The BEST episodes of Rawhide
Every episode of Rawhide ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rawhide!
Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive; he is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way. 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 from January 9, 1959 to January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 episodes, all filmed and broadcast in black and white. Rawhide was the fourth longest-running American TV western.
#1 - Incident at Rio Doloroso
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/10/1963
Don Francisco Maldonaldo sentences Favor and Rowdy to die for the death of his son.
#2 - The Devil and the Deep Blue
Season 4 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/11/1962
Favor wants to fatten the herd for a week. Another herd is three to five days behind. The trail boss is Ben Wade and all the drovers are old. Charlie Holt , owners representative, comes onto Helen Wade, and vice versa. Two of Wade's cattle have Texas Tick.
#3 - Incident at Seven Fingers
Season 6 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/7/1964
Sam Turner steals Rowdy's horse. Sam is an escapee from the army guardhouse, charges with breaking and running in the face of fire. Rowdy's horse goes lame. Rowdy catches Sam and offers him a job. Captain Coulter and his men rush into camp and arrests Sam. Favor says things don't add up and comes to his defense.
#4 - Incident of the Banker
Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/2/1964
An old friend of Favor's, a banker, backs him into a corner and is allowed to take over as trail boss, while Favor runs his bank.
#5 - Incident at Zebulon
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1964
Favor goes to Zebulon, Johnny Larkin is taken by a group of masked riders and charged with a woman's death. When Favor is horse whipped he is determined to find out the identity of the major, the head of the regulator.
#6 - Incident of the Wanderer
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/1964
Michob, a peddler, comes out of a rain storm, bone dry. Things begin to go wrong and he is labeled a jinx.
#7 - Incident of the Swindler
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1964
Straw Coleman is caught trying to steal a horse and saddle while in chains. The drovers are shocked when Wishbone pulls a gun on them and helps Coleman escape. Favor and Mushy go after them to find why Wishbone has strayed.
#8 - Incident of the Pied Piper
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1964
After a tornado scatters the herd, they are a 100 head short. They learn a man running an orphanage sold them to the local banker. Realizing the banker is the guilty party, Favor decides to teach him a lesson and recover some of his money.
#9 - Incident at Gila Flats
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1964
While helping the Army deliver cattle to an Apache tribe, Favor, Wishbone and Quince run into a band of renegade Indians determined to stop them.
#10 - Incident of Midnight Cave
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1964
Wishbone develops a mysterious blindness after a scary encounter with a dangerous cliff and an innocuous fall. A doctor finds no physical reason for the blindness. A psychological reaction to childhood trauma is suspected as the cause.
#11 - Incident at El Crucero
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1963
Rose Cornelius and her ten brothers have fenced off the trail Favor needs to cross to get the herd to water.
#12 - Incident of Iron Bull
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1963
Joseph a Comanche is hired after returning the remuda. Colonel Macklin and Sargeant Graogan are accompanting the herd as far as Waycross.
#13 - Incident at Poco Tiempo
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1960
The Poco Tiempo bank has been. Rowdy and Quince are suspects and are taken to two nuns to be identified. They say they are not the men. Two desperadoes are holding Father Sebastian until the nuns deliver the money to Blainesville.
#14 - Incident of the Dowery Dundee
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1964
Rowdy and Jim looking for strays, return with five - four bulls and a lost Scottish lady returning to Scotland. She says her husband stole her inheritance so she is taking her remaining items home with her plus a surprise for all.
#15 - Clash at Broken Bluff
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1965
Rowdy must convince a young widow to allow the herd on her land to protect it from the a norther. She is involved in the suffragette movement. The saloon owner will do anything to stop women from getting the vote. The drovers are allowed to vote if they stick around. The saloon owner buys their votes, but Rowdy has second thoghts.
#16 - The Winter Soldier
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/1965
Favor and Pete recommend to Kurtz, who has been traveling with the herd with his daughter, a shortcut to the San Luis crossing. Lt. Whitley gets a message to warn the ranchers of Comanches. Winter soldier, Hap Johnson deserts. He trades his army gear for cheap indian trading goods at Watson's. He asks Watson, Wish's name. Hap strides into camp telling Wish he is his old friend from Nachodoches. Favor won't hire Hap. Hap has overheard Kurtz has money. He rides after them and takes them on a ""shortcut"" up into the hills. The lieutenant arrests Watson, Favor and Hey Soos for having army goods. Rowdy and Quince go after Hap. They find him with Kurtz. Rowdy sends Quince to get the army and the drover.
#17 - Reunion
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/6/1962
Pete's friend Grey Hawk's son, Wild Horse has escaped and is raiding. General Perry is bringing 500 head of cattle for the indians. Pete is leading Lieutenant Matthew Perry to his father.
#18 - Incident on the Road Back
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1961
The men are gathering for the next drive. A stray horse is tied up. Favor is arrested for horse stealing. The sheriff's wife is having an affair, with Cronin who reported the horse stolen.
#19 - Incident of the Big Blowout
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1961
The drovers celebrate the end of the drive. Rowdy is mistaken for another man.
#20 - Incident at Dragoon Crossing
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1960
An ailing Favor asks John Cord to take over the herd. He heads them to Dragoon Crossing where the Bates boys demanded tribute when he brought his herd through.
#21 - Incident of the Challenge
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/1960
Favor gets knocked off his horse and knocked out. He wakes to Aztec Indian who has traveled 1500 miles to find a princess.
#22 - Incident on the Edge of Madness
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/1959
The drive trapped by high water is approached by a Colonel and lady looking for men to join his Confederacy of Panama. Fearing his men will leave, Favor tries to cross, losing a man. The men leave not realizing what the Colonel's plans are.
#23 - Incident of the Stargazer
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/1/1960
A woman gets off the stage expecting to meet her husband. But she was let off in the middle of nowhere, a good 30 miles from her home. Pete decides to help her get there but when they arrive, she recognizes everyone except her husband.
#24 - Incident of the Power and the Plow
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/1959
Gil Favor gets permission from rancher Jed Reston to drive his herd over Reston's land. He discovers, however, that Reston has a bigoted attitude toward Indians, particularly a local Comanche named Taslatch who wants to be a farmer and who's paid for a mail-order plow. (Reston's recently had his son, Matt, give Taslatch 15 lashes on a trumped-up rustling charge.) Favor earns Reston's enmity by siding with Taslatch. Tensions soon escalate until violence is set to erupt between the Comanches and local townspeople and Favor must take decisive steps to intervene.
#25 - Incident of the Buffalo Soldier
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/1/1961
Rowdy chases after a buffalo soldier who has killed another soldier and has taken off on his horse.