Route 66: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Route 66 Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
One Tiger to a Hill
Sep 21, 1962
Buz and Tod hire out as deck hands on Anna Gustafson's salmon fishing trawler where Tod becomes involved with Anna's daughter. Filming Location: Astoria, Oregon (From a contrib
Journey to Nineveh
Sep 28, 1962
Tod and Buz ride into Harleyville. They meet some old comedians, including Jonah Butler, the town jinx. Filming Location: Harleyville (state?)
Man Out of Time
Oct 5, 1962
In Chicago, Tod and Buz encounter Harry Wender, a frightened 1930's gangster who has outlived his time. Filming Location: Chicago, Illinois
Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma
Oct 12, 1962
Tod and Buz go surfing in Southern California. Buz challenges a surfing champion to a match. Filming Location: Huntington Beach, California
Voice at the End of the Line
Oct 19, 1962
Tod and Buz encounter a downtrodden stock clerk who is involved in a telephone romance. Filming Location: Chicago, Illinois
Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
Oct 26, 1962
Tod and Buz are excited to be working at a Chicago hotel which is hosting a women's convention. Also staying at the hotel are the famous horror film actors. The actors are debating
Across Walnuts and Wine
Nov 2, 1962
In Oregon City Tod and Buz get a real deal on rooms at an old house - $6.50 per week. Living in the house is Maggie a psychic reader, Van her unemployed husband, Michael, her nephe
Welcome to the Wedding
Nov 9, 1962
While waiting for his date in a Cleveland railroad station Tod encounters convict Justin Lezama who is being moved to another prison. Lezama wants to call his brother and when the
Every Father's Daughter Must Weave Her Own
Nov 16, 1962
Tod and Buz work for John Rados' road building-business. John has a strange daughter and John offers Buz money and a business if he will date her. Filming Location: Cleveland, O
Poor Little Kangaroo Rat
Nov 23, 1962
Tod and Buz work with a Doc Duncan, a shark fisherman. Doc is catching sharks for scientific experiments. Filming Location: California
Hey Moth, Come Eat The Flame
Nov 30, 1962
Tod and Buz encounter Muddy Mullins, a piano playing ex-con and his son Arnie. Filming Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Only by Cunning Glimpses
Dec 7, 1962
Mentalist Brycie Koseloff makes dire predictions about Tod's future including predicting that finally Tod will kill Buz. Her predictions start coming true. Filming Location: Cle
Where is Chick Lorrimer? Where Has He Gone?
Dec 14, 1962
Tod becomes involved in a kidnapping. Ellen Barnes claims that a mental patient is kidnapping her. Filming Location: St. Charles, Missouri
Give an Old Cat a Tender Mouse
Dec 21, 1962
Tod meets Vicki Russell again (from ""How Much a Pound is Albatross""). She is again riding her motorcycle and this time has a boyfriend Frank pursuing her. Filming Location: Mem
A Bunch of Lonely Pagliaccis
Jan 4, 1963
Tod becomes an assistant to novelist Warren Barr. Warren's daughter Beth shoots her husband. Filming Location: Hernando, Mississippi
You Can't Pick Cotton in Tahiti
Jan 11, 1963
Tod meets music composer Julian Roebuck who is recording local folk musicians in Tennessee. Filming Location: Lake Chisholm, Tennessee
A Gift for a Warrior
Jan 18, 1963
Tod and Buz meet Lars, a German sailor in Tijuana who is looking for his father Ralph and is carrying a gun. Filming Location: Chula Vista and San Diego, California
Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain
Feb 8, 1963
Tod is carrying his new credit card around Los Angeles, and is being followed around Los Angeles by Diane. She asks him for a date and then steals the credit card. Filming Locati
Somehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow
Feb 15, 1963
Tod meets Joby, who steals his wallet. Corelli is a social worker who helps out. Filming Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
Shall Forfeit His Dog and Ten Shillings to the King
Feb 22, 1963
Tod witnesses a double murder and joins a posse hunting for the killers. Filming Location: Apache Junction, Arizona
In the Closing of a Trunk
Mar 8, 1963
Alma Hawkes returns to a Gulf Coast fishing town after spending time in prison for killing her father. She is looking for her son and mistakes Tod for the son. Filming Location:
The Cage Around Maria
Mar 15, 1963
Tod is working for the Houston zoo. Maria, the troubled daughter of a Mexican family, throws herself into the bear pit. Filming Location: Houston, Texas
Fifty Miles From Home
Mar 22, 1963
Tod meets a Lincoln Case who has just completed a six-year Army enlistment including two years in Vietnam as an Army ranger. Linc decides not to re-enlist but to join Tod on the cr
Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine
Mar 29, 1963
Linc meets a girl named Janie in a tavern and she gives him a knockout drink. Filming Location: Galveston, Texas
The Cruelest Sea of All
Apr 5, 1963
The boys get jobs at the Weeki Wachee theme park in Florida. The park show features girls dressed as mermaids performing underwater. A shy girl Elissa emerges from the water and af
Peace, Pity, Pardon
Apr 12, 1963
Tod and Linc meet Jai-Alai players who involve the boys in Cuban politics. Quiepo wants to smuggle his niece out of Cuba. Filming Location: Tampa, Florida
What a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant
Apr 26, 1963
Linc meets Lt. School, a former officer he served under in Vietnam. The officer now has the mentality of an eight-year old child and is living with his mother. Filming Location:
But What Do You Do in March
May 3, 1963
Tod and Linc meet two rich playgirls after one of them runs down his boat with her speedboat. Filming Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
Who Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride
May 10, 1963
Tod and Linc's car breaks down. Linc hitches a ride with Alva and Charlie, two robbers who force him to drive their getaway car. Filming Location: Cape Coral, Florida
Shadows of an Afternoon
May 17, 1963
Tod and Linc are working in a Florida town. Linc is accused of stabbing an unfriendly dog and is arrested. Filming Location: Cape Coral, Florida
Soda Pop and Paper Flags
May 24, 1963
Tod and Linc are working with Emmett McNeill, a tramp. A strange disease breaks out which turns out to be spread by ticks. Filming Location: Unknown (Florida?)