The BEST episodes of Rawhide season 6
Every episode of Rawhide season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rawhide season 6!
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 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#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 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Incident of El Toro
Season 6 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/9/1964
Everything is going wrong on the trail. Men are being killed and injured, the herd is late, a river is flooding ahead and Kiowa Indians are a threat. A massive wild bull is distracting the herd and a reckless drover adds to the problems.
#13 - Incident of the Gilded Goddess
Season 6 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/30/1964
Rowdy's old acquaintance, Louise Temple is on the run for killing a sheriff. She ran the Temple Of Gold gambling hall.
#14 - Incident at Deadhorse (2)
Season 6 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/23/1964
When Wishbone and Mushy realize Hannibal is not safe they try to help. They are brought back tied up while Hannibal is tarred and feathered. Hannibal returns to Deadhorse and the men want to help him against Favor's better judgment.
#15 - Incident at Deadhorse (1)
Season 6 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/16/1964
The town's richest and most popular man is convicted and sentenced to be hung for the revenge murder of his son's killer. He is undaunted by this because he is counting on no one in town be willing to act as executioner.
#16 - Incident of the Peyote Cup
Season 6 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/14/1964
Hey Soos is captured by a small secretive tribe of Indians, and forced to drink peyote liquid. An indian girl helps him escape. The new drover, Mister Brothers was a missionary and tried to convert this tribe. They came to believe if they crucified white men they dead ancestors would come back to life.
#17 - Incident of the Odyssey
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/26/1964
Favor is pushing hard to outrun hoof and mouth disease just as he had seven years earlier. Pan an ex-circus performer searches for a lady he heard singing eleven years earlier.
#18 - Incident at Hourglass
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1964
The herd needs to get through Hourglass pass where the army is preparing to blast for a dam. Favor's hometown friend is married to the Post Adjutant. When she kills an officer, she lies to get Favor convicted of the murder.
#19 - Incident of the Rusty Shotgun
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1964
After a stampede Mushy and Wishbone go to town for fresh supplies. When Wishbone is able to stop Amie Claybank from harassing a vendor, her brothers decide he is the man for her. Back at camp, Mushy says Wishbone disappeared.
#20 - Incident at Ten Trees
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1964
The drovers find a young white woman dressed as an indian, babbling.
#21 - Incident of the Geisha
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1963
After Rowdy tells Hey Soos to let a wild stallion go, Hey Soos tries to saddle it again. It bolts knocking Rowdy down and injuring his back. The remuda is stampeded. Out collecting the horses Hey Soos sees the stallion. He tries to lasso it. He is knocked of his horse by a limb and rolls down a hill into a stream. He awakes with his clothes drying overhead. He is in a kimona and a geisha kneels nearby.
#22 - Incident of the Wild Deuces
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1963
When Mushy wins $1500 at Lorelei's Trailbalazer playing seven card stud deuces wild his troubles begin.
#23 - Incident of the Death Dancer
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1963
Carlock has been tracking an African lion for four years. Favor hires him to get the lion. Mushy wants to be a hunter.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Incident of the Prophecy
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1963
The drovers have a Saturday off for the first time in a long time. To wake up the dead town. Rowdy and his friend Rabbit shoot at a schoolhouse bell. A bullet ricochets and kills Jud Hilton. His brother, Brother William, a tetched self proclaimed minister, puts a curse on them and say they can't outrun death.