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The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5

Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 1 - The Vigil
    7.5/10(97 votes)

    #1 - The Vigil

    S5:E1

    Paladin agrees to accompany a nurse to the gold fields; she aspires to replace its deceased physician. Along the way, they encounter two men who have just buried their companion.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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  2. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 2 - The Education of Sarah Jane
    7.6/10(103 votes)

    #2 - The Education of Sarah Jane

    S5:E2

    The Darrow and Tyler families have been feuding so long they don't remember who started it. It's up to Paladin to help them decide if the feud should continue.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 3 - The Revenger
    8.1/10(111 votes)

    #3 - The Revenger

    S5:E3

    Paladin takes a $500 stagecoach ride with an embezzler, a convicted cutthroat, and a murderer to collect the other half of that bill.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 4 - Odds for Big Red
    8.0/10(103 votes)

    #4 - Odds for Big Red

    S5:E4

    Paladin trails a killer and bank robber to a saloon but while trying to capture him, the saloon's owner, Big Red, is shot.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 5 - A Proof of Love
    8.0/10(117 votes)

    #5 - A Proof of Love

    S5:E5

    Paladin urges a momma's boy farmer to win back his wayward mail-order bride, by besting party-animal neighbor Rud Saxon in a dance contest.

    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 6 - The Gospel Singer
    7.0/10(88 votes)

    #6 - The Gospel Singer

    S5:E6

    Bugbear wants to change its image. When Paladin is hired, his idea of disarmament is working fine. Until a missionary rides to town with her own methods for doing the same thing.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 7 - The Race
    7.9/10(91 votes)

    #7 - The Race

    S5:E7

    Paladin is offered $1000 to win a horse race called a mule kalanta. When he arrives he finds out what the bet is, and he decides to make a change.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 8 - The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs
    8.8/10(163 votes)

    #8 - The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs

    S5:E8

    Singer Odetta plays Sarah Gibbs, who is barred by a marshal from visiting her condemned husband.

    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 9 - The Piano
    7.3/10(97 votes)

    #9 - The Piano

    S5:E9

    European pianist Franz Lister comes to the United States to give a concert for Mona Lansing, a former saloon hostess. When Lister's piano is stolen, Mona hires Paladin to get it back.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 10 - Ben Jalisco
    8.2/10(107 votes)

    #10 - Ben Jalisco

    S5:E10

    Escaped killer, Ben Jalisco, is a ruthless hunter who has murdered more than 30 men. Now he is after his wife, Lucy, who informed on him and Paladin, who brought him in.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 11 - The Brothers
    7.8/10(87 votes)

    #11 - The Brothers

    S5:E11

    Will prospector Possum Corbin rescue Paladin from dying in a desert, if Paladin reads the encyclopedia to him?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 12 - A Drop of Blood
    7.4/10(104 votes)

    #12 - A Drop of Blood

    S5:E12

    Paladin is invited to best man at Rivka Shotness' wedding. When he arrives he finds that Billy Buckstone, the man the bride's family helped to convict, has been freed from prison and is on his way back.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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  13. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 13 - A Knight to Remember
    7.2/10(92 votes)

    #13 - A Knight to Remember

    S5:E13

    Paladin is hired to find Don Esteban, who has disappeared. When he finds him he is dressed as a knight in armor and thinks he is Don Quixote.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Robert Dozier

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  14. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 14 - Blind Circle
    7.8/10(88 votes)

    #14 - Blind Circle

    S5:E14

    Two years ago, the Cattleman's Association put a bounty of $500 on a rustler who was never caught. Now they don't want him pursued but a bounty hunter doesn't know or maybe he doesn't care.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 15 - The Kid
    7.6/10(98 votes)

    #15 - The Kid

    S5:E15

    Paladin is sent a $100 bill and told there are 9 more like it if he travels to a town called Last Gasp.

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 16 - Squatter's Rights
    7.8/10(91 votes)

    #16 - Squatter's Rights

    S5:E16

    Costigan is a land owner and cattleman. He was shot by Clemenceau, a squatter on his land. Paladin has offered to help him get rid of the squatter but doesn't approve of his methods.

    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 17 - Lazarus
    7.8/10(92 votes)

    #17 - Lazarus

    S5:E17

    After local boozing champ Big Fontana cheats Paladin in a drink-off, sickly Boise Peabody convinced he'll die by morning, challenges the sneaky fast draw to a shootout.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 18 - Justice in Hell
    8.4/10(100 votes)

    #18 - Justice in Hell

    S5:E18

    Paladin goes after a wagon-master who led the massacre of his own wagon train. Rusty Doggett hides out in a town entirely populated by wanted outlaws.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 19 - Mark of Cain
    7.7/10(85 votes)

    #19 - Mark of Cain

    S5:E19

    Dr. Avatar hires Paladin to guide him to Jack Trueblood, a notorious western badman who has killed many men. Avatar wants to measure Trueblood's head to confirm his research on cranial measurements.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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  20. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 20 - The Exiles
    7.9/10(83 votes)

    #20 - The Exiles

    S5:E20

    General Ortega hires Paladin to recover $16 million in French bonds. Where they are and who has them is already known.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 21 - The Hunt
    6.8/10(97 votes)

    #21 - The Hunt

    S5:E21

    Paladin is lured to Oregon under the pretense of a widow in distress. The real reason is to engage him in a deadly hunt with a bored prince.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Herman Groves

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  22. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 22 - Dream Girl
    7.1/10(107 votes)

    #22 - Dream Girl

    S5:E22

    Paladin rides upon Buddy Webster's mining camp, who needs a big favor. He has been prospecting for gold dust the last five years.

    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 23 - One, Two, Three
    7.5/10(92 votes)

    #23 - One, Two, Three

    S5:E23

    Samuel Keel hires Paladin to find Seth Carter. Keel gives him the names of three people who can help him find Seth. As Paladin finds them, each is murdered. Paladin is determined to find out why.

    Director:William Conrad
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 24 - The Waiting Room
    8.5/10(109 votes)

    #24 - The Waiting Room

    S5:E24

    After a 4 state murder spree, the Wilder Brothers head back to Texas for trial, under Paladin's gun.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5 Episode 25 - The Trap
    8.1/10(82 votes)

    #25 - The Trap

    S5:E25

    A lawman for 23 years, Jim Buell has always done what he believed was right. Taking in Davy Walsh for shooting at his jail while drunk seemed just that.

    Director:Frank Pierson
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Vigil" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" season 5. It scored 7.5/10 based on 97 votes. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and written by Shimon Wincelberg, it aired on 9/16/1961. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Education of Sarah Jane".