7.9/10136 votes#1 - First, Catch a Tiger
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1959
Two of the three men who brought in and helped to hang an outlaw have been killed by an assassin. The third man, Paladin, is staying at a hotel where one of the guests is the killer.
Director: Ida Lupino
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10119 votes
#2 - Episode in Laredo
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1959
Kovak is reserving the entire hotel in Laredo, Texas for Sam Tuttle, a famous unbeatable gunfighter. After Paladin is forced to kill Kovak, Tuttle must challenge Paladin in order to keep his reputation in tact.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.2/1068 votes
#3 - Les Girls
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1959
Paladin is hired to deliver three mail-order brides to Bend-In-The-River.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 8.5/10112 votes
#4 - The Posse
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1959
Paladin stops to ask a stranger for directions and is invited to share his campsite. Later, when a posse arrives, the man announces that Paladin is the murderer they have been looking for.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.9/10109 votes
#5 - Shot by Request
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1959
Ainslee is a well-dressed, middle-aged gentleman and a reluctant gunfighter. He hires Paladin for a very strange task.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10102 votes
#6 - Pancho
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1959
Mexican rancher Don Luis Ortega hires Paladin to escort his daughter across the border into the United States. However a peon from her father's ranch is determined to stop them and take her for himself.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 7.7/1093 votes
#7 - Fragile
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1959
Paladin is hired by the owner of ""The Frenchman's"" restaurant to take a plate glass window to the town of Panamint, a wild gold-mining town.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen, Frank Pierson
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 8.2/1093 votes
#8 - The Unforgiven
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1959
Retired and wealthy General Crommer is dying. He asks Padadin, who holds an old grudge against him, to do him a favor. He asks him to take a message of forgiveness to another man who hates Crommer. A favor which might get Paladin killed.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1087 votes
#9 - The Black Handkerchief
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1959
A young man convicted of murder is scheduled for execution, and Paladin attempts to intervene before it's too late.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1089 votes
#10 - The Golden Toad
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1959
Paladin is drawn into a dispute between a male farmer and a female cattle rancher, with a fortune in buried treasure at stake.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.3/10103 votes
#11 - Tiger
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1959
Ellsworth believes he has had an old tiger curse put on him and that a tiger is coming to kill him. He hires Paladin to protect him from the tiger.
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.3/10104 votes
#12 - Champagne Safari
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1959
An old friend of Paladin's requests his help after a family member is killed in an Indian raid.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10115 votes
#13 - Charley Red Dog
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1959
The town of Santa Maria, New Mexico is in need of a new town marshal, and one man, Charley Red Dog, is out to get the job. However, he may not survive unless Paladin lends a hand.
Director: Ida Lupino
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.8/1099 votes
#14 - The Naked Gun
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1959
While in Oregon, Paladin makes a new friend, Monk, who he helps get out of a group of unruly herders.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1098 votes
#15 - One Came Back
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/26/1959
When his five-year prison term for crimes committed during the Civil War is up, Ben Harvey is eager to return to his hometown of Gila. Harvey hires Paladin to keep him protected on the way to Gila.
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: Bruce Geller
- 7.3/1099 votes
#16 - The Prophet
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/1960
The Army asks Paladin to find an Army colonel who disappeared with his Apache wife. There are rumors of an Army officer working with the Apaches and inciting them to war. Paladin is asked to find and stop him at all costs.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 7.6/10100 votes
#17 - Day of the Badman
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1960
Cynthia Palmer hires Paladin to clean up the town of Cedar Wells and get a gang out. She also wants him to send her schoolteacher nephew named Laredo back east. Paladin decides he can restore Laredo's self-respect and get rid of the gang at the same time.
Director: Ida Lupino
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1087 votes
#18 - The Pledge
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/1960
Ike Brennan hires Paladin to escort him through Indian country in order to exchange goods for his wife who is being held hostage by the Indians.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 7.6/1088 votes
#19 - Jenny
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/1960
Jenny Lake goes to Paladin for help to ward off Wilson, a suitor who is pursuing her. But when Jenny disappears, Paladin must follow a trail to find her.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1094 votes
#20 - Return to Fort Benjamin
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/1960
Paladin is hired to help an Indian chief whose son is awaiting execution by the U.S. Army. The chief wants Paladin to bring his body back following the execution to ensure he has a proper burial. However, once Paladin makes contact with the chief's son, he begins to wonder if he's actually guilty.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10103 votes
#21 - The Night the Town Died
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/6/1960
Aaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell.
Director: Richard Boone
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/10102 votes
#22 - The Ledge
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/13/1960
Richard Boone as Paladin is on the road with 4 others when a man in the distance yells to them and then falls off a ledge in an 'impossible to get to space.' John Hoyt plays a doctor who begins to assume the man is dead, but really, everyone is unsure, and worried. The entire episode concerns the issue of mercy killing. Richard Rust plays a young man named Corey who is deathly afraid of heights but who tries to get down to the man to make certain. At one point, they even feel perhaps they should shoot the man just in case he's alive. This episode shows exactly why the show is called a psychological drama western. It is very intense and intellectual, with superb acting. The other two characters are a man who hides his fear by constantly laughing and a man who cannot stop saying he cannot take risks because he has a family.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Joel Kane
- 7.9/10121 votes
#23 - The Lady on the Wall
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/20/1960
Paladin is accused of stealing a painting in the small town of Bonanza.
Director: Ida Lupino
Writer: Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson
- 7.5/1096 votes
#24 - The Misguided Father
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 2/27/1960
An old friend of Paladin is shot and killed in Paladin's hotel room. After returning the body for burial, Paladin sets out to find the killer.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1094 votes
#25 - The Hatchet Man
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1960
San Francisco hires Paladin to protect a Chinese detective.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3
Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3!
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or...
Genres:WesternAction & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"First, Catch a Tiger" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 136 votes. Directed by Ida Lupino and written by N/A, it aired on 9/12/1959. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Episode in Laredo".