8.4/10194 votes#1 - Genesis
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1962
After an unsuccessful attempt on his life by young Roderick Jefferson, Paladin is prompted into remembering a similar incident from his past. Once, as a youth, he agreed to pay off a gambling debt by shooting it out with a professional gunfighter.
Director: William Conrad
Writer: Sam Rolfe
- 7.8/10101 votes
#2 - Taylor's Woman
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1962
A hen-pecked rancher, in San Francisco to marry his housekeeper, hires Paladin to help him get out doing so.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/10104 votes
#3 - The Fifth Bullet
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1962
After eight years, Paladin tries to repay a convict for the lie he was told when he arrested him. "I promise you a fair trial" is what he said.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1087 votes
#4 - A Place For Abel Hix
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1962
Hix sends for Paladin. When he arrives in town, he finds that Hix was killed in a gunfight even though he's the fastest man with gun who ever lived.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1088 votes
#5 - Beau Geste
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1962
After 15 years in office, Sheriff Dobbs is retiring and some old enemies are just waiting for the day he turns in his badge. Paladin received a newspaper clipping about the sheriff and $10 to save Dobbs' life.
Director: N/A
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom
- 7.5/1073 votes
#6 - Bird of Time
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1962
Paladin rides upon a man named Stryker hanging from a tree. When he learns Paladin is after the same man but with a warrant, he says he has stronger reasons and hopes he won't get in his way.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1091 votes
#7 - Memories of Monica
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1962
Repaying a debt, Paladin rides to Valley Heart. Sheriff Reagan awaits the return of a native son who has been jailed for the past six years.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1094 votes
#8 - The Predators
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1962
Paladin is after a man suspected of killing a marshal. After finally capturing him in the desert he claims his innocence.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1076 votes
#9 - Shootout at Hogtooth
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1962
Hogtooth gets more ridicule than usual, when 3 gunmen take over the town, after cleaning it up. Each was hired in secret by a town council member, so the enforcers band together to suck Hogtooth dry.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1083 votes
#10 - A Miracle for St. Francis
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1962
Paladin rides to the San Luis Rey church in search of a very old brandy. When he is asked by the Padre to retrieve a statue of worship, they strike a bargain where they both may get what they want.
Director: William Conrad
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1095 votes
#11 - Marshal of Sweetwater
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1962
Sweetwater was a wild town before Thomas Carey, a retired Army scout and old friend of Paladin, became marshal. But Carey has taken over complete control and turned into a killer. Paladin has to stop him and Carey has always seemed the faster of the two.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.6/1084 votes
#12 - Man in an Hourglass
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1962
A doctor who once saved Paladin's life calls upon him to find and safely bring back the son of a one-time sweetheart. The young man has "taken to the hills" to track down his father's killer.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1083 votes
#13 - Penelope
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1962
Paladin meets a drunken Col Lacey at the Carlton. He is there fearful of going home to his lovely wife after being away for some time seeking his fortune.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1087 votes
#14 - Trial at Tablerock
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1962
Adams, the prosecutor, wants to hire Paladin to rid the town of someone he says is getting away with murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10127 votes
#15 - Be Not Forgetful of Strangers
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1962
Paladin rides into a Texas town at Christmas time and encounters a saloon full of merrymakers. Soon afterward a cowboy brings in a pregnant girl who may not survive the impending birth.
Director: Richard Boone
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1096 votes
#16 - The Treasure
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1962
Jess Harden, about to be released from prison for an $80K robbery he says he didn't commit, returns to the same town not knowing that it's a ghost town.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1089 votes
#17 - Brotherhood
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 1/5/1963
Abe and Jim Redrock are both well educated. The only problem they always run into is they are also Indians. Abe stays true to his heritage, causing trouble for the elected sheriff of Latigo.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1074 votes
#18 - Bob Wire
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 1/12/1963
Bob Wire hires Paladin, C.O.D., to escort him and his wagon load of barb wire to Anderson.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Bruce Geller
- 8.0/1090 votes
#19 - The Debutante
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 1/19/1963
Mrs. Quincy longs to see her granddaughter who has been away since she was six. When her daughter and husband died in the mine fields, she was taken in.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1075 votes
#20 - Unforgiving Minute
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 1/26/1963
Fleeing banditos, Paladin seeks shelter from a peasant and his beautiful, scheming wife, their marriage at the breaking point.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1080 votes
#21 - American Primitive
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 2/2/1963
Paladin is joined by his friend Ernie Backwater, an aging sheriff who is out to capture Will Tybee, a wanted fugitive who has spent his life searching for the man who murdered his son.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1077 votes
#22 - The Burning Tree
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 2/9/1963
Paladin is escorting a unique prisoner to a trial and certain conviction. A man who has been married seven times and murdered all of them.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1088 votes
#23 - Cage at McNaab
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 2/16/1963
Paladin is asked by the wife of a man who is condemned to die to visit him in prison and see if new evidence can be found to clear her husband.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.1/1083 votes
#24 - The Caravan
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 2/23/1963
Paladin is hired to escort a Rani and her party across 150 miles of desert to a safe haven. The Rani is from a country fighting a civil war and she is to be the new leader if her side is victorious.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1083 votes
#25 - The Walking Years
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 3/2/1963
A letter from a friend brings Paladin to a bar where he's drugged. He wakes up chained and in the company of a man with a similar story and a woman who's path they've both crossed before.
Director: Richard Boone
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 6
Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel Season 6!
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 6 Ratings Summary
"Genesis" is the best rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" season 6. It scored 8.4/10 based on 194 votes. Directed by William Conrad and written by Sam Rolfe, it aired on 9/15/1962. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Taylor's Woman".