Season 3

E1. First, Catch a Tiger

Sep 12, 1959

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.

E2. Episode in Laredo

Sep 19, 1959 · 30m

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.

E3. Les Girls

Sep 26, 1959 · 30m

Paladin is hired to deliver three mail-order brides to Bend-In-The-River.

E4. The Posse

Oct 3, 1959 · 30m

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.

E5. Shot by Request

Oct 10, 1959 · 30m

Ainslee is a well-dressed, middle-aged gentleman and a reluctant gunfighter. He hires Paladin for a very strange task.

E6. Pancho

Oct 24, 1959 · 30m

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.

E7. Fragile

Oct 31, 1959 · 30m

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.

E8. The Unforgiven

Nov 7, 1959 · 30m

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.

E9. The Black Handkerchief

Nov 14, 1959 · 30m

A young man convicted of murder is scheduled for execution, and Paladin attempts to intervene before it's too late.

E10. The Golden Toad

Nov 21, 1959 · 30m

Paladin is drawn into a dispute between a male farmer and a female cattle rancher, with a fortune in buried treasure at stake.

E11. Tiger

Nov 28, 1959 · 30m

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.

E12. Champagne Safari

Dec 5, 1959 · 30m

An old friend of Paladin's requests his help after a family member is killed in an Indian raid.

E13. Charley Red Dog

Dec 12, 1959 · 30m

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.

E14. The Naked Gun

Dec 19, 1959 · 30m

While in Oregon, Paladin makes a new friend, Monk, who he helps get out of a group of unruly herders.

E15. One Came Back

Dec 26, 1959 · 30m

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.

E16. The Prophet

Jan 2, 1960 · 30m

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.

E17. Day of the Badman

Jan 9, 1960 · 30m

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.

E18. The Pledge

Jan 16, 1960 · 30m

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.

E19. Jenny

Jan 23, 1960 · 30m

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.

E20. Return to Fort Benjamin

Jan 30, 1960 · 30m

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.

E21. The Night the Town Died

Feb 6, 1960 · 30m

Aaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell.

E22. The Ledge

Feb 13, 1960 · 30m

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.

E23. The Lady on the Wall

Feb 20, 1960 · 30m

Paladin is accused of stealing a painting in the small town of Bonanza.

E24. The Misguided Father

Feb 27, 1960 · 30m

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.

E25. The Hatchet Man

Mar 5, 1960 · 30m

San Francisco hires Paladin to protect a Chinese detective.

E26. Fight at Adobe Wells

Mar 12, 1960 · 30m

Paladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country.

E27. The Gladiators

Mar 19, 1960 · 30m

Allison Windrom hires Paladin to stop her father and Graham Beckley from dueling.

E28. Love of a Bad Woman

Mar 26, 1960 · 30m

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.

E29. An International Affair

Apr 2, 1960 · 30m

A Hawaiian prince is killed in Paladin's hotel room and Paladin must find out why the prince was targeted.

E30. Lady with a Gun

Apr 9, 1960 · 30m

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.