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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".

  • The Manhunter
    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

  • In an Evil Time
    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

  • The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
    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

  • The Hanging of Roy Carter
    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

  • Duel at Florence
    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

  • The Protege
    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

  • The Road to Wickenburg
    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

  • A Sense of Justice
    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

  • Young Gun
    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

  • The Lady
    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

  • A Snare for Murder
    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

  • The Ballad of Oscar Wilde
    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

  • The Solid Gold Patrol
    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

  • Something to Live For
    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

  • The Moor's Revenge
    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

  • The Wager
    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

  • The Taffeta Mayor
    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

  • Lady on the Stagecoach
    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

  • Treasure Trail
    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

  • Juliet
    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

  • Hunt the Man Down
    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

  • The Scorched Feather
    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

  • The Return of the Lady
    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

  • The Monster of Moon Ridge
    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

  • The Long Hunt
    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