The BEST episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel season 6
Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel season 6!
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 Savages
Season 6 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/16/1963
An art collector hires Paladin to guide him, and his strangely childlike daughter, to the camp of a reclusive sculptor. But the collector does not tell Paladin his real reason for wanting to find the artist.
#2 - The Fifth Bullet
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1962
After eight years, Paladin tries to repay a convict for the lie he was told when he arrested him. "I promise you a fair trial" is what he said.
#3 - Memories of Monica
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1962
Repaying a debt, Paladin rides to Valley Heart. Sheriff Reagan awaits the return of a native son who has been jailed for the past six years. The sheriff's wife was once this native son's girlfriend, and he has vowed to see Reagan dead for taking her from him.
#4 - Genesis
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1962
After an unsuccessful attempt on his life by young Roderick Jefferson, Paladin is prompted into remembering a similar incident from his past. Once, as a youth, he agreed to pay off a gambling debt by shooting it out with a professional gunfighter.
#5 - Taylor's Woman
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1962
A hen-pecked rancher, in San Francisco to marry his housekeeper, hires Paladin to help him get out of doing so.
#6 - A Place For Abel Hix
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1962
Hix sends for Paladin. When he arrives in town, he finds that Hix was killed in a gunfight even though he's the fastest man with gun who ever lived.
#7 - Bird of Time
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1962
Paladin rides upon a man named Stryker hanging from a tree. When he learns Paladin is after the same man but with a warrant, he says he has stronger reasons and hopes he won't get in his way. Later Paladin helps the man, now wounded and in his custody, get to what he remembers as a friendly place called Sky Blue.
#8 - Marshal of Sweetwater
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1962
Sweetwater was a wild town before Thomas Carey, a retired Army scout and old friend of Paladin, became marshal. But Carey has taken over complete control and turned into a killer. Paladin has to stop him and Carey has always seemed the faster of the two.
#9 - Man in an Hourglass
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1962
A doctor who once saved Paladin's life calls upon him to find and safely bring back the son of a one-time sweetheart.The young man has "taken to the hills" to track down his father's killer.Paladin locates the headstrong youth and his prey but finds the return trip will not be easy-the wanted man has four trailing confederates.
#10 - Penelope
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1962
Paladin meets a drunken Col Lacey at the Carlton. He is there fearful of going home to his lovely wife after being away for some time seeking his fortune. Will she be as loving and faithful as he has been? Paladin decides to help him find out, regardless of the consequences.
#11 - Trial at Tablerock
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1962
Adams, the prosecutor, wants to hire Paladin to rid the town of someone he says is getting away with murder. When this person is tried for a killing Paladin witnesses, he offers his services as defense when no one else wants the job.
#12 - The Treasure
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1962
Jess Harden, about to be released from prison for an $80K robbery he says he didn't commit, returns to the same town not knowing that it's a ghost town. He plans to meet his wife there. She wants Paladin there as well to ward off anyone who believes he does have the money after all.
#13 - Bob Wire
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/12/1963
Bob Wire hires Paladin, C.O.D., to escort him and his wagon load of barb wire to Anderson. What he doesn't say until they arrive is a range war is brewing and Paladin is now right in the middle of it.
#14 - The Walking Years
Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/2/1963
A letter from a friend brings Paladin to a bar where he's drugged. He wakes up chained and in the company of a man with a similar story and a woman who's path they've both crossed before.
#15 - The Predators
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1962
Paladin is after a man suspected of killing a marshal. After finally capturing him in the desert he claims his innocence. But he finds he may have to enlist his aid as they are without a horse, almost out of water and a group of bandit marauders are nearby.
#16 - Unforgiving Minute
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/26/1963
Fleeing banditos, Paladin seeks shelter from a peasant and his beautiful, scheming wife, their marriage at the breaking point. After being driven from their rural home, the husband hopes to appease his high-maintenance wife by returning to a city. However she eyes the urbane Paladin as the means to her own ends.
#17 - The Caravan
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/23/1963
Paladin is hired to escort a Rani and her party across 150 miles of desert to a safe haven.The Rani is from a country fighting a civil war and she is to be the new leader if her side is victorious.On the journey it is noticed that they are being followed and treachery from within may be the cause of more worry.
#18 - Beau Geste
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1962
After 15 years in office, Sheriff Dobbs is retiring and some old enemies are just waiting for the day he turns in his badge. Paladin received a newspaper clipping about the sheriff and $10 to save Dobbs' life.
#19 - Shootout at Hogtooth
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1962
Hogtooth gets more ridicule than usual, when 3 gunmen take over the town, after cleaning it up. Each was hired in secret by a town council member, so the enforcers band together to suck Hogtooth dry. Hey Boy spots an article about the dilemma, and tells Mr. Paladin he's needed.
#20 - A Miracle for St. Francis
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1962
Paladin rides to the San Luis Rey church in search of a very old brandy. When he is asked by the Padre to retrieve a statue of worship, they strike a bargain where they both may get what they want.
#21 - The Burning Tree
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/9/1963
Paladin is escorting a unique prisoner to a trial and certain conviction. A man who has been married seven times and murdered all of them. Stopping for a night of rest, Paladin finds the man is wanted by the townsfolk as a "sacrifice" to appease the local Indians. A spinsterish young girl has other plans for the "charmer".
#22 - The Debutante
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/19/1963
Mrs Quincy longs to see her granddaughter who has been away since she was six. When her daughter and husband died in the mine fields, she was taken in. Now betrothed to be married, Paladin is hired to ensure she is this long lost relative.
#23 - Be Not Forgetful of Strangers
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1962
Paladin rides into a Texas town at Christmas time and encounters a saloon full of merrymakers. Soon afterward a cowboy brings in a pregnant girl who may not survive the impending birth. The town doctor is down for his annual drunken stupor. Paladin tries to enlist help but the the patrons would rather party.
#24 - American Primitive
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/2/1963
Paladin is joined by his friend Ernie Backwater, an aging sheriff who is out to capture Will Tybee, a wanted fugitive who has spent his life searching for the man who murdered his son. Unfortunately, he's killed five innocent men while doing so, and is more than willing to kill Paladin and the sheriff if they get in his way.
#25 - Cage at McNaab
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/16/1963
Paladin is asked by the wife of a man who is condemned to die to visit him in prison and see if new evidence can be found to clear her husband. Not sure if he wants the job, Paladin agrees to the visit and it leads to quite an unexpected result. Paladin literally finds he now walks in another man's footsteps.