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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
    8.8/10(130 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.

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 20 - Incident of the Dust Flower
    8.5/10(117 votes)

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

    #3 - 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.

    Director:R.G. Springsteen
    Writer:Winston Miller

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  4. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 2 - The Sendoff
    8.5/10(136 votes)

    #4 - The Sendoff

    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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  5. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 15 - The Peddler
    8.5/10(146 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 3 - Incident at Dragoon Crossing
    8.4/10(122 votes)

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

    #7 - 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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  8. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 3 - Incident of the Portrait
    8.4/10(135 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writers:Michael Gleason, William Blinn

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  9. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 2 - Incident of Iron Bull
    8.4/10(111 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 1 - The Race
    8.4/10(121 votes)

    #10 - The Race

    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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  11. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 27 - The Calf Women
    8.4/10(110 votes)

    #11 - 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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  12. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 7 - Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse
    8.3/10(145 votes)

    #12 - 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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  13. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 30 - Incident of the Silent Web
    8.3/10(112 votes)

    #13 - 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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  14. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 9 - Incident of the Captive
    8.3/10(106 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Stuart Heisler
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 10 - Incident of the Buffalo Soldier
    8.3/10(109 votes)

    #15 - 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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  16. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 14 - Incident of the Big Blowout
    8.3/10(111 votes)

    #16 - Incident of the Big Blowout

    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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  17. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 17 - Incident of the New Start
    8.3/10(115 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 22 - Incident in the Middle of Nowhere
    8.3/10(120 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:R.G. Springsteen
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Rawhide Season 3 Episode 26 - Incident of the Painted Lady
    8.3/10(114 votes)

    #19 - Incident of the Painted Lady

    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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  20. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 13 - The Long Count
    8.3/10(116 votes)

    #20 - The Long Count

    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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  21. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 16 - The Woman Trap
    8.3/10(125 votes)

    #21 - The Woman Trap

    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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  22. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 8 - Incident of the Dogfaces
    8.3/10(107 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Gene L. Coon

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  23. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 11 - Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
    8.3/10(122 votes)

    #23 - 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
    Writer:Winston Miller

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  24. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 22 - Incident of the Married Widow
    8.3/10(122 votes)

    #24 - 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.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 27 - Incident of the Hostages
    8.3/10(83 votes)

    #25 - Incident of the Hostages

    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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Best Episodes Summary

"The Lost Herd" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide". It scored 8.8/10 based on 130 votes. Directed by Vincent McEveety and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/16/1964. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Incident of the Dust Flower".