The BEST episodes of Rawhide season 3

Every episode of Rawhide season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rawhide season 3!

Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive; he is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way. Rawhide was a television western series that aired on the U.S. network CBS from 1959 to 1966. The show starred Eric Fleming and launched the career of Clint Eastwood. The series ran for eight seasons on the CBS network from January 9, 1959 to January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 episodes, all filmed and broadcast in black and white. Rawhide was the fourth longest-running American TV western.

Last Updated: 10/3/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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Incident at Poco Tiempo
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8.76
29 votes

#1 - 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.

Directors: Ted Post
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8.17
6 votes

#2 - Incident Before Black Pass

Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/19/1961

Pete and Rowdy are captured by the Kiowa. Two other indians want to accompany the herd to Black Pass.

Directors: Ted Post
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star
8.13
8 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Allen Reisner
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Incident of the Buffalo Soldier
star
8.10
31 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: Ted Post
Writer: John Dunkel
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Incident of the Night Visitor
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8.00
10 votes

#5 - 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.

Directors: R.G. Springsteen
Writer: John Dunkel
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Incident of the Captive
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8.00
6 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: Stuart Heisler
Writer: Ted Gardner
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star
8.00
4 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Jus Addiss
Writer: David Lang
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star
8.00
4 votes

#8 - Incident of the Night on the Town

Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 6/2/1961

Judge Akins tells Favor he has 750 head of Mrs. North cattle. Lewis, Mrs. North lawyer says the cattle that Wesley Adams turned over to Favor, were Mrs. North's and were to be delivered to the army.

Directors: Anton Leader
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star
8.00
3 votes

#9 - Incident of the Wager on Payday

Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 6/16/1961

Sidney Proctor, along with Joe Stapp, are robbing his father's bank as a joke. The night watchman, Simpson, wakes up. Joe clunks him. Sid thinks they're bringing the money back in three days.

Directors: R.G. Springsteen
Writer: Louis Vittes
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star
7.89
9 votes

#10 - 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.

Directors: George Templeton
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star
7.88
34 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: George Templeton
Writer: Louis Vittes
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star
7.88
8 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Ted Post
Writer: Albert Aley
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Incident at Dragoon Crossing
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7.86
36 votes

#13 - 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.

Directors: Ted Post
Writer: John Dunkel
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Incident of the Big Blowout
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7.86
35 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.

Directors: George Templeton
Writer: John Dunkel
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star
7.83
6 votes

#15 - Incident of the Blackstorms

Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/26/1961

Sky Blackstorm sends a message to the River City sheriff with Mushy. He's coming tomorrow at sun up for his son Danny.

Directors: R.G. Springsteen
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star
7.80
5 votes

#16 - 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.

Directors: Ted Post
Incident of the Challenge
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7.79
38 votes

#17 - 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.

star
7.70
10 votes

#18 - 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.

Directors: R.G. Springsteen
Incident of the Slavemaster
star
7.56
9 votes

#19 - 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.

Directors: Ted Post
star
7.50
6 votes

#20 - Incident of the Painted Lady

Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/12/1961

Partners of Thad Clemens are holding Favor's herd until they're paid the $15,000 that Thad swindled them out of. Baxter Springs Cattleman's Association will not help Favor.

Directors: Harmon Jones
Writer: John Dunkel
star
7.40
35 votes

#21 - 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.

Directors: Harmon Jones
Writer: John Dunkel
Incident of the New Start
star
7.37
35 votes

#22 - 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.

Directors: Jus Addiss
Incident of the Broken Word
star
7.36
33 votes

#23 - 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.

Directors: R.G. Springsteen
Writer: Louis Vittes
Incident at Rojo Canyon
star
7.34
38 votes

#24 - 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.

Directors: Ted Post
star
7.33
6 votes

#25 - 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.

Directors: R.G. Springsteen