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 - The Pursuit
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1965
Jed is being pursued by Marshall Hanson Dickson, a well known lawman. Dickson claims Jed Is James Carothers wanted dead of alive for murder in Missouri. Jed says he was cleared of the charge.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Brush War at Buford
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1965
Major Buford who fought for the south ties his herd in with Rowdy's. He does this so he can cross Duke Aberdeen's land. Duke was a POW in a Confederate prison, and won't let Buford cattle cross his land. The major's son Court hates anything Yankee. Union forces burned the Buford mansion in Virginia, and soon after Mrs. Buford died. Duke sends out phoney stock inspectors that claim many of the cattle are someone else's.
#4 - Canliss
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1964
Gurd Canliss an aging hired gun, has Don Miguel as his next target. Gurd's wife Augusta and Favor try to stop it.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Incident at Superstition Prairie
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/1960
Wish finds an indian left to die in a cave, and rescues him.
#7 - The Violent Land
Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/5/1965
Mace and Gorman the new drovers have more than cows on thier minds. Mace shows Favor a reward poster for $10,000 for a white girl captured by the Apaches. Rowdy visits the grave of his sister killed the the indians. Rowdy refuses to sell twelve head to Yuma, the Apache chief.
#8 - Piney
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1964
Favor hears Piney Kinney wants to join the herd thinking it will solve his need for drovers. However, Piney who lost his herd and most of his ranch, is working with a gang to rob the bank and use Favor's herd as cover for their escape.
#9 - Judgment at Hondo Seco
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1961
Quince gets a letter. He needs a couple of days off. Jim, Pete, Rowdy and Hey Soos go to Hando Seco. Casey the bartender knocks their drinks out of their hands when he finds out they rode in with Jim. Jim asks Judge Matt Quince how's his niece Joanna. She wants help running away. She's in love with Brad Lyons. He has a murder warrant on his head.
#10 - Escort to Doom
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1965
Rowdy enlists the aid of eight Indians who have been trailing the herd to get to the Little Red River. Their leader, Yellow Sun, looks white. The drovers, particularly Wish doesn't like it. The other Indians, particularly Quadero doesn't like it.
#11 - Texas Fever
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1965
Pete Nolan (Sheb Wooley), who'd been out scouting for the Army for the last couple of years, is back working for Favor starting in this episode, only to find himself falsely accused of rustling and murder.
#12 - 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.
#13 - The Race
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1964
Rowdy quits and gets his own herd and races Favor to the railhead.
#14 - Corporal Dasovik
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1964
When a officer dies, Cpl. Dasovik is forced to take over the mission but he has no control over the men. The men pick up Favor when they take some of his cattle. Dasovik soon learns he is alone but he is determined to carry out his orders.
#15 - Prairie Fire
Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/19/1965
Wish buries Tod Murdoch, his friend, who 500 head he is to take to tie up with Favor's herd at horsehead crossing. Tod's foreman Jerry and Milt and Pitts plan to steal the cattle once they get the ownership paper from Wish. Wish has hidden it plain sight. He won't tell where and they try to beat it out of him.
#16 - The Calf Women
Season 7 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/30/1965
Emma Teall and her sister Betsy are following the herd. Ryan an his forty buffalo hunters won't let the herd through to needed grazing, until he pens the buffalo up. Rowdy gives him three days. Wish tells Mushy to take two calves and kill them. Emma relieves Mushy of the calves. He says there may be three more later. Wish reports the milk cows are gone. They followed the calves to Emma's camp. The drovers tip over her wagon. Emma fires a warning shot. Billy Wallace a buffalo hunter calls on Betsy and gets rough with a protesting Emma.
#17 - Duel at Daybreak
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1965
The new drover, a young southern gentleman, Roman Bedford, has incurred the wrath of the ranch foreman they're picking up cattle from. Roman has paid attention to the ranch owner's daughter, with whom the foreman has intentions. The ranch owner has keep hidden his past from his daughter.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Incident of the Coyote Weed
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/20/1959
Banditos inside and outside threaten the herd and the drovers.
#23 - Incident Near Gloomy River
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/17/1961
Dan Fletcher returns to his Ma and brother,Cal, whose home just burned. Cal thinks Frank Travis is trying to run them off. Frank's daughter Flora has had Cal courting her for a year, but she likes Danny.
#24 - Crossing at White Feather
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1965
Rowdy hires Jonas Bolt to guide the herd to and across the river. Rowdy finds Jonas drunk and fires him. The saloon owner tries to trick Rowdy out of a 1000 head using Jonas.
#25 - Damon's Road (2)
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1964
Damon has Favor's crew believing the railroad is the future. Favor escapes and goes to his crew, who want to be railroaders. Favor gets Quince to sent a false telegram that Damon's payroll arrived a week ago. Favor tells Damon's old crew. They go for a showdown with Damon.