The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1

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

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

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

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.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: Sam Rolfe

Newlyweds with no place to stay end up in Paladin's suite. He learns that the groom's half-brothers are threatening to kill their father. Paladin goes to warn the father.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

When a blight kills all the crops except for one farmer's, Paladin must protect him from a greedy storekeeper who wants his farm and his hired gun who has a personal grudge against Paladin.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

Paladin must contend with other gunfighters as he tries to settle a right-of-way dispute between two railroads in a Colorado town that will die if they go elsewhere.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

Trying to locate the thieves who stole a jade chess set, Paladin ends up in a small Montana town where he becomes involved in a romance with a landlady's daughter.

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: N/A

Paladin comes to the aid of a young sheriff from the East whose attempts to keep law and order are particularly unsuitable for a cowboy town in Wyoming.

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Sam Rolfe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Paladin goes to a mining town to promote a prizefight, his boxer is arrested and he ends up having to take the man's place in the ring -- against the Welsh champion.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: N/A

Lonely Leadhead Kane dies and leaves his half of a mine to an actress. Kane's partner wants to challenge the will. Someone wants to make sure Paladin never gets the woman to the courtroom.

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: N/A