6.5/10103 votesLoading...#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
- 6.6/1090 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.7/1083 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.7/1070 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.8/10102 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.8/1077 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.9/1089 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.9/1080 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.0/1083 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.1/1072 votesLoading...
#10 - 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
- 7.1/10108 votesLoading...
#11 - 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
- 7.1/1089 votesLoading...
#12 - 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
- 7.1/1080 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.1/1080 votesLoading...
#14 - 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
- 7.1/1083 votesLoading...
#15 - 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
- 7.2/10149 votesLoading...
#16 - 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
- 7.2/10128 votesLoading...
#17 - 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
- 7.2/1068 votesLoading...
#18 - 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
- 7.2/1087 votesLoading...
#19 - 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
- 7.2/1085 votesLoading...
#20 - 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
- 7.2/1086 votesLoading...
#21 - 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
- 7.2/1095 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.2/1075 votesLoading...
#23 - 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
- 7.3/10103 votesLoading...
#24 - Tiger
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1959
Ellsworth believes he has had an old tiger curse put on him and that a tiger is coming to kill him. He hires Paladin to protect him from the tiger.
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
- 7.3/10104 votesLoading...
#25 - 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 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 103 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".