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"Rawhide ... Season Three Vol. One ... Paramount Pictures (2008)", Janv. 1 2009
CBS Television and Paramount Pictures presents "RAWHIDE: SEASON THREE VOL. ONE" (30 September 1960 - 17 February 1961) (777 mins/In Glorious Black & White) (digitally remastered in Dolby) -- 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 on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 episodes, all filmed and broadcast in black and white --- It was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Marquis Warren who also produced early episodes of Gunsmoke --- Warren based Rawhide on the movie Cattle Empire that he directed in 1958 and for which Endre Bohem was a screenwriter and Paul Brinegar, Steve Raines and Rocky Shahan were actors; all also worked in Rawhide --- Its premiere episode reached the top 20 in the Nielsen Ratings. It rose steadily in popularity until, towards the end of the series run, it was one of America's top ten shows --- Rawhide was the fourth longest-running American TV western, beaten only by nine years of The Virginian and Wagon Train, fourteen years of Bonanza, and twenty years of Gunsmoke.
The episode would be introduced, usually by some words from Gil Favor but sometimes by others --- The typical Rawhide story involved drovers, portrayed by Eric Fleming (Trail Boss Gil Favor) and Clint Eastwood (ramrod Rowdy Yates), coming upon people on the trail and getting drawn into solving whatever problem they presented or were confronting --- Some of the stories were obviously easier in production terms but the peak form of the show was convincing and naturalistic, and sometimes brutal. Its situations could range from parched plains to anthrax, ghostly riders to wolves, cattle raiding, bandits, murderers, and so forth --- A problem on such drives was the constant need for water, and the scout spent much of his time looking for it, sometimes finding water holes, even rivers had dried up - In some ways it was similar to the TV series Wagon Train that debuted in 1957.
Of all the western characters on TV, these were the only real cowboys, because they drove cows. There were also sheep boys who drove sheep, pig boys who looked after pigs, etc. The name cowboys became a generic name in western films and TV series --- The theme song's lyrics were written by Ned Washington in 1958. It was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin and sung by pop singer Frankie Laine. The theme song became very popular --- It was covered several times and parts of the song also appear in more recent movies like The Blues Brothers and Shrek.-- (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
List of Season, Episode, Title and Original Air Date:
1. Season 3, Episode 1: Incident at Rojo Canyon (guest star Julie London)
Original Air Date--30 September 1960
2. Season 3, Episode 2: Incident of the Challenge
Original Air Date--14 October 1960
3. Season 3, Episode 3: Incident at Dragoon Crossing
Original Air Date--21 October 1960
4. Season 3, Episode 4: Incident of the Night Visitor (guest star Dane Clark)
Original Air Date--4 November 1960
5. Season 3, Episode 5: Incident of the Slavemaster (guest stars Peter Lorre & John Agar)
Original Air Date--11 November 1960
6. Season 3, Episode 6: Incident on the Road to Yesterday (guest stars Frankie Laine & Chester Morris)
Original Air Date--18 November 1960
7. Season 3, Episode 7: Incident at Superstition Prairie
Original Air Date--2 December 1960
8. Season 3, Episode 8: Incident at Poco Tiempo (guest star Agnes Moorehead)
Original Air Date--9 December 1960
9. Season 3, Episode 9: Incident of the Captive (guest star Mercedes McCambridge)
Original Air Date--16 December 1960
10.Season 3, Episode 10: Incident of the Buffalo Soldier (guest star Woody Strode)
Original Air Date--6 January 1961
11.Season 3, Episode 11: Incident of the Broken Word (guest stars E.G. Marshall & Dick York)
Original Air Date--20 January 1961
12.Season 3, Episode 12: Incident at the Top of the World (guest star Robert Culp)
Original Air Date--27 January 1961
13.Season 3, Episode 13: Incident Near the Promised Land (guest star Mary Astor)
Original Air Date--13 February 1961
14.Season 3, Episode 14: Incident of the Big Blowout
Original Air Date--10 February 1961
15.Season 3, Episode 15: Incident of the Fish Out of Water
Original Air Date--17 February 1961
BIOS:
1. Eric Fleming (aka: Edward Heddy)
Date of Birth:: 4 July 1925 - Santa Paula, California
Date of Death: 28 September 1966 - Tingo Maria area, Peru (drowned)
2. Clint Eastwood
Date of Birth: 31 May 1930 - San Francisco, California
Date of Death: Still Living
Great job by Paramount Pictures and their staff for releasing this long awaited edition with collectible Seasons with unforgettable episodes --- looking forward to more of the same from the rousing CBS Television vintage era --- order your copy now from Amazon their Western Classics -- all my heroes have been cowboys!
Total Time: 777 mins on 4 DVD's ~ Paramount Pictures ~ (05/27/2008)
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