Have Gun - Will Travel

- Season 1

(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.

Paladin accepts the task of capturing an escaped criminal, only to form an irregular bond with the convicted man.

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.

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.

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.

Paladin forsakes a possibly lucrative appointment in order to guard a young woman from desert perils.

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.

Paladin plays the sportsman, reluctantly for once, in an effort to reunite a fallen circus performer with his dignity.

An all-night poker match's deceptive pot gives Paladin strategic inspiration for ending a range war.

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.

Paladin is hired to research a "lost chapter" of western history for a writer he is told has cruel intentions.

Paladin's patience is tested when a settlement, believing typhoid to be a direct result of divine will, condemns innocents to death.

Reckless practical jokes endanger human life as Paladin acquaints an English gentleman with new surroundings.

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.

Christmas proves a dangerous time when a rancher chooses family over peace and violence over negotiation.

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.

Paladin suspects his services may be wasted when he is hired to rein in a fiery female performer's violent, unladylike demeanor.

Paladin offers his services in preventing a coming-of-age story from killing either of its two key players.

Paladin's suspicions are aroused after his tailor dies inside his own goldmine.

Paladin is the subject of a vigilant manhunt after being wrongly accused of the accident that left a rancher's wife crippled.

Paladin assists a Bostonian in Western exile upon learning they once shared a tailor.

Paladin takes the job of giving ten minutes alone with a married woman, who has operatic aspirations, to a young client.

It's a small-scale Irish/Italian war when Paladin attempts to make peace between an oilman and a vintner.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paladin learns all too 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.

When Philadelphia's penal code is precariously instituted in a frontier town, Paladin decides he owes a favor to an old friend's son.

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.

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.

Paladin again assists his friend Phyllis Thackeray, M.D., when impatience and panic threaten to generate a smallpox epidemic.

When Paladin finds a quick exit from San Francisco convenient he stumbles into some dangerous prejudice against a family of pacifistic Mennonites.

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.

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.

Paladin agrees to track-down a sympathetic highwayman in exchange for the return of a a piece of symbolic statuary currently being held hostage.