The BEST episodes written by Gene Roddenberry

#1 - The Yuma Treasure

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 14

Accompanying a cavalry major on a mission to prevent a war by negotiating a treaty with an elusive Apache chief, Paladin must deal with soldiers who have caught gold fever.

#2 - The Great Mojave Chase

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 3

A sportsman sponsors a contest, betting that no one can elude his posse in the Mojave Desert. When Paladin shows up riding a camel, the man decides that the only way he can still win is to get rid of Paladin.

#3 - Maggie O'Bannion

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 28

After being bushwhacked and having 'everything' taken, Paladin walks to the nearest ranch and manages to get hired on as a handyman.

#4 - The Savages

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 6 - Episode 27

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.

#5 - The Monster of Moon Ridge

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 24

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 - The Hanging of Roy Carter

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 4

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.

#7 - Helen of Abajinian

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 16

An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.

#8 - Juliet

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 20

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.

#9 - Charley Red Dog

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 13

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.

#10 - Taylor's Woman

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 6 - Episode 2

A hen-pecked rancher, in San Francisco to marry his housekeeper, hires Paladin to help him get out of doing so.

#11 - Marshal of Sweetwater

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 6 - Episode 11

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.

#12 - Trial at Tablerock

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 6 - Episode 14

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.

#13 - The Road to Wickenburg

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 7

Paladin wakes up after being drugged, beaten and robbed in the town of Blue Bell by five men, one of whom is the town's sheriff. They took his money, gun, bullets, horse and saddle. All he has left is his two-shot derringer.

#14 - The Golden Toad

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 10

Paladin is drawn into a dispute between a male farmer and a female cattle rancher, with a fortune in buried treasure at stake.

#15 - Les Girls

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 3

Paladin is hired to deliver three mail-order brides to Bend-In-The-River.

#16 - Tiger

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 11

Ellsworth believes he has had an old tiger curse put on him and that a tiger is coming to kill him. He hires Paladin to protect him from the tiger.

#17 - Episode in Laredo

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 2

Kovak is reserving the entire hotel in Laredo, Texas for Sam Tuttle, a famous unbeatable gunfighter. After Paladin is forced to kill Kovak, Tuttle must challenge Paladin in order to keep his reputation in tact.

#18 - El Paso Stage

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 4 - Episode 30

Paladin decides to end the reign of terror of a psychotic town marshal.

#19 - Run Away Home

The Virginian - Season 1 - Episode 29

The Virginian and Steve Hill deliver 1800 head of cattle to Centre City, Nebraska. There is a run on the local bank but fortunately, Judge Garth's lawyer (Russ Conway) had heard of the possible bank run and had withdrawn the money to pay for the cattle the day before. The Virginian and Steve set out for home but are pursued by a local man, Swenson (Karl Swenson), and his sons who had their life savings in the bank and figure part of money is theirs. The episode recounts the adventures and travails of the two Shiloh men as they attempt to elude those pursuers.

#20 - Encounter at Farpoint (1)

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Episode 1

Stardate: 41153.7 The new captain of the recently built U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Captain Jean Luc Picard, takes the crew on their first mission: to discover the secret of Farpoint Station. During their journey, they encounter an omnipotent being known as Q, who accuses humanity of barbarism, and places them on trial. Jean-Luc must prove otherwise, or the human race will be annihilated.

#21 - The Menagerie (1)

Star Trek - Season 1 - Episode 11

Spock kidnaps his former captain, the crippled Christopher Pike, and heads for a quarantined planet, putting his career and Kirk's life on the line.

#22 - Cage at McNaab

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 6 - Episode 23

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.

#23 - The Menagerie (2)

Star Trek - Season 1 - Episode 12

Spock's court-martial continues as he attempts to justify his abduction of Pike, the theft of the Enterprise, and his heading for a planet declared forbidden by Starfleet.

#24 - Encounter at Farpoint (2)

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Episode 2

#25 - Alice

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 5 - Episode 27

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.

#26 - Hide and Q

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Episode 10

Stardate: 41590.5 Q places the senior crew of the Enterprise in a war game that pits them against a boar-faced, Napoleonic enemy.

#27 - Datalore

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Episode 13

Stardate: 41242.4 The crew of the Enterprise find android parts that are identical to Data's while they are exploring his homeworld. When assembled, an 'evil' twin of Data is created and named 'Lore'.

#28 - Ella West

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 17

The promoter of a wild west show asks Paladin for help taming down a very wild and famous female sharpshooter and show her how to act like a lady.

#29 - The Girl in Boxcar #3

Alias Smith and Jones - Season 1 - Episode 5

Curry gets involved with a runaway girl riding the rails as he tries to deliver $50,000 to a town 400 miles away.

#30 - The Posse

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 4

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.

#31 - The Return of Roy Carter

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 32

Roy Carter returns to help Paladin search the snow-covered mountains for a missing chaplain and an escaped convict.

#32 - Return to Tomorrow

Star Trek - Season 2 - Episode 20

The Enterprise discovers three discorporeal intelligences who seek their help in gaining physical bodies... but one of them has plans of his own.

#33 - Decision

Earth: Final Conflict - Season 1 - Episode 1

After Police Captain William Boone's wife is killed, he is recruited to work for the taelons, a seemingly benevolent alien race that has been on Earth for 3 years. To do so he will be implanted with a CVI- a cyber viral implant that will expand his mental abilities and allow him to control a bio-weapon of unlimited power. However before he can make his decision he is also recruited by the resistance, a group of humans who oppose the taelons being on Earth. Lead by Jonathan Doors, the resistance informs Boone that the taelons are not what they appear to be. The CVI implant brainwashes its subjects into following the taelon blindly, in effect controlling them. The resistance informs Boone that they can remove this aspect from the CVI on the condition that he works for both the taelons and the resistance. Boone accepts and now searches for the truth of why the taelons are on earth and if they are responsible for the death of his wife.

#34 - The Hanging Cross

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 15

On Christmas Eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.

#35 - Bread and Circuses

Star Trek - Season 2 - Episode 25

The Enterprise investigates the disappearance of a merchant ship crew on a planet ruled by a twentieth-century incarnation of ancient Rome.

#36 - The Savage Curtain

Star Trek - Season 3 - Episode 22

Kirk and Spock meet Abraham Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan and must do battle with some of histories most terrible villians.

#37 - A Private Little War

Star Trek - Season 2 - Episode 19

Kirk becomes involved in an arms race when the Klingons equip a native people with superior weaponry.

#38 - The Omega Glory

Star Trek - Season 2 - Episode 23

The Enterprise investigates the disappearance of another starship and discovers a planet where the inhabitants are immortal... and engaged in a strange parallel of Earth's Cold War period.