Episode
Have Gun, Will Travel: The Ballad of Oscar Wilde
Overview
Paladin is hired to protect Oscar Wilde. Another 3 men apply for the job, but after Paladin upstages them they kidnap Wilde for ransom. Paladin takes care of them, his way.
Details
- Series
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1958-12-06
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Ballad of Oscar Wilde is Episode 12 in Season 2 of Have Gun, Will Travel. It aired on 1958-12-06. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 14: Something to Live For
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Episode 9: Young Gun
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Episode 15: The Moor's Revenge
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Episode 8: A Sense of Justice
The sheriff of a small town needs help to prevent the lynching of simple-minded Andy Dawes. The townspeople are sure he is a murderer. Paladin offers to help
Episode 16: The Wager
Sid Morgan hires Paladin to protect him from someone who is trying to kill him. After killing the gunfighter who was following them, Paladin finds out the real reason Morgan hired him. He then hands out his own brand of justice.
Episode 7: The Road to Wickenburg
Paladin wakes up after being drugged, beaten and robbed in the town of Blue Bell by five men, one of whom is the town's sheriff. They took his money, gun, bullets, horse and saddle. All he has left is his two-shot derringer.
Episode 17: The Taffeta Mayor
John Kellaway, who is running for mayor of Colton, Wyoming, hires Paladin to protect him from his opposition. When he is killed before Paladin can get there, Paladin persuades John's widow to run for mayor.
Episode 6: The Protege
Paladin answers an ad in the paper by Kurt Sprague: ""Teach me to quick draw and shoot. Instruction desperately needed. Will pay one thousand dollars. Only experts need apply."" Kurt needs to learn in order to go back home. Paladin does a very good job. Only one problem: Kurt enjoys showing off his new found skill a little too much.
Episode 18: Lady on the Stagecoach
Paladin is traveling on a stagecoach with four others, one of whom is Della White Cloud, the educated daughter of an Apache chief. The stage is also carrying a strongbox full of gold, which Ed Rance wants.