The BEST episodes written by Ken Kolb
#1 - Silver Convoy
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 37
Paladin is hired to find James Becker. He trails him to Monterey and discovers he has been arrested and is sentenced to work in a silver mine. Paladin finds that Becker has died in a cave-in or so he is told. The owner of the mine hires Paladin to guard a silver convoy, but first Paladin wants to find out a little more about the mine.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 30
When Paladin goes to a mining town to promote a prizefight, his boxer is arrested and he ends up having to take the man's place in the ring -- against the Welsh champion.
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#3 - Show of Force
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 9
After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 34
Newlyweds with no place to stay end up in Paladin's suite. He learns that the groom's half-brothers are threatening to kill their father. Paladin goes to warn the father.
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#5 - The Pet
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 15
Ward Haskins guns down Joe Flecker, who has evidence that could be used to blackmail him. Haskins thinks the information was given to Lucas, since he brought Flecker to the doctor before he died. Stirred up by Haskins behavior, Lucas goes through Flecker's things, finding a wanted poster for Haskins in the sole of Flecker's boot. He also finds Doc Burrage drinking. Doc is discouraged because three children have died of an anthrax epidemic that he has the new serum for, but nobody is willing to allow him to administer it in time. Haskins rides out to the ranch and is bitten by Flecker's horse, which is now believed to have anthrax. Mark overhears about how anthrax always causes death and is worried because he had bitten by Flecker's horse, also.
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#6 - Girl from Piccadilly
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 24
Learning of his son's death, a rich man hires Paladin to locate the daughter-in-law he's never met, but Paladin finds two women both claiming to be her.
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#7 - The Night of the Burning Diamond
The Wild Wild West - Season 1 - Episode 26
West tries to convince a Serbian official to hide the Kara Diamond, then it disappears and West is blamed. Arte and Jim must find the diamond before Morgan Midas can complete his sinister plan.
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#8 - The Bostonian
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 21
Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.
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#9 - Duel of Honor
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 7
When an Italian Count arrives in North Fork, his strange attire attracts the attention of Groder, a town bully. Groder trying to have fun with this stranger, destroys some of the Counts currency, mocks him, and tries to humiliate him. Eventually the Count challenges Groder to a duel and asks Lucas to be his Second. They meet at dawn and the Count, the offended party, brings his single shot dueling pistols, something Groder is unaccustomed to. Lucas as second must see that all rules of the duel are adhered to.
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#10 - The Reasonable Man
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 18
A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.
#11 - The Photographer
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 18
Abel Goss, the photographer who took Lucas' wedding photograph, is in North Fork doing a portrait of Mark standing in the street. When Goss sees Col. Whiteside and his sidekick Jamison, he recognizes them as the butchers who tortured him and others while he was captive in their prisoners of war camp. When Lucas stops him from killing them, Goss swears to kill those men. Whiteside planned to call Goss out, but he had Jamison shooting from the upstairs hotel window, as his insurance. When the shots are fired, Whiteside is dead, shot in the back, and his gun hadn't been fired. Goss is arrested and at the trial Lucas and Mark have different testimonies. Mark reenacts the scene in the street, and Lucas backs Mark's theory , using the photographic negative Goss had shot of Mark.
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#12 - Bitter Wine
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 23
Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.
#13 - The High-Graders
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 19
When his tailor is killed in an accident at a supposedly worthless gold mine, Paladin discovers that the man was murdered and his heirs are being swindled.
#14 - Strange Vendetta
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 7
Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.
#15 - Full Fathom Five
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 3
Victor Reese and his wife Nora are conning rich widows out of their savings, and then poisoning them and dumping them in the ocean. McGarrett and company hatch a plan to use a female officer to trap the duo.
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#16 - The Malachi Hobart Story
Wagon Train - Season 5 - Episode 17
An old con man trys to fleece the wagon train members of money by pretending to be a preacher trying to raise funds to build a church. He is outfoxed by Duke but redeems himself by aiding a dying woman.
#17 - The Singer
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 22
A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.
#18 - The Night of the Sudden Plague
The Wild Wild West - Season 1 - Episode 28
West and Arte ride into the quiet town of Willow Springs, only to find it looted and all of its citizens victims of a mysterious paralysis.
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#19 - The Night of the Ready-Made Corpse
The Wild Wild West - Season 2 - Episode 11
West and Gordon are assigned to protect foreign dictator Colonel Pellargo. When the assassin dies a few days later, their investigation leads to Fabian Lavendor's funeral parlor.
#20 - The Night of the Bottomless Pit
The Wild Wild West - Season 2 - Episode 8
West poses as a prisoner at Devil's Island to rescue a secret agent who is marked for execution by a savage commandant.
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#21 - The Night of the Big Blast
The Wild Wild West - Season 2 - Episode 4
Dr. Faustina and her mute servant, Miklos, have transformed a corpse into a James West look-alike.
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#22 - The Night of the Gypsy Peril
The Wild Wild West - Season 2 - Episode 18
West and Gordon are escorting the Sultan of Ramapur and his gift, a sacred white elephant, to the President. Bandits intercept the train and steal the elephant; then the Sultan demands one million dollars in recompense. West follows the the trail to a gypsy camp and discovers things aren't always what they seem.
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#23 - The Lieutenant Burton Story
Wagon Train - Season 5 - Episode 22
A young lieutenant on his first assignment must face an overbearing, murderous sergeant who is determined to kill two deserters in cold blood. The sergeant wounds Chris thinking he is one of them and into a feud with Flint at the train.
#24 - The Night of the Colonel's Ghost
The Wild Wild West - Season 2 - Episode 24
West and Gordon escort President Grant to dedicate a statue of the late Colonel Wayne Gibson. West rides ahead to check out the town of Gibsonville and finds it plagued by a series of broken neck murders and arguments over lost gold.
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#25 - The Illustrator
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 12
Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.
#26 - Riddle at 24,000
Ironside - Season 7 - Episode 23
A man dies of a heart attack whilst flying his plane, but the town medical examiner, a charmingly eccentric Cuban doctor, is convinced that there was foul play. By chance Ironside and Ed are on their way to visit and soon become involved in his investigations; but between pregnant ducks and volatile banana cocktails they have their work cut out as never before.
#27 - The Big Counterfeit
Dragnet (1951) - Season 8 - Episode 38
A phony policeman, using the name of a deceased officer, confiscates the money of innocent citizens by telling them its counterfeit.