The WORST episodes of Rawhide
Every episode of Rawhide ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 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.
#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.
#3 - Incident of the Wolvers
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1962
Rowdy hires wolfers Abner Cannon and his children.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Incident at Crooked Hat
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1963
Gil stands by his old friend Jack Jennings. Jack's a gunfighter. In a fair fight he shot the brother of the most powerful man in the town.
#14 - Incident of Judgement Day
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1963
Rowdy's ex-commanding officer, Captain Cabot convenes a make shift courts-martial for him in a ghost town.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Incident of the Red Wind
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1963
Favor tells Rowdy to let Lou Bowdart drive the herd up the San Marcos trail.