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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!

The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5

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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  1. 8.8/10(153 votes)

    #1 - The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs

    S5:E8

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

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    Director:Richard Boone
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.5/10(99 votes)

    #2 - The Waiting Room

    S5:E24

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

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    Director:N/A
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  3. 8.3/10(93 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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  4. 8.1/10(101 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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  5. 8.0/10(85 votes)

    #5 - Don't Shoot the Piano Player

    S5:E26

    With no help from local law enforcement, a writer hires Paladin to find her fiancé; in the roughest gutter on the Barbary coast.

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  6. 7.9/10(103 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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  8. 7.9/10(109 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Director:Richard Boone
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  9. 7.9/10(76 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Frank Pierson
    Writer:N/A
  10. 7.9/10(95 votes)

    #9 - Alice

    S5:E27

    A daughter hires Paladin to help her look for an old friend of his - her mother.

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  11. 7.8/10(96 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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  12. 7.7/10(85 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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  13. 7.7/10(78 votes)

    #12 - The Brothers

    S5:E11

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

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  14. 7.7/10(84 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Richard Boone
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  15. 7.7/10(86 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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  16. 7.7/10(77 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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  17. 7.6/10(80 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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  18. 7.6/10(79 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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  19. 7.6/10(89 votes)

    #18 - The Man Who Struck Moonshine

    S5:E28

    Moses Kadish is an alcoholic. He moves to middle of nowhere to try to stop drinking and drills a well. The well produces whiskey instead of water.

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  20. 7.6/10(75 votes)

    #19 - Hobson's Choice

    S5:E30

    Alfred Nobel, staying at the Carlton, enlists the aid of resident Paladin to recover a mixed up shipment of mineral oil with his more potent nitroglycerin.

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  21. 7.6/10(81 votes)

    #20 - The Coming of the Tiger

    S5:E31

    An elder from the Japanese community informs Paladin that a Nationalistic Japanese Priest, accompanied by a Samurai Warrior, is attempting to enter the country illegally.

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  22. 7.5/10(89 votes)

    #21 - 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.

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  23. 7.5/10(72 votes)

    #22 - Silent Death, Secret Death

    S5:E29

    Paladin is asked to look for a missing brother, no matter the cost. When he finds out he's been missing for seven years, he accepts this task.

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  24. 7.5/10(75 votes)

    #23 - Darwin's Man

    S5:E32

    A rancher (Kent Smith) pits his sons (Richard Rust, Buzz Martin) against one another in a fight to determine which of them will be his heir.

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  25. 7.5/10(72 votes)

    #24 - The Knight

    S5:E38

    Paladin is hired to find a killer. His usual fee is paid for instead with a ring. A ring that may tie his employer to his quarry with him in the middle.

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  26. 7.4/10(95 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" season 5. It scored 8.8/10 based on 153 votes. Directed by Richard Boone and written by N/A, it aired on 11/4/1961. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Waiting Room".