1. Three Bells to Perdido  

First aired: 9/14/1957

New Mexico rancher Jesse Reade hires Paladin for $1,000 to bring back outlaw Dave Enderby, who has run off to Perdido, Mexico with Reade's daughter Nancy.

2. The Outlaw  

First aired: 9/21/1957

Manfred Holt breaks out of jail, killing two deputies. Is he on his way to kill the banker who testified against him, or to see his family for the last time? The banker hires Paladin.

3. The Great Mojave Chase  

First aired: 9/28/1957

A sportsman sponsors a contest, betting that no one can elude his posse in the Mojave Desert. When Paladin shows up riding a camel, the man decides that the only way he can still win is to get rid of Paladin.

4. Winchester Quarantine  

First aired: 10/5/1957

At a stagecoach stop, Paladin sees a peaceful Cherokee rancher being beaten by white men who think his cattle are spreading a sickness. Paladin offers his help.

5. A Matter of Ethics  

First aired: 10/12/1957

An accused murderer who fears that he will be lynched before he can be returned to Bender, Wyoming, for trial, hires Paladin to make sure he gets there alive.

6. The Bride  

First aired: 10/19/1957

When a pen-pal bride from Philadelphia gets off the stagecoach in the middle of nowhere, Paladin decides to stay with her to make sure that she is safe.

7. Strange Vendetta  

First aired: 10/26/1957

Paladin's new friend, stabbed by an assassin, makes a dying request to have his body taken back home to his hacienda in Mexico.

8. High Wire  

First aired: 11/2/1957

A hobo who was once a circus performer bets a gambler that he can walk across the saloon on a tightrope. When Paladin sees that the gambler intends to cheat, he decides to help even the odds.

9. Show of Force  

First aired: 11/9/1957

After winning a batch of old rifles in a poker game, Paladin finds himself involved in a range war.

10. The Long Night  

First aired: 11/16/1957

A wealthy cattleman holds Paladin and two other men hostage. They will all die at dawn unless one of them admits to the murder of the rancher's wife.

11. The Colonel and the Lady  

First aired: 11/23/1957

A retired colonel sends Paladin to a Nevada mining town to find out what happened to a former saloon girl.

12. No Visitors  

First aired: 11/30/1957

When Paladin finds a woman and her apparently typhoid-afflicted child abandoned by a wagonmaster, he enlists the aid of a female doctor from a nearby town, but a religious fanatic then tries to bar them from entry.

13. The Englishman  

First aired: 12/7/1957

Paladin escorts an Englishman to his female cousin's ranch they have inherited in Montana, but finds that an embittered trader is plotting against them.

14. The Yuma Treasure  

First aired: 12/14/1957

Accompanying a cavalry major on a mission to prevent a war by negotiating a treaty with an elusive Apache chief, Paladin must deal with soldiers who have caught gold fever.

15. The Hanging Cross  

First aired: 12/21/1957

On Christmas eve, an embittered rancher wants revenge on Pawnee Indians who he thinks kidnapped his son several years before.

16. Helen of Abajinian  

First aired: 12/28/1957

An Armenian winemaker hires Paladin to find his runaway daughter and break up her ill-considered romance with a cowhand.

17. Ella West  

First aired: 1/4/1958

The promoter of a wild west show asks Paladin for help taming down a very wild and famous female sharpshooter and show her how to act like a lady.

18. The Reasonable Man  

First aired: 1/11/1958

A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.

19. The High-Graders  

First aired: 1/18/1958

When his tailor is killed in an accident at a supposedly worthless gold mine, Paladin discovers that the man was murdered and his heirs are being swindled.

20. The Last Laugh  

First aired: 1/25/1958

A rancher blames Paladin when a practical joke goes awry and his wife is crippled in a riding accident.

21. The Bostonian  

First aired: 2/2/1958

Paladin protects a new landowner from Boston, who is having an escalating feud with an established cattle rancher.

22. The Singer  

First aired: 2/8/1958

A cowboy seeks help for his former girlfriend, a dancehall singer, who he says was forced into marriage and is now being held prisoner.

23. Bitter Wine  

First aired: 2/15/1958

Paladin is hired to stop a vineyard from being ruined by seepage from an adjacent oil well.

24. Girl from Piccadilly  

First aired: 2/22/1958

Learning of his son's death, a rich man hires Paladin to locate the daughter-in-law he's never met, but Paladin finds two women both claiming to be her.

25. The O'Hare Story  

First aired: 3/1/1958

Hired to prevent the construction of a dam that would imperil a town's water supply, Paladin finds that he sympathizes more with the Irish engineer who's trying to build it.

26. Birds of a Feather  

First aired: 3/8/1958

Paladin must contend with other gunfighters as he tries to settle a right-of-way dispute between two railroads in a Colorado town that will die if they go elsewhere.

27. The Teacher  

First aired: 3/15/1958

Paladin defends a schoolmistress who's being theatened for teaching about war crimes that took place during the Civil War.

28. Killer's Widow  

First aired: 3/22/1958

After having killed a bank robber, Paladin is accused of having taken the stolen money. He visits the dead man's widow and tries to make amends.

29. Gun Shy  

First aired: 3/29/1958

Trying to locate the thieves who stole a jade chess set, Paladin ends up in a small Montana town where he becomes involved in a romance with a landlady's daughter.

30. The Prizefight Story  

First aired: 4/5/1958

When Paladin goes to a mining town to promote a prizefight, his boxer is arrested and he ends up having to take the man's place in the ring -- against the Welsh champion.