Episode
Rawhide: The Long Shakedown
Overview
An overbearing Favor leads to many drovers quitting. Five replacements stir trouble.
Details
- Series
- Rawhide
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1961-10-13
Episode context
The Long Shakedown is Episode 3 in Season 4 of Rawhide. It aired on 1961-10-13.
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Episode 2: The Sendoff
The drovers are beating the scrub for strays. Favor finds wagon remains and twelve graves.
Episode 4: Judgment at Hondo Seco
Quince gets a letter. He needs a couple of days off. Jim, Pete, Rowdy and Hey Soos go to Hando Seco. Casey the bartender knocks their drinks out of their hands when he finds out they rode in with Jim. Jim asks Judge Matt Quince how's his niece Joanna. She wants help running away. She's in love with Brad Lyons. He has a murder warrant on his head.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: Rio Salado
Rowdy and Hey Soos are robbed by Antonio Marcos. He is leading a revolution against the Texas land grant. Rowdy meets his Dad, who ran out on him and his Ma.
Episode 5: The Lost Tribe
Indians stampede the herd. The sheriff says it's a 100 Cheyenne headed for Mexico. Pete picks up their trail. Pete asks Rowdy not to tell Favor right away. Little Hawk, the Chief, is the father of Pete's dead wife.
Episode 6: The Inside Man
Craddock and Clay Forrester plot to steal the herd. Shelia Brewster is running away from her army fiancee.
Episode 7: The Black Sheep
Favor asks sheepherder,Tod Stone, to let the herd pass his flock. He won't. They take the herd over the ridge to the next valley. Tod takes a shortcut and beats them. Rowdy and Collins scatter the flock. Tod the herd. Rowdy fights Tod. Tod falls on his scaling knife. Favor tells Rowdy he's taking Tod and his flock to Twin Hat.
Episode 8: The Prairie Elephant
Favor finds a circus that is lost. Pascal the owner and clown beats his wife, Jenny, who wants to run away with Dario the other half of her high wire act.
Episode 9: The Little Fishes
Gilmore tells Favor there's a panic brewing back east. He needs to cut ten days off the drive. Gilmore says don't tell the drovers about the panic. Tom Gwynn ,a fishbreeder, is sick with fever. He's taking shad to California to claim a $10,000 prize.
Episode 10: The Blue Spy
A woman wanders into camp needing help. She is an actress who one of the men recognizes later. She worked as a Union spy during the war. Although most of the men hate her, one even more so as he was court-martialed due to her.
Episode 11: The Gentleman's Gentleman
Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll. Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.
Episode 12: Twenty-Five Santa Clauses
Mushy tells Wish he sees Santa Claus - Mr. Bateman - in Texas in the middle of August. Bateman is lost. He keels over. He, his wife Mag, and their nine-year-old boy, Danny, are on their way to New York. Danny won't last until Christmas.
Episode 13: The Long Count
Martha Hastings is running a way station for outlaws. Rowdy, Pete and Wish are hired as census takers.