Season 5 (1962)

Episodes: 30

Star Cast: Clint Eastwood , Paul Brinegar , Eric Fleming , Robert Cabal ,

Episodes List

Ep.1 Incident of El Toro

Air Date: 1962-09-21

When a wild bull distracts the herd, a trouble-making hired hand is charged with taking him down. Meanwhile, a rising river, injured men and a frustrated trail boss add to the tension of the trail.

Ep.2 Incident of the Hunter

Air Date: 1962-09-28

Rowdy recognizes the new drover as a fellow Confederate soldier. But when Clay identifies him as a bounty hunter, the crew becomes paranoid about who he's after.

Ep.3 Incident of the Portrait

Air Date: 1962-10-05

Frank Trask enters the Curtis' at night through a window. He's hungry and takes a picture of a woman. Raymond Curtis hears a noise and checks it outs. Trask knocks him out. Marion, the woman in the picture, ""sees"" Trask leave.

Ep.4 Incident at Cactus Wells

Air Date: 1962-10-12

A suspicious old cowboy who's been tracking Favor's drive asks to join the crew, and turns out to be an ex-con. While most of the drovers want him out, Favor stands by his new hire.

Ep.5 Incident of the Prodigal Son

Air Date: 1962-10-19

Sam Hargas finds a half baked, half starved greenhorn, Ben Whitney IV. His horse stepped in a chuck hole. He's a rich brat.

Ep.6 Incident of the Four Horsemen

Air Date: 1962-10-26

Favor and Clay are witnesses at a the wedding of Amy Gault and Frank Louden. Gus Marsdon provokes Frank into shooting Amy's brother Carl. Tom Gault, Amy's father, sends Ben Kerran after them. Frank and Tom claim the same 100,000 acres.

Ep.7 Incident of the Lost Woman

Air Date: 1962-11-02

Favor finds a woman, Lissa Hobson, still alive but not by much, and her baby, Tad.

Ep.8 Incident of the Dogfaces

Air Date: 1962-11-09

Rowdy,Quince and Clay help out three soldiers being attacked by Indians. They were sent to break the treaty with Broken Bow.

Ep.9 Incident of the Wolvers

Air Date: 1962-11-16

Rowdy hires wolfers Abner Cannon and his children.

Ep.10 Incident at Sugar Creek

Air Date: 1962-11-23

An injured ex-con Sam Garrett is refused treatment by his home town.

Ep.11 Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom

Air Date: 1962-11-30

Rowdy gets drugged in a bar with Shelia, the bar owner's girl and wakes up married to her.

Ep.12 Incident of the Querencias

Air Date: 1962-12-07

Gil's old friend, Lije Crowning, has had his ranch foreclosed on by the bank. Lije wants to take his thirty head with the drive to Colorado.

Ep.13 Incident at Quivira

Air Date: 1962-12-14

Monty Fox comes stumbling up to the night camp playing the concertina, saying he's found the promised land. He says he's found Quivera, Coronado's golden city. He says he'll share with those who help him against those who chased him out.

Ep.14 Incident of Decision

Air Date: 1962-12-28

When Rowdy buys eighteen cattle for the next drive he has to contend with a young would be drover with a crooked leg and banditos.

Ep.15 Incident of the Buryin' Men

Air Date: 1963-01-04

Favor and Rowdy see two Cheyenne. They are watching a burying wagon. It's owner, Pomeroy K. Tollliver (Poke) surrenders to Favor thinking they're a posse. The wagon is broken. Favor will have the wagon fixed and Poke can ride to Rock City with the herd.

Ep.16 Incident of the Trail's End

Air Date: 1963-01-11

Harry Maxton has glaucoma. Gil offers Harry a job to Rowdy's surprise.

Ep.17 Incident at Spider Rock

Air Date: 1963-01-18

Lola's saloon is watering the booze and cheating the drovers. The supplies Wish bought are bad.

Ep.18 Incident of the Mountain Man

Air Date: 1963-01-25

Thomas and the men of the wagon train are ready to string up Josh Green for killing Thomas's boy. Josh is a mountain man lost in the modern world.

Ep.19 Incident at Crooked Hat

Air Date: 1963-02-01

Gil stands by his old friend Jack Jennings. Jack's a gunfighter. In a fair fight he shot the brother of the most powerful man in the town.

Ep.20 Incident of Judgment Day

Air Date: 1963-02-08

Rowdy's ex-commanding officer, Captain Cabot convenes a make shift courts-martial for him in a ghost town.

Ep.21 Incident of the Gallows Tree

Air Date: 1963-02-22

In Cottonwood, at the Pair-A-Dice Saloon, Qunice gets in a fight with Major Courtney. Jim swears he'll kill him.

Ep.22 Incident of the Married Widow

Air Date: 1963-03-01

In Calvin, Miss Abigail owns The Silver Slipper Salon, a very posh saloon. There Rowdy sees the picture of the dead war hero, Gil Favor, Abigail's husband.