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The Best Episodes of Rawhide

Every episode of Rawhide ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"The Lost Herd" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide". It scored 8.7/10 based on 115 votes. Directed by Vincent McEveety and written by N/A, it aired on 10/16/1964. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Incident at Dragoon Crossing".

  • The Lost Herd
    8.7/10115 votes
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    #1 - The Lost Herd

    Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1964

    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: N/A

  • Incident at Dragoon Crossing
    8.5/10114 votes
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    #2 - Incident at Dragoon Crossing

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1960

    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: N/A

  • Incident on the Road to Yesterday
    8.5/1097 votes
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    #3 - Incident on the Road to Yesterday

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/1960

    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

  • Incident of the Fish Out of Water
    8.5/10118 votes
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    #4 - Incident of the Fish Out of Water

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1961

    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: N/A

  • The Sendoff
    8.5/10124 votes
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    #5 - The Sendoff

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1961

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

    Director: George Templeton

    Writer: N/A

  • The Peddler
    8.5/10136 votes
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    #6 - The Peddler

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1962

    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: N/A

  • The Woman Trap
    8.5/10116 votes
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    #7 - The Woman Trap

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1962

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

    Director: George Templeton

    Writer: Buckley Angell

  • The Race
    8.5/10107 votes
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    #8 - The Race

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1964

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

    Director: Bernard McEveety

    Writer: Robert Lewin

  • Incident of the Dust Flower
    8.4/10106 votes
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    #9 - Incident of the Dust Flower

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/4/1960

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the Portrait
    8.4/10123 votes
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    #10 - Incident of the Portrait

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1962

    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

    Writer: Michael Gleason, William Blinn

  • Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
    8.4/10115 votes
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    #11 - Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1962

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Winston Miller

  • Incident at Deadhorse (1)
    8.4/10114 votes
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    #12 - Incident at Deadhorse (1)

    Season 6 Episode 26 - 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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • No Dogs or Drovers
    8.4/1090 votes
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    #13 - No Dogs or Drovers

    Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1964

    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: N/A

  • Incident in the Middle of Nowhere
    8.3/10111 votes
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    #14 - Incident in the Middle of Nowhere

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/7/1961

    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.

    Director: R.G. Springsteen

    Writer: N/A

  • The Long Count
    8.3/10109 votes
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    #15 - The Long Count

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1962

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

    Director: Jesse Hibbs

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of Iron Bull
    8.3/10103 votes
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    #16 - 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.

    Director: Christian Nyby

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident at Hourglass
    8.3/1095 votes
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    #17 - 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.

    Director: Christian Nyby

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident at Deadhorse (2)
    8.3/10122 votes
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    #18 - Incident at Deadhorse (2)

    Season 6 Episode 27 - 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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident at Seven Fingers
    8.3/10103 votes
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    #19 - Incident at Seven Fingers

    Season 6 Episode 29 - 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.

    Director: Christian Nyby

    Writer: N/A

  • The Backshooter
    8.3/1096 votes
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    #20 - The Backshooter

    Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1964

    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: N/A

  • The Calf Women
    8.3/10101 votes
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    #21 - 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.

    Director: Anton Leader

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident with an Executioner
    8.2/10264 votes
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    #22 - Incident with an Executioner

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1959

    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.

    Director: Charles Marquis Warren

    Writer: James Edmiston

  • Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse
    8.2/10135 votes
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    #23 - Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1959

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the 100 Amulets
    8.2/1095 votes
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    #24 - Incident of the 100 Amulets

    Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 4/29/1960

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the Silent Web
    8.2/10104 votes
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    #25 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A