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Have Gun, Will Travel

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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.

Created by:
Sam Rolfe, Herb Meadow
Cast:
Richard Boone
Language:
English
Country:
United States of America
Network:
CBS

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Seasons

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Season 5

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Vigil

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.

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Episode 2

The Education of Sarah Jane

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.

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Episode 3

The Revenger

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.

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Episode 4

Odds for Big Red

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.

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Episode 5

A Proof of Love

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.

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Episode 6

The Gospel Singer

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.

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Episode 7

The Race

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.

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Episode 8

The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs

1961-11-04

Singer Odetta plays Sarah Gibbs, who is barred by a marshal from visiting her condemned husband.

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Episode 9

The Piano

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.

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Episode 10

Ben Jalisco

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.

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Episode 11

The Brothers

1961-11-25

Will prospector Possum Corbin rescue Paladin from dying in a desert, if Paladin reads the encyclopedia to him?

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Episode 12

A Drop of Blood

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.

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Episode 13

A Knight to Remember

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.

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Episode 14

Blind Circle

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.

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Episode 15

The Kid

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.

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Episode 16

Squatter's Rights

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.

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Episode 17

Lazarus

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.

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Episode 18

Justice in Hell

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.

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Episode 19

Mark of Cain

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.

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Episode 20

The Exiles

1962-01-27

General Ortega hires Paladin to recover $16 million in French bonds. Where they are and who has them is already known.

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Episode 21

The Hunt

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.

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Episode 22

Dream Girl

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.

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Episode 23

One, Two, Three

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.

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Episode 24

The Waiting Room

1962-02-24

After a 4 state murder spree, the Wilder Brothers head back to Texas for trial, under Paladin's gun.

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Episode 25

The Trap

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.

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Episode 26

Don't Shoot the Piano Player

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.

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Episode 27

Alice

1962-03-17

A daughter hires Paladin to help her look for an old friend of his - her mother.

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Episode 28

The Man Who Struck Moonshine

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.

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Episode 29

Silent Death, Secret Death

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.

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Episode 30

Hobson's Choice

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.

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Episode 31

The Coming of the Tiger

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.

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Episode 32

Darwin's Man

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.

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Episode 33

Invasion

1962-04-28

The State Department hires Paladin to stop an Irishman (Robert Gist) from invading Canada.

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Episode 34

Cream of the Jest

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.

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Episode 35

Bandit

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.

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Episode 36

Pandora's Box

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.

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Episode 37

Jonah and the Trout

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.

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Episode 38

The Knight

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.

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Cast

Richard Boone

Richard Boone

Paladin

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