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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 131 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".

  • The Fatalist
    7.9/10131 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

  • Love's Young Dream
    7.9/10144 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

  • A Head of Hair
    8.2/10125 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

  • Out at the Old Ballpark
    7.1/10112 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

  • Saturday Night
    8.0/10103 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

  • The Calf
    7.6/1099 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

  • The Tender Gun
    7.6/10100 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

  • The Shooting of Jesse May
    8.3/10134 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

  • The Poker Fiend
    7.2/10117 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

  • Crowbait
    7.5/1094 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

  • Marshal's Boy
    7.7/1092 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

  • Foggbound
    7.6/1092 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

  • The Legacy
    8.1/1095 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

  • The Prisoner
    7.8/1086 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

  • The Mountebank
    7.8/10102 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

  • The Sanctuary
    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

  • A Quiet Night in Town (1)
    8.3/10136 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

  • A Quiet Night in Town (2)
    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

  • The Princess and the Gunfighter
    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

  • Shadow of a Man
    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

  • Long Way Home
    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

  • The Taxgatherer
    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

  • The Fatal Flaw
    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

  • Fandango
    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

  • The Last Judgement
    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