The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel

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

Director: Richard Boone

Writer: N/A

Paladin is traveling on a stagecoach with four others, one of whom is Della White Cloud, the educated daughter of an Apache chief. The stage is also carrying a strongbox full of gold, which Ed Rance wants.

Director: Richard Whorf

Writer: N/A

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

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

Paladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Sam Rolfe

Pappy French and his gang have robbed the bank in Mercede of $50,000. Pappy ran off with the cash and left his gang to shoot it out with the law. Paladin is hired to bring Pappy and the money back.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: Shimon Wincelberg

Paladin answers an ad in the paper by Kurt Sprague: ""Teach me to quick draw and shoot. Instruction desperately needed. Will pay one thousand dollars. Only experts need apply."" Kurt needs to learn in order to go back home. Paladin does a very good job. Only one problem: Kurt enjoys showing off his new found skill a little too much.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: Frank D. Gilroy

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: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

After having killed a bank robber, Paladin is accused of having taken the stolen money. He visits the dead man's widow and tries to make amends.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

When Hey Boy's brother is killed for protesting the working conditions on a Chinese railroad gang in Utah, Paladin must get the boy out of jail and bring the killer to justice.

Director: Lewis Milestone

Writer: N/A

Paladin is forced to kill Jimmy Dawes, wanted for murder. When he takes him back to his home town, the townspeople, the sheriff and the boy's brothers give him a hostile welcome.

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: N/A

Roy Carter is scheduled to be hanged. Another man confesses to the murder just before the execution is to take place. Paladin is hired to try to convince the warden to delay the hanging until the Governor can be reached.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: Gene Roddenberry

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.

Director: William Conrad

Writer: Sam Rolfe

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.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Richard Boone

Writer: N/A

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: N/A

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: N/A

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

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Gene Roddenberry

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Richard Boone

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

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

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