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The Best Episodes of Rawhide

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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 meet up with adventure and drama.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Rawhide Season 7 Episode 4 - The Lost Herd
    8.7/10(135 votes)

    S7:E4

    Favor loses the whole herd except nine, taking a shortcut thru Devil's Patch Quilt trying to beat another herd in. He must face Mr. Teisner of the cattleman's association.

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 2 - The Sendoff
    8.6/10(142 votes)

    S4:E2

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

    Director:George Templeton
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 20 - Incident of the Dust Flower
    8.5/10(121 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 3 - Incident at Dragoon Crossing
    8.5/10(128 votes)

    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.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 6 - Incident on the Road to Yesterday
    8.5/10(105 votes)

    S3:E6

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

    Director:R.G. Springsteen
    Writer:Winston Miller

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  6. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 15 - The Peddler
    8.5/10(155 votes)

    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.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 3 - Incident of the Portrait
    8.5/10(144 votes)

    S5:E3

    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.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writers:William Blinn, Michael Gleason

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  8. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 2 - Incident of Iron Bull
    8.5/10(118 votes)

    S6:E2

    Joseph a Comanche is hired after returning the remuda. Colonel Macklin and Sargeant Graogan are accompanting the herd as far as Waycross.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 15 - Incident of the Fish Out of Water
    8.4/10(128 votes)

    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.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 16 - The Woman Trap
    8.4/10(133 votes)

    S4:E16

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

    Director:George Templeton
    Writer:Buckley Angell

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  11. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 25 - A Woman's Place
    8.4/10(127 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 11 - Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
    8.4/10(132 votes)

    S5:E11

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Winston Miller

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  13. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 1 - The Race
    8.4/10(125 votes)

    S7:E1

    Rowdy quits and gets his own herd and races Favor to the railhead.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Robert Lewin

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  14. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 12 - No Dogs or Drovers
    8.4/10(100 votes)

    S7:E12

    Gil Favor's cattlemen arrive at a town after a long,hard cattle drive and find that the town isn't receptive to cattle drivers.

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 27 - The Calf Women
    8.4/10(115 votes)

    S7:E27

    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.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 7 - Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse
    8.3/10(149 votes)

    S2:E7

    While scouting for a river crossing, Favor meets a hostile smokehouse-owner and his wife.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 26 - Incident of the Deserter
    8.3/10(108 votes)

    S2:E26

    While taking a mountain short cut, Wishbone is injured in a fall caused by a bullying ore freighter. He seeks aid in a small mining town, where he becomes attached to a widow, who is the freighter's fiancée.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 30 - Incident of the Silent Web
    8.3/10(117 votes)

    S2:E30

    A young girl is so shocked at her father's murder that she can not speak. She is taken captive by two escaped convicts.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 14 - Incident of the Big Blowout
    8.3/10(112 votes)

    S3:E14

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

    Director:George Templeton
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 26 - Incident of the Painted Lady
    8.3/10(119 votes)

    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.

    Director:Harmon Jones
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 13 - The Long Count
    8.3/10(122 votes)

    S4:E13

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

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 8 - Incident of the Dogfaces
    8.3/10(115 votes)

    S5:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Gene L. Coon

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  23. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 27 - Incident of the Hostages
    8.3/10(87 votes)

    S5:E27

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

    Director:Don McDougall
    Writer:Charles Larson

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  24. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 29 - Incident at Seven Fingers
    8.3/10(115 votes)

    S6:E29

    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.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 9 - The Backshooter
    8.3/10(111 votes)

    S7:E9

    Sam Jefferson aids Rowdy after his horse takes a spill. Sam is a wanted man. He asks Rowdy to turn him in and give the $5000 to his wife.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Lost Herd" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide". It scored 8.7/10 based on 135 votes. Directed by Vincent McEveety and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/16/1964. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Sendoff".