1958
The surviving pre-run audition, recorded fifteen days ahead of the regular premiere, presents three separate voice tests for the role of Paladin.
November 11, 1958
Audition Show
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Paladin escorts the body of Don Miguel Rojas into Mexico and rides into a vendetta.
Paladin's drink is spiked in Bluebell and he is robbed by the family that runs the town.
A circus owner named Tomahawk Carter wants his sharpshooter Ella tamed into a proper lady.
Ned Alcorn hires Paladin to track down the elusive Manfred Holt in Grass Valley.
Matt Beecher believes an eight-year-old Indian boy is his son and steals him away -- the show's Christmas program.
A mother and child are abandoned by their wagon train over a false typhoid scare.
1959
Paladin is hired to bring back both Mr. O'Riley and a dancing girl, restoring her to her father.
James Brunswick inherits a ranch in Fleaton.
Paladin heads into Perdido, Mexico, to bring the Enderbys safely home.
January 25, 1959
The Teacher
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February 1, 1959
A Matter of Ethics
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February 8, 1959
Killer's Widow
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February 15, 1959
Return of Dr. Thackery
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A dispute over a shot horse in Brothertown puts Paladin in the middle of a tense standoff.
Heyboy turns up missing -- and Paladin finds him behind bars.
A Gene Roddenberry script: near Botown, California, Paladin encounters a monster on Moon Ridge.
A young gunfighter named Juan Morita wants to hang up his guns for good.
March 22, 1959
Five Books of Owen Deaver
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March 29, 1959
A Sense of Justice
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April 5, 1959
Maggie O'banion
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Colonel Lathrop hires Paladin to find a missing woman named Gloria Morgan.
April 19, 1959
Birds of a Feather
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Link Dolby is after gunsmith Hans Ricker's handmade gun, and Paladin stands in the way.
Sing Wo's jade chess set and $943 are stolen, and Paladin takes the case.
Fernandez steals the Crown Ranch payroll, and Paladin takes up the chase.
Annette Vargas inherits the Rimrock Mine from a man named Leadhead Kane.
Paladin hunts down $50,000 -- and the legend that surrounds it.
Paladin teaches a blind man named John Southerland to shoot.
June 7, 1959
Roped
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A horse thief believes Paladin is a ranchers' man -- and trouble follows.
A wire from T. Buchanan summons Paladin to trouble brewing in the town of North Fork.
June 14, 1959
North Fork
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June 21, 1959
North Fork
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June 28, 1959
Homecoming
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July 5, 1959
Comanche
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A rancher named Calvert has fenced off the lake in Benedict, Wyoming, and the town is at the breaking point.
July 19, 1959
Deliver the Body
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A wager is placed on the outcome of a gunfight -- with Paladin in the middle on the road to Silver City.
August 2, 1959
High Wire
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While searching for Miss Wong, Paladin is shanghaied.
Paladin guides Diana Colter across dangerous country to Shiprock, Arizona.
Paladin chases what the locals call ghosts deep inside the Consolidated Mine.
Paladin is hired after word comes that Holly Brannan's life is in danger.
Martinez and his bandidos hold up a stagecoach for $50,000, and Paladin gives chase.
J. Wellington Merriweather enlists Paladin to help find her late father's buried treasure.
A telegram from Lola Blackwood in Grass Valley draws Paladin into a new case.
Clell Thomas sits in a Yerka jail on a murder charge -- and someone wires Paladin.
A countess hires Paladin to find a man named Andre on her sprawling Des Molan Ranch.
Paladin takes over as sheriff for the day in Tombstone.
A woman named Marietta Fullon comes to Gila Bend, Arizona, searching for her missing brother -- and finds far more trouble than she expected.
A fugitive professor has escaped and is heading for San Jose -- and Paladin is in pursuit.
Susan Linsey is set to marry in Aston, Kansas, but something is about to go wrong.
On the road to Stone's Crossing, Paladin's path crosses with a man named Myron Curtis.
Elizabeth Mitchell inherits a remote log camp near Palmer Junction, Washington, from her late father.
Paladin calls on Captain Sam Jeffers in El Paso.
Paladin accompanies Janet Stocker on a grim journey to Decoda -- where she expects to die.
Paladin is mistaken for a wanted man named Jake Seidell by a dangerous pursuer named Bodine.
A Carson City man named Roy Tarpley reports ten thousand dollars missing.
Jake Reagan has lost two payroll shipments and needs Paladin to find out why.
Heyboy is ready to go through with an arranged marriage -- and Paladin has something to say about it.
1960
Paladin rides into a man he shot six years ago -- Curly McClain is back, and the account isn't settled.
Banker Melvin Jeffery's trouble with a man named Cort Newman draws Paladin into the dispute.
The French Secret Service's Jaques Pulard hires Paladin as his protection.
Paladin and scout Benjamin Tubbs ride out in search of a missing doctor named Amos Bradbury.
Paladin carries an urgent message for 'Bad Bert' -- his mother needs her Twinkie Boy home.
Paladin steps in when a man named Ira Stokes is caught beating his horse in Alderbend, Colorado.
The sheriff of Little Springs hires Paladin to track down a man named Fred Lawamer.
Paladin is hired to run A.J. Bannon -- the 'Rat of Brackwater' -- out for good.
A $20,000 bank robbery in Diamond Springs, blamed on a man named Grant Hallick, brings Paladin to town.
A news clipping lands on Paladin's table: Barto Tajada has announced he will kill Paladin in Bedrock.
Daniel Carr pulls Paladin from the snow near Beaver Fork, Montana -- and the blood feud that buried him there is still very much alive.
Paladin is hired as bodyguard for a self-styled vigilante who calls himself 'the Avenger.'
Paladin comes face to face with Helen Stonun -- a woman he believed was gone for good.
Heyboy vanishes again, and this time Paladin finds him shanghaied.
Hey Boy is offered $2,000 tied to an untold fortune, and Paladin is drawn into the matter.
April 17, 1960
Prunella's Fella
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Paladin sets out to prove that a man named O'Banon did not commit the killing they say he did.
Paladin is entrusted with delivering a railroad payroll to a man named Henry Matthews.
Paladin escorts Elizabeth Higgins and a boy sick with smallpox to Cotton Willow.
May 15, 1960
Lina Countryman
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The case centers on Matt Penrod and a claim called the Lucky Penny Mine.
May 29, 1960
Dusty
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Young Dusty is afraid his Uncle Muncie is about to kill a man the locals call Mr. Big.
Elsa and Professor Iles are traveling to visit Uncle Alonzo, and Paladin comes along.
Word comes that Wylie Dawson has been exonerated -- but first someone has to find him.
A man named Billy wants to kill three men who were present at his court martial.
June 26, 1960
Doctor from Vienna
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Jamie Howard lost his gold mine in a crooked card game, and Paladin aims to get it back.
The Governor of Nevada wants a prisoner named Jeremy Thompson delivered to Carson City -- fast.
Paladin rides into Preston to help James Ellis end a water rights war before it turns deadly.
Paladin bodyguards the riverboat 'Delta Queen' during a high-stakes race against the 'Stonewall Jackson.'
On a fishing trip with Hey Boy, Paladin saves a woman named Marlaine Carter from a dangerous pursuer.
Paladin fights through a Mexican revolution to retrieve a church organ for Father O'Toole's mission -- Part 1.
Paladin delivers the hard-won organ to Father O'Toole at San Savior -- Part 2.
Sheriff Walker sends a bounty hunter after Paladin -- and Paladin has to decide how to handle it.
Paladin babysits a prized peacock and peahen on a train all the way to New York.
Sheriff Hefler wants a man named Adam Foley out of town -- but Foley's wife is laid up and can't be moved.
Alan Hurley faces a railroad deadline he must meet in Wilway.
Young Johnny Watson is at odds with his stepfather, George.
Paladin visits old friends Ollie and Cora Beardsley in Ora City -- and finds Ollie in jail.
October 2, 1960
Talika
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A military officer named Amos R. Lealand wants out of the Army.
The respectable women of the town have decided that Sam Crow must be shot -- and they want Paladin's help.
A repeat broadcast of the September 1959 story, again built around Lola Blackwood's telegram from Grass Valley.
A jealous husband is gunning for Billy Bob Boggs in White Water Falls, and Paladin is caught between them.
October 30, 1960
Oil
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F. Milton Gardner looks to invest in and purchase oil land from Claude Spicer.
Paladin is shot by a young man named Jim Buford -- and has to decide what to do about it.
November 13, 1960
The Map
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Paladin goes undercover as Jim Griffin to recover $90,000 stolen from Fort Anderson.
The Greenwood sheriff asks Paladin to help solve the murder of a man named Roy Neil.
Miles and Lavina Todd Hunter stand to inherit $100,000 from the death of Miles's late wife -- who turns out to be Paladin's own aunt -- and plan to collect by killing him. Paladin wins out and departs for Boston to settle his aunt's estate, with Hey Boy waving him off from the station: the series' final broadcast.