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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(156 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.

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    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Long Way Home
    8.6/10(111 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Posse
    8.5/10(120 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for The Waiting Room
    8.4/10(103 votes)

    #4 - The Waiting Room

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Genesis
    8.4/10(210 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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    Writer:Sam Rolfe
  6. Background image for The Fifth Bullet
    8.4/10(109 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Be Not Forgetful of Strangers
    8.4/10(137 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Shooting of Jesse May
    8.3/10(139 votes)

    #8 - The Shooting of Jesse May

    S4:E8

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

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    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for A Quiet Night in Town (1)
    8.3/10(143 votes)

    #9 - 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)

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for A Quiet Night in Town (2)
    8.3/10(129 votes)

    #10 - 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)

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Justice in Hell
    8.3/10(95 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Predators
    8.3/10(102 votes)

    #12 - 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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    8.2/10(102 votes)

    #13 - The Unforgiven

    S3:E8

    Retired and wealthy General Crommer is dying. He asks Padadin, who holds an old grudge against him, to do him a favor. He asks him to take a message of forgiveness to another man who hates Crommer. A favor which might get Paladin killed.

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  15. Background image for A Head of Hair
    8.2/10(129 votes)

    #14 - A Head of Hair

    S4:E3

    An Apache indian has his eye on scalping Paladin.

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  16. Background image for The Princess and the Gunfighter
    8.2/10(124 votes)

    #15 - The Princess and the Gunfighter

    S4:E19

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

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    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for El Paso Stage
    8.2/10(122 votes)

    #16 - El Paso Stage

    S4:E30

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

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  18. Background image for Trial at Tablerock
    8.2/10(92 votes)

    #17 - Trial at Tablerock

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Treasure
    8.2/10(101 votes)

    #18 - The Treasure

    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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  20. Background image for Fight at Adobe Wells
    8.1/10(105 votes)

    #19 - Fight at Adobe Wells

    S3:E26

    Paladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country.

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    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Gladiators
    8.1/10(105 votes)

    #20 - The Gladiators

    S3:E27

    Allison Windrom hires Paladin to stop her father and Graham Beckley from dueling.

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    Director:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Twins
    8.1/10(108 votes)

    #21 - The Twins

    S3:E35

    Adam Mirakian is wanted for a murder he claims his twin brother Sam committed. He hires Paladin to find his brother and clear his name. The only person who can tell them apart is Adam's wife, Beth.

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    8.1/10(101 votes)

    #22 - The Legacy

    S4:E13

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

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  24. Background image for The Last Judgement
    8.1/10(94 votes)

    #23 - The Last Judgement

    S4:E25

    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.

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  25. Background image for Broken Image
    8.1/10(98 votes)

    #24 - Broken Image

    S4:E32

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

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    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Ben Jalisco
    8.1/10(103 votes)

    #25 - Ben Jalisco

    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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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 156 votes. Directed by Richard Boone and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/4/1961. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Long Way Home".