Episode 1: Three Bells to Perdido
1957-09-1426 min
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.
Season guide
Have Gun, Will Travel Season 1 — Episodes and Where to Watch
39 episodes · first aired 1957-09-14
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.
Episode guide
Episode 2: The Outlaw
1957-09-2126 min
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.
Episode 3: The Great Mojave Chase
1957-09-2826 min
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.
Episode 4: Winchester Quarantine
1957-10-0526 min
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.
Episode 5: A Matter of Ethics
1957-10-1226 min
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.
Episode 6: The Bride
1957-10-1926 min
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.
Episode 7: Strange Vendetta
1957-10-2626 min
Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.
Episode 8: High Wire
1957-11-0226 min
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.
Episode 9: Show of Force
1957-11-0926 min
After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.
Episode 10: The Long Night
1957-11-1626 min
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.
Episode 11: The Colonel and the Lady
1957-11-2326 min
A retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.
Episode 12: No Visitors
1957-11-3026 min
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.
Episode 13: The Englishman
1957-12-0726 min
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.
Episode 14: The Yuma Treasure
1957-12-1426 min
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.
Episode 15: The Hanging Cross
1957-12-2126 min
On Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.
Episode 16: Helen of Abajinian
1957-12-28
An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.
Episode 17: Ella West
1958-01-04
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.
Episode 18: The Reasonable Man
1958-01-11
A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.
Episode 19: The High-Graders
1958-01-18
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.
Episode 20: The Last Laugh
1958-01-2530 min
A rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.
Episode 21: The Bostonian
1958-02-0230 min
Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.
Episode 22: The Singer
1958-02-0830 min
A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.
Episode 23: Bitter Wine
1958-02-1530 min
Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.
Episode 24: Girl from Piccadilly
1958-02-2230 min
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.
Episode 25: The O'Hare Story
1958-03-0130 min
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.
Episode 26: Birds of a Feather
1958-03-0830 min
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.
Episode 27: The Teacher
1958-03-1530 min
Paladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.
Episode 28: Killer's Widow
1958-03-2230 min
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.
Episode 29: Gun Shy
1958-03-2930 min
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.
Episode 30: The Prizefight Story
1958-04-0530 min
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.
Episode 31: Hey Boy's Revenge
1958-04-12
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.
Episode 32: The Five Books of Owen Deaver
1958-04-2630 min
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.
Episode 33: The Silver Queen
1958-05-0330 min
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.
Episode 34: Three Sons
1958-05-1030 min
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.
Episode 35: The Return of Dr. Thackeray
1958-05-1730 min
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.
Episode 36: 24 Hours at North Fork
1958-05-2430 min
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.
Episode 37: Silver Convoy
1958-05-3130 min
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.
Episode 38: Deliver the Body
1958-06-0730 min
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.
Episode 39: The Statue of San Sebastian
1958-06-1430 min
Paladin agrees to capture an outlaw in return for a statue belonging to the local mission.
Series, season and episode metadata is supplied by TMDB. No season-specific provider claim is made on this page.