Episode
Have Gun, Will Travel: The Return of Dr. Thackeray
Overview
Dr. Phyllis Thackeray diagnoses the cook at the Barton Ranch with smallpox. All the cowhands may be infected and need to be vaccinated. Dr. Thackeray sends for the one man she thinks can help.
Details
- Series
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 35
- Air date
- 1958-05-17
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Return of Dr. Thackeray is Episode 35 in Season 1 of Have Gun, Will Travel. It aired on 1958-05-17. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 34: Three Sons
Newlyweds with no place to stay end up in Paladin's suite. He learns that the groom's half-brothers are threatening to kill their father. Paladin goes to warn the father.
Episode 36: 24 Hours at North Fork
When a blight kills all the crops except for one farmer's, Paladin must protect him from a greedy storekeeper who wants his farm and his hired gun who has a personal grudge against Paladin.
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Episode 33: The Silver Queen
Lonely Leadhead Kane dies and leaves his half of a mine to an actress. Kane's partner wants to challenge the will. Someone wants to make sure Paladin never gets the woman to the courtroom.
Episode 37: Silver Convoy
Paladin is hired to find James Becker. He trails him to Monterey and discovers he has been arrested and is sentenced to work in a silver mine. Paladin finds that Becker has died in a cave-in or so he is told. The owner of the mine hires Paladin to guard a silver convoy, but first Paladin wants to find out a little more about the mine.
Episode 32: The Five Books of Owen Deaver
Paladin comes to the aid of a young sheriff from the East whose attempts to keep law and order are particularly unsuitable for a cowboy town in Wyoming.
Episode 38: Deliver the Body
Paladin is hired to bring in the killer of the sheriff in a Nevada town. He brings him in but has some doubts about his guilt and decides to hang around for the trial.
Episode 31: Hey Boy's Revenge
When Hey Boy's brother is killed for protesting the working conditions on a Chinese railroad gang in Utah, Paladin must get the boy out of jail and bring the killer to justice.
Episode 39: The Statue of San Sebastian
Paladin agrees to capture an outlaw in return for a statue belonging to the local mission.
Episode 30: The Prizefight Story
When Paladin goes to a mining town to promote a prizefight, his boxer is arrested and he ends up having to take the man's place in the ring -- against the Welsh champion.
Episode 29: Gun Shy
Trying to locate the thieves who stole a jade chess set, Paladin ends up in a small Montana town where he becomes involved in a romance with a landlady's daughter.
Episode 28: Killer's Widow
After having killed a bank robber, Paladin is accused of having taken the stolen money. He visits the dead man's widow and tries to make amends.
Episode 27: The Teacher
Paladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.