8.2/10108 votes#1 - Incident at Rojo Canyon
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1960
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
- 8.0/10111 votes
#2 - Incident of the Challenge
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/1960
Favor gets knocked off his horse and knocked out. He wakes to Aztec Indian who has traveled 1500 miles to find a princess.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10112 votes
#3 - Incident at Dragoon Crossing
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1960
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: N/A
- 8.1/1088 votes
#4 - Incident of the Night Visitor
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/1960
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: N/A
- 8.0/1098 votes
#5 - Incident of the Slavemaster
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/1960
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: N/A
- 8.5/1096 votes
#6 - Incident on the Road to Yesterday
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/1960
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
- 7.8/1082 votes
#7 - Incident at Superstition Prairie
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/1960
Wish finds an indian left to die in a cave, and rescues him.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10120 votes
#8 - Incident at Poco Tiempo
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1960
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: N/A
- 8.2/10100 votes
#9 - Incident of the Captive
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/1960
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: N/A
- 8.2/10102 votes
#10 - Incident of the Buffalo Soldier
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/1/1961
Rowdy chases after a buffalo soldier who has killed another soldier and has taken off on his horse.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1081 votes
#11 - Incident of the Broken Word
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/1961
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: N/A
- 8.1/1097 votes
#12 - Incident at the Top of the World
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/1961
There's a new drover who has just spent five years in an army hospital and is addicted to morphine.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1090 votes
#13 - Incident Near the Promised Land
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1961
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: N/A
- 8.2/10104 votes
#14 - Incident of the Big Blowout
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1961
The drovers celebrate the end of the drive. Rowdy is mistaken for another man.
Director: George Templeton
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10117 votes
#15 - Incident of the Fish Out of Water
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1961
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: N/A
- 8.0/1082 votes
#16 - Incident on the Road Back
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1961
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: N/A
- 8.2/10107 votes
#17 - Incident of the New Start
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/3/1961
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: N/A
- 8.1/1082 votes
#18 - Incident of the Running Iron
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/10/1961
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: N/A
- 8.0/10117 votes
#19 - Incident Near Gloomy River
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/17/1961
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: N/A
- 8.1/1093 votes
#20 - Incident of the Boomerang
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/24/1961
Ruthann Harper and Richard Goffage are taking 200 head of cattle to Australia. Ruthann has a questionable past.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Charles Larson
- 7.6/1093 votes
#21 - Incident of his Brother's Keeper
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/31/1961
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
- 8.3/10110 votes
#22 - Incident in the Middle of Nowhere
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/7/1961
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: N/A
- 8.2/10105 votes
#23 - Incident of the Phantom Bugler
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/14/1961
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: N/A
- 8.1/10119 votes
#24 - Incident of the Lost Idol
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 4/28/1961
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: N/A
- 7.9/1088 votes
#25 - Incident of the Running Man
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/5/1961
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: N/A
The Best Episodes of Rawhide Season 3
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The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they...
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:CBS
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Incident at Rojo Canyon" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide" season 3. It scored 8.2/10 based on 108 votes. Directed by Ted Post and written by Steve Raines, it aired on 9/30/1960. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Incident of the Challenge".