Episode

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Vigil

Name: Have Gun, Will Travel: The Vigil
Released: 1961-09-16
Cast: Richard Boone, Kam Tong, Hal Needham, John George, Lisa Lu

Have Gun, Will TravelSeason 51961-09-16

Overview

Paladin agrees to accompany a nurse to the gold fields; she aspires to replace its deceased physician. Along the way, they encounter two men who have just buried their companion.

Details

Series: Have Gun, Will Travel
Season: Season 5
Episode: Episode 1
Air date: 1961-09-16

Episode context

The Vigil is Episode 1 in Season 5 of Have Gun, Will Travel. It aired on 1961-09-16.

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Episode 2: The Education of Sarah Jane 1961-09-23 The Darrow and Tyler families have been feuding so long they don't remember who started it. It's up to Paladin to help them decide if the feud should continue.

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Episode 3: The Revenger 1961-09-30 Paladin takes a $500 stagecoach ride with an embezzler, a convicted cutthroat, and a murderer to collect the other half of that bill.

Episode 4: Odds for Big Red 1961-10-07 Paladin trails a killer and bank robber to a saloon but while trying to capture him, the saloon's owner, Big Red, is shot.

Episode 5: A Proof of Love 1961-10-14 Paladin urges a momma's boy farmer to win back his wayward mail-order bride, by besting party-animal neighbor Rud Saxon in a dance contest.

Episode 6: The Gospel Singer 1961-10-21 Bugbear wants to change its image. When Paladin is hired, his idea of disarmament is working fine. Until a missionary rides to town with her own methods for doing the same thing.

Episode 7: The Race 1961-10-28 Paladin is offered $1000 to win a horse race called a mule kalanta. When he arrives he finds out what the bet is, and he decides to make a change.

Episode 8: The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs 1961-11-04 Singer Odetta plays Sarah Gibbs, who is barred by a marshal from visiting her condemned husband.

Episode 9: The Piano 1961-11-11 European pianist Franz Lister comes to the United States to give a concert for Mona Lansing, a former saloon hostess. When Lister's piano is stolen, Mona hires Paladin to get it back.

Episode 10: Ben Jalisco 1961-11-18 Escaped killer, Ben Jalisco, is a ruthless hunter who has murdered more than 30 men. Now he is after his wife, Lucy, who informed on him and Paladin, who brought him in.

Episode 11: The Brothers 1961-11-25 Will prospector Possum Corbin rescue Paladin from dying in a desert, if Paladin reads the encyclopedia to him?

Episode 12: A Drop of Blood 1961-12-02 Paladin is invited to best man at Rivka Shotness' wedding. When he arrives he finds that Billy Buckstone, the man the bride's family helped to convict, has been freed from prison and is on his way back.