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The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1

Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1!

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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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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 1 - Three Bells to Perdido
    7.4/10(300 votes)

    #1 - Three Bells to Perdido

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writers:Sam Rolfe, Herb Meadow

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  2. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 2 - The Outlaw
    8.5/10(289 votes)

    #2 - The Outlaw

    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 3 - The Great Mojave Chase
    8.0/10(216 votes)

    #3 - The Great Mojave Chase

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  4. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 4 - Winchester Quarantine
    7.9/10(207 votes)

    #4 - Winchester Quarantine

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Herb Meadow

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  5. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 5 - A Matter of Ethics
    8.0/10(213 votes)

    #5 - A Matter of Ethics

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Sam Rolfe

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  6. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 6 - The Bride
    7.8/10(211 votes)

    #6 - The Bride

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 7 - Strange Vendetta
    7.7/10(190 votes)

    #7 - Strange Vendetta

    S1:E7

    Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 8 - High Wire
    8.2/10(207 votes)

    #8 - High Wire

    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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  9. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 9 - Show of Force
    7.7/10(162 votes)

    #9 - Show of Force

    S1:E9

    After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Lee Erwin

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  10. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 10 - The Long Night
    8.2/10(197 votes)

    #10 - The Long Night

    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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  11. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 11 - The Colonel and the Lady
    7.8/10(195 votes)

    #11 - The Colonel and the Lady

    S1:E11

    A retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Michael Fessier

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  12. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 12 - No Visitors
    8.0/10(198 votes)

    #12 - No Visitors

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Don Brinkley

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  13. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 13 - The Englishman
    7.5/10(165 votes)

    #13 - The Englishman

    S1:E13

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Sam Rolfe

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  14. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 14 - The Yuma Treasure
    7.9/10(164 votes)

    #14 - The Yuma Treasure

    S1:E14

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  15. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 15 - The Hanging Cross
    7.6/10(132 votes)

    #15 - The Hanging Cross

    S1:E15

    On Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  16. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 16 - Helen of Abajinian
    7.9/10(178 votes)

    #16 - Helen of Abajinian

    S1:E16

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

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  17. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 17 - Ella West
    7.2/10(171 votes)

    #17 - Ella West

    S1:E17

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  18. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 18 - The Reasonable Man
    7.9/10(164 votes)

    #18 - The Reasonable Man

    S1:E18

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

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Joel Kane

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  19. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 19 - The High-Graders
    7.8/10(159 votes)

    #19 - The High-Graders

    S1:E19

    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.

    Directors:Andrew V. McLaglen, Jack Laird
    Writer:Jack Laird

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  20. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 20 - The Last Laugh
    7.7/10(161 votes)

    #20 - The Last Laugh

    S1:E20

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

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Don Brinkley

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  21. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 21 - The Bostonian
    7.9/10(155 votes)

    #21 - The Bostonian

    S1:E21

    Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 22 - The Singer
    7.7/10(159 votes)

    #22 - The Singer

    S1:E22

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

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Sam Peckinpah

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  23. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 23 - Bitter Wine
    7.5/10(145 votes)

    #23 - Bitter Wine

    S1:E23

    Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 24 - Girl from Piccadilly
    7.8/10(157 votes)

    #24 - Girl from Piccadilly

    S1:E24

    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.

    Director:Lewis Milestone
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 Episode 25 - The O'Hare Story
    7.9/10(158 votes)

    #25 - The O'Hare Story

    S1:E25

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Malvin Wald

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Three Bells to Perdido" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" season 1. It scored 7.4/10 based on 300 votes. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and written by Sam Rolfe, Herb Meadow, it aired on 9/14/1957. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Outlaw".