During his travels, Paladin encounters a female sheriff.

The Tender Gun

Richard Boone

Andrew V. McLaglen

The Shooting of Jesse May

The Calf

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.

The Fatalist

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.

Love's Young Dream

An Apache indian has his eye on scalping Paladin.

A Head of Hair

Paladin serves as umpire for a Wild West baseball game.

Out at the Old Ballpark

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.

Saturday Night

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

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

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

The Poker Fiend

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

Crowbait

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

Marshal's Boy

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

Foggbound

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

The Legacy

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

The Prisoner

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

The Mountebank

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.

The Sanctuary

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)

A Quiet Night in Town (1)

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

A Quiet Night in Town (2)

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

The Princess and the Gunfighter

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.

Shadow of a Man

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.

Long Way Home

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?

The Taxgatherer

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.

The Fatal Flaw

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.

Fandango

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.

The Last Judgement

Paladin tries to help a timid bank clerk return the gold he stole from his employer before it's discovered missing.

The Gold Bar

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

Everyman

A desert town hires Paladin to deal with three brothers who have been poisoning the municipal water supply.

The Siege

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

The Long Weekend

Paladin decides to end the reign of terror of a psychotic town marshal.

El Paso Stage

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 Franz's advisor has other reasons for making the trip.

Duke of Texas

Paladin and a local hero go in pursuit of a gang of bank robbers but the hero may not be what he seems.

Broken Image

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

Brother's Keeper

Paladin becomes involved when a timid sheriff refuses to do anything about three young hooligans who are terrorizing a town.

Bearbait

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

The Cure

Paladin is robbed by scavengers and then forced to cross the mountain in winter without his horse, guns or coat.

The Road

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

The Uneasy Grave

A diptheria scare slows the return of Paladin's prisoner to justice.

Soledad Crossing

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 first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958.

The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel.

Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

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