7.9/10128 votes#1 - The Fatalist
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1960
A Russian Jewish immigrant and his daughter are coerced by a local town boss not to testify in court about a murder. The daughter comes to San Francisco to enlist Paladin's help.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 7.9/10139 votes
#2 - Love's Young Dream
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1960
Monk (The Naked Gun, Episode #92) arrives in San Francisco to collect his inheritance, a half-interest in a night club. He ends up at the Carlton Hotel to ask Paladin for help.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10121 votes
#3 - A Head of Hair
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1960
An Apache indian has his eye on scalping Paladin.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10108 votes
#4 - Out at the Old Ballpark
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1960
Paladin serves as umpire for a Wild West baseball game.
Director: Richard Boone
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10100 votes
#5 - Saturday Night
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1960
After being arrested along with several others for fighting in a barroom brawl, Paladin wakes up in a cell and discovers that one of the other men has been murdered.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1096 votes
#6 - The Calf
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1960
When a calf is found dead, a rancher seeks revenge on another.
Director: Richard Boone
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1097 votes
#7 - The Tender Gun
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1960
During his travels, Paladin encounters a female sheriff.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10129 votes
#8 - The Shooting of Jesse May
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1960
When Jesse May is shot, Paladin begins to believe that a boy murdered him.
Director: Richard Boone
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10113 votes
#9 - The Poker Fiend
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1960
A poker game takes a deadly turn and Paladin is caught in the middle.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1091 votes
#10 - Crowbait
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1960
A man risks his life to be able to protect his daughter's dowry.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 7.8/1090 votes
#11 - Marshal's Boy
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1960
Paladin must track down a marshal's son accused of a shooting and persuade him to turn himself into the authorities.
Director: Richard Boone
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1091 votes
#12 - Foggbound
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1960
Paladin is hired to travel with adventurer Phileas Fogg during his 80 day trip around the world.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1094 votes
#13 - The Legacy
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1960
After a man dies, the reading of his will causes three additional murders.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1085 votes
#14 - The Prisoner
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1960
Paladin is hired by a man who has been wrongly accused of murder.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10101 votes
#15 - The Mountebank
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1960
A puppeteer gives Paladin a wagon ride to an Army fort commanded by a general with presidential aspirations.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1091 votes
#16 - The Sanctuary
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 12/31/1960
Coming off the trail, Paladin pulls into a mission seeking a night's rest and ends up helping a man running from a lynch mob.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10135 votes
#17 - A Quiet Night in Town (1)
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1961
Paladin arrives in the Texas border town of Jody with a murder suspect named Joselito Kincaid. Their appearance creates tension: this is cow country, and Kincaid is a sheepherder. (Part 1 of 2)
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10122 votes
#18 - A Quiet Night in Town (2)
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/14/1961
When a group of men kill Paladin's prisoner, Paladin must bring the group of murders to justice. (Part 2 of 2)
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10115 votes
#19 - The Princess and the Gunfighter
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/21/1961
Paladin is hired to find the princess of a tiny kingdom who disappeared while making a United States tour.
Director: Richard Boone
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1080 votes
#20 - Shadow of a Man
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1961
Paladin is hired by the wife of a weak man who's terrorized by his hometown. The Southerner is hated because of his role in the Lincoln assassination.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1099 votes
#21 - Long Way Home
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1961
The hunter becomes the hunted. When Paladin captures a former slave turned outlaw, a gang of rough bounty hunters fight to take his prisoner, dead or alive. When Paladin is bitten by a rattlesnake, the outlaw has to choose between saving him and saving himself.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1085 votes
#22 - The Taxgatherer
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1961
Have gun - will collect taxes. Paladin teams up with a powerful rancher to collect taxes from some of the roughest cattle-rustlers in the West. But how will he get the money when the man he's riding with has vowed never to pay a cent?
Director: Richard Boone
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1089 votes
#23 - The Fatal Flaw
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 2/25/1961
Stranded in a mountain cabin during a snowstorm, a sinister, Satan-worshipping outlaw bets Paladin he can do the unthinkable: corrupt the soul of an honest lawman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1090 votes
#24 - Fandango
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/1961
As a favor to an old friend, Paladin captures two teenagers sentenced to hang. Then, he finds himself face-to-face with an old gunfighter who wants the pleasure of hanging the boys who killed his brother. In the end, Paladin wonders how young is too young to be responsible for your crime.
Director: Richard Boone
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1086 votes
#25 - The Last Judgement
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/11/1961
Arriving in a small Arkansas town Paladin finds Dr. Simeon Loving chained in the street. He is charged with murder and Paladin is pressured into serving as his defense attorney. Elroy Greenleaf, a self-appointed justice of the peace, has decided that Loving will hang unless Paladin can persuade the jury to oppose Greenleaf.
Director: Gerald Mayer
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 4
Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 4!
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 4 Ratings Summary
"The Fatalist" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" season 4. It scored 7.9/10 based on 128 votes. Directed by Buzz Kulik and written by Shimon Wincelberg, it aired on 9/10/1960. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Love's Young Dream".