Season 5

Have Gun, Will TravelSeason 5

1961
38 Episodes

The fifth season of Have Gun – Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 16, 1961 to June 2, 1962. Volume 1 of the Region 1 DVD was released on November 30, 2010. Volume 2 was released on February 22, 2011.

Episodes

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S05E01

The Vigil

Paladin agrees to accompany a nurse to the gold fields; she aspires to replace its deceased physician. Along the way, they encounter two men who have just buried their companion.

16 Sept 1961
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S05E02

The Education of Sarah Jane

The Darrow and Tyler families have been feuding so long they don't remember who started it. It's up to Paladin to help them decide if the feud should continue.

23 Sept 1961
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S05E03

The Revenger

Paladin takes a $500 stagecoach ride with an embezzler, a convicted cutthroat, and a murderer to collect the other half of that bill.

30 Sept 1961
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S05E04

Odds for Big Red

Paladin trails a killer and bank robber to a saloon but while trying to capture him, the saloon's owner, Big Red, is shot.

07 Oct 1961
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S05E05

A Proof of Love

Paladin urges a momma's boy farmer to win back his wayward mail-order bride, by besting party-animal neighbor Rud Saxon in a dance contest.

14 Oct 1961
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S05E06

The Gospel Singer

Bugbear wants to change its image. When Paladin is hired, his idea of disarmament is working fine. Until a missionary rides to town with her own methods for doing the same thing.

21 Oct 1961
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S05E07

The Race

Paladin is offered $1000 to win a horse race called a mule kalanta. When he arrives he finds out what the bet is, and he decides to make a change.

28 Oct 1961
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S05E08

The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs

Singer Odetta plays Sarah Gibbs, who is barred by a marshal from visiting her condemned husband.

04 Nov 1961
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S05E09

The Piano

European pianist Franz Lister comes to the United States to give a concert for Mona Lansing, a former saloon hostess. When Lister's piano is stolen, Mona hires Paladin to get it back.

11 Nov 1961
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S05E10

Ben Jalisco

Escaped killer, Ben Jalisco, is a ruthless hunter who has murdered more than 30 men. Now he is after his wife, Lucy, who informed on him and Paladin, who brought him in.

18 Nov 1961
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S05E11

The Brothers

Will prospector Possum Corbin rescue Paladin from dying in a desert, if Paladin reads the encyclopedia to him?

25 Nov 1961
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S05E12

A Drop of Blood

Paladin is invited to best man at Rivka Shotness' wedding. When he arrives he finds that Billy Buckstone, the man the bride's family helped to convict, has been freed from prison and is on his way back.

02 Dec 1961
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S05E13

A Knight to Remember

Paladin is hired to find Don Esteban, who has disappeared. When he finds him he is dressed as a knight in armor and thinks he is Don Quixote.

09 Dec 1961
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S05E14

Blind Circle

Two years ago, the Cattleman's Association put a bounty of $500 on a rustler who was never caught. Now they don't want him pursued but a bounty hunter doesn't know or maybe he doesn't care.

16 Dec 1961
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S05E15

The Kid

Paladin is sent a $100 bill and told there are 9 more like it if he travels to a town called Last Gasp.

23 Dec 1961
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S05E16

Squatter's Rights

Costigan is a land owner and cattleman. He was shot by Clemenceau, a squatter on his land. Paladin has offered to help him get rid of the squatter but doesn't approve of his methods.

30 Dec 1961
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S05E17

Lazarus

After local boozing champ Big Fontana cheats Paladin in a drink-off, sickly Boise Peabody convinced he'll die by morning, challenges the sneaky fast draw to a shootout.

06 Jan 1962
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S05E18

Justice in Hell

Paladin goes after a wagon-master who led the massacre of his own wagon train. Rusty Doggett hides out in a town entirely populated by wanted outlaws.

13 Jan 1962
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S05E19

Mark of Cain

Dr. Avatar hires Paladin to guide him to Jack Trueblood, a notorious western badman who has killed many men. Avatar wants to measure Trueblood's head to confirm his research on cranial measurements.

20 Jan 1962
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S05E20

The Exiles

General Ortega hires Paladin to recover $16 million in French bonds. Where they are and who has them is already known.

27 Jan 1962
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S05E21

The Hunt

Paladin is lured to Oregon under the pretense of a widow in distress. The real reason is to engage him in a deadly hunt with a bored prince.

03 Feb 1962
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S05E22

Dream Girl

Paladin rides upon Buddy Webster's mining camp, who needs a big favor. He has been prospecting for gold dust the last five years.

10 Feb 1962
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S05E23

One, Two, Three

Samuel Keel hires Paladin to find Seth Carter. Keel gives him the names of three people who can help him find Seth. As Paladin finds them, each is murdered. Paladin is determined to find out why.

17 Feb 1962
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S05E24

The Waiting Room

After a 4 state murder spree, the Wilder Brothers head back to Texas for trial, under Paladin's gun.

24 Feb 1962
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S05E25

The Trap

A lawman for 23 years, Jim Buell has always done what he believed was right. Taking in Davy Walsh for shooting at his jail while drunk seemed just that.

03 Mar 1962
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S05E26

Don't Shoot the Piano Player

With no help from local law enforcement, a writer hires Paladin to find her fiancé; in the roughest gutter on the Barbary coast.

10 Mar 1962
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S05E27

Alice

A daughter hires Paladin to help her look for an old friend of his - her mother.

17 Mar 1962
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S05E28

The Man Who Struck Moonshine

Moses Kadish is an alcoholic. He moves to middle of nowhere to try to stop drinking and drills a well. The well produces whiskey instead of water.

24 Mar 1962
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S05E29

Silent Death, Secret Death

Paladin is asked to look for a missing brother, no matter the cost. When he finds out he's been missing for seven years, he accepts this task.

31 Mar 1962
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S05E30

Hobson's Choice

Alfred Nobel, staying at the Carlton, enlists the aid of resident Paladin to recover a mixed up shipment of mineral oil with his more potent nitroglycerin.

07 Apr 1962
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S05E31

The Coming of the Tiger

An elder from the Japanese community informs Paladin that a Nationalistic Japanese Priest, accompanied by a Samurai Warrior, is attempting to enter the country illegally.

14 Apr 1962
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S05E32

Darwin's Man

A rancher (Kent Smith) pits his sons (Richard Rust, Buzz Martin) against one another in a fight to determine which of them will be his heir.

21 Apr 1962
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S05E33

Invasion

The State Department hires Paladin to stop an Irishman (Robert Gist) from invading Canada.

28 Apr 1962
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S05E34

Cream of the Jest

Paladin tries to stay one step ahead of a prankster who may be on the point of playing one prank too many.

05 May 1962
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S05E35

Bandit

A girl bandit robs and kills a stagecoach driver for $50,000. When Paladin catches up to her he finds out she is no lady but with his help is willing to learn.

12 May 1962
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S05E36

Pandora's Box

Protecting the current administration from low gossip and sensationalism, Paladin is asked to discreetly bring the Secretary's son to justice for murder.

19 May 1962
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S05E37

Jonah and the Trout

$20,000 in gold bullion is stolen and dropped into a lake. Paladin decides to try to retrieve it but Jonah, a fisherman, has the spot staked out. He's after a huge trout and doesn't want anyone getting in his way. There's also the three thieves watching and waiting to ambush Paladin once he gets the gold.

26 May 1962
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S05E38

The Knight

Paladin is hired to find a killer. His usual fee is paid for instead with a ring. A ring that may tie his employer to his quarry with him in the middle.

02 Jun 1962