Season 3
39 episodes · Sep 12, 1959
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.
0/39 watched
Swipe a row to mark watched · long-press to mark up to there
S3E1First, Catch a Tiger
Sep 12, 1959Two 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.
S3E2Episode in Laredo
Sep 19, 195930mKovak 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.
S3E3Les Girls
Sep 26, 195930mPaladin is hired to deliver three mail-order brides to Bend-In-The-River.
S3E4The Posse
Oct 3, 195930mPaladin 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.
S3E5Shot by Request
Oct 10, 195930mAinslee is a well-dressed, middle-aged gentleman and a reluctant gunfighter. He hires Paladin for a very strange task.
S3E6Pancho
Oct 24, 195930mMexican 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.
S3E7Fragile
Oct 31, 195930mPaladin 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.
S3E8The Unforgiven
Nov 7, 195930mRetired 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.
S3E9The Black Handkerchief
Nov 14, 195930mA young man convicted of murder is scheduled for execution, and Paladin attempts to intervene before it's too late.
S3E10The Golden Toad
Nov 21, 195930mPaladin is drawn into a dispute between a male farmer and a female cattle rancher, with a fortune in buried treasure at stake.
S3E11Tiger
Nov 28, 195930mEllsworth 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.
S3E12Champagne Safari
Dec 5, 195930mAn old friend of Paladin's requests his help after a family member is killed in an Indian raid.
S3E13Charley Red Dog
Dec 12, 195930mThe 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.
S3E14The Naked Gun
Dec 19, 195930mWhile in Oregon, Paladin makes a new friend, Monk, who he helps get out of a group of unruly herders.
S3E15One Came Back
Dec 26, 195930mWhen 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.
S3E16The Prophet
Jan 2, 196030mThe 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.
S3E17Day of the Badman
Jan 9, 196030mCynthia 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.
S3E18The Pledge
Jan 16, 196030mIke 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.
S3E19Jenny
Jan 23, 196030mJenny 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.
S3E20Return to Fort Benjamin
Jan 30, 196030mPaladin 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.
S3E21The Night the Town Died
Feb 6, 196030mAaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell.
S3E22The Ledge
Feb 13, 196030mRichard 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.
S3E23The Lady on the Wall
Feb 20, 196030mPaladin is accused of stealing a painting in the small town of Bonanza.
S3E24The Misguided Father
Feb 27, 196030mAn 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.
S3E25The Hatchet Man
Mar 5, 196030mSan Francisco hires Paladin to protect a Chinese detective.
S3E26Fight at Adobe Wells
Mar 12, 196030mPaladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country.
S3E27The Gladiators
Mar 19, 196030mAllison Windrom hires Paladin to stop her father and Graham Beckley from dueling.
S3E28Love of a Bad Woman
Mar 26, 196030mTamsen 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.
S3E29An International Affair
Apr 2, 196030mA Hawaiian prince is killed in Paladin's hotel room and Paladin must find out why the prince was targeted.
S3E30Lady with a Gun
Apr 9, 196030mAfter 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.
S3E31Never Help the Devil
Apr 16, 196030mDoggie 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.
S3E32Ambush
Apr 23, 196030mPaladin 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.
S3E33Black Sheep
Apr 30, 196030mBen 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.
S3E34Full Circle
May 14, 196030mA man who left Paladin to die in his place writes to Paladin and asks for his help.
S3E35The Twins
May 21, 196030mAdam 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.
S3E36The Campaign of Billy Banjo
May 28, 196030mBilly Banjo, a friend of Paladin, asks Paladin to help with a fair election.
S3E37Ransom
Jun 4, 1960Paladin is hired to find Colonel Celine in order to get him to sign an important document.
S3E38The Trial
Jun 11, 196030mPaladin 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.
S3E39The Search
Jun 18, 196030mMrs. 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.