The BEST episodes of Rawhide season 4
Every episode of Rawhide season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rawhide season 4!
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 - 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.
#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 - The Prairie Elephant
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1961
Favor finds a circus that is lost. Pascal the owner and clown beats his wife, Jenny, who wants to run away with Dario the other half of her high wire act.
#4 - 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.
#5 - The Sendoff
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1961
The drovers are beating the scrub for strays. Favor finds wagon remains and twelve graves.
#6 - The Woman Trap
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1962
Pete and Rowdy find a whole herd of good looking women heading to Fort Worth to get married.
#7 - 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.
#8 - The Boss's Daughters
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1962
The drover are stopped by fence at Vance Caldwell's ranch and are told they will have to wait until he returns to get permission to pass. But the fence isn't Favor's only problem, his daughters are about to join him on the trail.
#9 - The Deserters' Patrol
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1962
The indians want to trade six soldiers they hold for thier Chief. Favor is commissioned as a captain to make the exchange.
#10 - 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'.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Hostage Child
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1962
A thirteen year old indian is going to Fort Lacey to see his sister. The commandant hates all indians. He and his wife Azuela have a son.
#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 - The Child-Woman
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1962
Mushy's cousin asks him to take her sister to his mom, to get out of the saloons. She doesn't want to go.
#15 - A Woman's Place
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1962
A wagon falls on Harve. Rowdy and Favor go for a doctor. Dr. Daniel Pearson, a quack, says he's the only doctor in town. Mrs. James directs them to Dr. Louise Amadon.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Gold Fever
Season 4 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/4/1962
Hosea Brewer has been prospecting Lost Mine ten years after everyone has left. The thought of gold and his three daughters attract the drovers.
#18 - The Peddler
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1962
The drovers discover peddler Mendel J. Sorkin trying to drive a small herd of cattle all by himself. Mendel wants to sell the herd in a nearby town and use the money to return to his native country.
#19 - 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.
#20 - The Long Count
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1962
Martha Hastings is running a way station for outlaws. Rowdy, Pete and Wish are hired as census takers.
#21 - Twenty-Five Santa Clauses
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1961
Mushy tells Wish he sees Santa Claus (Mr. Bateman) in the middle of August, in the middle of Texas. He's lost. He keels over. He, his wife Mag, and their nine year old boy, Danny, are on their way to New York. Danny won't last till Xmas.
#22 - The Gentleman's Gentleman
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1961
Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll. Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.
#23 - The Blue Spy
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1961
No one believes Nolan when he tells them about the Indians running around in strange costumes. That is until a beautiful actress stumbles into camp and tells them about an Indian attack on her theatrical wagon. The men are delighted until they learn she was once a Yankee spy.
#24 - 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.
#25 - The Black Sheep
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1961
Favor asks sheepherder,Tod Stone, to let the herd pass his flock. He won't. They take the herd over the ridge to the next valley. Tod takes a shortcut and beats them. Rowdy and Collins scatter the flock. Tod the herd. Rowdy fights Tod. Tod falls on his scaling knife. Favor tells Rowdy he's taking Tod and his flock to Twin Hat.