Rawhide Season 3 Disc 4
Incident Near the Promised Land Feb 3, 1961
Incident of the Big Blowout Feb 10, 1961
Incident of the Fish Out of Water Fri, Feb 17, 1961
Wagon Train had been depicting one trip form Missouri to Californian each season, with a last episode at their destination the premiere of the next season getting back to Missouri to organize a new trip. Rawhide premiered in January, 1959 and they'd been on the trail to Sedalia, Missouri ever since - until they decided, in mid-season, to show them finally reaching their destination. Unfortunately, they find that the market for cattle - and everything else- has collapsed due to a market panic. Favor has to graze the cattle on the only area suitable for it- owned by Mary Astor, who hates drovers because her son was killed by one. She drives a very hard bargain, one that makes it impossible for Favor to deliver a profit to his investors, which will ruin his reputation. Then Rowdy Yates gets hurt and Astor cares for him. She gets won over by his boyish charm. Meanwhile the government needs 'beeves' to deliver to some reservation tribes to keep them on the reservation.
The Big Blow Out, is a mostly comic episode about the celebration once the cattle is sold. There's a sub-plot about nasty bounty hunter Myron Healy, who thinks that his query is one of Favor's drovers. Gil insists he died on the trail, drowning during a river crossing, but Myron isn't buying it. The men start to wonder what they are going to do next. Gil gets an offer to be a partner in a ranch - and a telegram from Philadelphia.
The fish out of water is an episode out of water. It seems almost from another show. It has a certain charm but the situation makes little sense. It seems Gil has two daughters, (their other is deceased), who live with an aunt in a rather ritzy-looking neighborhood of Philadelphia. Gil apparently intended to visit them at the end of the drive but the telegram was from the aunt who told them not to come. He comes anyway. Gil's two daughters are played by cute-as-a-button Candy Moore and Barbara Beaird. The main conflict in the story is that he and the aunt, (Dorothy Green), don't see eye-to-eye on how the girls should be raised. He wants to be the 'cool Dad' and have fun. She wants to be strict and turn them into 'respectable' young ladies. They quarrel and she leaves, forcing Gil to raise his daughters himself. Apparently, his career as a trail boss is over. Then, for no apparent reason, Wishbone and Pete Nolan show up. Wishbone takes over the household.
There's a subplot about an Indian chief who agreed to join a 'wild west' show to earn money to help his people. Gil met him on the train from Missouri. It turns out the show's owner has put him in a cage and is presenting him as if he was a dangerous savage. He now hates all whites. Gil wants to find him a lawyer, as that's how they do things in Philadelphia. Pete and Wishbone have a more 'western' solution in mind.
But don't worry, both problems will be resolved and it ends with little Barbara Beaird shouting "Head 'em up! Move 'em out!" But...Does it make any sense that a guy like Gil Favor has rich relatives in Philadelphia? Would he leave these cuties to drive cows from Texas to Missouri? Think about all those soliloquies Gil did at the beginning of episodes about how hard his job was. Wouldn't he rather have been in Philadelphia?
Wagon Train had been depicting one trip form Missouri to Californian each season, with a last episode at their destination the premiere of the next season getting back to Missouri to organize a new trip. Rawhide premiered in January, 1959 and they'd been on the trail to Sedalia, Missouri ever since - until they decided, in mid-season, to show them finally reaching their destination. Unfortunately, they find that the market for cattle - and everything else- has collapsed due to a market panic. Favor has to graze the cattle on the only area suitable for it- owned by Mary Astor, who hates drovers because her son was killed by one. She drives a very hard bargain, one that makes it impossible for Favor to deliver a profit to his investors, which will ruin his reputation. Then Rowdy Yates gets hurt and Astor cares for him. She gets won over by his boyish charm. Meanwhile the government needs 'beeves' to deliver to some reservation tribes to keep them on the reservation.
The Big Blow Out, is a mostly comic episode about the celebration once the cattle is sold. There's a sub-plot about nasty bounty hunter Myron Healy, who thinks that his query is one of Favor's drovers. Gil insists he died on the trail, drowning during a river crossing, but Myron isn't buying it. The men start to wonder what they are going to do next. Gil gets an offer to be a partner in a ranch - and a telegram from Philadelphia.
The fish out of water is an episode out of water. It seems almost from another show. It has a certain charm but the situation makes little sense. It seems Gil has two daughters, (their other is deceased), who live with an aunt in a rather ritzy-looking neighborhood of Philadelphia. Gil apparently intended to visit them at the end of the drive but the telegram was from the aunt who told them not to come. He comes anyway. Gil's two daughters are played by cute-as-a-button Candy Moore and Barbara Beaird. The main conflict in the story is that he and the aunt, (Dorothy Green), don't see eye-to-eye on how the girls should be raised. He wants to be the 'cool Dad' and have fun. She wants to be strict and turn them into 'respectable' young ladies. They quarrel and she leaves, forcing Gil to raise his daughters himself. Apparently, his career as a trail boss is over. Then, for no apparent reason, Wishbone and Pete Nolan show up. Wishbone takes over the household.
There's a subplot about an Indian chief who agreed to join a 'wild west' show to earn money to help his people. Gil met him on the train from Missouri. It turns out the show's owner has put him in a cage and is presenting him as if he was a dangerous savage. He now hates all whites. Gil wants to find him a lawyer, as that's how they do things in Philadelphia. Pete and Wishbone have a more 'western' solution in mind.
But don't worry, both problems will be resolved and it ends with little Barbara Beaird shouting "Head 'em up! Move 'em out!" But...Does it make any sense that a guy like Gil Favor has rich relatives in Philadelphia? Would he leave these cuties to drive cows from Texas to Missouri? Think about all those soliloquies Gil did at the beginning of episodes about how hard his job was. Wouldn't he rather have been in Philadelphia?
