7.4/10266 votes#1 - Three Bells to Perdido
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1957
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Sam Rolfe, Herb Meadow
- 8.6/10256 votes
#2 - The Outlaw
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1957
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
- 8.1/10194 votes
#3 - The Great Mojave Chase
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1957
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.9/10182 votes
#4 - Winchester Quarantine
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1957
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Herb Meadow
- 8.0/10191 votes
#5 - A Matter of Ethics
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1957
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Sam Rolfe
- 7.8/10187 votes
#6 - The Bride
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1957
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10166 votes
#7 - Strange Vendetta
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1957
Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10183 votes
#8 - High Wire
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1957
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
- 7.7/10144 votes
#9 - Show of Force
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1957
After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Lee Erwin
- 8.2/10173 votes
#10 - The Long Night
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1957
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
- 7.8/10175 votes
#11 - The Colonel and the Lady
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1957
A retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Michael Fessier
- 7.9/10167 votes
#12 - No Visitors
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1957
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Don Brinkley
- 7.6/10146 votes
#13 - The Englishman
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1957
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Sam Rolfe
- 7.9/10144 votes
#14 - The Yuma Treasure
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1957
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.9/10110 votes
#15 - The Hanging Cross
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1957
On Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.9/10158 votes
#16 - Helen of Abajinian
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/28/1957
An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.2/10149 votes
#17 - Ella West
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/4/1958
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.9/10137 votes
#18 - The Reasonable Man
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/1958
A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Joel Kane
- 7.9/10139 votes
#19 - The High-Graders
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/18/1958
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen, Jack Laird
Writer: Jack Laird
- 7.7/10138 votes
#20 - The Last Laugh
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/25/1958
A rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Don Brinkley
- 8.0/10131 votes
#21 - The Bostonian
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/2/1958
Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10137 votes
#22 - The Singer
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/8/1958
A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
- 7.6/10122 votes
#23 - Bitter Wine
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/15/1958
Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10134 votes
#24 - Girl from Piccadilly
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/22/1958
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.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10131 votes
#25 - The O'Hare Story
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/1/1958
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.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Malvin Wald
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!
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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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 266 votes. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and written by Sam Rolfe, Herb Meadow, it aired on 9/14/1957. This episode is rated 1.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Outlaw".