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The Best Episodes of Rawhide

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they...

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  1. Background image for Incident of the Dust Flower
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Incident of the Dust Flower

    S2:E20

    A posse gives up looking for two outlaws, Vance and his partner. They come upon the body of a lawyer ambushed by indians. Vance decides to pose as Jonathan Williams attorney at law.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Incident at Jacob's Well
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Incident at Jacob's Well

    S2:E5

    Rowdy is saved from falling down a well by a woman. Later, the woman's family and friends manage to steal the drovers' horses.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Incident of the Stalking Death
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Incident of the Stalking Death

    S2:E9

    Gil shoots and wounds a puma while while out scouting for the cattle drive. The puma escaped and kills the young son of a local rancher's widow. Gil and the guys go on the hunt for the puma along with a friend of the widow (Cesar Romero) who also happens to want to kill Gil because he's jealous of the attention the widow shows Gil.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Incident of the Sharpshooter
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Incident of the Sharpshooter

    S2:E19

    An outlaw usurps a dead man's identity and he is heading for the next town along with the drovers. When Rowdy gets in the middle of his business he finds himself in serious trouble and it is up to Mr. Favor to figure out a way of saving him.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Incident on the Road to Yesterday
    8.5/10(104 votes)

    #5 - Incident on the Road to Yesterday

    S3:E6

    Ralph Bartlet asks Favor to return $250 to a stage line he held up and to check on his first love.

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    8.5/10(134 votes)

    #6 - The Sendoff

    S4:E2

    The drovers are beating the scrub for strays. Favor finds wagon remains and twelve graves.

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    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Peddler
    8.5/10(141 votes)

    #7 - The Peddler

    S4:E15

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Incident at Dragoon Crossing
    8.4/10(122 votes)

    #8 - Incident at Dragoon Crossing

    S3:E3

    An ailing Favor asks John Cord to take over the herd. He heads them to Dragoon Crossing where the Bates boys demanded tribute when he brought his herd through.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Incident of the Fish Out of Water
    8.3/10(127 votes)

    #9 - Incident of the Fish Out of Water

    S3:E15

    Favor returns to Philadelphia to see his two daughters. Another passenger is Ogala, Chief of the Pawnee. He is going to be in a wild west show.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Long Count
    8.3/10(113 votes)

    #10 - The Long Count

    S4:E13

    Martha Hastings is running a way station for outlaws. Rowdy, Pete and Wish are hired as census takers.

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    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Woman Trap
    8.3/10(121 votes)

    #11 - The Woman Trap

    S4:E16

    Pete and Rowdy find a whole herd of good looking women heading to Fort Worth to get married.

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  13. Background image for Incident with an Executioner
    8.2/10(276 votes)

    #12 - Incident with an Executioner

    S1:E3

    A stage load of passengers being chased by the man with the black satchel wrecks. Favor takes them to his camp. The man is a hired executioner after someone from the stage or the herd.

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    8.2/10(116 votes)

    #13 - Incident at Rojo Canyon

    S3:E1

    Favor and a calvary detachment lead by Sargeant Matson swear if they did not know better would think they were under attack from a military unit.

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    Director:Ted Post
  15. Background image for Incident of the Captive
    8.2/10(106 votes)

    #14 - Incident of the Captive

    S3:E9

    Harkness Musgrove's III mother is coming to take him home. Mushy asks to be a drover. Favor says yes. Mom's stage gets held up. Mom slaps the bandana off one of the highwaymen. Another stage chases them off. Vince says they'll have to kill her.

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Incident of the Buffalo Soldier
    8.2/10(108 votes)

    #15 - Incident of the Buffalo Soldier

    S3:E10

    Rowdy chases after a buffalo soldier who has killed another soldier and has taken off on his horse.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Incident of the Big Blowout
    8.2/10(109 votes)

    #16 - Incident of the Big Blowout

    S3:E14

    The drovers celebrate the end of the drive. Rowdy is mistaken for another man.

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    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Incident of the New Start
    8.2/10(114 votes)

    #17 - Incident of the New Start

    S3:E17

    Jubal Wade has 1600 head on this drive and demands to be trail boss and says he'll keep Favor's crew if he stays on as ramrod.

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    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Incident in the Middle of Nowhere
    8.2/10(118 votes)

    #18 - Incident in the Middle of Nowhere

    S3:E22

    Favor and Rowdy come upon a ballet in the middle of nowhere. A search for a pass and water leads to villians looking for gold.

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    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Incident of the Phantom Bugler
    8.2/10(111 votes)

    #19 - Incident of the Phantom Bugler

    S3:E23

    Jayhawkers try to charge Favor for water and a toll to cross the river, on indian territory. Captain Brian Donohoe follows the orders of Judge Brady. Mary, the judges daughter is married to Brian and doesn't like it.

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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Incident of the Painted Lady
    8.2/10(112 votes)

    #20 - Incident of the Painted Lady

    S3:E26

    Partners of Thad Clemens are holding Favor's herd until they're paid the $15,000 that Thad swindled them out of. Baxter Springs Cattleman's Association will not help Favor.

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    Director:Harmon Jones
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for A Woman's Place
    8.2/10(117 votes)

    #21 - A Woman's Place

    S4:E25

    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.

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    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Incident of the Power and the Plow
    8.1/10(199 votes)

    #22 - Incident of the Power and the Plow

    S1:E6

    Gil Favor gets permission from rancher Jed Reston to drive his herd over Reston's land. He discovers, however, that Reston has a bigoted attitude toward Indians, particularly a local Comanche named Taslatch who wants to be a farmer and who's paid for a mail-order plow. (Reston's recently had his son, Matt, give Taslatch 15 lashes on a trumped-up rustling charge.) Favor earns Reston's enmity by siding with Taslatch. Tensions soon escalate until violence is set to erupt between the Comanches and local townspeople and Favor must take decisive steps to intervene.

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  24. Background image for Incident at the Top of the World
    8.1/10(103 votes)

    #23 - Incident at the Top of the World

    S3:E12

    There's a new drover who has just spent five years in an army hospital and is addicted to morphine.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Incident of the Running Iron
    8.1/10(87 votes)

    #24 - Incident of the Running Iron

    S3:E18

    Frank Miller is a herd cutter getting on in years with a nineteen year old son. Quince chases a rustler off, but is arrested himself.

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    Director:Harmon Jones
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Incident of the Boomerang
    8.1/10(98 votes)

    #25 - Incident of the Boomerang

    S3:E20

    Ruthann Harper and Richard Goffage are taking 200 head of cattle to Australia. Ruthann has a questionable past.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Incident of the Dust Flower" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/4/1960. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Incident at Jacob's Well".