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I don't think you got a very good look at this gun while you had it.
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Episode 1
Paladin agrees to accompany a nurse to the gold fields; she aspires to replace its deceased physician. Along the way, they encounter two men who have just buried their companion.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by Shimon WincelbergGuest stars Kam Tong, Herschel Graham, George Kennedy, George Ford, Hans Moebus, William H. O'Brien, Tony Regan
Episode 2
The Darrow and Tyler families have been feuding so long they don't remember who started it. It's up to Paladin to help them decide if the feud should continue.
Guest stars Duane Eddy, Kam Tong
Episode 3
Paladin takes a $500 stagecoach ride with an embezzler, a convicted cutthroat, and a murderer to collect the other half of that bill.
Guest stars Kam Tong, Shug Fisher, Anthony Caruso, Harry Carey, Jr., Tom Conway, Bud Osborne, Russell Arms
Episode 4
Paladin trails a killer and bank robber to a saloon but while trying to capture him, the saloon's owner, Big Red, is shot.
Directed by Richard DonnerGuest stars Richard Ney, Kam Tong, John George, Perry Cook, Herschel Graham, Murray Pollack, Tony Regan, Robert Karnes
Episode 5
Paladin urges a momma's boy farmer to win back his wayward mail-order bride, by besting party-animal neighbor Rud Saxon in a dance contest.
Directed by Richard BooneGuest stars George Kennedy, Kam Tong, Charles Bronson
Episode 6
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.
Guest stars Ed Peck, Noah Keen
Episode 7
Paladin is offered $1000 to win a horse race called a mule kalanta. When he arrives he finds out what the bet is, and he decides to make a change.
Guest stars Ben Johnson, Michael Pate
Episode 8
Singer Odetta plays Sarah Gibbs, who is barred by a marshal from visiting her condemned husband.
Directed by Richard BooneGuest stars Rupert Crosse, Odetta, Roy Barcroft, Edward Faulkner, Peggy Rea, Barry Cahill, Hal Needham
Episode 9
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.
Directed by Richard DonnerGuest stars Keith Andes, Gertrude Flynn, Kam Tong, Richard Reeves, Antoinette Bower, Roy Engel
Episode 10
Escaped killer, Ben Jalisco, is a ruthless hunter who has murdered more than 30 men. Now he is after his wife, Lucy, who informed on him and Paladin, who brought him in.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Coleen Gray, Lane Chandler, Chuck Roberson, Charles Bronson, John Litel
Episode 11
Will prospector Possum Corbin rescue Paladin from dying in a desert, if Paladin reads the encyclopedia to him?
Guest stars Peggy Stewart, Kam Tong, Buddy Ebsen, Paul Hartman, Edward Faulkner, Hal Needham, Emile Avery, Charles Morton
Episode 12
Paladin is invited to best man at Rivka Shotness' wedding. When he arrives he finds that Billy Buckstone, the man the bride's family helped to convict, has been freed from prison and is on his way back.
Directed by Richard DonnerWritten by Shimon WincelbergGuest stars Mike Kellin, Noah Keen, Kam Tong, Milton Selzer
Episode 13
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.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by Robert DozierGuest stars Hans Conried, Dolores Donlon, Wright King, Richard Shannon, Dorothy Dells
Episode 14
Two years ago, the Cattleman's Association put a bounty of $500 on a rustler who was never caught. Now they don't want him pursued but a bounty hunter doesn't know or maybe he doesn't care.
Directed by Richard DonnerGuest stars Hank Patterson, Hal Taggart
Episode 15
Paladin is sent a $100 bill and told there are 9 more like it if he travels to a town called Last Gasp.
Directed by Elliot SilversteinGuest stars Flip Mark, Kam Tong, Jimmy Dime, Jacques Aubuchon, Roy Engel, Eleanor Audley, Ollie O'Toole, Edmund Cobb
Episode 16
Costigan is a land owner and cattleman. He was shot by Clemenceau, a squatter on his land. Paladin has offered to help him get rid of the squatter but doesn't approve of his methods.
Directed by Richard Boone
Episode 17
After local boozing champ Big Fontana cheats Paladin in a drink-off, sickly Boise Peabody convinced he'll die by morning, challenges the sneaky fast draw to a shootout.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Don Beddoe, Alan Carney, William Schallert
Episode 18
Paladin goes after a wagon-master who led the massacre of his own wagon train. Rusty Doggett hides out in a town entirely populated by wanted outlaws.
Guest stars Kam Tong, Dabbs Greer, L.Q. Jones, Chris Alcaide, Strother Martin
Episode 19
Dr. Avatar hires Paladin to guide him to Jack Trueblood, a notorious western badman who has killed many men. Avatar wants to measure Trueblood's head to confirm his research on cranial measurements.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by Shimon WincelbergGuest stars Kam Tong, Roy Barcroft, Dale Ishimoto, Iphigenie Castiglioni, Herschel Graham, Olive Carey
Episode 20
General Ortega hires Paladin to recover $16 million in French bonds. Where they are and who has them is already known.
Guest stars Joan Tabor, Jay Novello
Episode 21
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.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by Herman GrovesGuest stars Leonid Kinskey, Kam Tong, John Mitchum, Hank Patterson, Edward Faulkner
Episode 22
Paladin rides upon Buddy Webster's mining camp, who needs a big favor. He has been prospecting for gold dust the last five years.
Directed by Richard BooneGuest stars Peggy Ann Garner, Hal Needham
Episode 23
Samuel Keel hires Paladin to find Seth Carter. Keel gives him the names of three people who can help him find Seth. As Paladin finds them, each is murdered. Paladin is determined to find out why.
Directed by William ConradGuest stars Barbara Pepper, Kam Tong, Lloyd Corrigan, Robert F. Simon, Jack Elam, William Woodson, Eve McVeagh, Dorothy Dells
Episode 24
After a 4 state murder spree, the Wilder Brothers head back to Texas for trial, under Paladin's gun.
Guest stars Harry Dean Stanton, James Griffith, Kam Tong, L.Q. Jones, Byron Foulger, George Cisar, John Harmon
Episode 25
A lawman for 23 years, Jim Buell has always done what he believed was right. Taking in Davy Walsh for shooting at his jail while drunk seemed just that.
Directed by Frank PiersonGuest stars Ed Peck, Frank Sutton, Crahan Denton, Kam Tong, Jeanette Nolan
Episode 26
With no help from local law enforcement, a writer hires Paladin to find her fiancé; in the roughest gutter on the Barbary coast.
Guest stars James T. Callahan, George Kennedy, Virginia Gregg, Mike Mazurki
Episode 27
A daughter hires Paladin to help her look for an old friend of his - her mother.
Guest stars William Stevens, Herschel Graham, Richard Shannon, Jena Engstrom, Perry Cook, Jeanette Nolan
Episode 28
Moses Kadish is an alcoholic. He moves to middle of nowhere to try to stop drinking and drills a well. The well produces whiskey instead of water.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Phyllis Avery, William Conrad
Episode 29
Paladin is asked to look for a missing brother, no matter the cost. When he finds out he's been missing for seven years, he accepts this task.
Guest stars Michael Pate, Robert Emhardt
Episode 30
Alfred Nobel, staying at the Carlton, enlists the aid of resident Paladin to recover a mixed up shipment of mineral oil with his more potent nitroglycerin.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Kam Tong, Milton Selzer, Parley Baer, Ollie O'Toole, Olan Soule, Duke Fishman
Episode 31
An elder from the Japanese community informs Paladin that a Nationalistic Japanese Priest, accompanied by a Samurai Warrior, is attempting to enter the country illegally.
Guest stars Teru Shimada, William Wellman Jr., James Hong, Beulah Quo, Bob Okazaki
Episode 32
A rancher (Kent Smith) pits his sons (Richard Rust, Buzz Martin) against one another in a fight to determine which of them will be his heir.
Directed by William ConradGuest stars Kam Tong, Richard Rust, Bud Osborne, John George, Kent Smith, Robert Dornan, Herschel Graham
Episode 33
The State Department hires Paladin to stop an Irishman (Robert Gist) from invading Canada.
Guest stars Robert Gist
Episode 34
Paladin tries to stay one step ahead of a prankster who may be on the point of playing one prank too many.
Directed by Richard DonnerWritten by Shimon WincelbergGuest stars Peter Brocco, Kam Tong, Catherine McLeod, Stanley Adams, Naomi Stevens, Raymond Bailey
Episode 35
A girl bandit robs and kills a stagecoach driver for $50,000. When Paladin catches up to her he finds out she is no lady but with his help is willing to learn.
Directed by Richard BooneGuest stars Herschel Graham, Robert Adler, Jerry Gatlin, Bob Woodward, Hal Needham
Episode 36
Protecting the current administration from low gossip and sensationalism, Paladin is asked to discreetly bring the Secretary's son to justice for murder.
Guest stars Lorna Thayer, Ken Curtis
Episode 37
$20,000 in gold bullion is stolen and dropped into a lake. Paladin decides to try to retrieve it but Jonah, a fisherman, has the spot staked out. He's after a huge trout and doesn't want anyone getting in his way. There's also the three thieves watching and waiting to ambush Paladin once he gets the gold.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGuest stars Crahan Denton, Harry Carey, Jr., John Mitchum, Bill Mumy
Episode 38
Paladin is hired to find a killer. His usual fee is paid for instead with a ring. A ring that may tie his employer to his quarry with him in the middle.
Guest stars Herschel Graham, Jay Novello
Episode information updated Jul 23, 2026
Richard BoonePaladin
Ed Nelson
Kam TongHey Boy
Roy BarcroftJim Sherwood
Robert KarnesJoe Peavey
Jacqueline Scott
Charles BronsonManfred Holt
Karl Swenson
CBSUnited States
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