Season 3

Season 3

1959-09-12
39 Episodes

Overview

The third season of Have Gun – Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 12, 1959 to June 18, 1960. The Region 1 DVD was released on January 3, 2006.

Episodes

First, Catch a Tiger

1. First, Catch a Tiger

1959-09-12

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Two of the three men who brought in and helped to hang an outlaw have been killed by an assassin. The third man, Paladin, is staying at a hotel where one of the guests is the killer.

Episode in Laredo

2. Episode in Laredo

1959-09-19

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Kovak is reserving the entire hotel in Laredo, Texas for Sam Tuttle, a famous unbeatable gunfighter. After Paladin is forced to kill Kovak, Tuttle must challenge Paladin in order to keep his reputation in tact.

Les Girls

3. Les Girls

1959-09-26

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Paladin is hired to deliver three mail-order brides to Bend-In-The-River.

The Posse

4. The Posse

1959-10-03

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Paladin stops to ask a stranger for directions and is invited to share his campsite. Later, when a posse arrives, the man announces that Paladin is the murderer they have been looking for.

Shot by Request

5. Shot by Request

1959-10-10

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Ainslee is a well-dressed, middle-aged gentleman and a reluctant gunfighter. He hires Paladin for a very strange task.

Pancho

6. Pancho

1959-10-24

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Mexican rancher Don Luis Ortega hires Paladin to escort his daughter across the border into the United States. However a peon from her father's ranch is determined to stop them and take her for himself.

Fragile

7. Fragile

1959-10-31

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Paladin is hired by the owner of ""The Frenchman's"" restaurant to take a plate glass window to the town of Panamint, a wild gold-mining town.

The Unforgiven

8. The Unforgiven

1959-11-07

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Retired and wealthy General Crommer is dying. He asks Padadin, who holds an old grudge against him, to do him a favor. He asks him to take a message of forgiveness to another man who hates Crommer. A favor which might get Paladin killed.

The Black Handkerchief

9. The Black Handkerchief

1959-11-14

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A young man convicted of murder is scheduled for execution, and Paladin attempts to intervene before it's too late.

The Golden Toad

10. The Golden Toad

1959-11-21

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Paladin is drawn into a dispute between a male farmer and a female cattle rancher, with a fortune in buried treasure at stake.

Tiger

11. Tiger

1959-11-28

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Ellsworth believes he has had an old tiger curse put on him and that a tiger is coming to kill him. He hires Paladin to protect him from the tiger.

Champagne Safari

12. Champagne Safari

1959-12-05

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An old friend of Paladin's requests his help after a family member is killed in an Indian raid.

Charley Red Dog

13. Charley Red Dog

1959-12-12

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The town of Santa Maria, New Mexico is in need of a new town marshal, and one man, Charley Red Dog, is out to get the job. However, he may not survive unless Paladin lends a hand.

The Naked Gun

14. The Naked Gun

1959-12-19

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While in Oregon, Paladin makes a new friend, Monk, who he helps get out of a group of unruly herders.

One Came Back

15. One Came Back

1959-12-26

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When his five-year prison term for crimes committed during the Civil War is up, Ben Harvey is eager to return to his hometown of Gila. Harvey hires Paladin to keep him protected on the way to Gila.

The Prophet

16. The Prophet

1960-01-02

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The Army asks Paladin to find an Army colonel who disappeared with his Apache wife. There are rumors of an Army officer working with the Apaches and inciting them to war. Paladin is asked to find and stop him at all costs.

Day of the Badman

17. Day of the Badman

1960-01-09

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Cynthia Palmer hires Paladin to clean up the town of Cedar Wells and get a gang out. She also wants him to send her schoolteacher nephew named Laredo back east. Paladin decides he can restore Laredo's self-respect and get rid of the gang at the same time.

The Pledge

18. The Pledge

1960-01-16

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Ike Brennan hires Paladin to escort him through Indian country in order to exchange goods for his wife who is being held hostage by the Indians.

Jenny

19. Jenny

1960-01-23

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Jenny Lake goes to Paladin for help to ward off Wilson, a suitor who is pursuing her. But when Jenny disappears, Paladin must follow a trail to find her.

Return to Fort Benjamin

20. Return to Fort Benjamin

1960-01-30

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Paladin is hired to help an Indian chief whose son is awaiting execution by the U.S. Army. The chief wants Paladin to bring his body back following the execution to ensure he has a proper burial. However, once Paladin makes contact with the chief's son, he begins to wonder if he's actually guilty.

The Night the Town Died

21. The Night the Town Died

1960-02-06

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Aaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell.

The Ledge

22. The Ledge

1960-02-13

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Richard Boone as Paladin is on the road with 4 others when a man in the distance yells to them and then falls off a ledge in an 'impossible to get to space.' John Hoyt plays a doctor who begins to assume the man is dead, but really, everyone is unsure, and worried. The entire episode concerns the issue of mercy killing. Richard Rust plays a young man named Corey who is deathly afraid of heights but who tries to get down to the man to make certain. At one point, they even feel perhaps they should shoot the man just in case he's alive. This episode shows exactly why the show is called a psychological drama western. It is very intense and intellectual, with superb acting. The other two characters are a man who hides his fear by constantly laughing and a man who cannot stop saying he cannot take risks because he has a family.

The Lady on the Wall

23. The Lady on the Wall

1960-02-20

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Paladin is accused of stealing a painting in the small town of Bonanza.

The Misguided Father

24. The Misguided Father

1960-02-27

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An old friend of Paladin is shot and killed in Paladin's hotel room. After returning the body for burial, Paladin sets out to find the killer.

The Hatchet Man

25. The Hatchet Man

1960-03-05

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San Francisco hires Paladin to protect a Chinese detective.

Fight at Adobe Wells

26. Fight at Adobe Wells

1960-03-12

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Paladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country.

The Gladiators

27. The Gladiators

1960-03-19

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Allison Windrom hires Paladin to stop her father and Graham Beckley from dueling.

Love of a Bad Woman

28. Love of a Bad Woman

1960-03-26

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Tamsen Sommers is advertising for a husband, which presents a problem since she already has one. The husband hires Paladin to protect him from the men competing for the right to marry her.

An International Affair

29. An International Affair

1960-04-02

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A Hawaiian prince is killed in Paladin's hotel room and Paladin must find out why the prince was targeted.

Lady with a Gun

30. Lady with a Gun

1960-04-09

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After she attempts to shoot Rudy Rossback and fails, Eve McIntosh offers Paladin $1,000 to kill him. After Paladin turns her down she hires another gunman.

Never Help the Devil

31. Never Help the Devil

1960-04-16

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Doggie Kramer wins a gunfight, as the whole town he had been bullying watches, but ends up wounded. He needs Paladin to help him get out of town before the townspeople take their revenge.

Ambush

32. Ambush

1960-04-23

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Paladin is taking Blandings back to stand trial and stops at a ferry crossing. They are captured and held along with three others. Someone is coming and they are being held until he arrives. Each thinks it's their worst enemy coming to kill them and all they can do is wait.

Black Sheep

33. Black Sheep

1960-04-30

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Ben Huttner is a fugitive wanted for manslaughter. He is also the illegitimate son of a very wealthy man and stands to inherit his five million dollar estate, but he must first come back and stand trial. Paladin is hired to find him and either bring him back to stand trial or get him to sign a paper giving up his inheritance.

Full Circle

34. Full Circle

1960-05-14

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A man who left Paladin to die in his place writes to Paladin and asks for his help.

The Twins

35. The Twins

1960-05-21

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Adam Mirakian is wanted for a murder he claims his twin brother Sam committed. He hires Paladin to find his brother and clear his name. The only person who can tell them apart is Adam's wife, Beth.

The Campaign of Billy Banjo

36. The Campaign of Billy Banjo

1960-05-28

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Billy Banjo, a friend of Paladin, asks Paladin to help with a fair election.

Ransom

37. Ransom

1960-06-04

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Paladin is hired to find Colonel Celine in order to get him to sign an important document.

The Trial

38. The Trial

1960-06-11

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Paladin is hired by Morgan Gibbs to bring in his son, who is wanted for murder. There is a $500 dead or alive bounty on him and Morgan offers to pay Paladin $5000 to bring him in alive. When Paladin brings him in draped over his horse, Paladin is put on trial for killing him.

The Search

39. The Search

1960-06-18

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Mrs. Kilmer is dying and asks Paladin to find her missing son, Martin Kilmer. Edwards, a detective, managed to trace Martin as far as Harper City, where Edwards was then killed. Fred Harper, a half crazy man who runs Harper City, doesn't want Paladin to succeed.