• Air date: 14 Sep '57 39 episodes
      The first season of Have Gun — Will Travel originally aired Saturdays at 9:30-10:00 pm on CBS from September 14, 1957 to June 14, 1958. The Region 1 DVD was released on May 11, 2004.
  • List of Episodes (39)
    • 1. Three Bells to Perdido

      14 Sep '57
      New Mexico rancher Jesse Reade hires Paladin for $1,000 to bring back outlaw Dave Enderly, who has run off to Perdido, Mexico with Reade's daughter Nancy.
    • 2. The Outlaw

      21 Sep '57
      Manfred Holt breaks out of jail, killing two deputies. Is he on his way to kill the banker who testified against him, or to see his family for the last time? The banker hires Paladin.
    • 3. The Great Mojave Chase

      28 Sep '57
      A sportsman sponsors a contest, betting that no one can elude his posse in the Mojave Desert. When Paladin shows up riding a camel, the man decides that the only way he can still win is to get rid of Paladin.
    • 4. Winchester Quarantine

      05 Oct '57
      At a stagecoach stop, Paladin sees a peaceful Cherokee rancher being beaten by white men who think his cattle are spreading a sickness. Paladin offers his help.
    • 5. A Matter of Ethics

      12 Oct '57
      An accused murderer who fears that he will be lynched before he can be returned to Bender, Wyoming, for trial, hires Paladin to make sure he gets there alive.
    • 6. The Bride

      19 Oct '57
      When a mail-order bride from Philadelphia gets off the stagecoach in the middle of nowhere, Paladin decides to stay with her to make sure that she is safe.
    • 7. Strange Vendetta

      26 Oct '57
      Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.
    • 8. High Wire

      02 Nov '57
      A hobo who was once a circus performer bets a gambler that he can walk across the saloon on a tightrope. When Paladin sees that the gambler intends to cheat, he decides to help even the odds.
    • 9. Show of Force

      09 Nov '57
      After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.
    • 10. The Long Night

      16 Nov '57
      A wealthy cattleman holds Paladin and two other men hostage. They will all die at dawn unless one of them admits to the murder of the rancher's wife.
    • 11. The Colonel and the Lady

      23 Nov '57
      A retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.
    • 12. No Visitors

      30 Nov '57
      When Paladin finds a woman and her apparently typhoid-afflicted child abandoned by a wagonmaster, he enlists the aid of a female doctor from a nearby town, but a religious fanatic then tries to bar them from entry.
    • 13. The Englishman

      07 Dec '57
      Paladin escorts an Englishman to his female cousin's ranch they have inherited in Montana, but finds that an embittered trader is plotting against them.
    • 14. The Yuma Treasure

      14 Dec '57
      Accompanying a cavalry major on a mission to prevent a war by negotiating a treaty with an elusive Apache chief, Paladin must deal with soldiers who have caught gold fever.
    • 15. The Hanging Cross

      21 Dec '57
      On Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.
    • 16. Helen of Abajinian

      28 Dec '57
      An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.
    • 17. Ella West

      04 Jan '58
      The promoter of a wild west show asks Paladin for help taming down a very wild and famous female sharpshooter and show her how to act like a lady.
    • 18. The Reasonable Man

      11 Jan '58
      A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.
    • 19. The High-Graders

      18 Jan '58
      When his tailor is killed in an accident at a supposedly worthless gold mine, Paladin discovers that the man was murdered and his heirs are being swindled.
    • 20. The Last Laugh

      25 Jan '58
      A rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.
    • 21. The Bostonian

      02 Feb '58
      Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.
    • 22. The Singer

      08 Feb '58
      A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.
    • 23. Bitter Wine

      15 Feb '58
      Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.
    • 24. Girl from Piccadilly

      22 Feb '58
      Learning of his son's death, a rich man hires Paladin to locate the daughter-in-law he's never met, but Paladin finds two women both claiming to be her.
    • 25. The O'Hare Story

      01 Mar '58
      Hired to prevent the construction of a dam that would imperil a town's water supply, Paladin finds that he sympathizes more with the Irish engineer who's trying to build it.