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The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel

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The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or...

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  1. 8.8/10(152 votes)

    #1 - The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs

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    S5:E8

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

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    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.5/10(99 votes)

    #2 - The Waiting Room

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    S5:E24

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

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  3. 8.4/10(203 votes)

    #3 - Genesis

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    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.

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    Writer:Sam Rolfe
  4. 8.4/10(105 votes)

    #4 - The Fifth Bullet

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    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.3/10(93 votes)

    #5 - Justice in Hell

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    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.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.3/10(95 votes)

    #6 - The Predators

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    S6:E8

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

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    Writer:N/A
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  8. 8.3/10(133 votes)

    #7 - Be Not Forgetful of Strangers

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    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.

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    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:N/A
  9. 8.3/10(97 votes)

    #8 - The Treasure

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    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  10. 8.2/10(88 votes)

    #9 - Trial at Tablerock

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    S6:E14

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

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  11. 8.1/10(100 votes)

    #10 - Ben Jalisco

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    S5:E10

    Escaped killer, Ben Jalisco, is a ruthless hunter who has murdered more than 30 men. Now he is after his wife, Lucy, who informed on him and Paladin, who brought him in.

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    Writer:N/A
  12. 8.1/10(87 votes)

    #11 - A Place For Abel Hix

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    S6:E4

    Hix sends for Paladin. When he arrives in town, he finds that Hix was killed in a gunfight even though he's the fastest man with gun who ever lived.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  13. 8.1/10(89 votes)

    #12 - Beau Geste

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    S6:E5

    After 15 years in office, Sheriff Dobbs is retiring and some old enemies are just waiting for the day he turns in his badge. Paladin received a newspaper clipping about the sheriff and $10 to save Dobbs' life.

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    Director:N/A
  14. 8.0/10(85 votes)

    #13 - Don't Shoot the Piano Player

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    S5:E26

    With no help from local law enforcement, a writer hires Paladin to find her fiancé; in the roughest gutter on the Barbary coast.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  15. 8.0/10(92 votes)

    #14 - Memories of Monica

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    S6:E7

    Repaying a debt, Paladin rides to Valley Heart. Sheriff Reagan awaits the return of a native son who has been jailed for the past six years.

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    Director:N/A
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  16. 8.0/10(92 votes)

    #15 - The Debutante

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    S6:E19

    Mrs. Quincy longs to see her granddaughter who has been away since she was six. When her daughter and husband died in the mine fields, she was taken in.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  17. 8.0/10(88 votes)

    #16 - Cage at McNaab

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    S6:E23

    Paladin is asked by the wife of a man who is condemned to die to visit him in prison and see if new evidence can be found to clear her husband.

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  18. 8.0/10(85 votes)

    #17 - Sweet Lady of the Moon

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    S6:E26

    Carl Soddenberg committed a heinous, murderous act. Paladin is hired to get him to an asylum and keep the family's survivors at bay who are out for revenge.

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    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:N/A
  19. 8.0/10(83 votes)

    #18 - The Savages

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    S6:E27

    An art collector hires Paladin to guide him, and his strangely childlike daughter, to the camp of a reclusive sculptor.

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    Director:N/A
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  20. 7.9/10(103 votes)

    #19 - The Revenger

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    S5:E3

    Paladin takes a $500 stagecoach ride with an embezzler, a convicted cutthroat, and a murderer to collect the other half of that bill.

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    Director:N/A
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  21. 7.9/10(108 votes)

    #20 - A Proof of Love

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    S5:E5

    Paladin urges a momma's boy farmer to win back his wayward mail-order bride, by besting party-animal neighbor Rud Saxon in a dance contest.

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    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:N/A
  22. 7.9/10(76 votes)

    #21 - The Trap

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    S5:E25

    A lawman for 23 years, Jim Buell has always done what he believed was right. Taking in Davy Walsh for shooting at his jail while drunk seemed just that.

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    Director:Frank Pierson
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.9/10(95 votes)

    #22 - Alice

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    S5:E27

    A daughter hires Paladin to help her look for an old friend of his - her mother.

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    Director:N/A
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  24. 7.9/10(104 votes)

    #23 - Taylor's Woman

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    S6:E2

    A hen-pecked rancher, in San Francisco to marry his housekeeper, hires Paladin to help him get out doing so.

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    Director:N/A
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  25. 7.9/10(98 votes)

    #24 - Marshal of Sweetwater

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    S6:E11

    Sweetwater was a wild town before Thomas Carey, a retired Army scout and old friend of Paladin, became marshal. But Carey has taken over complete control and turned into a killer. Paladin has to stop him and Carey has always seemed the faster of the two.

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  26. 7.9/10(90 votes)

    #25 - Brotherhood

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    S6:E17

    Abe and Jim Redrock are both well educated. The only problem they always run into is they are also Indians. Abe stays true to his heritage, causing trouble for the elected sheriff of Latigo.

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    Writer:N/A

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 152 votes. Directed by Richard Boone and written by N/A, it aired on 11/4/1961. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Waiting Room".