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Year: 1957  |  1958  |  1959  |  1960  |  1961  |  1962  |  1963


Season 1


"Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957): Season 1: Episode 1 -- Paladin is hired to steal back his client's daughter from a husband and town unfriendly to law abiding citizens

Season 1, Episode 1: Three Bells to Perdido

Original Air Date—14 September 1957
Paladin seeks the job of seizing a rancher's son-in-law at Perdido, an isolated Mexican city of outlaws run by outlaws for outlaws.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Outlaw: Season 1: Episode 2 -- After tracking down an escaped killer, Paladin makes a deal with the fugitive and allows him to say goodbye to his newborn son and wife a detour which turns out to be not so easy.

Season 1, Episode 2: The Outlaw

Original Air Date—21 September 1957
Paladin accepts the task of capturing an escaped criminal, only to form an irregular bond with the convicted man.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Great Mojave Chase: Season 1: Episode 3 -- A Mojave business man, who monopololizes the town's water holes, bets no rider can elude his posse for forty-eight hours in the desert outside of town.

Season 1, Episode 3: The Great Mojave Chase

Original Air Date—28 September 1957
Paladin gambles on eluding an accomplished team of man-hunters in their own stretch of arid wasteland - with the help of an unorthodox Army surplus purchase.

"Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957): Season 1: Episode 4 -- Paladin helps settle a cattle dispute between a peaceful Cherokee rancher and angry cattlemen.

Season 1, Episode 4: Winchester Quarantine

Original Air Date—5 October 1957
When the man in black chooses to aid a tormented Cherokee ranch owner, his actions lead to questions of which side he's really on.

Have Gun Will Travel - A Matter Of Ethics: Season 1: Episode 5 -- An accused murderer, fearing he will be lynched before he is given his day in court, hires Paladin to insure his safety.

Season 1, Episode 5: A Matter of Ethics

Original Air Date—12 October 1957
Paladin secures some ill feelings when he hires his gun to an accused murderer, but may have to fight an altogether unexpected foe in order to keep the terms of his contract.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Bride: Season 1: Episode 6 -- Paladin helps a mail-order-bride in distress over her missing husband to be.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Bride

Original Air Date—19 October 1957
Paladin forsakes a possibly lucrative appointment in order to guard a young woman from desert perils.

"Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957): Season 1: Episode 7 -- Paladin grants a dying nobleman's request to be returned to his homeland.

Season 1, Episode 7: Strange Vendetta

Original Air Date—26 October 1957
When a simple theater invitation turns into a case of assassination, Paladin takes an expensive contract that may prove even more irregular than he realizes.

Have Gun Will Travel - High Wire: Season 1: Episode 8 -- Paladin gets involved in a bet that has an ex-tightrope walker crossing Salamander River.

Season 1, Episode 8: High Wire

Original Air Date—2 November 1957
Paladin plays the sportsman, reluctantly for once, in an effort to reunite a fallen circus performer with his dignity.

Have Gun Will Travel - Show Of Force: Season 1: Episode 9 -- Paladin's take in a poker game turns out handy.

Season 1, Episode 9: Show of Force

Original Air Date—9 November 1957
An all-night poker match's deceptive pot gives Paladin strategic inspiration for ending a range war.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Long Night: Season 1: Episode 10 -- Paladin is accused of murder and is sentenced to death unless the guilty party confesses in time.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Long Night

Original Air Date—16 November 1957
Three men in black wait to be hanged the next day for a murder it seems any one of them might have committed. Of the three, one's holster bears a silver chess knight.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Colonel and the Lady: Season 1: Episode 11 -- Paladin is hired as a detective to dig up the fate of a former saloon girl.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Colonel and the Lady

Original Air Date—23 November 1957
Paladin is hired to research a "lost chapter" of western history for a writer he is told has cruel intentions.

Have Gun Will Travel - No Visitors: Season 1: Episode 12 -- Paladin runs into trouble when trying to seek help for a typhoid victim.

Season 1, Episode 12: No Visitors

Original Air Date—30 November 1957
Paladin's patience is tested when a settlement, believing typhoid to be a direct result of divine will, condemns innocents to death.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Englishman: Season 1: Episode 13 -- Paladin is hired to protect foreign heirs from an irate business man.

Season 1, Episode 13: The Englishman

Original Air Date—7 December 1957
Reckless practical jokes endanger human life as Paladin acquaints an English gentleman with new surroundings.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Yuma Treasure: Season 1: Episode 14 -- Paladin seeks out an Apache chief to settle an important treaty.

Season 1, Episode 14: The Yuma Treasure

Original Air Date—14 December 1957
Summoned to a frontier fort, Paladin learns from a Major Wilson that the nearby Maricopas -- on whose land sits a legendary goldmine -- have recently turned hostile. Paladine agrees to escort the Major to meet Gerada, the Maricopa chief, but Wilson proves to be more interested in stealing gold than resolving differences.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Hanging Cross: Season 1: Episode 15 -- Paladin discovers a rancher plotting revenge for Indians he believes kidnapped his son.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Hanging Cross

Original Air Date—21 December 1957
Christmas proves a dangerous time when a rancher chooses family over peace and violence over negotiation.

Season 1, Episode 16: Helen of Abajinian

Original Air Date—28 December 1957
Paladin is hired to defend an Armenian maiden's honor, but it soon appears that she may not be the one in need of looking after.

Have Gun Will Travel - Ella West: Season 1: Episode 17 -- Paladin is hired to teach etiquette to a female sharpshooter.

Season 1, Episode 17: Ella West

Original Air Date—4 January 1958
Paladin suspects his services may be wasted when he is hired to rein in a fiery female performer's violent, unladylike demeanor.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Reasonable Men: Season 1: Episode 18 -- Paladin intervenes in a dispute between a rancher and his foster son.

Season 1, Episode 18: The Reasonable Man

Original Air Date—11 January 1958
Paladin offers his services in preventing a coming-of-age story from killing either of its two key players.

"Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957): Season 1: Episode 19 -- Paladin offers to help investigate the death of a gold mine owner.

Season 1, Episode 19: The High Graders

Original Air Date—18 January 1958
Paladin's suspicions are aroused after his tailor dies inside his own goldmine.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Last Laugh: Season 1: Episode 20 -- Paladin gets falsely acused of crippling a rancher's wife and must prove his innocence.

Season 1, Episode 20: The Last Laugh

Original Air Date—25 January 1958
Paladin is the subject of a vigilant manhunt after an accident leaves a rancher's wife crippled.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Bostonian: Season 1: Episode 21 -- Paladin is drawn into a feud between a new land owner and cattle rancher

Season 1, Episode 21: The Bostonian

Original Air Date—1 February 1958
Paladin assists a Bostonian in Western exile upon learning they once shared a tailor.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Singer: Season 1: Episode 22 -- Paladin is hired to investigate if a former dance hall singer was forced into marrying a wealthy man

Season 1, Episode 22: The Singer

Original Air Date—8 February 1958
Paladin takes the job of giving ten minutes alone with a married woman, who has operatic aspirations, to a young client.

Have Gun Will Travel - Bitter Wine: Season 1: Episode 23 -- Paladin help a vineyard owner involved in a dispute with his neighbor who is polluting the vineyard owners grapes

Season 1, Episode 23: Bitter Wine

Original Air Date—15 February 1958
It's a small-scale Irish/Italian war when Paladin attempts to make peace between an oilman and a vintner.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Girl From Piccadilly: Season 1: Episode 24 -- Paladin is hired to find a wealthy man's deceased son's wife

Season 1, Episode 24: Girl from Piccadilly

Original Air Date—22 February 1958
Paladin's task is to unite a grieving patron with the daughter-in-law he's never met, but the job is complicated by the rather convenient disappearance of any and all identifying documents.

Have Gun Will Travel - The O'hare Story: Season 1: Episode 25 -- Paladin is torn when he becomes sympathetic towards his client's enemy

Season 1, Episode 25: The O'Hare Story

Original Air Date—1 March 1958
The engineer Paladin is hired to stop may be the only man in the picture he truly respects when the fight for an area's water brings in gunmen with less charitable outlooks.

Have Gun Will Travel - Birds Of A Feather: Season 1: Episode 26 -- Paladin's struggles to settle a right-of-way dispute between two railroads crucial to a town's survival

Season 1, Episode 26: Birds of a Feather

Original Air Date—8 March 1958
A right-of-way dispute has turned a small town into a seething battleground for two railroads and Paladin intends to settle it one way or another, whoever hires him.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Teacher: Season 1: Episode 27 -- Paladin comes to a schoolteacher's defense when veterans threaten her not to teach about Civil War crimes

Season 1, Episode 27: The Teacher

Original Air Date—15 March 1958
Questions of revising the Civil War put a schoolteacher in gunsights until Paladin decides to make a stand, urging those who may find the truth she teaches painful to do the same.

Have Gun Will Travel - Killer's Widow: Season 1: Episode 28 -- Paladin assists a friend in recovering a stolen chess set.

Season 1, Episode 28: Killer's Widow

Original Air Date—22 March 1958
When Paladin is accused of taking stolen money, he searches for a way to use the situation to better a woman whom he has widowed.

Have Gun Will Travel - Gun Shy: Season 1: Episode 29 -- As a favor to Hey Boy, Paladin tracks down the men who robbed Hey Boy's Uncle.

Season 1, Episode 29: Gun Shy

Original Air Date—29 March 1958
In order to collect the gift of a precious jade chess set, Paladin must first intercept the men who stole it from Hey Boy's family.

"Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957): Season 1: Episode 30 -- When helping to promote a prizefighter, circumstances cause Paladin to take his place in the ring

Season 1, Episode 30: The Prize Fight Story

Original Air Date—5 April 1958
To help an old friend, Paladin takes a job guaranteeing a fight against a formidable British boxer when the local Sheriff demands a cut of the action. Keeping the terms of his contract, however, may prove a bit... personal in nature.

Have Gun Will Travel - Hey Boy's Revenge: Season 1: Episode 31 -- Paladin helps his manservent find a murderer

Season 1, Episode 31: Hey Boy's Revenge

Original Air Date—12 April 1958
Paladin learns all to well how arduous easy living can be without Hey Boy's able help and, to regain his friend, must help him in a fight of honor and retribution.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Five Books Of Owen Deaver: Season 1: Episode 32 -- Paladin must make peace between a new sheriff and angry townspeople who do not like his ways

Season 1, Episode 32: The Five Books of Owen Deaver

Original Air Date—26 April 1958
When Philadelphia's penal code is precariously instituted in a frontier town, Paladin decides he owes a favor to an old friend's son.

"Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957): Season 1: Episode 33 -- Paladin helps settle the dispute between a dead man's wife and business partner

Season 1, Episode 33: The Silver Queen

Original Air Date—3 May 1958
When a beautiful lady receives a half-ownership in a silver mine in a rather suspicious-looking will, Paladin sticks his neck out for the sake of a dead man's true wishes.

Have Gun Will Travel - Three Sons: Season 1: Episode 34 -- Trouble arises in Paladin's hotel when a newly married couple arrives.

Season 1, Episode 34: Three Sons

Original Air Date—10 May 1958
Paladin lends his room to a pair of newlyweds and--when the bride receives a wedding gift of her cat, mutilated--intervenes in a vicious family feud that hinges on the patriarch's sanity.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Return Of Dr. Thackeray: Season 1: Episode 35 -- Paladin helps a doctor control rowdy cowhands who have been quarantined for smallpox.

Season 1, Episode 35: The Return of Dr. Thackeray

Original Air Date—17 May 1958
Paladin again assists his friend Phyllis Thackeray, M.D., when impatience and panic threaten to generate a smallpox epidemic.

Have Gun Will Travel - Twenty-Four Hours To North Folk: Season 1: Episode 36 -- When a corrupt business man tries to get rid of a group of friendly Mennonites, Paladin intervenes.

Season 1, Episode 36: Twenty-Four Hours at North Fork

Original Air Date—24 May 1958
When Paladin finds a quick exit from San Francisco convenient he stumbles into some dangerous prejudice against a family of pacifistic Mennonites.

Have Gun Will Travel - Silver Convoy: Season 1: Episode 37 -- Paladin agrees to transport silver, the owner of which uses prison labor to mine.  When Paladin realizes severity of the miners working conditions, he takes measures to rectify the situation.

Season 1, Episode 37: Silver Convoy

Original Air Date—31 May 1958
Paladin ventures into Mexico on the trail of a man who, it turns out, has already been arrested and is dead. Another job presents itself, however, in the form of a shipment of silver dug from the ground by prison labor.

Have Gun Will Travel - Deliver The Body: Season 1: Episode 38 -- Paladin agrees to hunt down an alleged killer but only if he receives a fair trial.

Season 1, Episode 38: Deliver the Body

Original Air Date—7 June 1958
Paladin applies the U.S. Constitution to criminal law in the West when he fights for Habeas Corpus, the right to counsel in defense, and jury trial by peers for a man accused of killing twice with an outmoded cap-and-ball pistol.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Statue Of San Sebastian: Season 1: Episode 39 -- Paladin is given the unusual task to recover a church's holy relic.

Season 1, Episode 39: The Statue of San Sebastian

Original Air Date—14 June 1958
Paladin agrees to track-down a sympathetic highwayman in exchange for the return of a a piece of symbolic statuary currently being held hostage.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: The Manhunter

Original Air Date—13 September 1958
While hunting down the cold blooded killer Jimmy Dawes, Paladin is forced to kill him. When Paladin returns the body, he must face the sheriff and Dawes' angry brothers.

Season 2, Episode 2: In an Evil Time

Original Air Date—20 September 1958
Paladin's quarry is an elderly criminal called Pappy French who insists that every man has a price. Unfortunately, Pappy is also being hunted by more malicious hounds--his own gang.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

Original Air Date—27 September 1958
An awkward rancher hires Paladin to train him in romance even as war looms with a neighboring (female) landowner.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Hanging of Roy Carter

Original Air Date—4 October 1958
Paladin doubts his unlikely task of delaying a state execution until new evidence can be presented can be accomplished without assistance that is not being offered.

Season 2, Episode 5: Duel at Florence

Original Air Date—11 October 1958
Florence township's barber and self-taught physician refuses to kill for the hand of his fiancée, but her other two suitors have no such qualms.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Protégé

Original Air Date—18 October 1958
The training Paladin gives a put-upon young man in the art of gunmanship seems to take quite well--all but the most important lesson of all.

Season 2, Episode 7: The Road to Wickenberg

Original Air Date—25 October 1958
Paladin flees a corrupt town, run by the violent Goodfellows, with a saloon girl whose penchant for literary quotation may match his own.

Season 2, Episode 8: A Sense of Justice

Original Air Date—1 November 1958
Paladin seeks to thwart mob "justice" against a simple young man accused of killing a local womanizer.

Season 2, Episode 9: Young Gun

Original Air Date—8 November 1958
During a bitterly bizarre dispute over an arid region's water supply, Paladin faces a reluctant but deadly gun in the son of resigned shootist.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Lady

Original Air Date—15 November 1958
Comanche violence gravely escalates around Paladin as he guides the Honourable Diane Coulter to her brother's Arizona ranch.

Season 2, Episode 11: A Snare for Murder

Original Air Date—22 November 1958
Paladin becomes entangled with two paranoid miners and a missing Sharps Buffalo rifle.

Season 2, Episode 12: The Ballad of Oscar Wilde

Original Air Date—6 December 1958
When the noted British humorist plans an appearance in San Francisco, Paladin must extricate Oscar Wilde from the unpleasant predicament of being held for ransom.

Season 2, Episode 13: The Solid Gold Patrol

Original Air Date—13 December 1958
Paladin informs a Corporal Callahan, pinned down by the Apache, that his lottery ticket is worth over half a million dollars.

Season 2, Episode 14: Something to Live For

Original Air Date—20 December 1958
Paladin crabbily takes a rich and essentially suicidal alcoholic into his protection while trekking the north country.

Season 2, Episode 15: The Moor's Revenge

Original Air Date—27 December 1958
Shakespeare is brought, against Paladin's advice, to the hamlet of San Diego.

Season 2, Episode 16: The Wager

Original Air Date—3 January 1959
A wealthy patron's request for Paladin's guardianship may end differently than expected with gambling involved--gambling with the highest of stakes.

Season 2, Episode 17: The Taffeta Mayor

Original Air Date—10 January 1959
When a mayoral candidate is killed in an explosion, Paladin sees fit to remind the widow that her great state of Wyoming is the first to grant women suffrage.

Season 2, Episode 18: Lady on the Stagecoach

Original Air Date—17 January 1959
Paladin shares a stage with an enthralling Apache princess and a large shipment of gold.

Season 2, Episode 19: Treasure Trail

Original Air Date—24 January 1959
Paladin reluctantly serves proxy for one of four ex-cavalrymen in their suspicious search for a hidden treasure.

Season 2, Episode 20: Juliet

Original Air Date—31 January 1959
Paladin is just passing through when he walks into a blood feud that threatens to destroy a teenage girl just returning to the area.

Season 2, Episode 21: Hunt the Man Down

Original Air Date—7 February 1959
Neither side has a clean path to victory in the case of two brothers at each other's throats over a woman, a whip, and a wire fence.

Season 2, Episode 22: The Scorched Feather

Original Air Date—14 February 1959
Monsieur Robert Cielbleu hires Paladin to protect former scout Billy Blueskies from a young but dreaded Comanche war chief whose true identity is decidedly open to speculation.

Season 2, Episode 23: The Return of the Lady

Original Air Date—21 February 1959
The Honourable Diana Coulter writes Paladin to ask that he give her away at the upcoming wedding to a proud Confederate general.

Season 2, Episode 24: The Monster of Moon Ridge

Original Air Date—28 February 1959
The story of a creature half bear, half human wandering the Moon Ridge Mountains catches Paladin's eye.

Season 2, Episode 25: The Long Hunt

Original Air Date—7 March 1959
Paladin tracks a fugitive in the Montes de Sangres range of New Mexico, but may find his own sympathies with neither his employer nor his prey.

Season 2, Episode 26: Death of a Gunfighter

Original Air Date—14 March 1959
When his distaste for a potential employer permits a murder to take place on the street in front of him, Paladin ignores an amnesty order to hunt the killer.

Season 2, Episode 27: Incident at Borrasca Bend

Original Air Date—21 March 1959
A surrealistic mining camp takes Paladin prisoner as a murder suspect. Paladin's just passing through, making him a perfect patsy for the drunken all-male residents' rough frontier justice dished out by self-appointed Judge Wesson whose IQ seems to equal the rest of the citizens combined. The bearded Paladin must uncover the wily, real killer before the Borrascans go on a bender and string Paladin up for fun.

Season 2, Episode 28: Maggie O'Bannion

Original Air Date—4 April 1959
Paladin's bushwhacked by an arrogant ranch foreman, so he signs on as a cook in the ranch owner's house, to serve revenge up warm. The fact that the widowed owner's a gorgeous dish figures in Paladin's recipe, plus the BBW servant, Cookie warms up to Paladin quickly.

Season 2, Episode 29: The Chase

Original Air Date—11 April 1959
Pallid bank clerk flees when accused of killing a deputy while robbing the bank. His wife is so sure of his innocence, she hires Paladin to bring him in before a rabid posse does. The posse doesn't seem to care if the young man is guilty or not - they're intoxicated by the scent of blood.

Season 2, Episode 30: Alaska

Original Air Date—18 April 1959

Season 2, Episode 31: The Man Who Lost

Original Air Date—25 April 1959

Season 2, Episode 32: Return of Roy Carter

Original Air Date—2 May 1959
Paladin is summoned by a man who he and a prison chaplain saved from hanging. The man (Roy Carter) has heard that the Chaplain has taken to the hills trying to help catch a prison escapee he feels responsible for.

Season 2, Episode 33: Sons of Aaron Murdock

Original Air Date—9 May 1959
Paladin is retained by Aaron Murdock, who has two sons. One, Lew, is a killer, known for enjoying inflicting pain. The other, 19-year-old Jaime, adores his older brother. Aaron Murdock wants Paladin to prevent Jaime from following the path Lew has taken.

Season 2, Episode 34: Comanche

Original Air Date—16 May 1959
Paladin is hired to find a U.S. Army corporal, who is a deserter and the son of a general. Paladin must travel into Indian territory as he seeks the corporal. Along the way, Paladin encounters a soldier he knew from his own time in the Army. It turns out the corporal is part of the 7th Calvary, and is part of the command of George Custer.

Season 2, Episode 35: Homecoming

Original Air Date—23 May 1959

Season 2, Episode 36: The Fifth Man

Original Air Date—30 May 1959
A killer escapes from prison, steals back to his hometown, then hangs around methodically picking off his enemies. Four respected citizens fall quickly. A terrified local resident contracts Paladin to re-capture the ice-cold convict, but even with the fearsome Paladin entrenched the murderer still doesn't flee. Nor will anybody give Paladin a clue why.

Season 2, Episode 37: Heritage of Anger

Original Air Date—6 June 1959
A young Mexican boy (Joe/Jose) is given up shortly after being born to an American family. Once the boy reached teen age the mother with the help of legendary Mexican bandit/gun hand is trying to get him back. Paladin gets the mother to agree to allow the boy to decide where he will live. Since the boy wants a better education to allow for his plans to be an engineer to come true, he chooses to stay with his parents. This leaves Paladin to deal to with the women's backer.

Season 2, Episode 38: The Haunted Trees

Original Air Date—13 June 1959
Female lumber mill owner accuses her stepson of a sabotage campaign, and hires Paladin to stop it. After her husband died the widow disinherited the stepson. Motive, opportunity, yes, but Paladin's feelings about her become very mixed: sympathetic, aroused, and increasingly suspicious.

Season 2, Episode 39: Gold and Brimstone

Original Air Date—20 June 1959
A feverish old man and his grown son find an abandoned mine dubbed "Satan's Pit." They're trying to fight off a gang, led by Dirks, that wants the mine for themselves, thinking it rich in gold. When things look their worst, the old man says he's sell their souls to the devil. Just then, Paladin appears in a puff of sulfur smoke as the smell of brimstone is in the air.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: First, Catch a Tiger

Original Air Date—12 September 1959

Season 3, Episode 2: Episode in Laredo

Original Air Date—19 September 1959
Palladin befriends a famed gunfighter. He tries to avoid a showdown, but there is no other way out.

Season 3, Episode 3: Les Girls

Original Air Date—26 September 1959

Season 3, Episode 4: The Posse

Original Air Date—3 October 1959

Season 3, Episode 5: Shot by Request

Original Air Date—10 October 1959

Season 3, Episode 6: Pancho

Original Air Date—24 October 1959

Season 3, Episode 7: Fragile

Original Air Date—31 October 1959

Season 3, Episode 8: Unforgiven

Original Air Date—7 November 1959
A disgraced General summons Paladin to his deathbed to deliver a message to a personal enemy. Gen. Crommer tried to court-martial Paladin in the Civil War, so Paladin's a very reluctant messenger. Paladin returned the favor then and takes the assignment now, while back at the wealthy Crommer's mansion, his heirs celebrate the miser's impending demise.

Season 3, Episode 9: The Black Handkerchief

Original Air Date—14 November 1959

Season 3, Episode 10: The Gold Toad

Original Air Date—21 November 1959

Season 3, Episode 11: Tiger

Original Air Date—28 November 1959

Season 3, Episode 12: Champagne Safari

Original Air Date—5 December 1959

Season 3, Episode 13: Charley Red Dog

Original Air Date—12 December 1959
Summoned to a beleaguered Western village to drive off a desperado, Paladin meets a young Native American, who's taken a correspondence course in being a Marshal, and plans to install himself as lawman for the tiny town. Paladin is charmed by the sincerity and honesty of the seemingly naive Charley Red Dog, whose grandfather was shot for sport in the hamlet. Paladin figures they can work together, though Charley doesn't want any help, plus the town puts on an all-out blitz at high noon, to avoid a Red Dog for Marshal...

Season 3, Episode 14: Naked Gun

Original Air Date—19 December 1959
Monk, a grubby and somewhat eccentric cattle thief, latches on to Paladin in the hopes that he will protect him against Rook, a nasty and vicious trail boss.

Season 3, Episode 15: One Came Back

Original Air Date—26 December 1959

Season 3, Episode 16: The Prophet

Original Air Date—2 January 1960

Season 3, Episode 17: The Day of the Bad Man

Original Air Date—9 January 1960

Season 3, Episode 18: The Pledge

Original Air Date—16 January 1960

Season 3, Episode 19: Jenny

Original Air Date—23 January 1960
Paladin intercedes to delay a stalker until his prey Jenny has left San Francisco, but another man, who's eerily calm, KOs Paladin from behind. On horseback, Paladin catches up with her stagecoach, and forces the stalker off, but the silent partner quietly remains on-board, undetected. While all the men on the trip clear a landslide blocking the stagecoach's path, someone else entirely, kidnaps Jenny! Again, Paladin saddles up to go after Jenny.

Season 3, Episode 20: Return to Fort Benjamin

Original Air Date—30 January 1960
An Indian chief asks Paladin for help. His son has been convicted of murder by the army and sentenced to be executed. The chief wants Paladin to help make sure that the boy will be buried according to tribal customs, which he doesn't believe the army will do. Paladin agrees and travels to the fort where the son is being held. However, the more he finds out about the case, the more he becomes convinced that the young man was actually framed for the murder for which he's to be executed.

Season 3, Episode 21: The Night the Town Died

Original Air Date—6 February 1960

Season 3, Episode 22: The Ledge

Original Air Date—13 February 1960

Season 3, Episode 23: The Lady on the Wall

Original Air Date—20 February 1960
Paladin is accused by Bonanza's citizenry of swiping the treasured painting behind the bar of the hamlet's last remaining saloon. The portrait of a vibrant and gorgeous former woman resident, sustains the spirits of elderly townsmen, remembering her and the area's halcyon Gold Rush days.

Season 3, Episode 24: The Misguided Father

Original Air Date—27 February 1960

Season 3, Episode 25: The Hatchet Man

Original Air Date—5 March 1960

Season 3, Episode 26: Fight at Adobe Wells

Original Air Date—12 March 1960

Season 3, Episode 27: The Gladiators

Original Air Date—19 March 1960
Vain old gasbag challenges a young fop to a duel, so Paladin is hired to go to New Orleans to stop it. Complicating Paladin's assignment are his attraction to the older combatant's luscious daughter, and that the younger man imports feared Texas gunslinger Sledge as his second.

Season 3, Episode 28: The Love and a Bad Woman

Original Air Date—26 March 1960

Season 3, Episode 29: An International Affair

Original Air Date—2 April 1960

Season 3, Episode 30: Lady with a Gun

Original Air Date—9 April 1960

Season 3, Episode 31: Never Help the Devil

Original Air Date—16 April 1960
When Dogie's shooting arm is maimed winning a gunfight, the impoverished citizens dig deep to rabidly bet on who will finish off their local menace (and when). Passerby Paladin wants nothing to do with it, but decides even the despicable gunslinger deserves some justice, so he accepts Dogie's $200 to get him out of town, to stand trial.

Season 3, Episode 32: Ambush

Original Air Date—23 April 1960

Season 3, Episode 33: Black Sheep

Original Air Date—30 April 1960

Season 3, Episode 34: Full Circle

Original Air Date—14 May 1960

Season 3, Episode 35: The Twins

Original Air Date—21 May 1960

Season 3, Episode 36: The Campaign of Billy Banjo

Original Air Date—28 May 1960

Season 3, Episode 37: Ransom

Original Air Date—4 June 1960

Season 3, Episode 38: The Trial

Original Air Date—11 June 1960

Season 3, Episode 39: The Search

Original Air Date—18 June 1960

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: The Fatalist

Original Air Date—10 September 1960

Season 4, Episode 2: Love's Young Dream

Original Air Date—17 September 1960
Pelt scavenger Monk returns to plague Paladin when Monk inherits 50% of the Barbary Coast's swankest nightclub. Paladin has to Pygmalion the odoriferous Monk just to stay the disco's bouncers from repeatedly flinging buckskin-clad Monk into a nice, cleansing gutter. To hyena-like Monk, the club's peacock-feathered co-owner Augusta is even more attractive than a freshly killed gazelle. Can even Paladin the sophisticate spruce up Monk enough to keep him atop Nob Hill?

Season 4, Episode 3: A Head of Hair

Original Air Date—24 September 1960

Season 4, Episode 4: Out at the Old Ball Park

Original Air Date—1 October 1960
Paladin is summoned to ump when warring baseball clubs besiege Whiskey Slide. Almost everyone in the cattle town bets heavily on their local cowpokes versus a barnstorming pro 9, so gunshots outnumber home run shots. Paladin's resume includes serving under Gen. Abner Doubleday in the Civil War, and witnessing the first openly pro team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings play in 1869, so Mayor Whiteside, Sheriff Fix, and Chicago Bears manager Marcus Goodbaby ink the expensive free agent ump.

Season 4, Episode 5: Saturday Night

Original Air Date—8 October 1960
Paladin is suspected of murder after taking the wrong road East in a gale, stranding him in a wild town under the gun of a corrupt sheriff. The lawman doesn't mind bar fights, as long as he can take advantage of the combatants, so weary, sodden Paladin is swept into jail with 4 surly locals: including a thief, a barnyard philosopher, and 2 romantic rivals.

Season 4, Episode 6: The Calf

Original Air Date—15 October 1960

Season 4, Episode 7: The Tender Gun

Original Air Date—22 October 1960

Season 4, Episode 8: The Shooting of Jesse May

Original Air Date—29 October 1960

Season 4, Episode 9: The Poker Fiend

Original Air Date—12 November 1960

Season 4, Episode 10: Crowbait

Original Air Date—19 November 1960

Season 4, Episode 11: The Marshall's Boy

Original Air Date—26 November 1960

Season 4, Episode 12: Fogg Bound

Original Air Date—3 December 1960
Phineas Fogg, trying to travel around the world in 80 days, employs Paladin as an armed escort for a segment of the journey. Paladin quickly learns he has more than he bargained for; Fogg is traveling with both a manservant and an Indian princess. Also, the journey will prove to be treacherous.

Season 4, Episode 13: The Legacy

Original Air Date—10 December 1960

Season 4, Episode 14: The Prisoner

Original Air Date—17 December 1960

Season 4, Episode 15: The Puppeteer

Original Air Date—24 December 1960

Season 4, Episode 16: The Sanctuary

Original Air Date—31 December 1960

Season 4, Episode 17: Quiet Night in Town: Part 1

Original Air Date—7 January 1961

Season 4, Episode 18: Quiet Night in Town: Part 2

Original Air Date—14 January 1961

Season 4, Episode 19: The Princess and the Gunfighter

Original Air Date—21 January 1961

Season 4, Episode 20: Shadow of a Man

Original Air Date—28 January 1961

Season 4, Episode 21: Long Way Home

Original Air Date—4 February 1961

Season 4, Episode 22: The Tax Gatherer

Original Air Date—11 February 1961

Season 4, Episode 23: The Fatal Flaw

Original Air Date—25 February 1961

Season 4, Episode 24: Fandango

Original Air Date—4 March 1961

Season 4, Episode 25: The Last Judgment

Original Air Date—11 March 1961

Season 4, Episode 26: The Gold Bar

Original Air Date—18 March 1961

Season 4, Episode 27: Everyman

Original Air Date—25 March 1961
In Temple City, Danceman prohibits guns, killing any gunmen he encounters. When Paladin visits his pal Cus Mincus, the beefy Danceman doesn't exempt the Man in Black, informing him that 'nobody owns life, we just rent it'. Fortune teller Madmoiselle Destin warns Paladin to leave.

Season 4, Episode 28: The Siege

Original Air Date—1 April 1961
The Water Bugs gang poison water unless settlers pay protection. One gang member lolls in the new jail the town is proud of, but unfortunately, the door hasn't been delivered yet. Paladin plans to earn the reward offered by local citizens. But does besieged Apache Junction want justice or vengeance ?

Season 4, Episode 29: Long Weekend

Original Air Date—8 April 1961

Season 4, Episode 30: El Paso Stage

Original Air Date—15 April 1961

Season 4, Episode 31: Duke of Texas

Original Air Date—22 April 1961

Season 4, Episode 32: Broken Image

Original Air Date—29 April 1961

Season 4, Episode 33: Brother's Keeper

Original Air Date—6 May 1961

Season 4, Episode 34: Bearbait

Original Air Date—13 May 1961

Season 4, Episode 35: The Cure

Original Air Date—20 May 1961

Season 4, Episode 36: The Road

Original Air Date—27 May 1961

Season 4, Episode 37: The Uneasy Grave

Original Air Date—3 June 1961

Season 4, Episode 38: Soledad Crossing

Original Air Date—10 June 1961

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: The Vigil

Original Air Date—16 September 1961

Season 5, Episode 2: The Education of Sara Jane

Original Air Date—23 September 1961

Season 5, Episode 3: The Revenger

Original Air Date—30 September 1961

Season 5, Episode 4: Odds for Big Red

Original Air Date—7 October 1961

Season 5, Episode 5: A Proof of Love

Original Air Date—14 October 1961
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. The meek farm-boy hired Paladin to teach him to outdraw the usurper, but Paladin convinces him that he can win her Greek heart with his feet.

Season 5, Episode 6: The Gospel Singer

Original Air Date—21 October 1961

Season 5, Episode 7: The Race

Original Air Date—28 October 1961

Season 5, Episode 8: The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs

Original Air Date—4 November 1961

Season 5, Episode 9: The Piano

Original Air Date—11 November 1961

Season 5, Episode 10: Ben Jalisco

Original Air Date—18 November 1961

Season 5, Episode 11: The Brothers

Original Air Date—25 November 1961
Will prospector Possum Corbin rescue Paladin from dying in a desert, if Paladin reads the encyclopedia to him? In capturing a killer who's laid claim as king to his own country in the Southwest, at first every move Paladin makes is a winner. But when he shortcuts across badlands to get the desperado to trial, Paladin risks his own life and his prisoner's for an expenses-only assignment, done for the sake of a widow impoverished by 2 previous failed attempts.

Season 5, Episode 12: A Drop of Blood

Original Air Date—2 December 1961

Season 5, Episode 13: A Knight to Remember

Original Air Date—9 December 1961

Season 5, Episode 14: Blind Circle

Original Air Date—16 December 1961

Season 5, Episode 15: The Kid

Original Air Date—23 December 1961

Season 5, Episode 16: Justice in Hell

Original Air Date—6 January 1962
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. Paladin helped Boise hide from fellow miners who are so lonely for female company they want Boise to dress up like a woman. The dying Boise realizes he's been afraid all his life, so decides he'll go out like a lion.

Season 5, Episode 17: The Mark of Cain

Original Air Date—13 January 1962
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. Finding someone to betray Doggett in the Bide-a-Wee Saloon is no problem, but crossing the death-line with his prisoner is very tricky. How much justice can Paladin bargain for in Hell ?

Season 5, Episode 18: Lazarus

Original Air Date—20 January 1962

Season 5, Episode 19: The Exiles

Original Air Date—27 January 1962

Season 5, Episode 20: The Hunt

Original Air Date—3 February 1962

Season 5, Episode 21: Dream Girl

Original Air Date—10 February 1962

Season 5, Episode 22: One, Two, Three

Original Air Date—17 February 1962

Season 5, Episode 23: The Waiting Room

Original Air Date—24 February 1962
After a 4 state murder/rape spree, the Wilder Brothers head back to Texas for trial, under Paladin's gun. The slimy pair assure Paladin they have plenty of relatives stationed along the way from Dakota Territory, who'll be delighted to pick off the man in black, because he kills for money, Wilders just kill for fun.

Season 5, Episode 24: The Trap

Original Air Date—3 March 1962

Season 5, Episode 25: Don't Shoot the Piano Player

Original Air Date—10 March 1962

Season 5, Episode 26: Alice

Original Air Date—17 March 1962

Season 5, Episode 27: Man Who Struck Moonshine

Original Air Date—24 March 1962

Season 5, Episode 28: Silent Death

Original Air Date—31 March 1962

Season 5, Episode 29: Hobson's Choice

Original Air Date—7 April 1962

Season 5, Episode 30: Coming of the Tiger

Original Air Date—14 April 1962

Season 5, Episode 31: Darwin's Man

Original Air Date—21 April 1962

Season 5, Episode 32: Invasion

Original Air Date—28 April 1962

Season 5, Episode 33: Cream of the Jest

Original Air Date—5 May 1962

Season 5, Episode 34: Bandit

Original Air Date—12 May 1962

Season 5, Episode 35: Pandora's Box

Original Air Date—19 May 1962

Season 5, Episode 36: Jonah and the Trout

Original Air Date—26 May 1962

Season 5, Episode 37: The Knight

Original Air Date—2 June 1962

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: Genesis

Original Air Date—15 September 1962
Paladin is assaulted in his room at the Hotel Carlton. In a furious fight, he beats down his attacker, Roderick Jefferson. The young man, in turns out, had gambling debts he couldn't repay; the holder of his gambling IOUs wanted Jefferson to kill Paladin. This spurs Paladin to tell Jefferson of a similar occurrence -- involving himself 10 years earlier. As that story unfolds, we learn that Paladin (whose real name we're never told) owed $15,000 to Norge. Paladin's only way out was to go to a valley, entirely owned by Norge, to challenge the mysterious Smoke to a duel. Smoke, a dying gunman, had been nursed to health by the residents of Norge's valley. Paladin is to challenge Smoke to a duel. Smoke's dress is familiar: all black with a symbol of a knight's chess piece on the holster. In short, we're told how Paladin became Paladin.

Season 6, Episode 2: Taylor's Woman

Original Air Date—22 September 1962

Season 6, Episode 3: The Fifth Bullet

Original Air Date—29 September 1962

Season 6, Episode 4: Place for Abel Hix

Original Air Date—6 October 1962

Season 6, Episode 5: Beau Geste

Original Air Date—13 October 1962

Season 6, Episode 6: The Bird of Time

Original Air Date—20 October 1962

Season 6, Episode 7: Memories of Monica

Original Air Date—27 October 1962

Season 6, Episode 8: The Predators

Original Air Date—3 November 1962

Season 6, Episode 9: Shootout at Hogtooth

Original Air Date—10 November 1962
Hogtooth gets more ridicule than usual, when 3 gunmen take over the town, after cleaning it up. Each was hired in secret by a town council member, so the enforcers band together to suck Hogtooth dry. Hey Boy spots an article about the dilemma, and tells Mr. Paladin he's needed.

Season 6, Episode 10: A Miracle for St. Francis

Original Air Date—17 November 1962

Season 6, Episode 11: Marshal of Sweetwater

Original Air Date—24 November 1962

Season 6, Episode 12: Man in an Hourglass

Original Air Date—1 December 1962
A doctor who once saved Paladin's life calls upon him to find and safely bring back the son of a one-time sweetheart.The young man has "taken to the hills" to track down his father's killer.Paladin locates the headstrong youth and his prey but finds the return trip will not be easy-the wanted man has four trailing confederates.

Season 6, Episode 13: Penelope

Original Air Date—8 December 1962

Season 6, Episode 14: Trial at Tablerock

Original Air Date—15 December 1962

Season 6, Episode 15: Be Not Forgetful of Strangers

Original Air Date—22 December 1962

Season 6, Episode 16: The Treasure

Original Air Date—29 December 1962

Season 6, Episode 17: Brotherhood

Original Air Date—5 January 1962

Season 6, Episode 18: Bob Wire

Original Air Date—12 January 1963

Season 6, Episode 19: Debutante

Original Air Date—19 January 1963

Season 6, Episode 20: Unforgiving Minute

Original Air Date—26 January 1963
Fleeing banditos, Paladin seeks shelter from a peasant and his beautiful, scheming wife, their marriage at the breaking point. After being driven from their rural home, the husband hopes to appease his high-maintenance wife by returning to a city. However she eyes the urbane Paladin as the means to her own ends.

Season 6, Episode 21: American Primitive

Original Air Date—2 February 1963
Paladin is joined by his friend Ernie Backwater, an aging sheriff who is out to capture Will Tybee, a wanted fugitive who has spent his life searching for the man who murdered his son. Unfortunately, he's killed five innocent men while doing so, and is more than willing to kill Paladin and the sheriff if they get in his way.

Season 6, Episode 22: The Burning Tree

Original Air Date—9 February 1963
Paladin is escorting a unique prisoner to a trial and certain conviction.A man who has been married seven times and murdered all of them.Stopping for a night of rest, Paladin finds the man is wanted by the townsfolk as a "sacrifice" to appease the local Indian's.A spinsterish young girl has other plans for the "charmer".

Season 6, Episode 23: Cage at McNaab

Original Air Date—16 February 1963
Paladin is asked by the wife of a man who is condemned to die to visit him in prison and see if new evidence can be found to clear her husband.Not sure if he wants the job,Paladin agrees to the visit and it leads to quite an unexpected result.Paladin literally finds he now walks in another man's footsteps.

Season 6, Episode 24: Caravan

Original Air Date—23 February 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.On the journey it is noticed that they are being followed and treachery from within may be the cause of more worry.

Season 6, Episode 25: The Walking Years

Original Air Date—2 March 1963

Season 6, Episode 26: Sweet Lady of the Moon

Original Air Date—9 March 1963

Season 6, Episode 27: The Savages

Original Air Date—16 March 1963

Season 6, Episode 28: The Eve of St. Elmo

Original Air Date—23 March 1963

Season 6, Episode 29: The Lady of the Fifth Moon

Original Air Date—30 March 1963
Paladin agrees to help a Chinese woman flee back to her homeland, rather than take part in an arranged marriage. They are awaiting a ship that will arrive at an isolated spot outside of San Francisco. Paladin and the woman fall in love, complicating whether she will go back to China or not. At the same time, Paladin must protect her from assassins determined she not make it back to China.

Season 6, Episode 30: Two Plus One

Original Air Date—6 April 1963

Season 6, Episode 31: The Black Bull

Original Air Date—13 April 1963

Season 6, Episode 32: Face of a Shadow

Original Air Date—20 April 1963

Season 6, Episode 33: The Sanctuary

Original Air Date—22 June 1963

Season 6, Episode 34: Squatter's Rights

Original Air Date—3 August 1963

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