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The Best Episodes of 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

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    Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 8 - The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs
    8.8/10(182 votes)

    S5:E8

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

    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 2 - The Outlaw
    8.5/10(304 votes)

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Sam Rolfe

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  3. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 27 - The Teacher
    8.5/10(184 votes)

    S1:E27

    Paladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.

    Director:Lamont Johnson
    Writer:Sam Rolfe

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  4. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 2 Episode 2 - In an Evil Time
    8.5/10(181 votes)

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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  5. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 2 Episode 6 - The Protege
    8.5/10(176 votes)

    S2:E6

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Frank D. Gilroy

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  6. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 2 Episode 18 - Lady on the Stagecoach
    8.5/10(196 votes)

    S2:E18

    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.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 4 - The Posse
    8.5/10(139 votes)

    S3:E4

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  8. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 6 Episode 1 - Genesis
    8.5/10(238 votes)

    S6:E1

    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.

    Director:William Conrad
    Writer:Sam Rolfe

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  9. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 6 Episode 8 - The Predators
    8.5/10(120 votes)

    S6:E8

    Paladin is after a man suspected of killing a marshal. After finally capturing him in the desert he claims his innocence.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 6 Episode 15 - Be Not Forgetful of Strangers
    8.5/10(161 votes)

    S6:E15

    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.

    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 28 - Killer's Widow
    8.4/10(177 votes)

    S1:E28

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 2 Episode 1 - The Manhunter
    8.4/10(173 votes)

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 4 Episode 21 - Long Way Home
    8.4/10(131 votes)

    S4:E21

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 18 - Justice in Hell
    8.4/10(113 votes)

    S5:E18

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 6 Episode 3 - The Fifth Bullet
    8.4/10(129 votes)

    S6:E3

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 31 - Hey Boy's Revenge
    8.3/10(168 votes)

    S1:E31

    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.

    Director:Lewis Milestone
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 2 Episode 4 - The Hanging of Roy Carter
    8.3/10(166 votes)

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  18. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 4 Episode 17 - A Quiet Night in Town (1)
    8.3/10(162 votes)

    S4:E17

    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)

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 4 Episode 18 - A Quiet Night in Town (2)
    8.3/10(147 votes)

    S4:E18

    When a group of men kill Paladin's prisoner, Paladin must bring the group of murders to justice. (Part 2 of 2)

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 24 - The Waiting Room
    8.3/10(124 votes)

    S5:E24

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 6 Episode 14 - Trial at Tablerock
    8.3/10(111 votes)

    S6:E14

    Adams, the prosecutor, wants to hire Paladin to rid the town of someone he says is getting away with murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 6 Episode 16 - The Treasure
    8.3/10(118 votes)

    S6:E16

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 8 - High Wire
    8.2/10(219 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Don Brinkley

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  24. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 10 - The Long Night
    8.2/10(206 votes)

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Sam Rolfe

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  25. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 2 Episode 7 - The Road to Wickenburg
    8.2/10(168 votes)

    S2:E7

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel". It scored 8.8/10 based on 182 votes. Directed by Richard Boone and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/4/1961. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Outlaw".