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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
- 8.5/1096 votesLoading...
#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
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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
- 8.5/10135 votesLoading...
#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
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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
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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
- 8.4/10105 votesLoading...
#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
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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
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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
- 8.4/10102 votesLoading...
#12 - 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
- 8.4/10113 votesLoading...
#13 - 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
- 8.4/1090 votesLoading...
#14 - 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
- 8.3/10110 votesLoading...
#15 - 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
- 8.3/10107 votesLoading...
#16 - 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
- 8.3/1094 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/10121 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/10103 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/1096 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/10100 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/10258 votesLoading...
#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
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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
- 8.2/1094 votesLoading...
#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
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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
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".