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The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 5

Genres:WesternAction & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS

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!

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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  • The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs
    8.8/10(151)
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    #1 - The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs

    Season 5 Episode 8

    Aired 11/4/1961

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

    Director: Richard Boone

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Waiting Room
    8.5/10(99)
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    #2 - The Waiting Room

    Season 5 Episode 24

    Aired 2/24/1962

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Justice in Hell
    8.3/10(93)
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    #3 - Justice in Hell

    Season 5 Episode 18

    Aired 1/13/1962

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Ben Jalisco
    8.1/10(100)
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    #4 - Ben Jalisco

    Season 5 Episode 10

    Aired 11/18/1961

    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: N/A

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  • Don't Shoot the Piano Player
    8.0/10(85)
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    #5 - Don't Shoot the Piano Player

    Season 5 Episode 26

    Aired 3/10/1962

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Revenger
    7.9/10(103)
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    #6 - The Revenger

    Season 5 Episode 3

    Aired 9/30/1961

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Proof of Love
    7.9/10(108)
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    #7 - A Proof of Love

    Season 5 Episode 5

    Aired 10/14/1961

    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: N/A

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  • The Trap
    7.9/10(76)
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    #8 - The Trap

    Season 5 Episode 25

    Aired 3/3/1962

    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: N/A

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  • Alice
    7.9/10(95)
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    #9 - Alice

    Season 5 Episode 27

    Aired 3/17/1962

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Odds for Big Red
    7.8/10(95)
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    #10 - Odds for Big Red

    Season 5 Episode 4

    Aired 10/7/1961

    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: N/A

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  • The Race
    7.7/10(84)
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    #11 - The Race

    Season 5 Episode 7

    Aired 10/28/1961

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Brothers
    7.7/10(77)
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    #12 - The Brothers

    Season 5 Episode 11

    Aired 11/25/1961

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Squatter's Rights
    7.7/10(84)
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    #13 - Squatter's Rights

    Season 5 Episode 16

    Aired 12/30/1961

    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: N/A

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  • Lazarus
    7.7/10(86)
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    #14 - Lazarus

    Season 5 Episode 17

    Aired 1/6/1962

    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: N/A

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  • The Exiles
    7.7/10(77)
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    #15 - The Exiles

    Season 5 Episode 20

    Aired 1/27/1962

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Blind Circle
    7.6/10(80)
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    #16 - Blind Circle

    Season 5 Episode 14

    Aired 12/16/1961

    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: N/A

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  • Mark of Cain
    7.6/10(79)
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    #17 - Mark of Cain

    Season 5 Episode 19

    Aired 1/20/1962

    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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  • The Man Who Struck Moonshine
    7.6/10(88)
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    #18 - The Man Who Struck Moonshine

    Season 5 Episode 28

    Aired 3/24/1962

    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.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: N/A

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  • Hobson's Choice
    7.6/10(74)
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    #19 - Hobson's Choice

    Season 5 Episode 30

    Aired 4/7/1962

    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.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Coming of the Tiger
    7.6/10(80)
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    #20 - The Coming of the Tiger

    Season 5 Episode 31

    Aired 4/14/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Kid
    7.5/10(88)
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    #21 - The Kid

    Season 5 Episode 15

    Aired 12/23/1961

    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: N/A

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  • Silent Death, Secret Death
    7.5/10(71)
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    #22 - Silent Death, Secret Death

    Season 5 Episode 29

    Aired 3/31/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Darwin's Man
    7.5/10(74)
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    #23 - Darwin's Man

    Season 5 Episode 32

    Aired 4/21/1962

    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.

    Director: William Conrad

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Knight
    7.5/10(72)
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    #24 - The Knight

    Season 5 Episode 38

    Aired 6/2/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Education of Sarah Jane
    7.4/10(94)
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    #25 - The Education of Sarah Jane

    Season 5 Episode 2

    Aired 9/23/1961

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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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 151 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".