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Season 1

Season 1 • 1957

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The first season of Have Gun — Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 14, 1957 to June 14, 1958. The Region 1 DVD was released on May 11, 2004.

Episodes

1. Three Bells to Perdido

New Mexico rancher Jesse Reade hires Paladin for $1,000 to bring back outlaw Dave Enderly, who has run off to Perdido, Mexico with Reade's daughter Nancy.

1957-09-1426 min

2. The Outlaw

Manfred Holt breaks out of jail, killing two deputies. Is he on his way to kill the banker who testified against him, or to see his family for the last time? The banker hires Paladin.

1957-09-2126 min

3. The Great Mojave Chase

A sportsman sponsors a contest, betting that no one can elude his posse in the Mojave Desert. When Paladin shows up riding a camel, the man decides that the only way he can still win is to get rid of Paladin.

1957-09-2826 min

4. Winchester Quarantine

At a stagecoach stop, Paladin sees a peaceful Cherokee rancher being beaten by white men who think his cattle are spreading a sickness. Paladin offers his help.

1957-10-0526 min

5. A Matter of Ethics

An accused murderer who fears that he will be lynched before he can be returned to Bender, Wyoming, for trial, hires Paladin to make sure he gets there alive.

1957-10-1226 min

6. The Bride

When a mail-order bride from Philadelphia gets off the stagecoach in the middle of nowhere, Paladin decides to stay with her to make sure that she is safe.

1957-10-1926 min

7. Strange Vendetta

Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.

1957-10-2626 min

8. High Wire

A hobo who was once a circus performer bets a gambler that he can walk across the saloon on a tightrope. When Paladin sees that the gambler intends to cheat, he decides to help even the odds.

1957-11-0226 min

9. Show of Force

After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.

1957-11-0926 min

10. The Long Night

A wealthy cattleman holds Paladin and two other men hostage. They will all die at dawn unless one of them admits to the murder of the rancher's wife.

1957-11-1626 min

11. The Colonel and the Lady

A retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.

1957-11-2326 min

12. No Visitors

When Paladin finds a woman and her apparently typhoid-afflicted child abandoned by a wagonmaster, he enlists the aid of a female doctor from a nearby town, but a religious fanatic then tries to bar them from entry.

1957-11-3026 min

13. The Englishman

Paladin escorts an Englishman to his female cousin's ranch they have inherited in Montana, but finds that an embittered trader is plotting against them.

1957-12-0726 min

14. The Yuma Treasure

Accompanying a cavalry major on a mission to prevent a war by negotiating a treaty with an elusive Apache chief, Paladin must deal with soldiers who have caught gold fever.

1957-12-1426 min

15. The Hanging Cross

On Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.

1957-12-2126 min

16. Helen of Abajinian

An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.

1957-12-28? min

17. Ella West

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.

1958-01-04? min

18. The Reasonable Man

A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.

1958-01-11? min

19. The High-Graders

When his tailor is killed in an accident at a supposedly worthless gold mine, Paladin discovers that the man was murdered and his heirs are being swindled.

1958-01-18? min

20. The Last Laugh

A rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.

1958-01-2530 min

21. The Bostonian

Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.

1958-02-0230 min

22. The Singer

A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.

1958-02-0830 min

23. Bitter Wine

Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.

1958-02-1530 min

24. Girl from Piccadilly

Learning of his son's death, a rich man hires Paladin to locate the daughter-in-law he's never met, but Paladin finds two women both claiming to be her.

1958-02-2230 min

25. The O'Hare Story

Hired to prevent the construction of a dam that would imperil a town's water supply, Paladin finds that he sympathizes more with the Irish engineer who's trying to build it.

1958-03-0130 min

26. Birds of a Feather

Paladin must contend with other gunfighters as he tries to settle a right-of-way dispute between two railroads in a Colorado town that will die if they go elsewhere.

1958-03-0830 min

27. The Teacher

Paladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.

1958-03-1530 min

28. Killer's Widow

After having killed a bank robber, Paladin is accused of having taken the stolen money. He visits the dead man's widow and tries to make amends.

1958-03-2230 min

29. Gun Shy

Trying to locate the thieves who stole a jade chess set, Paladin ends up in a small Montana town where he becomes involved in a romance with a landlady's daughter.

1958-03-2930 min

30. The Prizefight Story

When Paladin goes to a mining town to promote a prizefight, his boxer is arrested and he ends up having to take the man's place in the ring -- against the Welsh champion.

1958-04-0530 min

31. Hey Boy's Revenge

When Hey Boy's brother is killed for protesting the working conditions on a Chinese railroad gang in Utah, Paladin must get the boy out of jail and bring the killer to justice.

1958-04-12? min

32. The Five Books of Owen Deaver

Paladin comes to the aid of a young sheriff from the East whose attempts to keep law and order are particularly unsuitable for a cowboy town in Wyoming.

1958-04-2630 min

33. The Silver Queen

Lonely Leadhead Kane dies and leaves his half of a mine to an actress. Kane's partner wants to challenge the will. Someone wants to make sure Paladin never gets the woman to the courtroom.

1958-05-0330 min

34. Three Sons

Newlyweds with no place to stay end up in Paladin's suite. He learns that the groom's half-brothers are threatening to kill their father. Paladin goes to warn the father.

1958-05-1030 min

35. The Return of Dr. Thackeray

Dr. Phyllis Thackeray diagnoses the cook at the Barton Ranch with smallpox. All the cowhands may be infected and need to be vaccinated. Dr. Thackeray sends for the one man she thinks can help.

1958-05-1730 min

36. 24 Hours at North Fork

When a blight kills all the crops except for one farmer's, Paladin must protect him from a greedy storekeeper who wants his farm and his hired gun who has a personal grudge against Paladin.

1958-05-2430 min

37. Silver Convoy

Paladin is hired to find James Becker. He trails him to Monterey and discovers he has been arrested and is sentenced to work in a silver mine. Paladin finds that Becker has died in a cave-in or so he is told. The owner of the mine hires Paladin to guard a silver convoy, but first Paladin wants to find out a little more about the mine.

1958-05-3130 min

38. Deliver the Body

Paladin is hired to bring in the killer of the sheriff in a Nevada town. He brings him in but has some doubts about his guilt and decides to hang around for the trial.

1958-06-0730 min

39. The Statue of San Sebastian

Paladin agrees to capture an outlaw in return for a statue belonging to the local mission.

1958-06-1430 min