S3 E1 • First, Catch a Tiger

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.

Première diffusion : 12 septembre 1959

S3 E2 • Episode in Laredo

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.

Première diffusion : 19 septembre 1959

S3 E3 • Les Girls

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

Première diffusion : 26 septembre 1959

S3 E4 • The Posse

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.

Première diffusion : 3 octobre 1959

S3 E5 • Shot by Request

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

Première diffusion : 10 octobre 1959

S3 E6 • Pancho

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.

Première diffusion : 24 octobre 1959

S3 E7 • Fragile

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.

Première diffusion : 31 octobre 1959

S3 E8 • The Unforgiven

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.

Première diffusion : 7 novembre 1959

S3 E9 • The Black Handkerchief

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

Première diffusion : 14 novembre 1959

S3 E10 • The Golden Toad

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

Première diffusion : 21 novembre 1959

S3 E11 • Tiger

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.

Première diffusion : 28 novembre 1959

S3 E12 • Champagne Safari

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

Première diffusion : 5 décembre 1959

S3 E13 • Charley Red Dog

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.

Première diffusion : 12 décembre 1959

S3 E14 • The Naked Gun

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

Première diffusion : 19 décembre 1959

S3 E15 • One Came Back

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.

Première diffusion : 26 décembre 1959

S3 E16 • The Prophet

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.

Première diffusion : 2 janvier 1960

S3 E17 • The Day of the Badman

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.

Première diffusion : 9 janvier 1960

S3 E19 • Jenny

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.

Première diffusion : 23 janvier 1960

S3 E20 • Return to Fort Benjamin

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.

Première diffusion : 30 janvier 1960

S3 E21 • The Night the Town Died

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

Première diffusion : 6 février 1960

S3 E22 • The Ledge

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.

Première diffusion : 13 février 1960

S3 E23 • The Lady on the Wall

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

Première diffusion : 20 février 1960

S3 E24 • The Misguided Father

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.

Première diffusion : 27 février 1960

S3 E25 • The Hatchet Man

San Francisco hires Paladin to protect a Chinese detective.

Première diffusion : 5 mars 1960

S3 E26 • Fight at Adobe Wells

Paladin is hired to escort Jonathan Guilder through Indian country.

Première diffusion : 12 mars 1960

S3 E27 • The Gladiators

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

Première diffusion : 19 mars 1960

S3 E28 • Love of a Bad Woman

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.

Première diffusion : 26 mars 1960

S3 E29 • An International Affair

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

Première diffusion : 2 avril 1960

S3 E30 • Lady with a Gun

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.

Première diffusion : 9 avril 1960

S3 E31 • Never Help the Devil

Doggie Kramer wins a gunfight, as the whole town he had been bullying watches, but ends up wounded. He needs Paladin to help him get out of town before the townspeople take their revenge.

Première diffusion : 16 avril 1960

S3 E34 • Full Circle

A man who left Paladin to die in his place writes to Paladin and asks for his help.

Première diffusion : 14 mai 1960

S3 E35 • The Twins

Adam Mirakian is wanted for a murder he claims his twin brother Sam committed. He hires Paladin to find his brother and clear his name. The only person who can tell them apart is Adam's wife, Beth.

Première diffusion : 21 mai 1960

S3 E38 • The Trial

Paladin is hired by Morgan Gibbs to bring in his son, who is wanted for murder. There is a $500 dead or alive bounty on him and Morgan offers to pay Paladin $5000 to bring him in alive. When Paladin brings him in draped over his horse, Paladin is put on trial for killing him.

Première diffusion : 11 juin 1960