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The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1

Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1!

The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1

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 Three Bells to Perdido
    7.4/10(277 votes)

    #1 - Three Bells to Perdido

    S1:E1

    New Mexico rancher Jesse Reade hires Paladin for $1,000 to bring back outlaw Dave Enderly, who has run off to Perdido, Mexico with Reade's daughter Nancy.

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  2. Background image for The Outlaw
    8.5/10(267 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 The Great Mojave Chase
    8.0/10(202 votes)

    #3 - The Great Mojave Chase

    S1:E3

    A sportsman sponsors a contest, betting that no one can elude his posse in the Mojave Desert. When Paladin shows up riding a camel, the man decides that the only way he can still win is to get rid of Paladin.

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  4. Background image for Winchester Quarantine
    7.9/10(192 votes)

    #4 - Winchester Quarantine

    S1:E4

    At a stagecoach stop, Paladin sees a peaceful Cherokee rancher being beaten by white men who think his cattle are spreading a sickness. Paladin offers his help.

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  5. Background image for A Matter of Ethics
    8.0/10(199 votes)

    #5 - A Matter of Ethics

    S1:E5

    An accused murderer who fears that he will be lynched before he can be returned to Bender, Wyoming, for trial, hires Paladin to make sure he gets there alive.

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  6. Background image for The Bride
    7.8/10(196 votes)

    #6 - The Bride

    S1:E6

    When a mail-order bride from Philadelphia gets off the stagecoach in the middle of nowhere, Paladin decides to stay with her to make sure that she is safe.

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  8. Background image for Strange Vendetta
    7.7/10(175 votes)

    #7 - Strange Vendetta

    S1:E7

    Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.

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  9. Background image for High Wire
    8.2/10(193 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. Background image for Show of Force
    7.7/10(149 votes)

    #9 - Show of Force

    S1:E9

    After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.

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  11. Background image for The Long Night
    8.2/10(183 votes)

    #10 - The Long Night

    S1:E10

    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.

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  12. Background image for The Colonel and the Lady
    7.7/10(180 votes)

    #11 - The Colonel and the Lady

    S1:E11

    A retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.

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  13. Background image for No Visitors
    7.9/10(176 votes)

    #12 - No Visitors

    S1:E12

    When Paladin finds a woman and her apparently typhoid-afflicted child abandoned by a wagonmaster, he enlists the aid of a female doctor from a nearby town, but a religious fanatic then tries to bar them from entry.

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  14. Background image for The Englishman
    7.5/10(152 votes)

    #13 - The Englishman

    S1:E13

    Paladin escorts an Englishman to his female cousin's ranch they have inherited in Montana, but finds that an embittered trader is plotting against them.

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  15. Background image for The Yuma Treasure
    7.9/10(151 votes)

    #14 - The Yuma Treasure

    S1:E14

    Accompanying a cavalry major on a mission to prevent a war by negotiating a treaty with an elusive Apache chief, Paladin must deal with soldiers who have caught gold fever.

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  16. Background image for The Hanging Cross
    7.6/10(116 votes)

    #15 - The Hanging Cross

    S1:E15

    On Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.

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  17. Background image for Helen of Abajinian
    7.9/10(164 votes)

    #16 - Helen of Abajinian

    S1:E16

    An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.

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  18. Background image for Ella West
    7.2/10(157 votes)

    #17 - Ella West

    S1:E17

    The promoter of a wild west show asks Paladin for help taming down a very wild and famous female sharpshooter and show her how to act like a lady.

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  19. Background image for The Reasonable Man
    7.8/10(145 votes)

    #18 - The Reasonable Man

    S1:E18

    A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.

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  20. Background image for The High-Graders
    7.8/10(147 votes)

    #19 - The High-Graders

    S1:E19

    When his tailor is killed in an accident at a supposedly worthless gold mine, Paladin discovers that the man was murdered and his heirs are being swindled.

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  21. Background image for The Last Laugh
    7.7/10(148 votes)

    #20 - The Last Laugh

    S1:E20

    A rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.

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  22. Background image for The Bostonian
    7.9/10(139 votes)

    #21 - The Bostonian

    S1:E21

    Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.

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  23. Background image for The Singer
    7.7/10(144 votes)

    #22 - The Singer

    S1:E22

    A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.

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  24. Background image for Bitter Wine
    7.5/10(129 votes)

    #23 - Bitter Wine

    S1:E23

    Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.

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  25. Background image for Girl from Piccadilly
    7.8/10(141 votes)

    #24 - Girl from Piccadilly

    S1:E24

    Learning of his son's death, a rich man hires Paladin to locate the daughter-in-law he's never met, but Paladin finds two women both claiming to be her.

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  26. Background image for The O'Hare Story
    7.9/10(140 votes)

    #25 - The O'Hare Story

    S1:E25

    Hired to prevent the construction of a dam that would imperil a town's water supply, Paladin finds that he sympathizes more with the Irish engineer who's trying to build it.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Three Bells to Perdido" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" season 1. It scored 7.4/10 based on 277 votes. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and written by Sam Rolfe, Herb Meadow, it aired on 9/14/1957. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Outlaw".