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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 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 Lost Herd
    8.7/10(128 votes)

    #1 - The Lost Herd

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Incident on the Road to Yesterday
    8.5/10(105 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for The Sendoff
    8.5/10(135 votes)

    #3 - The Sendoff

    S4:E2

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

    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Incident of the Dust Flower
    8.4/10(116 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for The Peddler
    8.4/10(143 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Incident of the Portrait
    8.4/10(133 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for The Race
    8.4/10(119 votes)

    #8 - The Race

    S7:E1

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

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  10. Background image for The Calf Women
    8.4/10(106 votes)

    #9 - The Calf Women

    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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  11. Background image for Incident of the Fish Out of Water
    8.3/10(127 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for The Woman Trap
    8.3/10(122 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 A Woman's Place
    8.3/10(118 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
    8.3/10(121 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Incident of Iron Bull
    8.3/10(109 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Incident at Seven Fingers
    8.3/10(109 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  17. Background image for No Dogs or Drovers
    8.3/10(94 votes)

    #16 - No Dogs or Drovers

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Incident with an Executioner
    8.2/10(278 votes)

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

    #18 - Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse

    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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  20. Background image for Incident of the Silent Web
    8.2/10(111 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Incident at Rojo Canyon
    8.2/10(116 votes)

    #20 - 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.

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

    #21 - 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.

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

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Incident of the Big Blowout
    8.2/10(110 votes)

    #23 - Incident of the Big Blowout

    S3:E14

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

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

    #24 - 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.

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

    #25 - 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.

    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 128 votes. Directed by Vincent McEveety and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/16/1964. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Incident on the Road to Yesterday".