Have Gun, Will Travel

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ranchers wife.

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.

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.

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

A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.

A rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.

A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.

Learning of his sons death, a rich man hires Paladin to locate the daughter-in-law hes never met, but Paladin finds two women both claiming to be her.

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.

After having killed a bank robber, Paladin is accused of having taken the stolen money. He visits the dead mans widow and tries to make amends.

When Paladin goes to a mining town to promote a prizefight, his boxer is arrested and he ends up having to take the mans place in the ring -- against the Welsh champion.

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.

Newlyweds with no place to stay end up in Paladins suite. He learns that the grooms half-brothers are threatening to kill their father. Paladin goes to warn the father.

When a blight kills all the crops except for one farmers, Paladin must protect him from a greedy storekeeper who wants his farm and his hired gun who has a personal grudge against Paladin.

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.

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 boys brothers give him a hostile welcome.

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.

Paladin receives a letter with a bank draft for $82.17 from Ernie Teller asking for help with a matrimonial problem.

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

An ex-gunfighter, Roy Calvert, blames the people of Benedict for his wifes 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.

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.

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.

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 shows promoter hires Paladin to keep the peace.

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 Johns widow to run for mayor.

Paladin wins part of a treasure map in a poker game and goes in search of the treasure with three other men.

Paladin finds himself reluctantly drawn into a deadly dispute between two brothers who are also old aquaintances.

Diana Coulter (The Lady, Episode 49) wires Paladin and asks him to come to her wedding to ""give the bride away"".

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.

Arriving in a weird tent town to return money to a prospector, Paladin finds himself charged with the mans murder and tried by a kangaroo court.

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.

Paladin goes after a man who murdered a man and attacked the mans wife. The victims two brothers are also after him and dont intend to allow him to live long enough to stand trial.

Paladin becomes a bounty hunter when a rancher hires him to bring in his son, whos become a sadistic, vicious killer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mexican rancher Don Luis Ortega hires Paladin to escort his daughter across the border into the United States. However a peon from her fathers ranch is determined to stop them and take her for himself.

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.

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

An old friend of Paladins requests his help after a family member is killed in an Indian raid.

While in Oregon, Paladin makes a new friend, Monk, who he helps get out of a group of unruly herders.

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.

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.

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 chiefs son, he begins to wonder if hes actually guilty.

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 hes 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.

An old friend of Paladin is shot and killed in Paladins hotel room. After returning the body for burial, Paladin sets out to find the killer.

Paladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country.

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.

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.

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 its their worst enemy coming to kill them and all they can do is wait.

A man who left Paladin to die in his place writes to Paladin and asks for his help.

Billy Banjo, a friend of Paladin, asks Paladin to help with a fair election.

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.

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 Paladins help.

An Apache indian has his eye on scalping Paladin.

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.

During his travels, Paladin encounters a female sheriff.

A poker game takes a deadly turn and Paladin is caught in the middle.

Paladin must track down a marshals son accused of a shooting and persuade him to turn himself into the authorities.

After a man dies, the reading of his will causes three additional murders.

A puppeteer gives Paladin a wagon ride to an Army fort commanded by a general with presidential aspirations.

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)

Paladin is hired to find the princess of a tiny kingdom who disappeared while making a United States tour.

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.

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.

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.

A fortune teller predicts trouble for Paladin in the extremely near future.

Paladin is hired to protect a town from a mountain man who occasionally wreaks havoc there.

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 Franzs advisor has other reasons for making the trip.

After being attacked by a puma in the wild, things go from bad to awful for Paladin when hes robbed and left for dead by two men.

Paladin helps down on her luck Calamity Jane regain her mojo.

After encountering a woman burying her fiancee in an unmarked grave, Paladin is persuaded to go after the deceaseds killer.

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.

Paladin takes a $500 stagecoach ride with an embezzler, a convicted cutthroat, and a murderer to collect the other half of that bill.

Paladin urges a mommas boy farmer to win back his wayward mail-order bride, by besting party-animal neighbor Rud Saxon in a dance contest.

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.

European pianist Franz Lister comes to the United States to give a concert for Mona Lansing, a former saloon hostess. When Listers piano is stolen, Mona hires Paladin to get it back.

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

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.

Paladin is sent a $100 bill and told there are 9 more like it if he travels to a town called Last Gasp.

After local boozing champ Big Fontana cheats Paladin in a drink-off, sickly Boise Peabody convinced hell die by morning, challenges the sneaky fast draw to a shootout.

Dr. Avatar hires Paladin to guide him to Jack Trueblood, a notorious western badman who has killed many men. Avatar wants to measure Truebloods head to confirm his research on cranial measurements.

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.

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.

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.

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

Paladin is asked to look for a missing brother, no matter the cost. When he finds out hes been missing for seven years, he accepts this task.

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.

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

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.

$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. Hes after a huge trout and doesnt want anyone getting in his way. Theres also the three thieves watching and waiting to ambush Paladin once he gets the gold.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A letter from a friend brings Paladin to a bar where hes drugged. He wakes up chained and in the company of a man with a similar story and a woman whos path theyve both crossed before.

An art collector hires Paladin to guide him, and his strangely childlike daughter, to the camp of a reclusive sculptor.

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.

After being tortured, Paladin, becomes a surrogate bull for a famous, but now insane bullfighter, Nino Ybarra..