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The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 3

Genres:WesternAction & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS

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...
Episodes
39
Avg. Rating
7.7
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  • The Posse
    8.6/10(115)
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    #1 - 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

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  • The Unforgiven
    8.2/10(99)
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    #2 - 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

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  • Fight at Adobe Wells
    8.2/10(99)
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    #3 - Fight at Adobe Wells

    Season 3 Episode 26

    Aired 3/12/1960

    Paladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country.

    Director: Richard Boone

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Gladiators
    8.1/10(97)
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    #4 - The Gladiators

    Season 3 Episode 27

    Aired 3/19/1960

    Allison Windrom hires Paladin to stop her father and Graham Beckley from dueling.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Robert C. Dennis

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  • The Twins
    8.1/10(104)
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    #5 - The Twins

    Season 3 Episode 35

    Aired 5/21/1960

    Adam Mirakian is wanted for a murder he claims his twin brother Sam committed. He hires Paladin to find his brother and clear his name. The only person who can tell them apart is Adam's wife, Beth.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: N/A

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  • Charley Red Dog
    8.0/10(119)
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    #6 - 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

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  • The Hatchet Man
    8.0/10(95)
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    #7 - 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

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  • Love of a Bad Woman
    8.0/10(95)
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    #8 - Love of a Bad Woman

    Season 3 Episode 28

    Aired 3/26/1960

    Tamsen Sommers is advertising for a husband, which presents a problem since she already has one. The husband hires Paladin to protect him from the men competing for the right to marry her.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: Robert Dozier

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  • First, Catch a Tiger
    7.9/10(138)
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    #9 - 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

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  • Episode in Laredo
    7.9/10(122)
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    #10 - 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

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  • Shot by Request
    7.9/10(111)
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    #11 - 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

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  • The Golden Toad
    7.9/10(95)
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    #12 - 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

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  • The Naked Gun
    7.9/10(110)
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    #13 - 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

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  • One Came Back
    7.9/10(104)
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    #14 - 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

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  • The Lady on the Wall
    7.9/10(125)
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    #15 - 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

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  • Never Help the Devil
    7.9/10(87)
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    #16 - Never Help the Devil

    Season 3 Episode 31

    Aired 4/16/1960

    Doggie Kramer wins a gunfight, as the whole town he had been bullying watches, but ends up wounded. He needs Paladin to help him get out of town before the townspeople take their revenge.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Black Handkerchief
    7.7/10(92)
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    #17 - 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

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  • Lady with a Gun
    7.7/10(99)
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    #18 - Lady with a Gun

    Season 3 Episode 30

    Aired 4/9/1960

    After she attempts to shoot Rudy Rossback and fails, Eve McIntosh offers Paladin $1,000 to kill him. After Paladin turns her down she hires another gunman.

    Director: Ida Lupino

    Writer: N/A

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  • Fragile
    7.6/10(97)
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    #19 - 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

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  • Day of the Badman
    7.6/10(105)
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    #20 - 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

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  • Jenny
    7.6/10(95)
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    #21 - 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

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  • The Misguided Father
    7.6/10(98)
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    #22 - 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

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  • Ambush
    7.6/10(99)
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    #23 - Ambush

    Season 3 Episode 32

    Aired 4/23/1960

    Paladin is taking Blandings back to stand trial and stops at a ferry crossing. They are captured and held along with three others. Someone is coming and they are being held until he arrives. Each thinks it's their worst enemy coming to kill them and all they can do is wait.

    Director: Richard Boone

    Writer: N/A

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  • Full Circle
    7.6/10(86)
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    #24 - Full Circle

    Season 3 Episode 34

    Aired 5/14/1960

    A man who left Paladin to die in his place writes to Paladin and asks for his help.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Campaign of Billy Banjo
    7.6/10(94)
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    #25 - The Campaign of Billy Banjo

    Season 3 Episode 36

    Aired 5/28/1960

    Billy Banjo, a friend of Paladin, asks Paladin to help with a fair election.

    Director: Richard Boone

    Writer: Richard Baer

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Posse" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" season 3. It scored 8.6/10 based on 115 votes. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and written by Gene Roddenberry, it aired on 10/3/1959. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Unforgiven".