8.0/1097 votes#1 - One Tiger to a Hill
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1962
Buz and Tod hire out as deck hands on Anna Gustafson's salmon fishing trawler where Tod becomes involved with Anna's daughter. Filming Location: Astoria, Oregon (From a contributor) The opening scene is unforgettable. Buz and Tod are driving along a sandy beach in their classic corvette while Nelson Riddle's theme song is playing in the background. Buz and Tod land jobs as fishermen and deck hands for a widower named Anna Gustafson. While at her home they get a glimpse of her beautiful daughter, Toika, who has a ""bounce in her step"" as she walks by them. Immediately Anna takes a liking for both Buz and Tod but she notices their differences. It is evident to her that Tod is college educated and the type of guy for Toika. Meanwhile, Karno, played by David Janssen, is a veteran and also the boyfriend of Toika. He despises Tod because Tod went to college while he was drafted into the war. Furthermore, Toika, who has been rejected by Karno, is drawn to Tod. When Karno sees the
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
7.4/10116 votes#2 - Journey to Nineveh
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1962
Tod and Buz ride into Harleyville. They meet some old comedians, including Jonah Butler, the town jinx. Filming Location: Harleyville (state?)
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: William R. Cox
7.4/1082 votes#3 - Man Out of Time
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1962
In Chicago, Tod and Buz encounter Harry Wender, a frightened 1930's gangster who has outlived his time. Filming Location: Chicago, Illinois
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
7.7/1085 votes#4 - Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1962
Tod and Buz go surfing in Southern California. Buz challenges a surfing champion to a match. Filming Location: Huntington Beach, California
Director: Robert Gist
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.5/10105 votes#5 - Voice at the End of the Line
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1962
Tod and Buz encounter a downtrodden stock clerk who is involved in a telephone romance. Filming Location: Chicago, Illinois
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
7.8/10182 votes#6 - Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1962
Tod and Buz are excited to be working at a Chicago hotel which is hosting a women's convention. Also staying at the hotel are the famous horror film actors. The actors are debating whether their traditional horror film characters can still scare modern audiences. The actors test their ideas on the conventioneers.
Director: Robert Gist
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
7.5/1087 votes#7 - Across Walnuts and Wine
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1962
In Oregon City Tod and Buz get a real deal on rooms at an old house - $6.50 per week. Living in the house is Maggie a psychic reader, Van her unemployed husband, Michael, her nephew. Maggie's sister Autumn arrives after being fired from her teaching job and moves in. Michael is the house's sarcastic unpleasant owner and threatens to evict his relatives when he turns 21 in a few months. Michael is also trying to avoid some young men who want to beat him up. Filming Location: Oregon City, Oregon
Director: N/A
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.6/1095 votes#8 - Welcome to the Wedding
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1962
While waiting for his date in a Cleveland railroad station Tod encounters convict Justin Lezama who is being moved to another prison. Lezama wants to call his brother and when the guard refuses Tod agrees to make the contact. Lezama takes Tod as a hostage. Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Director: George Sherman
Writer: Howard Rodman
7.3/1079 votes#9 - Every Father's Daughter Must Weave Her Own
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1962
Tod and Buz work for John Rados' road building-business. John has a strange daughter and John offers Buz money and a business if he will date her. Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
7.5/1080 votes#10 - Poor Little Kangaroo Rat
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1962
Tod and Buz work with a Doc Duncan, a shark fisherman. Doc is catching sharks for scientific experiments. Filming Location: California
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A
8.1/1075 votes#11 - Hey Moth, Come Eat The Flame
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1962
Tod and Buz encounter Muddy Mullins, a piano playing ex-con and his son Arnie. Filming Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
7.1/1076 votes#12 - Only by Cunning Glimpses
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/7/1962
Mentalist Brycie Koseloff makes dire predictions about Tod's future including predicting that finally Tod will kill Buz. Her predictions start coming true. Filming Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Director: Tom Gries
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
7.1/1079 votes#13 - Where is Chick Lorrimer? Where Has He Gone?
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1962
Tod becomes involved in a kidnapping. Ellen Barnes claims that a mental patient is kidnapping her. Filming Location: St. Charles, Missouri
Director: George Sherman
Writer: N/A
6.8/1088 votes#14 - Give an Old Cat a Tender Mouse
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/21/1962
Tod meets Vicki Russell again (from ""How Much a Pound is Albatross""). She is again riding her motorcycle and this time has a boyfriend Frank pursuing her. Filming Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Director: Tom Gries
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
7.3/1070 votes#15 - A Bunch of Lonely Pagliaccis
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1963
Tod becomes an assistant to novelist Warren Barr. Warren's daughter Beth shoots her husband. Filming Location: Hernando, Mississippi
Director: Tom Gries
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
7.8/1078 votes#16 - You Can't Pick Cotton in Tahiti
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1963
Tod meets music composer Julian Roebuck who is recording local folk musicians in Tennessee. Filming Location: Lake Chisholm, Tennessee
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
7.8/1067 votes#17 - A Gift for a Warrior
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/18/1963
Tod and Buz meet Lars, a German sailor in Tijuana who is looking for his father Ralph and is carrying a gun. Filming Location: Chula Vista and San Diego, California
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
7.9/1090 votes#18 - Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1963
Tod is carrying his new credit card around Los Angeles, and is being followed around Los Angeles by Diane. She asks him for a date and then steals the credit card. Filming Location: Los Angeles, California
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
7.7/1077 votes#19 - Somehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1963
Tod meets Joby, who steals his wallet. Corelli is a social worker who helps out. Filming Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
7.1/1068 votes#20 - Shall Forfeit His Dog and Ten Shillings to the King
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1963
Tod witnesses a double murder and joins a posse hunting for the killers. Filming Location: Apache Junction, Arizona
Director: Tom Gries
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
7.1/1068 votes#21 - In the Closing of a Trunk
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/8/1963
Alma Hawkes returns to a Gulf Coast fishing town after spending time in prison for killing her father. She is looking for her son and mistakes Tod for the son. Filming Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.1/1063 votes#22 - The Cage Around Maria
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/15/1963
Tod is working for the Houston zoo. Maria, the troubled daughter of a Mexican family, throws herself into the bear pit. Filming Location: Houston, Texas
Director: George Sherman
Writer: Jesse Sandler
8.0/1084 votes#23 - Fifty Miles From Home
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/22/1963
Tod meets a Lincoln Case who has just completed a six-year Army enlistment including two years in Vietnam as an Army ranger. Linc decides not to re-enlist but to join Tod on the cross-country odyssey. Filming Location: Houston, Texas
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
6.6/1067 votes#24 - Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/29/1963
Linc meets a girl named Janie in a tavern and she gives him a knockout drink. Filming Location: Galveston, Texas
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: N/A
7.9/1088 votes#25 - The Cruelest Sea of All
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 4/5/1963
The boys get jobs at the Weeki Wachee theme park in Florida. The park show features girls dressed as mermaids performing underwater. A shy girl Elissa emerges from the water and after demonstrating amazing underwater swimming talent is hired for the show. She talks about ""coming from the sea"" and implies that she is a real mermaid. Skeptical Tod falls for her but assumes that she just wants publicity to launch a movie career. Linc has a more open mind and believes her. Tod discovers too late that she was telling the truth. Filming Location: Weeki-Wachee and Crystal River, Florida. Hotel credited: Port Paradise Hotel in Crystal River.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
The Best Episodes of Route 66 Season 3
Every episode of Route 66 Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Route 66 Season 3!
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"One Tiger to a Hill" is the best rated episode of "Route 66" season 3. It scored 8/10 based on 97 votes. Directed by David Lowell Rich and written by Stirling Silliphant, it aired on 9/21/1962. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Journey to Nineveh".