Sat, Oct 31, 1959
Paladin is hired by first class chef Etienne (Werner Klemperer) to transport a large piece of plate glass from San Francisco into mining country for his restaurant window. Promised a first-class meal and $1000 for accomplishing this task successfully, Paladin agrees. Along the way there are various difficulties which include Indians, an envious rancher and a drunk who loves the sound of breaking glass.
Sat, Nov 7, 1959
A disgraced General summons Paladin to his deathbed to deliver a message to a personal enemy. Gen. Crommer tried to court-martial Paladin in the Civil War, so Paladin's a very reluctant messenger. Paladin returned the favor then and takes the assignment now, while back at the wealthy Crommer's mansion, his heirs celebrate the miser's impending demise.
Sat, Nov 21, 1959
Webster, a man with three daughters, thinks he's found gold. He's worried that feisty Doris, a woman with three sons, is going to take it away from him so he hires Paladin to protect his interests. Paladin does some research before leaving San Francisco and discovers a solution which breaks the impasse in more ways than one.
Sat, Nov 28, 1959
Paladin receives a bank draft for $1000 asking him to "come kill a tiger before it kills me." In his host's mind this tiger curse is warranted as he wounded a tiger while in India and it came back to a village only to slaughter 100 of its residents. Paladin then learns of a circus coming to town. Its main attraction - a tiger!
Sat, Dec 12, 1959
Summoned to a beleaguered Western village to drive off a desperado, Paladin meets a young Native American, who's taken a correspondence course in being a Marshal, and plans to install himself as lawman for the tiny town. Paladin is charmed by the sincerity and honesty of the seemingly naive Charley Red Dog, whose grandfather was shot for sport in the hamlet. Paladin figures they can work together, though Charley doesn't want any help, plus the town puts on an all-out blitz at high noon, to avoid a Red Dog for Marshal...
Sat, Jan 2, 1960
A U.S. general is teaching Apaches European military tactics, so Paladin is hired by military intelligence to capture or kill the deserter. The general's Apache wife was raped by his own troops, so now General Nunez's combined forces with her tribe near Alamogordo to start a war against the U.S. Cavalry. Paladin served with the General in the Union Army, and is skeptical about the fierce, All Army ex-Indian fighter.
Sat, Jan 16, 1960
Ike Brennan's wife Maureen is being held hostage by Indians. He hires Paladin to escort him to where the Indians will exchange Maureen for food and blankets. Before Paladin can get Maureen back, he must contend with a nosy cavalry patrol and a dangerous secret which just might get everyone killed.
Sat, Jan 23, 1960
Paladin intercedes to delay a stalker until his prey Jenny has left San Francisco, but another man, who's eerily calm, KOs Paladin from behind. On horseback, Paladin catches up with her stagecoach, and forces the stalker off, but the silent partner quietly remains on-board, undetected. While all the men on the trip clear a landslide blocking the stagecoach's path, someone else entirely kidnaps Jenny! Again, Paladin saddles up to go after Jenny.
Sat, Jan 30, 1960
An Indian chief asks Paladin for help. His son has been convicted of murder by the army and sentenced to be executed. The chief wants Paladin to help make sure that the boy will be buried according to tribal customs, which he doesn't believe the army will do. Paladin agrees and travels to the fort where the son is being held. However, the more he finds out about the case, the more he becomes convinced that the young man was actually framed for the murder for which he's to be executed.
Sat, Feb 20, 1960
Paladin is accused by Bonanza's citizenry of swiping the treasured painting behind the bar of the hamlet's last remaining saloon. The portrait of a vibrant and gorgeous former woman resident, sustains the spirits of elderly townsmen, remembering her and the area's halcyon Gold Rush days.
Sat, Mar 26, 1960
Paladin drops his current seduction, to instead kill a husband and marry the rich widow. That's his cover for the assignment from husband Haskel, who reads a chilling message between the lines in his drop-dead wife's personals ad: she's had it with being a trophy. She wants Haskel's head over the mantle now. When Paladin arrives at the couple's ranch, there's a long line of willing applicants already.
Sat, Apr 16, 1960
When Doggie's shooting arm is injured winning a gunfight, the impoverished citizens dig deep to rabidly bet on who will finish off their local menace (and when). Passerby Paladin wants nothing to do with it, but decides even the despicable gunslinger deserves some justice, so he agrees to get him out of town so he can stand trial.