The BEST episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel season 5
Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel season 5!
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 Revenger
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1961
Paladin takes a $500 stagecoach ride with an embezzler, a convicted cutthroat, an adulteress and a murderer to collect the other half of that bill. He runs into a Mexican bandit bent on knowing who among them is responsible for the death of the wife of one of his men. Good thing his name is Solomon.
#2 - A Drop of Blood
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1961
Paladin 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.
#3 - The Race
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1961
Paladin 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.
#4 - The Education of Sara Jane
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1961
The 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.
#5 - Odds for Big Red
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1961
Paladin trails a killer and bank robber to a saloon but while trying to capture him, the saloon's owner, Big Red, is shot. With the doc away, her ex starts taking bets on whether she will last till morning. Odds against her, the ex must try to save her or face Paladin's gun.
#6 - A Proof of Love
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1961
Paladin 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. The meek farm-boy hired Paladin to teach him to outdraw the usurper, but Paladin convinces him that he can win her Greek heart with his feet.
#7 - The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1961
Paladin crosses paths with Sarah Gibbs on her way to see her husband's hanging for a crime he did commit. A proper burial is all she is seeking but she has a paper that says she can't even visit him. When one deputy wants to just drop the bodies in the mine, there is a tug of conscience between the relatives, Sarah and Paladin.
#8 - The Piano
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1961
European 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.
#9 - The Brothers
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1961
Edna Raleigh hires Paladin to return Bram Holden for the murder of her husband. When Paladin crosses paths with a deranged prospector in the desert, he must deal with the notion he has his long lost brother who stole his wife.
#10 - Blind Circle
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1961
Two 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, who seems to only care about, doesn't know or maybe he doesn't care.
#11 - The Kid
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/23/1961
Paladin is sent a $100 bill and told there are 9 more like it. When he arrives in the town, the sender is dead, and Paladin finds himself in a high-stakes poker game for a "silver strike" with the man who killed him.
#12 - Ben Jalisco
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1961
Escaped 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.
#13 - The Vigil
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1961
Paladin 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.
#14 - The Gospel Singer
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1961
Bugbear 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.
#15 - A Knight to Remember
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1961
Paladin 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.
#16 - The Man Who Struck Moonshine
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/24/1962
Moses 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.
#17 - Silent Death, Secret Death
Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/31/1962
Paladin 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 even though it will take him into the hostile Indian territory of the Nez Perce.
#18 - Darwin's Man
Season 5 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/21/1962
Tully Coombs wires Paladin. He wants his infamous father to give him 160 acres to start a family. The father only wants to give it all to the best man of his two sons - the way Darwin describes in his famous book.
#19 - Invasion
Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/28/1962
Gavin O'Shea, revered in his homeland, appeals to any Irishman listening to help by providing money for his cause. When two brothers help him out by breaking the law Paladin must think fast to prevent one of them from swinging from a rope.
#20 - The Exiles
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1962
General Ortega hires Paladin to recover $16 million in French bonds. Where they are and who has them is already known. The aristocrats who have them will not give them to one they consider a tyrant and Paladin must intervene if he hopes to save their lives.
#21 - The Waiting Room
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/1962
After a 4 state murder/rape spree, the Wilder Brothers head back to Texas for trial, under Paladin's gun. The slimy pair assure Paladin they have plenty of relatives stationed along the way from Dakota Territory, who'll be delighted to pick off the man in black, because he kills for money, Wilders just kill for fun.
#22 - Squatter's Rights
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/30/1961
Costigan 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.
#23 - Alice
Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/17/1962
A daughter hires Paladin to help her look for an old friend of his - her mother. She wants to know more about her past and especially her nickname but he won't discuss it until they arrive in Codyville, Arizona; where she was last seen.
#24 - The Coming of the Tiger
Season 5 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/14/1962
Paladin must stop a Samurai Warrior and a Priest from Japan who are on a mission to "radicalize" Japanese Americans.
#25 - Pandora's Box
Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/19/1962
Protecting the current administration from low gossip and sensationalism, Paladin is asked to discreetly bring the Secretary's son to justice for murder. Some old friends try to prevent this but soon learn where Billy's loyalties truly lie.