The WORST episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel
Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel!
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 - Lady of the Fifth Moon
Season 6 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/30/1963
Paladin comes to pay his respects to the mother of a Chinese man who is killed. She asks Paladin to meet a ship bound for China and see that her granddaughter is brought safely aboard.
#2 - The Silver Queen
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/3/1958
Lonely Leadhead Kane dies and leaves his half of a mine to an actress. Kane's partner wants to challenge the will. Someone wants to make sure Paladin never gets the woman to the courtroom.
#3 - Two Plus One
Season 6 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/6/1963
Paladin is riding to meet a lovely French lady in Los Angelos. On the way he encounters an Indian maiden being attacked. The girl, Taymanee, after being rescued, informs Paladin that she now belongs to him. His tryst takes a bad turn when Taymanee's attackers return. Rate it now! Air Date April 6, 1963 Production Code 31177 Top Episodes Genesis The Fifth Bullet Sweet Lady of the Moon The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs A Quiet Night in Town - Part I El Paso Stage The Predators Marshal of Sweetwater American Primitive A Quiet Night in Town - Part II Episode Summary Add/Edit On his way to an assignation with a lovely French lady in Los Angelos, Paladin encounters a Yosemite Indian maiden being attacked by two saddle tramps. Having rescued her, Paladin is nonplussed when the girl, Taymanee, informs him that she now belongs to him. This puts a serious crimp in his plans for a romantic interlude with his French lady, especially when Taymanee's attackers return.
#4 - The Hanging Cross
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1957
On Christmas Eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.
#5 - The Eve of St. Elmo
Season 6 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/23/1963
Colonel Draco invites Paladin to investigate an "insurrection" over water rights. Paladin discovers that Draco was crippled eight months previously and wants revenge. Paladin has no intention of being Draco's executioner.
#6 - Mark of Cain
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/20/1962
Dr. Avatar hires Paladin to guide him to Jack Trueblood, a notorious western badman who has killed many men. Avatar wants to measure Trueblood's head to confirm his research on cranial measurements.
#7 - Justice in Hell
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1962
Paladin goes after a wagon-master who led the massacre of his own wagon train. Rusty Doggett hides out in a town entirely populated by wanted outlaws. Finding someone to betray Doggett in the Bide-a-Wee Saloon is no problem, but crossing the death-line with his prisoner is very tricky. How much justice can Paladin bargain for in Hell ?
#8 - Lazarus
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/6/1962
After local boozing champ Big Fontana cheats Paladin in a drink-off, sickly Boise Peabody convinced he'll die by morning, challenges the sneaky fast draw to a shootout. Paladin helped Boise hide from fellow miners who are so lonely for female company they want Boise to dress up like a woman. The dying Boise realizes he's been afraid all his life, so decides he'll go out like a lion.
#9 - Duke of Texas
Season 4 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/22/1961
Franz, a young Austrian Duke, hires Paladin to guide him to meet with a general who has promised to help reclaim Mexico for the Austrian empire. Franz believes the people of Mexico will welcome him, but Padadin thinks that Franz's advisor has other reasons for making the trip.
#10 - The Prophet
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/1960
The Army asks Paladin to find an Army colonel who disappeared with his Apache wife. There are rumors of an Army officer working with the Apaches and inciting them to war. Paladin is asked to find and stop him at all costs.
#11 - The Black Bull
Season 6 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/13/1963
After being tortured, Paladin, becomes a surrogate bull for a famous, but now insane bullfighter, Nino Ybarra..
#12 - The Return of Roy Carter
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/2/1959
Roy Carter returns to help Paladin search the snow-covered mountains for a missing chaplain and an escaped convict.
#13 - The Night the Town Died
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/6/1960
Aaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell.
#14 - Pancho
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1959
Mexican rancher Don Luis Ortega hires Paladin to escort his daughter across the border into the United States. However a peon from her father's ranch is determined to stop them and take her for himself.
#15 - The Fatalist
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1960
A Russian Jewish immigrant and his daughter are coerced by a local town boss not to testify in court about a murder. The daughter comes to San Francisco to enlist Paladin's help.
#16 - Hey Boy's Revenge
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/12/1958
When Hey Boy's brother is killed for protesting the working conditions on a Chinese railroad gang in Utah, Paladin must get the boy out of jail and bring the killer to justice.
#17 - The Posse
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1959
Paladin stops to ask a stranger for directions and is invited to share his campsite. Later, when a posse arrives, the man announces that Paladin is the murderer they have been looking for.
#18 - Dream Girl
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1962
Paladin rides upon Buddy Webster's mining camp, who needs a big favor. He has been prospecting for gold dust the last five years. He asks Paladin to help him get to Jackson City to find a girl he believes is waiting for him. With Paladin's help, this young miner quickly learns the ways of the world.
#19 - The Hunt
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1962
Paladin is lured to Oregon under the pretense of a widow in distress. The real reason is to engage him in a deadly hunt with a bored prince. The winner takes all; including a large purse and his own life.
#20 - Three Bells to Perdido
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1957
New Mexico rancher Jesse Reade hires Paladin for $1,000 to bring back outlaw Dave Enderly, who has run off to Perdido, Mexico with Reade's daughter Nancy.
#21 - The Singer
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/8/1958
A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.
#22 - Fragile
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1959
Paladin is hired by the owner of ""The Frenchman's"" restaurant to take a plate glass window to the town of Panamint, a wild gold-mining town.
#23 - Jonah
Season 5 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/26/1962
$20,000 in gold bullion is stolen and dropped into a lake. Paladin decides to try to retrieve it but Jonah, a fisherman, has the spot staked out. He's after a huge trout and doesn't want anyone getting in his way. There's also the three thieves watching and waiting to ambush Paladin once he gets the gold.
#24 - Bandit
Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/12/1962
A girl bandit robs and kills a stagecoach driver for $50,000. When Paladin catches up to her he finds out she is no lady but with his help is willing to learn.
#25 - Cream of the Jest
Season 5 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/5/1962
Paladin travels to Santa Fe on a personal errand - to purchase one of the last authentic pieces of early Santa Clara pottery. On his return, he rides into a town that has a resident practical joker whose wife enlists/hires him to stop her husband from playing one too many jokes on a local gambler.