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 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Abilene
Season 4 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/18/1962
The herd finally arrives in Abilene, the end of a long, hard drive. While most of the drovers plan to spend their pay painting the town, Favor has a few other ideas. He is going to buy some land and get out of the cattle business. Don Grenfell also has been told to quit due to a bad back. The drovers are all quarantined at Oddity House due to small pox.
#5 - Incident of the Lost Woman
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1962
Favor finds a woman, Lissa Hobson, still alive but not by much, and her baby, Tad.
#6 - Incident of the Wolvers
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1962
Rowdy hires wolfers Abner Cannon and his children.
#7 - The Greedy Town
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/1962
Ada Randolph offers the town $300,000 if they find her dead son, a convicted murderer innocent, and run the sheriff out of town.
#8 - The Little Fishes
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1961
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.
#9 - Incident at Confidence Creek
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1963
Elwood P. Gilroy and his assistant Crystal Simpson steal the ownership papers for the herd, and sell the herd to Orville Tippet at a large loss. Elwood ditches Crystal. Rowdy and Crystal follow Elwood to bring him back to justice.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Incident at Quivira
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1962
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.
#12 - Grandma's Money
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/1962
Rowdy, Wishbone and Clay deliver 300 head of cattle to Agee's ranch but Agee isn't there. He's off on his honeymoon and Rowdy decides to ride out and try to find him. On the way he meets a little old 'grandma'.
#13 - The Immigrants
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/16/1962
Quince, Clay and Wish are captured and told by Count Ulrich they are his property and will work on his manor house.
#14 - Incident at Spider Rock
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1963
Lola's saloon is watering the booze and cheating the drovers. The supplies Wish bought are bad.
#15 - Incident of the Comanchero
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/22/1963
Sisters Benaventura and Teresa cut Maria Jose Chappela off an indian torture rack.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - House of the Hunter
Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/20/1962
A deaf mute delivers a letter for Rowdy at the camp. Rowdy picks up a guy, Kilo, whose wagon was stolen. They make camp. In the morning, Kilo and the horses are gone. Rowdy walks to a house and enters. The door shuts behind him. Mackie anad five other lock Rowdy in a room. Someone shoots at Rowdy from outside. The six are being held prisoner.
#19 - Incident of the Buryin' Man
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1963
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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Captain's Wife
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1962
Nora Holloway is ambitious for her captain husband to advance. She resorts to lying.
#22 - The Pitchwagon
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1962
When Frank is killed by indians, a collection is taken for his family. Clay suggests a poker game to run it up.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Incident at Alkali Sink
Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/24/1963
Burt Harvey is accused of cowardice at Gettysburg by his new father-in-law.