Have Gun, Will Travel
I don't think you got a very good look at this gun while you had it.
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
Seasons
1. Three Bells to Perdido
Air Date: 1957-09-14
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.
2. The Outlaw
Air Date: 1957-09-21
Manfred Holt breaks out of jail, killing two deputies. Is he on his way to kill the banker who testified against him, or to see his family for the last time? The banker hires Paladin.
3. The Great Mojave Chase
Air Date: 1957-09-28
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.
4. Winchester Quarantine
Air Date: 1957-10-05
At a stagecoach stop, Paladin sees a peaceful Cherokee rancher being beaten by white men who think his cattle are spreading a sickness. Paladin offers his help.
5. A Matter of Ethics
Air Date: 1957-10-12
An accused murderer who fears that he will be lynched before he can be returned to Bender, Wyoming, for trial, hires Paladin to make sure he gets there alive.
6. The Bride
Air Date: 1957-10-19
When a mail-order bride from Philadelphia gets off the stagecoach in the middle of nowhere, Paladin decides to stay with her to make sure that she is safe.
7. Strange Vendetta
Air Date: 1957-10-26
Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.
8. High Wire
Air Date: 1957-11-02
A hobo who was once a circus performer bets a gambler that he can walk across the saloon on a tightrope. When Paladin sees that the gambler intends to cheat, he decides to help even the odds.
9. Show of Force
Air Date: 1957-11-09
After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.
10. The Long Night
Air Date: 1957-11-16
A wealthy cattleman holds Paladin and two other men hostage. They will all die at dawn unless one of them admits to the murder of the rancher's wife.
11. The Colonel and the Lady
Air Date: 1957-11-23
A retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.
12. No Visitors
Air Date: 1957-11-30
When Paladin finds a woman and her apparently typhoid-afflicted child abandoned by a wagonmaster, he enlists the aid of a female doctor from a nearby town, but a religious fanatic then tries to bar them from entry.
13. The Englishman
Air Date: 1957-12-07
Paladin escorts an Englishman to his female cousin's ranch they have inherited in Montana, but finds that an embittered trader is plotting against them.
14. The Yuma Treasure
Air Date: 1957-12-14
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.
15. The Hanging Cross
Air Date: 1957-12-21
On Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.
16. Helen of Abajinian
Air Date: 1957-12-28
An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.
17. Ella West
Air Date: 1958-01-04
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.
18. The Reasonable Man
Air Date: 1958-01-11
A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.
19. The High-Graders
Air Date: 1958-01-18
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.
20. The Last Laugh
Air Date: 1958-01-25
A rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.
21. The Bostonian
Air Date: 1958-02-02
Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.
22. The Singer
Air Date: 1958-02-08
A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.
23. Bitter Wine
Air Date: 1958-02-15
Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.
24. Girl from Piccadilly
Air Date: 1958-02-22
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.
25. The O'Hare Story
Air Date: 1958-03-01
Hired to prevent the construction of a dam that would imperil a town's water supply, Paladin finds that he sympathizes more with the Irish engineer who's trying to build it.
26. Birds of a Feather
Air Date: 1958-03-08
Paladin must contend with other gunfighters as he tries to settle a right-of-way dispute between two railroads in a Colorado town that will die if they go elsewhere.
27. The Teacher
Air Date: 1958-03-15
Paladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.
28. Killer's Widow
Air Date: 1958-03-22
After having killed a bank robber, Paladin is accused of having taken the stolen money. He visits the dead man's widow and tries to make amends.
29. Gun Shy
Air Date: 1958-03-29
Trying to locate the thieves who stole a jade chess set, Paladin ends up in a small Montana town where he becomes involved in a romance with a landlady's daughter.
30. The Prizefight Story
Air Date: 1958-04-05
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.
31. Hey Boy's Revenge
Air Date: 1958-04-12
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.
32. The Five Books of Owen Deaver
Air Date: 1958-04-26
Paladin comes to the aid of a young sheriff from the East whose attempts to keep law and order are particularly unsuitable for a cowboy town in Wyoming.
33. The Silver Queen
Air Date: 1958-05-03
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.
34. Three Sons
Air Date: 1958-05-10
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.
35. The Return of Dr. Thackeray
Air Date: 1958-05-17
Dr. Phyllis Thackeray diagnoses the cook at the Barton Ranch with smallpox. All the cowhands may be infected and need to be vaccinated. Dr. Thackeray sends for the one man she thinks can help.
36. 24 Hours at North Fork
Air Date: 1958-05-24
When a blight kills all the crops except for one farmer's, Paladin must protect him from a greedy storekeeper who wants his farm and his hired gun who has a personal grudge against Paladin.
37. Silver Convoy
Air Date: 1958-05-31
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.
38. Deliver the Body
Air Date: 1958-06-07
Paladin is hired to bring in the killer of the sheriff in a Nevada town. He brings him in but has some doubts about his guilt and decides to hang around for the trial.
39. The Statue of San Sebastian
Air Date: 1958-06-14
Paladin agrees to capture an outlaw in return for a statue belonging to the local mission.
1. The Manhunter
Air Date: 1958-09-13
Paladin is forced to kill Jimmy Dawes, wanted for murder. When he takes him back to his home town, the townspeople, the sheriff and the boy's brothers give him a hostile welcome.
2. In an Evil Time
Air Date: 1958-09-20
Pappy French and his gang have robbed the bank in Mercede of $50,000. Pappy ran off with the cash and left his gang to shoot it out with the law. Paladin is hired to bring Pappy and the money back.
3. The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Air Date: 1958-09-27
Chris Sorenson is shy around women and he asks Paladin to help him with his new neighbor, Senorita Maria de Castro, a lady rancher. Complicating the matter is cattle missing from the de Castro ranch.
4. The Hanging of Roy Carter
Air Date: 1958-10-04
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.
5. Duel at Florence
Air Date: 1958-10-11
Paladin receives a letter with a bank draft for $82.17 from Ernie Teller asking for help with a matrimonial problem.
6. The Protege
Air Date: 1958-10-18
Paladin answers an ad in the paper by Kurt Sprague: ""Teach me to quick draw and shoot. Instruction desperately needed. Will pay one thousand dollars. Only experts need apply."" Kurt needs to learn in order to go back home. Paladin does a very good job. Only one problem: Kurt enjoys showing off his new found skill a little too much.
7. The Road to Wickenburg
Air Date: 1958-10-25
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.
8. A Sense of Justice
Air Date: 1958-11-01
The sheriff of a small town needs help to prevent the lynching of simple-minded Andy Dawes. The townspeople are sure he is a murderer. Paladin offers to help
9. Young Gun
Air Date: 1958-11-08
An ex-gunfighter, Roy Calvert, blames the people of Benedict for his wife's death. The town is in the middle of a bad drought and Calvert and his son are blocking the only access to water in the area. Calvert has trained his son to be a gunfighter and Paladin has to face them both.
10. The Lady
Air Date: 1958-11-15
A British woman, Diana Coulter, hires Paladin to guide her to her brother's ranch in Shiprock, Arizona, where the Comanches are on the warpath.
11. A Snare for Murder
Air Date: 1958-11-22
Two ornery old gold miners, who hate each other, have struck it rich. Problem is they talk too much, and now it appears someone is trying to kill them.
12. The Ballad of Oscar Wilde
Air Date: 1958-12-06
Paladin is hired to protect Oscar Wilde. Another 3 men apply for the job, but after Paladin upstages them they kidnap Wilde for ransom. Paladin takes care of them, his way.
13. The Solid Gold Patrol
Air Date: 1958-12-13
Paladin goes to inform a calvary corporal that he has won $600,000 in a lottery. But they may not live to cash in the ticket, they are trapped by several dozen hostile Indians.
14. Something to Live For
Air Date: 1958-12-20
On his way to help a man and his daughter over a land dispute, Paladin encounters a wealthy, drunk and helpless man whose guide left him behind to die.
15. The Moor's Revenge
Air Date: 1958-12-27
Shakespearean actors are going to perform in San Diego during their roundup. They are in for a rough reception. A lovesick gunfighter is among the audience. The show's promoter hires Paladin to keep the peace.
16. The Wager
Air Date: 1959-01-03
Sid Morgan hires Paladin to protect him from someone who is trying to kill him. After killing the gunfighter who was following them, Paladin finds out the real reason Morgan hired him. He then hands out his own brand of justice.
17. The Taffeta Mayor
Air Date: 1959-01-10
John Kellaway, who is running for mayor of Colton, Wyoming, hires Paladin to protect him from his opposition. When he is killed before Paladin can get there, Paladin persuades John's widow to run for mayor.
18. Lady on the Stagecoach
Air Date: 1959-01-17
Paladin is traveling on a stagecoach with four others, one of whom is Della White Cloud, the educated daughter of an Apache chief. The stage is also carrying a strongbox full of gold, which Ed Rance wants.
19. Treasure Trail
Air Date: 1959-01-24
Paladin wins part of a treasure map in a poker game and goes in search of the treasure with three other men.
20. Juliet
Air Date: 1959-01-31
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.
21. Hunt the Man Down
Air Date: 1959-02-07
Paladin finds himself reluctantly drawn into a deadly dispute between two brothers who are also old aquaintances.
22. The Scorched Feather
Air Date: 1959-02-14
Robert Ceilbleu hires Paladin to protect his father from a Comanche war chief who has sworn to kill him. After arriving at the remote cabin of William Ceilbleu, he learns the reason for the Indian's hatred.
23. The Return of the Lady
Air Date: 1959-02-21
Diana Coulter (The Lady, Episode 49) wires Paladin and asks him to come to her wedding to ""give the bride away"".
24. The Monster of Moon Ridge
Air Date: 1959-02-28
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.
25. The Long Hunt
Air Date: 1959-03-07
Thomas Orday, half Comanche, has killed two men and wounded Dundee, a former Indian fighter. He is now hiding in the mountains of New Mexico. Paladin is hired to help track him down.
26. Death of a Gunfighter
Air Date: 1959-03-14
A ruthless gunfighter who has killed 9 men is wanted by the townspeople, who hire Paladin. The gunfighter's brother has been hanged and left out in the sreet to trap the gunfighter. On seeing this, Paladin quits the job. The gunfighter shows up and kills all the townspeople who were gunning for him. Then he and Paladin come to an agreement that if he hangs up his guns he can go back to his hometown to marry his sweetheart. But it turns out that she has fallen in love with someone else, and more trouble ensues.
27. Incident at Borrasca Bend
Air Date: 1959-03-21
Arriving in a weird tent town to return money to a prospector, Paladin finds himself charged with the man's murder and tried by a kangaroo court.
28. Maggie O'Bannion
Air Date: 1959-04-04
After being bushwhacked and having 'everything' taken, Paladin walks to the nearest ranch and manages to get hired on as a handyman.
29. The Chase
Air Date: 1959-04-11
Paul Martin is a bank clerk accused of robbing the bank and killing a deputy. His wife hires Paladin to find her husband before the posse does.
30. Alaska
Air Date: 1959-04-18
Paladin play chess by mail with Boris, who is living in Alaska. Paladin receives what he assumes is Boris' next move but instead is a request for help. Boris is being forced out of territory he has hunted and trapped on for years. Paladin heads for Alaska to help.
31. The Man Who Lost
Air Date: 1959-04-25
Paladin goes after a man who murdered a man and attacked the man's wife. The victim's two brothers are also after him and don't intend to allow him to live long enough to stand trial.
32. The Return of Roy Carter
Air Date: 1959-05-02
Roy Carter returns to help Paladin search the snow-covered mountains for a missing chaplain and an escaped convict.
33. The Sons of Aaron Murdock
Air Date: 1959-05-09
Paladin becomes a bounty hunter when a rancher hires him to bring in his son, who's become a sadistic, vicious killer.
34. Comanche
Air Date: 1959-05-16
Paladin is hired to find a U.S. Army corporal, who is a deserter and the son of a general. Paladin must travel into Indian territory as he seeks the corporal. Along the way, Paladin encounters a soldier he knew from his own time in the Army. It turns out the corporal is part of the 7th Calvary, and is part of the command of George Custer.
35. Homecoming
Air Date: 1959-05-23
Wrongly convicted Ed Stacy, whom Paladin helped to put in prison, is being released after being pardoned. Will Stanhope, who runs the local freight office, hires Paladin to protect him from Stacy. Paladin soon wonders who is really in danger.
36. The Fifth Man
Air Date: 1959-05-30
Ben Talman, who has murdered 12 men, escaped from jail. He kills four men in Yucca Bend within one week. Paladin is hired to bring him in.
37. Heritage of Anger
Air Date: 1959-06-06
Paladin is hired to protect the Avery family from Manuel Garcia. Garicia is a Mexican bandit who seems to have taken a special interest in their son.
38. The Haunted Trees
Air Date: 1959-06-13
Ben Howard is disinherited in his father's will. When his father dies, Mrs. Sarah Howard takes over running the family's lumber company. She claims that Ben is sabotaging the work and scaring off the workers. Mrs. Howard hires Paladin to stop the problems and get rid of Ben.
39. Gold and Brimstone
Air Date: 1959-06-20
Paladin finds a sick old man and his son trying to protect their mine from claim jumpers. The old man is delirious and thinks that Paladin is the devil and has only offered to help in exchange for their souls.
1. First, Catch a Tiger
Air Date: 1959-09-12
Two of the three men who brought in and helped to hang an outlaw have been killed by an assassin. The third man, Paladin, is staying at a hotel where one of the guests is the killer.
2. Episode in Laredo
Air Date: 1959-09-19
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.
3. Les Girls
Air Date: 1959-09-26
Paladin is hired to deliver three mail-order brides to Bend-In-The-River.
4. The Posse
Air Date: 1959-10-03
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.
5. Shot by Request
Air Date: 1959-10-10
Ainslee is a well-dressed, middle-aged gentleman and a reluctant gunfighter. He hires Paladin for a very strange task.
6. Pancho
Air Date: 1959-10-24
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.
7. Fragile
Air Date: 1959-10-31
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.
8. The Unforgiven
Air Date: 1959-11-07
Retired and wealthy General Crommer is dying. He asks Padadin, who holds an old grudge against him, to do him a favor. He asks him to take a message of forgiveness to another man who hates Crommer. A favor which might get Paladin killed.
9. The Black Handkerchief
Air Date: 1959-11-14
A young man convicted of murder is scheduled for execution, and Paladin attempts to intervene before it's too late.
10. The Golden Toad
Air Date: 1959-11-21
Paladin is drawn into a dispute between a male farmer and a female cattle rancher, with a fortune in buried treasure at stake.
11. Tiger
Air Date: 1959-11-28
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.
12. Champagne Safari
Air Date: 1959-12-05
An old friend of Paladin's requests his help after a family member is killed in an Indian raid.
13. Charley Red Dog
Air Date: 1959-12-12
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.
14. The Naked Gun
Air Date: 1959-12-19
While in Oregon, Paladin makes a new friend, Monk, who he helps get out of a group of unruly herders.
15. One Came Back
Air Date: 1959-12-26
When his five-year prison term for crimes committed during the Civil War is up, Ben Harvey is eager to return to his hometown of Gila. Harvey hires Paladin to keep him protected on the way to Gila.
16. The Prophet
Air Date: 1960-01-02
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.
17. Day of the Badman
Air Date: 1960-01-09
Cynthia Palmer hires Paladin to clean up the town of Cedar Wells and get a gang out. She also wants him to send her schoolteacher nephew named Laredo back east. Paladin decides he can restore Laredo's self-respect and get rid of the gang at the same time.
18. The Pledge
Air Date: 1960-01-16
Ike Brennan hires Paladin to escort him through Indian country in order to exchange goods for his wife who is being held hostage by the Indians.
19. Jenny
Air Date: 1960-01-23
Jenny Lake goes to Paladin for help to ward off Wilson, a suitor who is pursuing her. But when Jenny disappears, Paladin must follow a trail to find her.
20. Return to Fort Benjamin
Air Date: 1960-01-30
Paladin is hired to help an Indian chief whose son is awaiting execution by the U.S. Army. The chief wants Paladin to bring his body back following the execution to ensure he has a proper burial. However, once Paladin makes contact with the chief's son, he begins to wonder if he's actually guilty.
21. The Night the Town Died
Air Date: 1960-02-06
Aaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell.
22. The Ledge
Air Date: 1960-02-13
Richard Boone as Paladin is on the road with 4 others when a man in the distance yells to them and then falls off a ledge in an 'impossible to get to space.' John Hoyt plays a doctor who begins to assume the man is dead, but really, everyone is unsure, and worried. The entire episode concerns the issue of mercy killing. Richard Rust plays a young man named Corey who is deathly afraid of heights but who tries to get down to the man to make certain. At one point, they even feel perhaps they should shoot the man just in case he's alive. This episode shows exactly why the show is called a psychological drama western. It is very intense and intellectual, with superb acting. The other two characters are a man who hides his fear by constantly laughing and a man who cannot stop saying he cannot take risks because he has a family.
23. The Lady on the Wall
Air Date: 1960-02-20
Paladin is accused of stealing a painting in the small town of Bonanza.
24. The Misguided Father
Air Date: 1960-02-27
An old friend of Paladin is shot and killed in Paladin's hotel room. After returning the body for burial, Paladin sets out to find the killer.
25. The Hatchet Man
Air Date: 1960-03-05
San Francisco hires Paladin to protect a Chinese detective.
26. Fight at Adobe Wells
Air Date: 1960-03-12
Paladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country.
27. The Gladiators
Air Date: 1960-03-19
Allison Windrom hires Paladin to stop her father and Graham Beckley from dueling.
28. Love of a Bad Woman
Air Date: 1960-03-26
Tamsen Sommers is advertising for a husband, which presents a problem since she already has one. The husband hires Paladin to protect him from the men competing for the right to marry her.
29. An International Affair
Air Date: 1960-04-02
A Hawaiian prince is killed in Paladin's hotel room and Paladin must find out why the prince was targeted.
30. Lady with a Gun
Air Date: 1960-04-09
After she attempts to shoot Rudy Rossback and fails, Eve McIntosh offers Paladin $1,000 to kill him. After Paladin turns her down she hires another gunman.
31. Never Help the Devil
Air Date: 1960-04-16
Doggie Kramer wins a gunfight, as the whole town he had been bullying watches, but ends up wounded. He needs Paladin to help him get out of town before the townspeople take their revenge.
32. Ambush
Air Date: 1960-04-23
Paladin is taking Blandings back to stand trial and stops at a ferry crossing. They are captured and held along with three others. Someone is coming and they are being held until he arrives. Each thinks it's their worst enemy coming to kill them and all they can do is wait.
33. Black Sheep
Air Date: 1960-04-30
Ben Huttner is a fugitive wanted for manslaughter. He is also the illegitimate son of a very wealthy man and stands to inherit his five million dollar estate, but he must first come back and stand trial. Paladin is hired to find him and either bring him back to stand trial or get him to sign a paper giving up his inheritance.
34. Full Circle
Air Date: 1960-05-14
A man who left Paladin to die in his place writes to Paladin and asks for his help.
35. The Twins
Air Date: 1960-05-21
Adam Mirakian is wanted for a murder he claims his twin brother Sam committed. He hires Paladin to find his brother and clear his name. The only person who can tell them apart is Adam's wife, Beth.
36. The Campaign of Billy Banjo
Air Date: 1960-05-28
Billy Banjo, a friend of Paladin, asks Paladin to help with a fair election.
37. Ransom
Air Date: 1960-06-04
Paladin is hired to find Colonel Celine in order to get him to sign an important document.
38. The Trial
Air Date: 1960-06-11
Paladin is hired by Morgan Gibbs to bring in his son, who is wanted for murder. There is a $500 dead or alive bounty on him and Morgan offers to pay Paladin $5000 to bring him in alive. When Paladin brings him in draped over his horse, Paladin is put on trial for killing him.
39. The Search
Air Date: 1960-06-18
Mrs. Kilmer is dying and asks Paladin to find her missing son, Martin Kilmer. Edwards, a detective, managed to trace Martin as far as Harper City, where Edwards was then killed. Fred Harper, a half crazy man who runs Harper City, doesn't want Paladin to succeed.
1. The Fatalist
Air Date: 1960-09-10
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.
2. Love's Young Dream
Air Date: 1960-09-17
Monk (The Naked Gun, Episode #92) arrives in San Francisco to collect his inheritance, a half-interest in a night club. He ends up at the Carlton Hotel to ask Paladin for help.
3. A Head of Hair
Air Date: 1960-09-24
An Apache indian has his eye on scalping Paladin.
4. Out at the Old Ballpark
Air Date: 1960-10-01
Paladin serves as umpire for a Wild West baseball game.
5. Saturday Night
Air Date: 1960-10-08
After being arrested along with several others for fighting in a barroom brawl, Paladin wakes up in a cell and discovers that one of the other men has been murdered.
6. The Calf
Air Date: 1960-10-15
When a calf is found dead, a rancher seeks revenge on another.
7. The Tender Gun
Air Date: 1960-10-22
During his travels, Paladin encounters a female sheriff.
8. The Shooting of Jesse May
Air Date: 1960-10-29
When Jesse May is shot, Paladin begins to believe that a boy murdered him.
9. The Poker Fiend
Air Date: 1960-11-12
A poker game takes a deadly turn and Paladin is caught in the middle.
10. Crowbait
Air Date: 1960-11-19
A man risks his life to be able to protect his daughter's dowry.
11. Marshal's Boy
Air Date: 1960-11-26
Paladin must track down a marshal's son accused of a shooting and persuade him to turn himself into the authorities.
12. Foggbound
Air Date: 1960-12-03
Paladin is hired to travel with adventurer Phileas Fogg during his 80 day trip around the world.
13. The Legacy
Air Date: 1960-12-10
After a man dies, the reading of his will causes three additional murders.
14. The Prisoner
Air Date: 1960-12-17
Paladin is hired by a man who has been wrongly accused of murder.
15. The Mountebank
Air Date: 1960-12-24
A puppeteer gives Paladin a wagon ride to an Army fort commanded by a general with presidential aspirations.
16. The Sanctuary
Air Date: 1960-12-31
Coming off the trail, Paladin pulls into a mission seeking a night's rest and ends up helping a man running from a lynch mob.
17. A Quiet Night in Town (1)
Air Date: 1961-01-07
Paladin arrives in the Texas border town of Jody with a murder suspect named Joselito Kincaid. Their appearance creates tension: this is cow country, and Kincaid is a sheepherder. (Part 1 of 2)
18. A Quiet Night in Town (2)
Air Date: 1961-01-14
When a group of men kill Paladin's prisoner, Paladin must bring the group of murders to justice. (Part 2 of 2)
19. The Princess and the Gunfighter
Air Date: 1961-01-21
Paladin is hired to find the princess of a tiny kingdom who disappeared while making a United States tour.
20. Shadow of a Man
Air Date: 1961-01-28
Paladin is hired by the wife of a weak man who's terrorized by his hometown. The Southerner is hated because of his role in the Lincoln assassination.
21. Long Way Home
Air Date: 1961-02-04
The hunter becomes the hunted. When Paladin captures a former slave turned outlaw, a gang of rough bounty hunters fight to take his prisoner, dead or alive. When Paladin is bitten by a rattlesnake, the outlaw has to choose between saving him and saving himself.
22. The Taxgatherer
Air Date: 1961-02-11
Have gun - will collect taxes. Paladin teams up with a powerful rancher to collect taxes from some of the roughest cattle-rustlers in the West. But how will he get the money when the man he's riding with has vowed never to pay a cent?
23. The Fatal Flaw
Air Date: 1961-02-25
Stranded in a mountain cabin during a snowstorm, a sinister, Satan-worshipping outlaw bets Paladin he can do the unthinkable: corrupt the soul of an honest lawman.
24. Fandango
Air Date: 1961-03-04
As a favor to an old friend, Paladin captures two teenagers sentenced to hang. Then, he finds himself face-to-face with an old gunfighter who wants the pleasure of hanging the boys who killed his brother. In the end, Paladin wonders how young is too young to be responsible for your crime.
25. The Last Judgement
Air Date: 1961-03-11
Arriving in a small Arkansas town Paladin finds Dr. Simeon Loving chained in the street. He is charged with murder and Paladin is pressured into serving as his defense attorney. Elroy Greenleaf, a self-appointed justice of the peace, has decided that Loving will hang unless Paladin can persuade the jury to oppose Greenleaf.
26. The Gold Bar
Air Date: 1961-03-18
Paladin tries to help a timid bank clerk return the gold he stole from his employer before it's discovered missing.
27. Everyman
Air Date: 1961-03-25
A fortune teller predicts trouble for Paladin in the extremely near future.
28. The Siege
Air Date: 1961-04-01
A desert town hires Paladin to deal with three brothers who have been poisoning the municipal water supply.
29. The Long Weekend
Air Date: 1961-04-08
Paladin is hired to protect a town from a mountain man who occasionally wreaks havoc there.
30. El Paso Stage
Air Date: 1961-04-15
Paladin decides to end the reign of terror of a psychotic town marshal.
31. Duke of Texas
Air Date: 1961-04-22
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.
32. Broken Image
Air Date: 1961-04-29
Paladin and a local hero go in pursuit of a gang of bank robbers but the hero may not be what he seems.
33. Brother's Keeper
Air Date: 1961-05-06
After being attacked by a puma in the wild, things go from bad to awful for Paladin when he's robbed and left for dead by two men.
34. Bearbait
Air Date: 1961-05-13
Paladin becomes involved when a timid sheriff refuses to do anything about three young hooligans who are terrorizing a town.
35. The Cure
Air Date: 1961-05-20
Paladin helps down on her luck Calamity Jane regain her mojo.
36. The Road
Air Date: 1961-05-27
Paladin is robbed by scavengers and then forced to cross the mountain in winter without his horse, guns or coat.
37. The Uneasy Grave
Air Date: 1961-06-03
After encountering a woman burying her fiancee in an unmarked grave, Paladin is persuaded to go after the deceased's killer.
38. Soledad Crossing
Air Date: 1961-06-10
A diptheria scare slows the return of Paladin's prisoner to justice.
1. The Vigil
Air Date: 1961-09-16
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.
2. The Education of Sarah Jane
Air Date: 1961-09-23
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.
3. The Revenger
Air Date: 1961-09-30
Paladin takes a $500 stagecoach ride with an embezzler, a convicted cutthroat, and a murderer to collect the other half of that bill.
4. Odds for Big Red
Air Date: 1961-10-07
Paladin trails a killer and bank robber to a saloon but while trying to capture him, the saloon's owner, Big Red, is shot.
5. A Proof of Love
Air Date: 1961-10-14
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.
6. The Gospel Singer
Air Date: 1961-10-21
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.
7. The Race
Air Date: 1961-10-28
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.
8. The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs
Air Date: 1961-11-04
Singer Odetta plays Sarah Gibbs, who is barred by a marshal from visiting her condemned husband.
9. The Piano
Air Date: 1961-11-11
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.
10. Ben Jalisco
Air Date: 1961-11-18
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.
11. The Brothers
Air Date: 1961-11-25
Will prospector Possum Corbin rescue Paladin from dying in a desert, if Paladin reads the encyclopedia to him?
12. A Drop of Blood
Air Date: 1961-12-02
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.
13. A Knight to Remember
Air Date: 1961-12-09
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.
14. Blind Circle
Air Date: 1961-12-16
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 doesn't know or maybe he doesn't care.
15. The Kid
Air Date: 1961-12-23
Paladin is sent a $100 bill and told there are 9 more like it if he travels to a town called Last Gasp.
16. Squatter's Rights
Air Date: 1961-12-30
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.
17. Lazarus
Air Date: 1962-01-06
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.
18. Justice in Hell
Air Date: 1962-01-13
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.
19. Mark of Cain
Air Date: 1962-01-20
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.
20. The Exiles
Air Date: 1962-01-27
General Ortega hires Paladin to recover $16 million in French bonds. Where they are and who has them is already known.
21. The Hunt
Air Date: 1962-02-03
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.
22. Dream Girl
Air Date: 1962-02-10
Paladin rides upon Buddy Webster's mining camp, who needs a big favor. He has been prospecting for gold dust the last five years.
23. One, Two, Three
Air Date: 1962-02-17
Samuel Keel hires Paladin to find Seth Carter. Keel gives him the names of three people who can help him find Seth. As Paladin finds them, each is murdered. Paladin is determined to find out why.
24. The Waiting Room
Air Date: 1962-02-24
After a 4 state murder spree, the Wilder Brothers head back to Texas for trial, under Paladin's gun.
25. The Trap
Air Date: 1962-03-03
A lawman for 23 years, Jim Buell has always done what he believed was right. Taking in Davy Walsh for shooting at his jail while drunk seemed just that.
26. Don't Shoot the Piano Player
Air Date: 1962-03-10
With no help from local law enforcement, a writer hires Paladin to find her fiancé; in the roughest gutter on the Barbary coast.
27. Alice
Air Date: 1962-03-17
A daughter hires Paladin to help her look for an old friend of his - her mother.
28. The Man Who Struck Moonshine
Air Date: 1962-03-24
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.
29. Silent Death, Secret Death
Air Date: 1962-03-31
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.
30. Hobson's Choice
Air Date: 1962-04-07
Alfred Nobel, staying at the Carlton, enlists the aid of resident Paladin to recover a mixed up shipment of mineral oil with his more potent nitroglycerin.
31. The Coming of the Tiger
Air Date: 1962-04-14
An elder from the Japanese community informs Paladin that a Nationalistic Japanese Priest, accompanied by a Samurai Warrior, is attempting to enter the country illegally.
32. Darwin's Man
Air Date: 1962-04-21
A rancher (Kent Smith) pits his sons (Richard Rust, Buzz Martin) against one another in a fight to determine which of them will be his heir.
33. Invasion
Air Date: 1962-04-28
The State Department hires Paladin to stop an Irishman (Robert Gist) from invading Canada.
34. Cream of the Jest
Air Date: 1962-05-05
Paladin tries to stay one step ahead of a prankster who may be on the point of playing one prank too many.
35. Bandit
Air Date: 1962-05-12
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.
36. Pandora's Box
Air Date: 1962-05-19
Protecting the current administration from low gossip and sensationalism, Paladin is asked to discreetly bring the Secretary's son to justice for murder.
37. Jonah
Air Date: 1962-05-26
$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.
38. The Knight
Air Date: 1962-06-02
Paladin is hired to find a killer. His usual fee is paid for instead with a ring. A ring that may tie his employer to his quarry with him in the middle.
1. Genesis
Air Date: 1962-09-15
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.
2. Taylor's Woman
Air Date: 1962-09-22
A hen-pecked rancher, in San Francisco to marry his housekeeper, hires Paladin to help him get out doing so.
3. The Fifth Bullet
Air Date: 1962-09-29
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.
4. A Place For Abel Hix
Air Date: 1962-10-06
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.
5. Beau Geste
Air Date: 1962-10-13
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.
6. Bird of Time
Air Date: 1962-10-20
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.
7. Memories of Monica
Air Date: 1962-10-27
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.
8. The Predators
Air Date: 1962-11-03
Paladin is after a man suspected of killing a marshal. After finally capturing him in the desert he claims his innocence.
9. Shootout at Hogtooth
Air Date: 1962-11-10
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.
10. A Miracle for St. Francis
Air Date: 1962-11-17
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.
11. Marshal of Sweetwater
Air Date: 1962-11-24
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. Man in an Hourglass
Air Date: 1962-12-01
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.
13. Penelope
Air Date: 1962-12-08
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.
14. Trial at Tablerock
Air Date: 1962-12-15
Adams, the prosecutor, wants to hire Paladin to rid the town of someone he says is getting away with murder.
15. Be Not Forgetful of Strangers
Air Date: 1962-12-22
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.
16. The Treasure
Air Date: 1962-12-29
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.
17. Brotherhood
Air Date: 1963-01-05
Abe and Jim Redrock are both well educated. The only problem they always run into is they are also Indians. Abe stays true to his heritage, causing trouble for the elected sheriff of Latigo.
18. Bob Wire
Air Date: 1963-01-12
Bob Wire hires Paladin, C.O.D., to escort him and his wagon load of barb wire to Anderson.
19. The Debutante
Air Date: 1963-01-19
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.
20. Unforgiving Minute
Air Date: 1963-01-26
Fleeing banditos, Paladin seeks shelter from a peasant and his beautiful, scheming wife, their marriage at the breaking point.
21. American Primitive
Air Date: 1963-02-02
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.
22. The Burning Tree
Air Date: 1963-02-09
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.
23. Cage at McNaab
Air Date: 1963-02-16
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.
24. The Caravan
Air Date: 1963-02-23
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.
25. The Walking Years
Air Date: 1963-03-02
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.
26. Sweet Lady of the Moon
Air Date: 1963-03-09
Carl Soddenberg committed a heinous, murderous act. Paladin is hired to get him to an asylum and keep the family's survivors at bay who are out for revenge.
27. The Savages
Air Date: 1963-03-16
An art collector hires Paladin to guide him, and his strangely childlike daughter, to the camp of a reclusive sculptor.
28. The Eve of St. Elmo
Air Date: 1963-03-23
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.
29. Lady of the Fifth Moon
Air Date: 1963-03-30
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.
30. Two Plus One
Air Date: 1963-04-06
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.
31. The Black Bull
Air Date: 1963-04-13
After being tortured, Paladin, becomes a surrogate bull for a famous, but now insane bullfighter, Nino Ybarra..
32. Face of a Shadow
Air Date: 1963-04-20
Paladin is hired by a man to deliver ten thousand dollars. When the man is found dead, with the money missing, Paladin has to sift through a numbr of suspects, including a band of gypsies and the men who found the body.
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Rating
7.4/10
Release Date
1957-09-14
Episodes
225 (6 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Filmaster Productions
CBS