The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 4

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.0/10(144 votes)

   #1 - The Fatalist

   S4:E19/10/1960

   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 Paladin's help.

   Director:Buzz Kulik

   Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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   Director:Buzz Kulik

   Writer:Shimon Wincelberg
2. 

   8.0/10(160 votes)

   #2 - Love's Young Dream

   S4:E29/17/1960

   Monk (The Naked Gun, Episode #92) arrives in San Francisco to collect his inheritance, a half-interest in a night club. He ends up at the Carlton Hotel to ask Paladin for help.

   Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

   Writer:Unknown

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3. 

   8.2/10(136 votes)

   #3 - A Head of Hair

   S4:E39/24/1960

   An Apache indian has his eye on scalping Paladin.

   Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

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4. 

   7.2/10(123 votes)

   #4 - Out at the Old Ballpark

   S4:E410/1/1960

   Paladin serves as umpire for a Wild West baseball game.

   Director:Richard Boone

   Writer:Unknown

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   8.1/10(117 votes)

   #5 - Saturday Night

   S4:E510/8/1960

   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.

   Director:Buzz Kulik

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.8/10(110 votes)

   #6 - The Calf

   S4:E610/15/1960

   When a calf is found dead, a rancher seeks revenge on another.

   Director:Richard Boone

   Writer:Unknown

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7. 

   7.7/10(112 votes)

   #7 - The Tender Gun

   S4:E710/22/1960

   During his travels, Paladin encounters a female sheriff.

   Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

   Writer:Unknown

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   8.3/10(147 votes)

   #8 - The Shooting of Jesse May

   S4:E810/29/1960

   When Jesse May is shot, Paladin begins to believe that a boy murdered him.

   Director:Richard Boone

   Writer:Unknown

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9. 

   7.3/10(127 votes)

   #9 - The Poker Fiend

   S4:E911/12/1960

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

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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10. 

    7.6/10(107 votes)

    #10 - Crowbait

    S4:E1011/19/1960

    A man risks his life to be able to protect his daughter's dowry.

    Director:Buzz Kulik

    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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    Director:Buzz Kulik

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    7.8/10(104 votes)

    #11 - Marshal's Boy

    S4:E1111/26/1960

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

    Director:Richard Boone

    Writer:Unknown

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12. 

    7.7/10(103 votes)

    #12 - Foggbound

    S4:E1212/3/1960

    Paladin is hired to travel with adventurer Phileas Fogg during his 80 day trip around the world.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer:Unknown

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13. 

    8.1/10(109 votes)

    #13 - The Legacy

    S4:E1312/10/1960

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

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer:Unknown

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14. 

    8.0/10(99 votes)

    #14 - The Prisoner

    S4:E1412/17/1960

    Paladin is hired by a man who has been wrongly accused of murder.

    Director:Buzz Kulik

    Writer:Unknown

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15. 

    7.8/10(117 votes)

    #15 - The Mountebank

    S4:E1512/24/1960

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

    Director:Unknown

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    7.9/10(105 votes)

    #16 - The Sanctuary

    S4:E1612/31/1960

    Coming off the trail, Paladin pulls into a mission seeking a night's rest and ends up helping a man running from a lynch mob.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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17. 

    8.3/10(152 votes)

    #17 - A Quiet Night in Town (1)

    S4:E171/7/1961

    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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18. 

    8.3/10(138 votes)

    #18 - A Quiet Night in Town (2)

    S4:E181/14/1961

    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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19. 

    8.2/10(130 votes)

    #19 - The Princess and the Gunfighter

    S4:E191/21/1961

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

    Director:Richard Boone

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.9/10(91 votes)

    #20 - Shadow of a Man

    S4:E201/28/1961

    Paladin is hired by the wife of a weak man who's terrorized by his hometown. The Southerner is hated because of his role in the Lincoln assassination.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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21. 

    8.6/10(120 votes)

    #21 - Long Way Home

    S4:E212/4/1961

    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

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    7.3/10(103 votes)

    #22 - The Taxgatherer

    S4:E222/11/1961

    Have gun - will collect taxes. Paladin teams up with a powerful rancher to collect taxes from some of the roughest cattle-rustlers in the West. But how will he get the money when the man he's riding with has vowed never to pay a cent?

    Director:Richard Boone

    Writer:Unknown

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23. 

    8.0/10(108 votes)

    #23 - The Fatal Flaw

    S4:E232/25/1961

    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.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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24. 

    7.9/10(106 votes)

    #24 - Fandango

    S4:E243/4/1961

    As a favor to an old friend, Paladin captures two teenagers sentenced to hang. Then, he finds himself face-to-face with an old gunfighter who wants the pleasure of hanging the boys who killed his brother. In the end, Paladin wonders how young is too young to be responsible for your crime.

    Director:Richard Boone

    Writer:Unknown

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    8.0/10(102 votes)

    #25 - The Last Judgement

    S4:E253/11/1961

    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.

    Director:Gerald Mayer

    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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    Director:Gerald Mayer

    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg