The BEST episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel season 3

Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel season 3!

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."

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9.42
38 votes

#1 - The Unforgiven

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1959

Retired 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.

Writer: Jay Simms
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8.89
36 votes

#2 - Ransom

Season 3 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/4/1960

Paladin is hired to find Colonel Celine in order to get him to sign an important document.

Directors: Richard Boone
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8.82
38 votes

#3 - Full Circle

Season 3 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/14/1960

A man who left Paladin to die in his place writes to Paladin and asks for his help.

Directors: Fred Hartsook
Writer: David Lang
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8.75
40 votes

#4 - Champagne Safari

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1959

An old friend of Paladin's requests his help after a family member is killed in an Indian raid.

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8.62
42 votes

#5 - Shot by Request

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1959

Ainslee is a well-dressed, middle-aged gentleman and a reluctant gunfighter. He hires Paladin for a very strange task.

Directors: Buzz Kulik
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The Black Handkerchief
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8.62
39 votes

#6 - The Black Handkerchief

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1959

A young man convicted of murder is scheduled for execution, and Paladin attempts to intervene before it's too late.

Writer: Jay Simms
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8.62
39 votes

#7 - Jenny

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/1960

Jenny 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.

Writer: Jack Jacobs
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8.18
38 votes

#8 - Return to Fort Benjamin

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/1960

Paladin 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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8.10
40 votes

#9 - Charley Red Dog

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1959

The 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.

Directors: Ida Lupino
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8.08
36 votes

#10 - The Search

Season 3 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/18/1960

Mrs. 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.

Directors: Richard Boone
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8.08
38 votes

#11 - Lady with a Gun

Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/9/1960

After 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.

Directors: Ida Lupino
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8.08
38 votes

#12 - The Twins

Season 3 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/21/1960

Adam 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.

Writer: Robert James
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8.08
38 votes

#13 - Never Help the Devil

Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/16/1960

Doggie 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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8.08
38 votes

#14 - The Lady on the Wall

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/20/1960

Paladin is accused of stealing a painting in the small town of Bonanza.

Directors: Ida Lupino
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8.08
39 votes

#15 - The Ledge

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/13/1960

Richard 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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8.08
39 votes

#16 - An International Affair

Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/2/1960

A Hawaiian prince is killed in Paladin's hotel room and Paladin must find out why the prince was targeted.

Directors: James Neilson
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8.05
37 votes

#17 - Ambush

Season 3 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/23/1960

Paladin 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.

Directors: Richard Boone
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8.05
37 votes

#18 - Black Sheep

Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/30/1960

Ben 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.

Directors: Richard Boone
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8.05
39 votes

#19 - Love of a Bad Woman

Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/26/1960

Tamsen 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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8.05
44 votes

#20 - The Naked Gun

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1959

While in Oregon, Paladin makes a new friend, Monk, who he helps get out of a group of unruly herders.

Writer: Jay Simms
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8.03
39 votes

#21 - Fight at Adobe Wells

Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/12/1960

Paladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country.

Directors: Richard Boone
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8.03
39 votes

#22 - The Misguided Father

Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/27/1960

An 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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One Came Back
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8.00
39 votes

#23 - One Came Back

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/26/1959

When 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.

Directors: Don Taylor
Writer: Bruce Geller
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8.00
39 votes

#24 - The Day of the Badman

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1960

Cynthia 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.

Directors: Ida Lupino
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8.00
39 votes

#25 - The Hatchet Man

Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1960

San Francisco hires Paladin to protect a Chinese detective.

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