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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. Background image for The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs
    8.8/10(160 votes)

    #1 - The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs

    S5:E8

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

    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for The Outlaw
    8.5/10(286 votes)

    #2 - The Outlaw

    S1:E2

    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.

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  3. Background image for In an Evil Time
    8.5/10(163 votes)

    #3 - In an Evil Time

    S2:E2

    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.

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  4. Background image for The Protege
    8.5/10(157 votes)

    #4 - The Protege

    S2:E6

    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.

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  5. Background image for Lady on the Stagecoach
    8.5/10(178 votes)

    #5 - Lady on the Stagecoach

    S2:E18

    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:Unknown
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  6. Background image for The Posse
    8.5/10(124 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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  8. Background image for Long Way Home
    8.5/10(113 votes)

    #7 - Long Way Home

    S4:E21

    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
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for The Teacher
    8.4/10(171 votes)

    #8 - The Teacher

    S1:E27

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

    Writer:Sam Rolfe
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  10. Background image for Killer's Widow
    8.4/10(164 votes)

    #9 - Killer's Widow

    S1:E28

    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.

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  11. Background image for The Manhunter
    8.4/10(154 votes)

    #10 - The Manhunter

    S2:E1

    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:Unknown
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  12. Background image for The Hanging of Roy Carter
    8.4/10(149 votes)

    #11 - The Hanging of Roy Carter

    S2:E4

    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.

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  13. Background image for The Waiting Room
    8.4/10(107 votes)

    #12 - The Waiting Room

    S5:E24

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Genesis
    8.4/10(213 votes)

    #13 - Genesis

    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.

    Writer:Sam Rolfe
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  15. Background image for The Fifth Bullet
    8.4/10(113 votes)

    #14 - The Fifth Bullet

    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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  16. Background image for Be Not Forgetful of Strangers
    8.4/10(140 votes)

    #15 - Be Not Forgetful of Strangers

    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.

    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Hey Boy's Revenge
    8.3/10(151 votes)

    #16 - Hey Boy's Revenge

    S1:E31

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for The Shooting of Jesse May
    8.3/10(141 votes)

    #17 - The Shooting of Jesse May

    S4:E8

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

    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for A Quiet Night in Town (1)
    8.3/10(145 votes)

    #18 - A Quiet Night in Town (1)

    S4:E17

    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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  20. Background image for A Quiet Night in Town (2)
    8.3/10(131 votes)

    #19 - A Quiet Night in Town (2)

    S4:E18

    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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  21. Background image for Justice in Hell
    8.3/10(98 votes)

    #20 - Justice in Hell

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for The Predators
    8.3/10(105 votes)

    #21 - The Predators

    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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  23. Background image for High Wire
    8.2/10(204 votes)

    #22 - High Wire

    S1:E8

    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.

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  24. Background image for The Return of Dr. Thackeray
    8.2/10(143 votes)

    #23 - The Return of Dr. Thackeray

    S1:E35

    Dr. Phyllis Thackeray diagnoses the cook at the Barton Ranch with smallpox. All the cowhands may be infected and need to be vaccinated. Dr. Thackeray sends for the one man she thinks can help.

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  25. Background image for The Road to Wickenburg
    8.2/10(153 votes)

    #24 - The Road to Wickenburg

    S2:E7

    Paladin wakes up after being drugged, beaten and robbed in the town of Blue Bell by five men, one of whom is the town's sheriff. They took his money, gun, bullets, horse and saddle. All he has left is his two-shot derringer.

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  26. Background image for Maggie O'Bannion
    8.2/10(142 votes)

    #25 - Maggie O'Bannion

    S2:E28

    After being bushwhacked and having 'everything' taken, Paladin walks to the nearest ranch and manages to get hired on as a handyman.

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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 160 votes. Directed by Richard Boone and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/4/1961. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Outlaw".