- 8.4/10141 votes
#1 - The Manhunter
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1958
Paladin is forced to kill Jimmy Dawes, wanted for murder. When he takes him back to his home town, the townspeople, the sheriff and the boy's brothers give him a hostile welcome.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10145 votes
#2 - In an Evil Time
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1958
Pappy French and his gang have robbed the bank in Mercede of $50,000. Pappy ran off with the cash and left his gang to shoot it out with the law. Paladin is hired to bring Pappy and the money back.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 7.7/10146 votes
#3 - The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1958
Chris Sorenson is shy around women and he asks Paladin to help him with his new neighbor, Senorita Maria de Castro, a lady rancher. Complicating the matter is cattle missing from the de Castro ranch.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/10137 votes
#4 - The Hanging of Roy Carter
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1958
Roy Carter is scheduled to be hanged. Another man confesses to the murder just before the execution is to take place. Paladin is hired to try to convince the warden to delay the hanging until the Governor can be reached.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.8/10111 votes
#5 - Duel at Florence
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1958
Paladin receives a letter with a bank draft for $82.17 from Ernie Teller asking for help with a matrimonial problem.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Bruce Geller
- 8.5/10144 votes
#6 - The Protege
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1958
Paladin answers an ad in the paper by Kurt Sprague: ""Teach me to quick draw and shoot. Instruction desperately needed. Will pay one thousand dollars. Only experts need apply."" Kurt needs to learn in order to go back home. Paladin does a very good job. Only one problem: Kurt enjoys showing off his new found skill a little too much.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Frank D. Gilroy
- 8.2/10140 votes
#7 - The Road to Wickenburg
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1958
Paladin wakes up after being drugged, beaten and robbed in the town of Blue Bell by five men, one of whom is the town's sheriff. They took his money, gun, bullets, horse and saddle. All he has left is his two-shot derringer.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 8.0/10114 votes
#8 - A Sense of Justice
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1958
The sheriff of a small town needs help to prevent the lynching of simple-minded Andy Dawes. The townspeople are sure he is a murderer. Paladin offers to help
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10122 votes
#9 - Young Gun
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1958
An ex-gunfighter, Roy Calvert, blames the people of Benedict for his wife's death. The town is in the middle of a bad drought and Calvert and his son are blocking the only access to water in the area. Calvert has trained his son to be a gunfighter and Paladin has to face them both.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10115 votes
#10 - The Lady
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1958
A British woman, Diana Coulter, hires Paladin to guide her to her brother's ranch in Shiprock, Arizona, where the Comanches are on the warpath.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 7.7/10119 votes
#11 - A Snare for Murder
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1958
Two ornery old gold miners, who hate each other, have struck it rich. Problem is they talk too much, and now it appears someone is trying to kill them.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10128 votes
#12 - The Ballad of Oscar Wilde
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1958
Paladin is hired to protect Oscar Wilde. Another 3 men apply for the job, but after Paladin upstages them they kidnap Wilde for ransom. Paladin takes care of them, his way.
Director: Richard Whorf
Writer: Irving Wallace
- 8.0/10117 votes
#13 - The Solid Gold Patrol
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1958
Paladin goes to inform a calvary corporal that he has won $600,000 in a lottery. But they may not live to cash in the ticket, they are trapped by several dozen hostile Indians.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Irving Wallace
- 7.6/10116 votes
#14 - Something to Live For
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1958
On his way to help a man and his daughter over a land dispute, Paladin encounters a wealthy, drunk and helpless man whose guide left him behind to die.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: John Tucker Battle
- 7.6/10134 votes
#15 - The Moor's Revenge
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1958
Shakespearean actors are going to perform in San Diego during their roundup. They are in for a rough reception. A lovesick gunfighter is among the audience. The show's promoter hires Paladin to keep the peace.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10121 votes
#16 - The Wager
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1959
Sid Morgan hires Paladin to protect him from someone who is trying to kill him. After killing the gunfighter who was following them, Paladin finds out the real reason Morgan hired him. He then hands out his own brand of justice.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10114 votes
#17 - The Taffeta Mayor
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1959
John Kellaway, who is running for mayor of Colton, Wyoming, hires Paladin to protect him from his opposition. When he is killed before Paladin can get there, Paladin persuades John's widow to run for mayor.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/10162 votes
#18 - Lady on the Stagecoach
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/17/1959
Paladin is traveling on a stagecoach with four others, one of whom is Della White Cloud, the educated daughter of an Apache chief. The stage is also carrying a strongbox full of gold, which Ed Rance wants.
Director: Richard Whorf
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10108 votes
#19 - Treasure Trail
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1959
Paladin wins part of a treasure map in a poker game and goes in search of the treasure with three other men.
Director: Richard Whorf
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10117 votes
#20 - Juliet
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1959
Juliet Harper is being hunted by the grandsons of Colonel Jeremiah Pike. Paladin meets her on the stage and now the Colonel is after both of them, and Paladin is without a gun.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 8.0/10114 votes
#21 - Hunt the Man Down
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/7/1959
Paladin finds himself reluctantly drawn into a deadly dispute between two brothers who are also old aquaintances.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10121 votes
#22 - The Scorched Feather
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/14/1959
Robert Ceilbleu hires Paladin to protect his father from a Comanche war chief who has sworn to kill him. After arriving at the remote cabin of William Ceilbleu, he learns the reason for the Indian's hatred.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Bruce Geller
- 7.4/10108 votes
#23 - The Return of the Lady
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/21/1959
Diana Coulter (The Lady, Episode 49) wires Paladin and asks him to come to her wedding to ""give the bride away"".
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 7.9/10117 votes
#24 - The Monster of Moon Ridge
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/28/1959
The townspeople of Moon Ridge, Colorado believe there are monsters in the mountains. Dan Bella's daughter is taken by something and he finds strange footprints outside his daughter's window. Paladin is hired to find out what is up on the ridge.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.6/10104 votes
#25 - The Long Hunt
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/7/1959
Thomas Orday, half Comanche, has killed two men and wounded Dundee, a former Indian fighter. He is now hiding in the mountains of New Mexico. Paladin is hired to help track him down.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 2
Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 2!
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 2 Ratings Summary
"The Manhunter" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" season 2. It scored 8.4/10 based on 141 votes. Directed by Buzz Kulik and written by N/A, it aired on 9/13/1958. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "In an Evil Time".