takes care of them, his way.
#13 - The Sons of Aaron Murdock
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/9/1959
Paladin becomes a bounty hunter when a rancher hires him to bring in his son, who's become a sadistic, vicious killer.
#14 - The Lady
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1958
A British woman, Diana Coulter, hires Paladin to guide her to her brother's ranch in Shiprock, Arizona, where the Comanches are on the warpath.
#15 - The Hanging of Roy Carter
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1958
Roy Carter is scheduled to be hanged. Another man confesses to the murder just before the execution is to take place. Paladin is hired to try to convince the warden to delay the hanging until the Governor can be reached.
#16 - The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1958
Chris Sorenson is shy around women and he asks Paladin to help him with his new neighbor, Senorita Maria de Castro, a lady rancher. Complicating the matter is cattle missing from the de Castro ranch.
#17 - Something to Live For
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1958
On his way to help a man and his daughter over a land dispute, Paladin encounters a wealthy, drunk and helpless man whose guide left him behind to die.
#18 - Duel at Florence
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1958
Paladin receives a letter with a bank draft for $82.17 from Ernie Teller asking for help with a matrimonial problem.
#19 - The Taffeta Mayor
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1959
John Kellaway, who is running for mayor of Colton, Wyoming, hires Paladin to protect him from his opposition. When he is killed before Paladin can get there, Paladin persuades John's widow to run for mayor.
#20 - In an Evil Time
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1958
Pappy French and his gang have robbed the bank in Mercede of $50,000. Pappy ran off with the cash and left his gang to shoot it out with the law. Paladin is hired to bring Pappy and the money back.
#21 - Juliet
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1959
Juliet Harper is being hunted by the grandsons of Colonel Jeremiah Pike. Paladin meets her on the stage and now the Colonel is after both of them, and Paladin is without a gun.
#22 - Death of a Gunfighter
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/14/1959
A ruthless gunfighter who has killed 9 men is wanted by the townspeople, who hire Paladin. The gunfighter's brother has been hanged and left out in the sreet to trap the gunfighter. On seeing this, Paladin quits the job. The gunfighter shows up and kills all the townspeople who were gunning for him. Then he and Paladin come to an agreement that if he hangs up his guns he can go back to his hometown to marry his sweetheart. But it turns out that she has fallen in love with someone else, and more trouble ensues.
#23 - The Man Who Lost
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/25/1959
Paladin goes after a man who murdered a man and attacked the man's wife. The victim's two brothers are also after him and don't intend to allow him to live long enough to stand trial.
#24 - The Long Hunt
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/7/1959
Thomas Orday, half Comanche, has killed two men and wounded Dundee, a former Indian fighter. He is now hiding in the mountains of New Mexico. Paladin is hired to help track him down.
#25 - Homecoming
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/23/1959
Wrongly convicted Ed Stacy, whom Paladin helped to put in prison, is being released after being pardoned. Will Stanhope, who runs the local freight office, hires Paladin to protect him from Stacy. Paladin soon wonders who is really in danger.