Have Gun, Will Travel: Season 3

Episode 1: First, Catch a Tiger 1959-09-12 Two 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. Episode 2: Episode in Laredo 1959-09-19 | 30 min Kovak 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. Episode 3: Les Girls 1959-09-26 | 30 min Paladin is hired to deliver three mail-order brides to Bend-In-The-River. Episode 4: The Posse 1959-10-03 | 30 min Paladin 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. Episode 5: Shot by Request 1959-10-10 | 30 min Ainslee is a well-dressed, middle-aged gentleman and a reluctant gunfighter. He hires Paladin for a very strange task. Episode 6: Pancho 1959-10-24 | 30 min Mexican 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. Episode 7: Fragile 1959-10-31 | 30 min Paladin 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. Episode 8: The Unforgiven 1959-11-07 | 30 min Retired 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. Episode 9: The Black Handkerchief 1959-11-14 | 30 min A young man convicted of murder is scheduled for execution, and Paladin attempts to intervene before it's too late. Episode 10: The Golden Toad 1959-11-21 | 30 min Paladin is drawn into a dispute between a male farmer and a female cattle rancher, with a fortune in buried treasure at stake. Episode 11: Tiger 1959-11-28 | 30 min Ellsworth 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. Episode 12: Champagne Safari 1959-12-05 | 30 min An old friend of Paladin's requests his help after a family member is killed in an Indian raid. Episode 13: Charley Red Dog 1959-12-12 | 30 min The 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. Episode 14: The Naked Gun 1959-12-19 | 30 min While in Oregon, Paladin makes a new friend, Monk, who he helps get out of a group of unruly herders. Episode 15: One Came Back 1959-12-26 | 30 min When 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. Episode 16: The Prophet 1960-01-02 | 30 min The 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. Episode 17: Day of the Badman 1960-01-09 | 30 min Cynthia 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. Episode 18: The Pledge 1960-01-16 | 30 min Ike 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. Episode 19: Jenny 1960-01-23 | 30 min Jenny 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. Episode 20: Return to Fort Benjamin 1960-01-30 | 30 min Paladin 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. Episode 21: The Night the Town Died 1960-02-06 | 30 min Aaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell. Episode 22: The Ledge 1960-02-13 | 30 min Richard 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. Episode 23: The Lady on the Wall 1960-02-20 | 30 min Paladin is accused of stealing a painting in the small town of Bonanza. Episode 24: The Misguided Father 1960-02-27 | 30 min An 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. Episode 25: The Hatchet Man 1960-03-05 | 30 min San Francisco hires Paladin to protect a Chinese detective. Episode 26: Fight at Adobe Wells 1960-03-12 | 30 min Paladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country. Episode 27: The Gladiators 1960-03-19 | 30 min Allison Windrom hires Paladin to stop her father and Graham Beckley from dueling. Episode 28: Love of a Bad Woman 1960-03-26 | 30 min Tamsen 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. Episode 29: An International Affair 1960-04-02 | 30 min A Hawaiian prince is killed in Paladin's hotel room and Paladin must find out why the prince was targeted. Episode 30: Lady with a Gun 1960-04-09 | 30 min After 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. Episode 31: Never Help the Devil 1960-04-16 | 30 min Doggie 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. Episode 32: Ambush 1960-04-23 | 30 min Paladin 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. Episode 33: Black Sheep 1960-04-30 | 30 min Ben 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. Episode 34: Full Circle 1960-05-14 | 30 min A man who left Paladin to die in his place writes to Paladin and asks for his help. Episode 35: The Twins 1960-05-21 | 30 min Adam 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. Episode 36: The Campaign of Billy Banjo 1960-05-28 | 30 min Billy Banjo, a friend of Paladin, asks Paladin to help with a fair election. Episode 37: Ransom 1960-06-04 Paladin is hired to find Colonel Celine in order to get him to sign an important document. Episode 38: The Trial 1960-06-11 | 30 min Paladin 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. Episode 39: The Search 1960-06-18 | 30 min Mrs. 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.