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First Aired: September 14th, 1957

Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Summary: 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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Season 6

Episode 1: Genesis

Air Date: September 15th, 1962

Summary: After an unsuccessful attempt on his life by young Roderick Jefferson, Paladin is prompted into remembering a similar incident from his past. Once, as a youth, he agreed to pay off a gambling debt by shooting it out with a professional gunfighter.

Episode 2: Taylor's Woman

Air Date: September 22nd, 1962

Summary: A hen-pecked rancher, in San Francisco to marry his housekeeper, hires Paladin to help him get out doing so.

Episode 3: The Fifth Bullet

Air Date: September 29th, 1962

Summary: After eight years, Paladin tries to repay a convict for the lie he was told when he arrested him. "I promise you a fair trial" is what he said.

Episode 4: A Place For Abel Hix

Air Date: October 6th, 1962

Summary: Hix sends for Paladin. When he arrives in town, he finds that Hix was killed in a gunfight even though he's the fastest man with gun who ever lived.

Episode 5: Beau Geste

Air Date: October 13rd, 1962

Summary: After 15 years in office, Sheriff Dobbs is retiring and some old enemies are just waiting for the day he turns in his badge. Paladin received a newspaper clipping about the sheriff and $10 to save Dobbs' life.

Episode 6: Bird of Time

Air Date: October 20th, 1962

Summary: Paladin rides upon a man named Stryker hanging from a tree. When he learns Paladin is after the same man but with a warrant, he says he has stronger reasons and hopes he won't get in his way.

Episode 7: Memories of Monica

Air Date: October 27th, 1962

Summary: Repaying a debt, Paladin rides to Valley Heart. Sheriff Reagan awaits the return of a native son who has been jailed for the past six years.

Episode 8: The Predators

Air Date: November 3rd, 1962

Summary: Paladin is after a man suspected of killing a marshal. After finally capturing him in the desert he claims his innocence.

Episode 9: Shootout at Hogtooth

Air Date: November 10th, 1962

Summary: 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.

Episode 10: A Miracle for St. Francis

Air Date: November 17th, 1962

Summary: Paladin rides to the San Luis Rey church in search of a very old brandy. When he is asked by the Padre to retrieve a statue of worship, they strike a bargain where they both may get what they want.

Episode 11: Marshal of Sweetwater

Air Date: November 24th, 1962

Summary: Sweetwater was a wild town before Thomas Carey, a retired Army scout and old friend of Paladin, became marshal. But Carey has taken over complete control and turned into a killer. Paladin has to stop him and Carey has always seemed the faster of the two.

Episode 12: Man in an Hourglass

Air Date: December 1st, 1962

Summary: 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.

Episode 13: Penelope

Air Date: December 8th, 1962

Summary: 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.

Episode 14: Trial at Tablerock

Air Date: December 15th, 1962

Summary: Adams, the prosecutor, wants to hire Paladin to rid the town of someone he says is getting away with murder.

Episode 15: Be Not Forgetful of Strangers

Air Date: December 22nd, 1962

Summary: Paladin rides into a Texas town at Christmas time and encounters a saloon full of merrymakers. Soon afterward a cowboy brings in a pregnant girl who may not survive the impending birth.

Episode 16: The Treasure

Air Date: December 29th, 1962

Summary: Jess Harden, about to be released from prison for an $80K robbery he says he didn't commit, returns to the same town not knowing that it's a ghost town.

Episode 17: Brotherhood

Air Date: January 5th, 1963

Summary: Abe and Jim Redrock are both well educated. The only problem they always run into is they are also Indians. Abe stays true to his heritage, causing trouble for the elected sheriff of Latigo.

Episode 18: Bob Wire

Air Date: January 12nd, 1963

Summary: Bob Wire hires Paladin, C.O.D., to escort him and his wagon load of barb wire to Anderson.

Episode 19: The Debutante

Air Date: January 19th, 1963

Summary: Mrs. Quincy longs to see her granddaughter who has been away since she was six. When her daughter and husband died in the mine fields, she was taken in.

Episode 20: Unforgiving Minute

Air Date: January 26th, 1963

Summary: Fleeing banditos, Paladin seeks shelter from a peasant and his beautiful, scheming wife, their marriage at the breaking point.

Episode 21: American Primitive

Air Date: February 2nd, 1963

Summary: 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.

Episode 22: The Burning Tree

Air Date: February 9th, 1963

Summary: 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.

Episode 23: Cage at McNaab

Air Date: February 16th, 1963

Summary: 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.

Episode 24: The Caravan

Air Date: February 23rd, 1963

Summary: 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.

Episode 25: The Walking Years

Air Date: March 2nd, 1963

Summary: 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.

Episode 26: Sweet Lady of the Moon

Air Date: March 9th, 1963

Summary: Carl Soddenberg committed a heinous, murderous act. Paladin is hired to get him to an asylum and keep the family's survivors at bay who are out for revenge.

Episode 27: The Savages

Air Date: March 16th, 1963

Summary: An art collector hires Paladin to guide him, and his strangely childlike daughter, to the camp of a reclusive sculptor.

Episode 28: The Eve of St. Elmo

Air Date: March 23rd, 1963

Summary: Colonel Draco invites Paladin to investigate an "insurrection" over water rights. Paladin discovers that Draco was crippled eight months previously and wants revenge. Paladin has no intention of being Draco's executioner.

Episode 29: Lady of the Fifth Moon

Air Date: March 30th, 1963

Summary: 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.

Episode 30: Two Plus One

Air Date: April 6th, 1963

Summary: Paladin is riding to meet a lovely French lady in Los Angelos. On the way he encounters an Indian maiden being attacked. The girl, Taymanee, after being rescued, informs Paladin that she now belongs to him. His tryst takes a bad turn when Taymanee's attackers return.

Episode 31: The Black Bull

Air Date: April 13rd, 1963

Summary: After being tortured, Paladin, becomes a surrogate bull for a famous, but now insane bullfighter, Nino Ybarra..

Episode 32: Face of a Shadow

Air Date: April 20th, 1963

Summary: Paladin is hired by a man to deliver ten thousand dollars. When the man is found dead, with the money missing, Paladin has to sift through a numbr of suspects, including a band of gypsies and the men who found the body.

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