Episode
Have Gun, Will Travel: The Burning Tree
Overview
Paladin is escorting a unique prisoner to a trial and certain conviction. A man who has been married seven times and murdered all of them.
Details
- Series
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 22
- Air date
- 1963-02-09
Episode context
The Burning Tree is Episode 22 in Season 6 of Have Gun, Will Travel. It aired on 1963-02-09.
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Episode 21: American Primitive
Paladin is joined by his friend Ernie Backwater, an aging sheriff who is out to capture Will Tybee, a wanted fugitive who has spent his life searching for the man who murdered his son.
Episode 23: Cage at McNaab
Paladin is asked by the wife of a man who is condemned to die to visit him in prison and see if new evidence can be found to clear her husband.
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Fleeing banditos, Paladin seeks shelter from a peasant and his beautiful, scheming wife, their marriage at the breaking point.
Episode 24: The Caravan
Paladin is hired to escort a Rani and her party across 150 miles of desert to a safe haven. The Rani is from a country fighting a civil war and she is to be the new leader if her side is victorious.
Episode 19: The Debutante
Mrs. Quincy longs to see her granddaughter who has been away since she was six. When her daughter and husband died in the mine fields, she was taken in.
Episode 25: The Walking Years
A letter from a friend brings Paladin to a bar where he's drugged. He wakes up chained and in the company of a man with a similar story and a woman who's path they've both crossed before.
Episode 18: Bob Wire
Bob Wire hires Paladin, C.O.D., to escort him and his wagon load of barb wire to Anderson.
Episode 26: Sweet Lady of the Moon
Carl Soddenberg committed a heinous, murderous act. Paladin is hired to get him to an asylum and keep the family's survivors at bay who are out for revenge.
Episode 17: Brotherhood
Abe and Jim Redrock are both well educated. The only problem they always run into is they are also Indians. Abe stays true to his heritage, causing trouble for the elected sheriff of Latigo.
Episode 27: The Savages
An art collector hires Paladin to guide him, and his strangely childlike daughter, to the camp of a reclusive sculptor.
Episode 16: The Treasure
Jess Harden, about to be released from prison for an $80K robbery he says he didn't commit, returns to the same town not knowing that it's a ghost town.
Episode 28: The Eve of St. Elmo
Colonel Draco invites Paladin to investigate an "insurrection" over water rights. Paladin discovers that Draco was crippled eight months previously and wants revenge. Paladin has no intention of being Draco's executioner.