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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 The Sendoff
    8.5/10(133 votes)

    #1 - 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
  2. Background image for The Peddler
    8.5/10(141 votes)

    #2 - 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
  3. Background image for Incident of the Dust Flower
    8.4/10(114 votes)

    #3 - 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
  4. Background image for Incident of the Portrait
    8.4/10(131 votes)

    #4 - Incident of the Portrait

    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.

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  5. Background image for The Long Count
    8.3/10(113 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for The Woman Trap
    8.3/10(121 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Incident of Iron Bull
    8.3/10(107 votes)

    #7 - Incident of Iron Bull

    S6:E2

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Incident at Seven Fingers
    8.3/10(106 votes)

    #8 - Incident at Seven Fingers

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Incident with an Executioner
    8.2/10(275 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse
    8.2/10(144 votes)

    #10 - Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse

    S2:E7

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Incident of the 100 Amulets
    8.2/10(100 votes)

    #11 - Incident of the 100 Amulets

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Incident of the Silent Web
    8.2/10(110 votes)

    #12 - Incident of the Silent Web

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Gentleman's Gentleman
    8.2/10(118 votes)

    #13 - The Gentleman's Gentleman

    S4:E11

    Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll. Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Incident of El Toro
    8.2/10(101 votes)

    #14 - Incident of El Toro

    S5:E1

    When a wild bull distracts the herd, a trouble-making hired hand is charged with taking him down. Meanwhile, a rising river, injured men and a frustrated trail boss add to the tension of the trail.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Incident of the Dogfaces
    8.2/10(102 votes)

    #15 - Incident of the Dogfaces

    S5:E8

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

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    Director:Unknown
  17. Background image for Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
    8.2/10(119 votes)

    #16 - Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom

    S5:E11

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

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    Director:Unknown
  18. Background image for Incident of the Married Widow
    8.2/10(115 votes)

    #17 - Incident of the Married Widow

    S5:E22

    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.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Incident of the Hostages
    8.2/10(81 votes)

    #18 - Incident of the Hostages

    S5:E27

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

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  20. Background image for Incident at Two Graves
    8.2/10(104 votes)

    #19 - Incident at Two Graves

    S6:E7

    Wish volunteers Rowdy to fight Jeremiah O'Neal for money. O'Neal gives the fight away and Rowdy wins $50. The losers are ready to tar and feather O'Neal. Rowdy helps him escape. O'Neal has a cross made by the indians for the Spaniards. He speaks of a lost mine.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Incident at Hourglass
    8.2/10(99 votes)

    #20 - Incident at Hourglass

    S6:E23

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Incident at Deadhorse (1)
    8.2/10(124 votes)

    #21 - Incident at Deadhorse (1)

    S6:E26

    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.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Incident at Deadhorse (2)
    8.2/10(130 votes)

    #22 - Incident at Deadhorse (2)

    S6:E27

    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.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Incident of the Power and the Plow
    8.1/10(199 votes)

    #23 - 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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  25. Background image for Incident at Red River Station
    8.1/10(119 votes)

    #24 - Incident at Red River Station

    S2:E14

    Favor, Rowdy and drover Lou Paris find themselves in the middle of a smallpox epidemic in Red River Station. The town's doctor wants to vaccinate the populous. The barber/dentist relies on acifidity bags, leeches and herb tea. Favor tries unsuccessfully to get vaccine from the army.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Rio Salado
    8.1/10(115 votes)

    #25 - Rio Salado

    S4:E1

    Rowdy and Hey Soos are robbed by Antonio Marcos. He is leading a revolution against the Texas land grant. Rowdy meets his Dad, who ran out on him and his Ma.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Sendoff" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide". It scored 8.5/10 based on 133 votes. Directed by George Templeton and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/2/1961. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Peddler".