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The Worst Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel

Every episode of Have Gun, Will Travel ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel!

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or...
Genres:WesternAction & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS

Worst Episodes Summary

"Lady of the Fifth Moon" is the worst rated episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel". It scored 6.5/10 based on 104 votes. Directed by Richard Boone and written by N/A, it aired on 3/30/1963. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Hunt".

  • Lady of the Fifth Moon
    6.5/10104 votes
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    #1 - Lady of the Fifth Moon

    Season 6 Episode 29 - Aired 3/30/1963

    Paladin comes to pay his respects to the mother of a Chinese man who is killed. She asks Paladin to meet a ship bound for China and see that her granddaughter is brought safely aboard.

    Director: Richard Boone

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hunt
    6.6/1090 votes
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    #2 - 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

  • The Walking Years
    6.7/1083 votes
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    #3 - 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 Black Bull
    6.7/1070 votes
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    #4 - The Black Bull

    Season 6 Episode 31 - Aired 4/13/1963

    After being tortured, Paladin, becomes a surrogate bull for a famous, but now insane bullfighter, Nino Ybarra..

    Director: William Conrad

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ledge
    6.8/10105 votes
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    #5 - The Ledge

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/13/1960

    Richard Boone as Paladin is on the road with 4 others when a man in the distance yells to them and then falls off a ledge in an 'impossible to get to space.' John Hoyt plays a doctor who begins to assume the man is dead, but really, everyone is unsure, and worried. The entire episode concerns the issue of mercy killing. Richard Rust plays a young man named Corey who is deathly afraid of heights but who tries to get down to the man to make certain. At one point, they even feel perhaps they should shoot the man just in case he's alive. This episode shows exactly why the show is called a psychological drama western. It is very intense and intellectual, with superb acting. The other two characters are a man who hides his fear by constantly laughing and a man who cannot stop saying he cannot take risks because he has a family.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: Joel Kane

  • Duke of Texas
    6.8/1077 votes
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    #6 - Duke of Texas

    Season 4 Episode 31 - Aired 4/22/1961

    Franz, a young Austrian Duke, hires Paladin to guide him to meet with a general who has promised to help reclaim Mexico for the Austrian empire. Franz believes the people of Mexico will welcome him, but Padadin thinks that Franz's advisor has other reasons for making the trip.

    Director: Buzz Kulik

    Writer: N/A

  • The Trial
    6.9/1090 votes
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    #7 - The Trial

    Season 3 Episode 38 - Aired 6/11/1960

    Paladin is hired by Morgan Gibbs to bring in his son, who is wanted for murder. There is a $500 dead or alive bounty on him and Morgan offers to pay Paladin $5000 to bring him in alive. When Paladin brings him in draped over his horse, Paladin is put on trial for killing him.

    Director: Ida Lupino

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gospel Singer
    6.9/1080 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Penelope
    7.0/1083 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • The Pledge
    7.1/1090 votes
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    #10 - The Pledge

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/1960

    Ike Brennan hires Paladin to escort him through Indian country in order to exchange goods for his wife who is being held hostage by the Indians.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: Shimon Wincelberg

  • Ransom
    7.1/1073 votes
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    #11 - Ransom

    Season 3 Episode 37 - Aired 6/4/1960

    Paladin is hired to find Colonel Celine in order to get him to sign an important document.

    Director: Richard Boone

    Writer: N/A

  • Out at the Old Ballpark
    7.1/10112 votes
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    #12 - Out at the Old Ballpark

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1960

    Paladin serves as umpire for a Wild West baseball game.

    Director: Richard Boone

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cure
    7.1/1090 votes
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    #13 - The Cure

    Season 4 Episode 35 - Aired 5/20/1961

    Paladin helps down on her luck Calamity Jane regain her mojo.

    Director: Richard Boone

    Writer: N/A

  • A Knight to Remember
    7.1/1081 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Cream of the Jest
    7.1/1080 votes
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    #15 - Cream of the Jest

    Season 5 Episode 34 - Aired 5/5/1962

    Paladin tries to stay one step ahead of a prankster who may be on the point of playing one prank too many.

    Director: Richard Donner

    Writer: Shimon Wincelberg

  • The Caravan
    7.1/1083 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • Ella West
    7.2/10150 votes
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    #17 - Ella West

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/4/1958

    The promoter of a wild west show asks Paladin for help taming down a very wild and famous female sharpshooter and show her how to act like a lady.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: Gene Roddenberry

  • The Ballad of Oscar Wilde
    7.2/10128 votes
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    #18 - The Ballad of Oscar Wilde

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1958

    Paladin is hired to protect Oscar Wilde. Another 3 men apply for the job, but after Paladin upstages them they kidnap Wilde for ransom. Paladin takes care of them, his way.

    Director: Richard Whorf

    Writer: Irving Wallace

  • Les Girls
    7.2/1070 votes
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    #19 - Les Girls

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1959

    Paladin is hired to deliver three mail-order brides to Bend-In-The-River.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: Gene Roddenberry

  • Champagne Safari
    7.2/10106 votes
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    #20 - Champagne Safari

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1959

    An old friend of Paladin's requests his help after a family member is killed in an Indian raid.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: N/A

  • The Prophet
    7.2/10102 votes
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    #21 - The Prophet

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/1960

    The Army asks Paladin to find an Army colonel who disappeared with his Apache wife. There are rumors of an Army officer working with the Apaches and inciting them to war. Paladin is asked to find and stop him at all costs.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: Shimon Wincelberg

  • The Poker Fiend
    7.2/10117 votes
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    #22 - The Poker Fiend

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1960

    A poker game takes a deadly turn and Paladin is caught in the middle.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Taxgatherer
    7.2/1085 votes
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    #23 - The Taxgatherer

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1961

    Have gun - will collect taxes. Paladin teams up with a powerful rancher to collect taxes from some of the roughest cattle-rustlers in the West. But how will he get the money when the man he's riding with has vowed never to pay a cent?

    Director: Richard Boone

    Writer: N/A

  • The Piano
    7.2/1086 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Dream Girl
    7.2/1096 votes
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    #25 - 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