Episode
Have Gun, Will Travel: The Night the Town Died
Overview
Aaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell.
Details
- Series
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1960-02-06
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Night the Town Died is Episode 21 in Season 3 of Have Gun, Will Travel. It aired on 1960-02-06. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 20: Return to Fort Benjamin
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 22: The Ledge
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 19: Jenny
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 23: The Lady on the Wall
Paladin is accused of stealing a painting in the small town of Bonanza.
Episode 18: The Pledge
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 24: The Misguided Father
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 17: Day of the Badman
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 25: The Hatchet Man
San Francisco hires Paladin to protect a Chinese detective.
Episode 16: The Prophet
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 26: Fight at Adobe Wells
Paladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country.
Episode 15: One Came Back
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 27: The Gladiators
Allison Windrom hires Paladin to stop her father and Graham Beckley from dueling.