This Western was a bit of an oddball as it had started out as a TV show before going onto radio. It featured the adventures of Paladin, a San Francisco based gunman for hire with a conscience whose services didn't come cheap. The format of the TV show was followed quite closely (in fact, some of the scripts were TV episodes adapted for radio). It ran 1958-1960 and starred John Dehner (who had just finished with Frontier Gentleman) as Paladin, with Ben Wright as the Chinese bellhop Heyboy and Virginia Gregg as Miss Wong.
A Matter of Ethics
A prisoner being transported to Wyoming for his trial hires Paladin to make sure that he gets tried by a judge and jury rather than a lynch mob.
A Sense of Justice
Paladin is hired by a town sheriff to help keep a mentally retarded man accused of murder from being subjected to lynch mob justice.
About Face
All That Glitters
Apache Concerto
Paladin is hired to find a harmonium seller and his niece who have gone missing in Arizona. He locates them, but is further hindered by their lack of frontier smarts.
Assignment at Stone's Crossing
While going to meet a client, Paladin gets mistaken for a gunslinger wanted for murder and ends up as the guest of honor at a hemp necktie party.
Bad Bert
Birds of a Feather
Paladin goes to Colorado to settle a violent dispute between two rail companies over who a particular right-of-way belongs to.
Bitter Vengeance
Bitter Wine
A vineyard owner hires Paladin to deal with an uncompromising oil driller whose operations are ruining his grape crop.
Blind Courage
A blind businessman hires Paladin to coach him to shoot with accuracy so that he can challenge a gambler who has been toying with his daughter's affections to a duel.
Bonanza
Paladin arrives at Virginia City where he’s to investigate a mine that’s picked up a reputation for being haunted ever since a recent fire.
The Boss
Bounty Hunter
Bring Him Back Alive
Bringing Up Ollie
British Courage
Paladin escorts a British lord to his recently inherited ranch in Montana. He has much trouble fitting in because of his greenhorn ways.
Review: The Englishman comes across as an intelligent man in an unfamiliar place, not a stereotypical Eastern boob. Well-written.- K.A. Wedal
Brothers Lost
Caesar's Wife
The Colonel and the Lady
Paladin is hired by a colonel to locate a notorious boomtown calico queen, allegedly for a book about the West he says he's writing.
Comanche
Paladin is hired to locate a deserter from the 7th Cavalry up in Montana during a time when the Sioux are on the warpath.
Contessa Marie Desmoulins
Dad Blamed Luck
A prospector who was swindled out of his strike in an area that had been thought to have been dried up hires Paladin to help him get it back, promising to pay him once he actually manages to dig up enough gold for the fee.
Dead Line
Death of a Young Gunfighter
Paladin confronts a notorious gunslinger who wishes to give up his violent ways but has trouble controlling his bloodlust.
Deliver the Body
Paladin is hired by a town's mayor to track down a man suspected of killing the sheriff. But the mayor's preference that he be brought back dead makes Paladin wonder about the man's guilt.
Delta Queen
Doctor from Vienna
Paladin is hired by an elderly widow who resides at the Carlton to investigate the curious circumstances that led to the theft of her jewels and gets a lead concerning an Austrian doctor of dubious credentials.
Dollhouse at Diamond Springs
While looking into a bank robbery, Paladin gets tangled in the domestic woes of an acquaintance from his Army days who lives in the area.
Dressed to Kill
Dusty
A boy goes thirty miles to San Francisco to hire Paladin to prevent his abusive uncle from shooting his dog.
Eat Crow
Ella West
The manager of a Wild West show hires Paladin to civilize the virago that's joined his troupe.
Enderby
Fair Fugitive
Father O'Toole's Organ (two-parter)
Finn Alley
Paladin searches for Miss Wong after he learns that she's been taken by slavers.
The Five Books of Owen Deaver
While passing through, Paladin meets a town's new sheriff who has been inflicting restrictive ordinances he learned about Back East on the locals.
See also Bureaucrat (Gunsmoke).
Five Days to Yuma
Paladin is hired by a representative of the governor of Nevada to escort a youthful criminal who is notoriously difficult to keep locked up to Carson City.
Food to Wickenburg
While out of San Francisco to wait out an ardent pursuer, Paladin gets mugged by some relatives of the local sheriff.
For the Birds
Paladin reluctantly takes the job of guarding the shipment of a pair of exotic birds for a war profiteer Back East.
French Leave
From Here to Boston
An aunt in Boston that Paladin didn't know he had dies and leaves her entire fortune to him. Arriving in San Francisco are a couple that are next in line for said fortune if Paladin meets an untimely accident (which could happen at any moment). Final episode.
Gun Shy
Paladin searches for the three men who had robbed Heyboy's uncle of his life savings and his jade chess set.
The Gunsmith
Paladin helps out a former gunsmith who was assaulted in a town where the law has become impotent.
The Hanging Cross
Paladin tries to settle a dispute where a rancher is convinced that the adopted son of an impoverished Pawnee tribe's chieftain is his own son who was kidnapped in a raid six years ago.
Helen of Abajinian
Paladin is hired by an Armenian grape farmer to bring back his daughter and the reluctant cowboy she's eloped with.
Hell Knows No Fury
Heyboy's Revenge
After returning from a trip, Paladin learns that Heyboy has gone off to wreak his vengeance on the rail boss who has killed his brother.
High Wire
While in Salamander City on business, Paladin backs a former circus man in a bet with a local bully on his ability to walk a high wire.
Hired Gun
See Assignment at Stone's Crossing.
Homecoming
A man Paladin brought in two years ago for a stagecoach robbery has had his named cleared thanks to a death bed confession. He's willing to let bygones be bygones, but the paranoid owner of the stagecoach line is sure he's planning for revenge and pressures him to leave town.
In an Evil Time
Paladin is hired to recover the loot from a bank robbery where the most notorious of the robbers doublecrosses his partners.
Irish Luck
Killer's Widow
Paladin is hired by a banker to discover where a now dead robber had concealed the thirty thousand dollars he stole.
The Lady
Paladin is hired by a British lady to escort her to her brother's ranch. Not only does he have to deal with her high-faluting ways, but also some Comanche war parties in the vincinity.
Landfall
Paladin heads up to Washington to help out a logging camp that is being harassed by a competitor.
Like Father
Lina Countryman
Little Guns
The Lonely One
Paladin is put off by the banker who hires him to scare off a man who has been courting his slightly past prime daughter, but finds that the suitor’s intentions aren’t particularly noble either.
Love Birds
A woman in Deadwood contacts Paladin offering a two thousand dollar job but is rather vague as to the details.
Lucky Penny
Maggie O'Bannion
Paladin gets bushwhacked by the corrupt foreman of a ranch which he has mortgaged to the hilt under the nose of the slightly clueless owner.
The Map
The Marriage
Martha Neil
Mistaken Identity
Monster at Moonridge
Paladin heads out to an isolated town to investigate reports of a half-man, half-bear critter roaming the area.
Montana Vendetta
Paladin is hired by a man in Montana to protect him and his brothers from a revenge crazed assailant. Things get a bit awkward when Paladin gets caught in an avalanche and is rescued by the man he’s suppose to protect his client from.
My Son Must Die
Nataemhon
Nellie Watson's Boy
No Visiters
In the deserts of Nevada, Paladin comes across a woman and her baby who were abandoned by the wagon train they were with because it was believed that the baby had typhoid.
North Fork
Paladin helps defend a settlement of Mennonites from some unfriendly locals who are trying to drive them off.
The Odds
Oil
Out of Evil
The Outlaw
Paladin consents to allowing an escaped convict he had captured to see his newborn son before turning him in.
Pat Murphy
Paladin helps a woman get her ailing infant to the only doctor within 200 miles only to find out that he’s been taken by a bounty hunter of dubious ethics on a warrant for a fifteen year old murder.
Prunella's Fella
While Paladin is waiting out a storm with his client, a lost woman stumbles onto their shelter and takes a fancy to Paladin, resulting in a potential shotgun marriage.
Rance Carnival
Paladin is hired to protect a payroll shipment for a rancher who has been hit the previous two times by a man with a grudge against the foreman.
Return Engagement
Paladin learns that his employer wishes to be protected from a man he had framed for a payroll theft who has just finished serving his sentence.
The Return of Doctor Thackery
A doctor of Paladin's acquaintance requests that he come and assist her in keeping a potential smallpox epidemic from spreading.
Roped
Having gotten lost on his way back to San Francisco, Paladin has the misfortune to come across a cabin inhabited by a paranoid horse thief.
Note: This is the first episode in which Miss Wong appears.
Sam Crow
Search for Wylie Dawson
The man responsible for the robbery of a stagecoach office from a while back has confessed, so the prosecuting attorney from the original case hires Paladin to locate the person who was sentenced in his place and had escaped from prison. Of course, such experiences have a way of making a fellow paranoid, and this proves to be no exception.
Shanghai is a Verb
When Heyboy turns up missing, Paladin's search ends up leading him to San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast.
Silver Queen
A prospector Paladin knew had willed his share of a wealthy silver mine to a French actress. But the partner in the mine wishes to contest the will's legality.
So True, Mr. Barnum
Heyboy sinks a large amount of money into what appears to Paladin to be a buried treasure scam. But this one winds up being unusually elaborate.
Somebody Out There Hates Me
Paladin sees an item in the Personals of a San Francisco newspaper where an outlaw he was responsible for getting convicted tells him to meet at a certain town and settle it once and for all.
Stardust
Statue of San Sebastian
While tracking down an outlaw who has been targeting one particular ranch, Paladin learns that his employer possesses a statue which once belonged to a local mission and will only give it back for $2000.
Stopover in Tombstone
Strange Vendetta
A man who gets killed at the opera in San Francisco requests that Paladin escort his body back to his hometown in Mexico. But the task ends up getting far more complicated. Premiere episode.
Talika
The Teacher
Paladin arrives in a town where an influential resident objects to some of the schoolmarm's history lessons and plans to settle the issue forcefully.
That Was No Lady
Paladin is allegedly hired by the respectable element of a town to shut down a saloon. Though he accomplishes this, the end result is not particularly desirable.
They Told Me You Were Dead
Three Bells to Perdido
A man hires Paladin to go across the border to bring back the yellowbelly outlaw that his daughter ran off with.
Too, Too Solid Town
Paladin attends a reunion of his old cavalry unit and learns that a former member who was court-martialed on false charges is going to take down the three men responsible for getting him convicted.
Treasure Hunt
The Wager
A man hires Paladin for bodyguard duties because he claims that some men who want him to sell his railroad stock are getting pushy. But the real reason turns out to be much stranger.
Wedding Day
When in Rome
Winchester Quarantine
While passing through, Paladin is drawn into helping a half-breed Indian rancher who is constantly being harassed by his bigoted neighbors.
Young Gun
Paladin arrives in a town suffering from a drought and tries to settle a dispute over a water source that is controlled by a much despised retired gunslinger and his son.