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.

The Englishman

Richard Boone

Sam Rolfe

Andrew V. McLaglen

The Yuma Treasure

No Visitors

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.

Three Bells to Perdido

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.

The Outlaw

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.

The Great Mojave Chase

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.

Winchester Quarantine

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.

A Matter of Ethics

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.

The Bride

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

Strange Vendetta

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.

High Wire

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

Show of Force

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.

The Long Night

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

The Colonel and the Lady

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.

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.

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

The Hanging Cross

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

Helen of Abajinian

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.

Ella West

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

The Reasonable Man

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.

The High-Graders

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

The Last Laugh

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

The Bostonian

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

The Singer

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

Bitter Wine

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.

Girl from Piccadilly

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.

The O'Hare Story

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.

Birds of a Feather

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

The Teacher

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.

Killer's Widow

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.

Gun Shy

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.

The Prizefight Story

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.

Hey Boy's Revenge

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.

The Five Books of Owen Deaver

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.

The Silver Queen

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.

Three Sons

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.

The Return of Dr. Thackeray

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.

24 Hours at North Fork

Paladin is hired to find James Becker. He trails him to Monterey and discovers he has been arrested and is sentenced to work in a silver mine. Paladin finds that Becker has died in a cave-in or so he is told. The owner of the mine hires Paladin to guard a silver convoy, but first Paladin wants to find out a little more about the mine.

Silver Convoy

Paladin is hired to bring in the killer of the sheriff in a Nevada town. He brings him in but has some doubts about his guilt and decides to hang around for the trial.

Deliver the Body

Paladin agrees to capture an outlaw in return for a statue belonging to the local mission.

The Statue of San Sebastian

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958.

The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel.

Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

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