Have Gun - Will Travel

- Season 2

(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.

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.

An awkward rancher hires Paladin to train him in romance even as war looms with a neighboring (female) landowner.

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.

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.

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.

Paladin flees a corrupt town, run by the violent Goodfellows, with a saloon girl whose penchant for literary quotation may match his own.

Paladin seeks to thwart mob "justice" against a simple young man accused of killing a local womanizer.

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.

Comanche violence gravely escalates around Paladin as he guides the Honourable Diane Coulter to her brother's Arizona ranch.

Paladin becomes entangled with two paranoid miners and a missing Sharps Buffalo rifle.

When the noted Irish humorist plans an appearance in San Francisco, Paladin must extricate Oscar Wilde from the unpleasant predicament of being held for ransom.

Paladin informs a Corporal Callahan, pinned down by the Apache, that his lottery ticket is worth over half a million dollars.

Paladin crabbily takes a rich and essentially suicidal alcoholic into his protection while trekking the north country.

Shakespeare is brought, against Paladin's advice, to the hamlet of San Diego.

A wealthy patron's request for Paladin's guardianship may end differently than expected with gambling involved--gambling with the highest of stakes.

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.

Paladin shares a stage with an enthralling Apache princess and a large shipment of gold.

Paladin reluctantly serves proxy for one of four ex-cavalrymen in their suspicious search for a hidden treasure.

Paladin is just passing through when he walks into a blood feud that threatens to destroy a teenage girl just returning to the area.

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.

Monsieur Robert Ceilbleu hires Paladin to protect former scout Billy Blue Sky from a young but dreaded Comanche war chief whose true identity is decidedly open to speculation.

The Honourable Diana Coulter writes Paladin to ask that he give her away at the upcoming wedding to a proud Confederate general.

The story of a creature half bear, half human wandering the Moon Ridge Mountains catches Paladin's eye.

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.

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.

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.

Beaten and robbed of his belongings outside O'Bannion Ranch, Paladin takes a job there. His cultured ways eventually win over haughty, shut-in ranch owner Maggie, but can he save her ranch from the crooked foreman bent on stealing it?

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.

Paladin receives an urgent letter from a man he plays chess with through the mail. When he arrives he sees his friend being beaten by two men who dispute his claim and don't want to share this newly acquired wilderness with anyone. A fixed dog sled race helps a local official decide who should share in these spoils after all.

Palidin is hired by Joe Gage to bring in Ben Coey for the murder of Mrs. Bryson's husband -- $500 Dead or $1000 Alive. Everyone tells him to just collect the $500. But Ben says he didn't do it and the only witness is Mrs. Bryson who he says he never met.

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.

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.

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.

Paladin is hired to escort a recently released, wrongfully convicted man back to the town of Hammond to make reparations. The man who hires him now is the same who hired him to arrest this man two years ago.

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.

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.

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.

A feverish old man and his grown son find an abandoned mine dubbed "Lucifer'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 would 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.