7.3/1088 votes#1 - The Vigil
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1961
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
- 7.4/1093 votes
#2 - 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
- 7.9/10101 votes
#3 - 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
- 7.8/1093 votes
#4 - 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
- 7.9/10107 votes
#5 - 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
- 6.9/1080 votes
#6 - The Gospel Singer
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1961
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1083 votes
#7 - 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
- 8.8/10148 votes
#8 - 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
- 7.2/1086 votes
#9 - The Piano
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1961
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: N/A
- 8.1/10100 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.7/1077 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.3/1095 votes
#12 - A Drop of Blood
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1961
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
- 7.1/1080 votes
#13 - A Knight to Remember
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1961
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
- 7.7/1078 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.5/1084 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.7/1083 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.7/1084 votes
#17 - 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
- 8.3/1090 votes
#18 - 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
- 7.6/1079 votes
#19 - 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
- 7.7/1076 votes
#20 - 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
- 6.6/1090 votes
#21 - The Hunt
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1962
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
- 7.2/1095 votes
#22 - Dream Girl
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1962
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: N/A
- 7.3/1084 votes
#23 - One, Two, Three
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1962
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: N/A
- 8.5/1097 votes
#24 - 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
- 8.0/1074 votes
#25 - 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
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!
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 5 Ratings Summary
"The Vigil" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" season 5. It scored 7.3/10 based on 88 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".