The BEST episodes of Rawhide season 2
Every episode of Rawhide season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rawhide season 2!
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 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.
#2 - Incident of the Night Horse
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1960
An embittered mustanger known by Gil Favor in his younger days blocks the pass that the herd needs to use to reach a river ford where they can cross safely. The mustanger is haunted by a fierce stallion who killed his son, once a friend of Favor.
#3 - Incident of the Sharpshooter
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1960
An outlaw usurps a dead man's identity and he is heading for the next town along with the drovers. When Rowdy gets in the middle of his business he finds himself in serious trouble and it is up to Mr. Favor to figure out a way of saving him.
#4 - Incident of the Dust Flower
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/4/1960
The drovers rescue an injured traveler and his grown daughter, who is sensitive about her unmarried status. The woman flees, but scout Pete Nolan locates her. Upon learning that she can't face patronizing relatives in the town she's moving to, Pete decides to accompany her there and pose as her fiancé.
#5 - Incident at Sulphur Creek
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/11/1960
Horse thieves who have victimized Comanches also strike the drive's ramuda. Gil sends a group headed by Pete and Rowdy out to purchase replacement mounts. They encounter a preacher on his way to officiate a christening at the Lacey ranch, where he says horses are for sale. The drovers find their own stolen horses corralled there. So do the Comanches, who put the ranch under siege.
#6 - Incident of the Champagne Bottles
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/18/1960
It looks like the drovers are moving smoothly until they find a very slow moving wagon on their way, allegedly carrying champagne. As it turns out it was not only champagne and everyone could be in danger.
#7 - Incident of the Arana Sacar
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/22/1960
The owner of a remote trading post and his wife are coerced into backing a rustler's scheme to get the drovers drunk, swipe the herd and sell the beeves to hide skinners.
#8 - Incident of the Silent Web
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 6/3/1960
A young girl is so shocked at her father's murder that she can not speak. She is taken captive by two escaped convicts.
#9 - Incident of the Last Chance
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 6/10/1960
Gil takes a protective interest in a stranded tenderfoot couple. Rowdy is interested in the wife.
#10 - Incident in the Garden of Eden
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 6/17/1960
Rowdy leaves to buy cattle to replenish the herd. He comes to a town of an eccentric English patriarch living with his beautiful daughter. Rowdy doesn't understand why he seems so afraid to sell the cattle without his foreman's permission.
#11 - Incident of the Dancing Death
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/8/1960
When the son of a gypsy queen is murdered, she insists one of the drovers did it and demands the killer be found and turned over. Gil rebuffs her, prompting the old woman to predict trouble for the drive, which does start to happen.
#13 - Incident at Dangerfield Dip
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1959
A dying woman stumbles into the cattle drive. Her husband, a feared gunslinger turned rancher, soon shows up and accuses the drovers of shooting her. Gil & Rowdy fear that their cattle are coming down with a deadly disease, so they turn towards the Rodney Dangerfield chemical dipping station, on the widowed rancher’s recommendation.
#14 - Incident of the Music Maker
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/20/1960
When Gil receives a nasty wound that becomes seriously infected, he is unaware of a Swiss jack-of-all-trades that has totally unarmed his cowboys. The Swiss has a plan for some of the cattle.
#15 - Incident of the Murder Steer
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/13/1960
A steer with the word "MURDER" branded on its side, considered an omen of violent death, is seen shortly after four mysterious riders from the same town join the drive.
#16 - Incident of the 100 Amulets
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/6/1960
Hey Soos goes to town to visit his mother but, while buying supplies to take to her, he is attacked as the town believe his mother is a witch who has cursed the town.
#17 - Incident of the Deserter
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/29/1960
While taking a mountain short cut, Wishbone is injured in a fall caused by a bullying ore freighter. He seeks aid in a small mining town, where he becomes attached to a widow, who is the freighter's fiancée.
#18 - Incident of the Tinker’s Dam
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/5/1960
Wishbone buries his brother "alive" to keep Kiowas from killing him for romancing the stony chief's wife. T.J. turns out to be a comical embarrassment: a pot fixer whose customers fight to scalp him for his shoddy tinking, which is his ploy for woman chasing. For years, trail cook Wishy's fellow drovers heard the cook laud his misplaced little brother's prowess as a warrior, politician, you name it. But angering the Kiowa at the moment is deadly serious, because the tribe is divided over signing a treaty. Young braves oppose old Chief Wankawa inking the doc.
#19 - Incident of the Wanted Painter
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/29/1960
The drovers find a painter from back East on their way, whose paintings help the men of a former Army Major map the town in attempt to bust him out of jail. Mr. Favor gets in the way to help justice be served and stop future bloodshed.
#20 - Incident of the Devil and His Due
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/1960
Gil is allowed to continue the cattle drive, despite being accused of murder by the victim's wife and son, after Rowdy is deputized to guard him. Meanwhile, the real killers, three outlaws, scheme to steal church funds from a priest befriended by Gil and Rowdy.
#21 - Incident at Red River Station
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1960
Favor, Rowdy and drover Lou Paris find themselves in the middle of a smallpox epidemic in Red River Station. The town's doctor wants to vaccinate the populous. The barber/dentist relies on acifidity bags, leeches and herb tea. Favor tries unsuccessfully to get vaccine from the army.
#22 - Incident of the Druid Curse
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1960
A woman and his father join the drovers, but the drovers don' t know that they're cursed by the druids.
#23 - Incident at Spanish Rock
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1959
Claiming to represent President Diaz of Mexico, Villegro and his men want to take one of Gil's men, the son of their biggest enemy, into custody. As they are in Texas and need all hands to drive their herd, Gil is not in favor of doing so.
#24 - Incident of the Blue Fire
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1959
A storm with lightning is making the herd nervous. The blue fire of St. Elmo appears on the horns of the steers. Hey Soos says if a stranger should appear, he stops and blesses himself, death will follow. A stranger, Lucky Markley rides in. A clap of thunder and the herd stampedes. Rowdy turns the herd. Lucky says he has thirty some head to sell. Favor says he can't use any scrub cattle, but he'll look at them. Favor says no. Lucky says there is about two dozen Commanches around. Hey Soos says Lucky is the devil. A brave kills a steer the demands Lucky's horse. The Commanches line the ridge. A young buck comes out to talk. He wants the killer of his brother, ten steers, sugar, rifles and tobacco. Lucky offers Favor to leave. He was killed in a stampede. Hey Soos pulls a knife on Lucky. Collins takes over the fight. Rowdy tells Lucky to get out.
#25 - Incident of the Valley in Shadow
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1959
Driving a herd through Cheyenne country, Favor finds out some of his hands may have hired on for more than just the beeves. There is a large reward being offered for a white girl who has been missing since she was a small child.