The Best Episodes of Rawhide Season 3

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(116 votes)

   #1 - Incident at Rojo Canyon

   S3:E19/30/1960

   Favor and a calvary detachment lead by Sargeant Matson swear if they did not know better would think they were under attack from a military unit.

   Director:Ted Post

   Writer:Steve Raines

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   Director:Ted Post

   Writer:Steve Raines
2. 

   7.9/10(118 votes)

   #2 - Incident of the Challenge

   S3:E210/14/1960

   Favor gets knocked off his horse and knocked out. He wakes to Aztec Indian who has traveled 1500 miles to find a princess.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Unknown

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3. 

   8.4/10(122 votes)

   #3 - Incident at Dragoon Crossing

   S3:E310/21/1960

   An ailing Favor asks John Cord to take over the herd. He heads them to Dragoon Crossing where the Bates boys demanded tribute when he brought his herd through.

   Director:Ted Post

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Ted Post

   Writer:Unknown
4. 

   8.0/10(95 votes)

   #4 - Incident of the Night Visitor

   S3:E411/4/1960

   Jeff Barkley catches a stranger in the camp, a boy of about twelve. He wings Jeff. They track the boys footprints. Seven or eight men tried to steal the ramuda. Favor finds the boy. He was traveling with some horsetraders led by Nick Mesa. Favor takes the boy back to Mesa. He doesn't want the boy back. Joey Gardner is looking for his Pa.

   Director:R.G. Springsteen

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:R.G. Springsteen

   Writer:Unknown
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   8.0/10(103 votes)

   #5 - Incident of the Slavemaster

   S3:E511/11/1960

   Mrs. Bradley pulls a gun on Victor Laurier and wants to know where her husband is. She knows he isn't dead. Victor was in charge of a POW camp. At the end of the war Victor says he sent 27 union soldiers and three guards, one his son east, but they never reached their destination. Mrs. Bradley got a letter from her husband four years after he was supposed to have died.

   Director:Ted Post

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Ted Post

   Writer:Unknown
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   8.5/10(105 votes)

   #6 - Incident on the Road to Yesterday

   S3:E611/18/1960

   Ralph Bartlet asks Favor to return $250 to a stage line he held up and to check on his first love.

   Director:R.G. Springsteen

   Writer:Winston Miller

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   Director:R.G. Springsteen

   Writer:Winston Miller
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   7.7/10(87 votes)

   #7 - Incident at Superstition Prairie

   S3:E712/2/1960

   Wish finds an indian left to die in a cave, and rescues him.

   Director:Stuart Heisler

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Stuart Heisler

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8. 

   7.8/10(129 votes)

   #8 - Incident at Poco Tiempo

   S3:E812/9/1960

   The Poco Tiempo bank has been. Rowdy and Quince are suspects and are taken to two nuns to be identified. They say they are not the men. Two desperadoes are holding Father Sebastian until the nuns deliver the money to Blainesville.

   Director:Ted Post

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Ted Post

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9. 

   8.3/10(106 votes)

   #9 - Incident of the Captive

   S3:E912/16/1960

   Harkness Musgrove's III mother is coming to take him home. Mushy asks to be a drover. Favor says yes. Mom's stage gets held up. Mom slaps the bandana off one of the highwaymen. Another stage chases them off. Vince says they'll have to kill her.

   Director:Stuart Heisler

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Stuart Heisler

   Writer:Unknown
10. 

    8.3/10(109 votes)

    #10 - Incident of the Buffalo Soldier

    S3:E101/1/1961

    Rowdy chases after a buffalo soldier who has killed another soldier and has taken off on his horse.

    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Unknown
11. 

    8.0/10(87 votes)

    #11 - Incident of the Broken Word

    S3:E111/20/1961

    Ben Foley resorts to murder to hide the fact the cattle he is selling to Favor are diseased. Frank Pierce accidentily shot Ben's wife years ago.

    Director:R.G. Springsteen

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:R.G. Springsteen

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12. 

    8.0/10(105 votes)

    #12 - Incident at the Top of the World

    S3:E121/27/1961

    There's a new drover who has just spent five years in an army hospital and is addicted to morphine.

    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Ted Post

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13. 

    8.1/10(96 votes)

    #13 - Incident Near the Promised Land

    S3:E132/3/1961

    The drive has reached Sedalia but there is a bank scare and no buyers. Favor must deal with bitter Emma Caldwell to graze the herd.

    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Unknown
14. 

    8.3/10(111 votes)

    #14 - Incident of the Big Blowout

    S3:E142/10/1961

    The drovers celebrate the end of the drive. Rowdy is mistaken for another man.

    Director:George Templeton

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:George Templeton

    Writer:Unknown
15. 

    8.4/10(128 votes)

    #15 - Incident of the Fish Out of Water

    S3:E152/17/1961

    Favor returns to Philadelphia to see his two daughters. Another passenger is Ogala, Chief of the Pawnee. He is going to be in a wild west show.

    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Unknown
16. 

    8.0/10(88 votes)

    #16 - Incident on the Road Back

    S3:E162/24/1961

    The men are gathering for the next drive. A stray horse is tied up. Favor is arrested for horse stealing. The sheriff's wife is having an affair, with Cronin who reported the horse stolen.

    Director:George Templeton

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:George Templeton

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17. 

    8.3/10(115 votes)

    #17 - Incident of the New Start

    S3:E173/3/1961

    Jubal Wade has 1600 head on this drive and demands to be trail boss and says he'll keep Favor's crew if he stays on as ramrod.

    Director:Jus Addiss

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Jus Addiss

    Writer:Unknown
18. 

    8.2/10(88 votes)

    #18 - Incident of the Running Iron

    S3:E183/10/1961

    Frank Miller is a herd cutter getting on in years with a nineteen year old son. Quince chases a rustler off, but is arrested himself.

    Director:Harmon Jones

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Harmon Jones

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19. 

    7.9/10(124 votes)

    #19 - Incident Near Gloomy River

    S3:E193/17/1961

    Dan Fletcher returns to his Ma and brother,Cal, whose home just burned. Cal thinks Frank Travis is trying to run them off. Frank's daughter Flora has had Cal courting her for a year, but she likes Danny.

    Director:R.G. Springsteen

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:R.G. Springsteen

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20. 

    8.2/10(100 votes)

    #20 - Incident of the Boomerang

    S3:E203/24/1961

    Ruthann Harper and Richard Goffage are taking 200 head of cattle to Australia. Ruthann has a questionable past.

    Director:Allen Reisner

    Writer:Charles Larson

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    Director:Allen Reisner

    Writer:Charles Larson
21. 

    7.6/10(98 votes)

    #21 - Incident of his Brother's Keeper

    S3:E213/31/1961

    Paul Evans is confined to a wheelchair. His wife is preparing to run away with Paul's brother. Pete gets stuck in the middle.

    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Buckley Angell

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    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Buckley Angell
22. 

    8.3/10(120 votes)

    #22 - Incident in the Middle of Nowhere

    S3:E224/7/1961

    Favor and Rowdy come upon a ballet in the middle of nowhere. A search for a pass and water leads to villians looking for gold.

    Director:R.G. Springsteen

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:R.G. Springsteen

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23. 

    8.2/10(113 votes)

    #23 - Incident of the Phantom Bugler

    S3:E234/14/1961

    Jayhawkers try to charge Favor for water and a toll to cross the river, on indian territory. Captain Brian Donohoe follows the orders of Judge Brady. Mary, the judges daughter is married to Brian and doesn't like it.

    Director:George Templeton

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:George Templeton

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24. 

    8.0/10(128 votes)

    #24 - Incident of the Lost Idol

    S3:E244/28/1961

    Billy Manson, his mom and sister Laurie are on the way to meet their aunt, who is to take them back east. Two bounty hunters shadow them, hoping to find Clete their wanted father.

    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Unknown
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    8.0/10(96 votes)

    #25 - Incident of the Running Man

    S3:E255/5/1961

    Rowdy is handcuffed to a deputy that says he has to warn Camp Henly. The deputy is shot and Rowdy is arrested for murder.

    Director:Jus Addiss

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Jus Addiss

    Writer:Unknown