The BEST episodes of Rawhide season 5

Every episode of Rawhide season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rawhide season 5!

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.

Last Updated: 10/3/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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9.00
4 votes

#1 - Incident of the Four Horsemen

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1962

Favor and Clay are witnesses at a the wedding of Amy Gault and Frank Louden. Gus Marsdon provokes Frank into shooting Amy's brother Carl. Tom Gault, Amy's father, sends Ben Kerran after them. Frank and Tom claim the same 100,000 acres.

Directors: Thomas Carr
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8.86
7 votes

#2 - Incident of the Dogfaces

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1962

Rowdy,Quince and Clay help out three soldiers being attacked by Indians. They were sent to break the treaty with Broken Bow.

Directors: Don McDougall
Writer: Gene L. Coon
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8.80
5 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Thomas Carr
Writer: Paul King
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8.75
4 votes

#4 - Incident of the Querencias

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1962

Gil's old friend, Lije Crowning, has had his ranch foreclosed on by the bank. Lije wants to take his thirty head with the drive to Colorado.

Directors: Thomas Carr
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8.67
3 votes

#5 - Incident of the Pale Rider

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/15/1963

The new man is a dead ringer for the man Rowdy shot in a Wells Fargo holdup.

Directors: Christian Nyby
Writer: Dean Riesner
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8.60
5 votes

#6 - Incident of Decision

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/1962

When Rowdy buys eighteen cattle for the next drive he has to contend with a young would be drover with a crooked leg and banditos.

Directors: Don McDougall
Writer: John Dunkel
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8.60
5 votes

#7 - Incident at the Trail's End

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1963

Harry Maxton has glaucoma. Gil offers Harry a job to Rowdy's surprise.

Directors: Don McDougall
Writer: Ed Adamson
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8.33
6 votes

#8 - Incident at Sugar Creek

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1962

An injured ex-con Sam Garrett is refused treatment by his home town.

Directors: Christian Nyby
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8.29
7 votes

#9 - Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1962

Rowdy gets drugged in a bar with Shelia, the bar owner's girl and wakes up married to her.

Directors: Don McDougall
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8.25
4 votes

#10 - Incident at Cactus Wells

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1962

Forrester notices a man trailing the herd for a few days but he's elusive. After one of the men stampedes the herd, the man drives in a few strays and asks for a job. The men are suspicious of his actions and they soon learn he has a past.

Directors: Christian Nyby
Writer: Albert Aley
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8.25
8 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Thomas Carr
Writer: Ward Hawkins
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8.25
4 votes

#12 - Incident of the Gallows Tree

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1963

In Cottonwood, at the Pair-A-Dice Saloon, Qunice gets in a fight with Major Courtney. Jim swears he'll kill him.

Directors: Christian Nyby
Writer: Albert Aley
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8.25
4 votes

#13 - Incident of the Married Widow

Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1963

In Calvin, Miss Abigail owns The Silver Slipper Salon, a very posh saloon. There Rowdy sees the picture of the dead war hero, Gil Favor, Abigail's husband.

Directors: Thomas Carr
Writer: Paul King
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8.20
5 votes

#14 - Incident of the Clown

Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/29/1963

Morris G. Stevens, a failed actor, toured the world as a clown. Now a philologist he wants to create a Comanche dictionary.

Directors: Don McDougall
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8.20
5 votes

#15 - Incident of the White Eyes

Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/3/1963

Favor and Hey Soos rescue Domingo, Lt. Carter and the Butlers from a runaway stage. The make to a stage station and fight off indians.

Directors: Christian Nyby
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8.20
5 votes

#16 - Incident of the Black Ace

Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/12/1963

A gypsy tells Wish's fortune he draws the death card three times.

Directors: Thomas Carr
Writer: Dean Riesner
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8.20
5 votes

#17 - Incident of the Wolvers

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1962

Rowdy hires wolfers Abner Cannon and his children.

Directors: Thomas Carr
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8.00
5 votes

#18 - Incident of the Hostages

Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/19/1963

Rowdy buys three white children from the Arapahos that have been raised by the Apache.

Directors: Don McDougall
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7.83
6 votes

#19 - Incident of the Prodigal Son

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1962

Sam Hargas finds a half baked, half starved greenhorn, Ben Whitney IV. His horse stepped in a chuck hole. He's a rich brat.

Directors: Christian Nyby
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7.80
5 votes

#20 - 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.

Directors: Christian Nyby
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7.75
4 votes

#21 - Incident of the Portrait

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1962

Frank Trask enters the Curtis' at night through a window. He's hungry and takes a picture of a woman. Raymond Curtis hears a noise and checks it outs. Trask knocks him out. Marion, the woman in the picture, ""sees"" Trask leave.

Directors: Ted Post
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7.75
4 votes

#22 - 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.

Directors: Thomas Carr
Writer: Al C. Ward
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7.67
6 votes

#23 - 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.

Directors: Thomas Carr
Writer: Jack Turley
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7.60
10 votes

#24 - Incident of the Hunter

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1962

John Shepard a former POW along with Rowdy is now a bounty hunter. The drovers wonder who he is after.

Directors: Thomas Carr
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7.60
5 votes

#25 - Incident of the Mountain Man

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1963

Thomas and the men of the wagon train are ready to string up Josh Green for killing Thomas's boy. Josh is a mountain man lost in the modern world.

Directors: Don McDougall