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The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3

Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 1 - First, Catch a Tiger
    7.9/10(156 votes)

    #1 - First, Catch a Tiger

    S3:E1

    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.

    Director:Ida Lupino
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 2 - Episode in Laredo
    7.9/10(135 votes)

    #2 - Episode in Laredo

    S3:E2

    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.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  3. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 3 - Les Girls
    7.1/10(87 votes)

    #3 - Les Girls

    S3:E3

    Paladin is hired to deliver three mail-order brides to Bend-In-The-River.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  4. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 4 - The Posse
    8.5/10(130 votes)

    #4 - The Posse

    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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  5. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 5 - Shot by Request
    8.0/10(123 votes)

    #5 - Shot by Request

    S3:E5

    Ainslee is a well-dressed, middle-aged gentleman and a reluctant gunfighter. He hires Paladin for a very strange task.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 6 - Pancho
    7.4/10(118 votes)

    #6 - Pancho

    S3:E6

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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  7. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 7 - Fragile
    7.5/10(112 votes)

    #7 - Fragile

    S3:E7

    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.

    Directors:Andrew V. McLaglen, Frank Pierson
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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  8. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 8 - The Unforgiven
    8.3/10(111 votes)

    #8 - The Unforgiven

    S3:E8

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 9 - The Black Handkerchief
    7.8/10(104 votes)

    #9 - The Black Handkerchief

    S3:E9

    A young man convicted of murder is scheduled for execution, and Paladin attempts to intervene before it's too late.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 10 - The Golden Toad
    7.9/10(109 votes)

    #10 - The Golden Toad

    S3:E10

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

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  11. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 11 - Tiger
    7.2/10(124 votes)

    #11 - Tiger

    S3:E11

    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.

    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  12. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 12 - Champagne Safari
    7.2/10(126 votes)

    #12 - Champagne Safari

    S3:E12

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

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 13 - Charley Red Dog
    8.0/10(132 votes)

    #13 - Charley Red Dog

    S3:E13

    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.

    Director:Ida Lupino
    Writer:Gene Roddenberry

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  14. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 14 - The Naked Gun
    7.8/10(121 votes)

    #14 - The Naked Gun

    S3:E14

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

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 15 - One Came Back
    7.9/10(117 votes)

    #15 - One Came Back

    S3:E15

    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.

    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Bruce Geller

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  16. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 16 - The Prophet
    7.4/10(121 votes)

    #16 - The Prophet

    S3:E16

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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  17. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 17 - Day of the Badman
    7.6/10(118 votes)

    #17 - Day of the Badman

    S3:E17

    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.

    Director:Ida Lupino
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 18 - The Pledge
    7.3/10(106 votes)

    #18 - The Pledge

    S3:E18

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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  19. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 19 - Jenny
    7.7/10(104 votes)

    #19 - Jenny

    S3:E19

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 20 - Return to Fort Benjamin
    7.6/10(110 votes)

    #20 - Return to Fort Benjamin

    S3:E20

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 21 - The Night the Town Died
    7.6/10(119 votes)

    #21 - The Night the Town Died

    S3:E21

    Aaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell.

    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 22 - The Ledge
    6.9/10(119 votes)

    #22 - The Ledge

    S3:E22

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Joel Kane

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  23. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 23 - The Lady on the Wall
    7.9/10(138 votes)

    #23 - The Lady on the Wall

    S3:E23

    Paladin is accused of stealing a painting in the small town of Bonanza.

    Director:Ida Lupino
    Writers:Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson

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  24. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 24 - The Misguided Father
    7.7/10(115 votes)

    #24 - The Misguided Father

    S3:E24

    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.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 Episode 25 - The Hatchet Man
    8.1/10(109 votes)

    #25 - The Hatchet Man

    S3:E25

    San Francisco hires Paladin to protect a Chinese detective.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"First, Catch a Tiger" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 156 votes. Directed by Ida Lupino and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/12/1959. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Episode in Laredo".