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The Best Episodes of Rawhide Season 1

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The Best Episodes of Rawhide Season 1

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 Incident of the Tumbleweed
    7.5/10(326 votes)

    #1 - Incident of the Tumbleweed

    S1:E1

    After a marshal and deputy are wounded and killed, Gil and Rowdy volunteer to finish the delivery of the prison wagon with seven dangerous prisoners to Ft Craig for trial, while the outlaw husband of one prisoner is in pursuit to free her.

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    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Incident at Alabaster Plain
    7.6/10(243 votes)

    #2 - Incident at Alabaster Plain

    S1:E2

    Rowdy's wartime friend, they spent time in a POW camp, is getting married. The bride's stepbrother, a murderer sixteen times over, has returned to claim his share of the family fortune.

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    Director:Richard Whorf
  3. Background image for Incident with an Executioner
    8.2/10(272 votes)

    #3 - 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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    7.6/10(201 votes)

    #4 - Incident of the Widowed Dove

    S1:E4

    Rowdy tries to help Clovis leave her sheriff husband.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:David Lang
  5. Background image for Incident On the Edge of Madness
    7.4/10(209 votes)

    #5 - Incident On the Edge of Madness

    S1:E5

    A fanatical Southern loyalist lures drovers from Favor and Rowdy with tales of founding a new Confederate empire; guest Lon Chaney Jr.

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  6. Background image for Incident of the Power and the Plow
    8.1/10(195 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Incident at Barker Springs
    7.6/10(184 votes)

    #7 - Incident at Barker Springs

    S1:E7

    Brazo, a retired gunfighter, attempts to keep his kid brother from taking up the family business.

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    7.8/10(183 votes)

    #8 - Incident West of Lano

    S1:E8

    Four stranded women provide a love interest and a complication for Favor. A freight hauler with a gunfighter says he's using the only river crossing first.

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  10. Background image for Incident of the Town in Terror
    8.1/10(167 votes)

    #9 - Incident of the Town in Terror

    S1:E9

    When Rowdy and two steers are thought to have anthrax, The only medical help is a young lady with two years of nursing school. Her town doesn't want anything to do with the drovers or the herd.

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    Director:Ted Post
  11. Background image for Incident of the Golden Calf
    7.3/10(148 votes)

    #10 - Incident of the Golden Calf

    S1:E10

    Brother Bent the newest drover sparks gold fever, when he flashes a huge nuggett.

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    Director:Jesse Hibbs
  12. Background image for Incident of the Coyote Weed
    7.9/10(174 votes)

    #11 - Incident of the Coyote Weed

    S1:E11

    Banditos inside and outside threaten the herd and the drovers.

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    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:David Lang
  13. Background image for Incident of the Chubasco
    7.5/10(167 votes)

    #12 - Incident of the Chubasco

    S1:E12

    The drive faces a formidable tasks climbing to a plateau known for it's high winds and dust storms. Favor hires Tom Bryan more for his wagon than the man. Tom sneaks a woman dressed in a bridal gown into the wagon. Jefferson Devereaux, a wealthy land owner, comes looking for a man and a woman, his wife, Jenny. Rowdy was a POW with Tom. He says Tom sold out. Jeff and forty men will be back in the morning for Tom and Jenny.

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Al C. Ward
  14. Background image for Incident of the Curious Street
    7.3/10(174 votes)

    #13 - Incident of the Curious Street

    S1:E13

    Favor and Rowdy are looking for strays. They enter a deserted mining town. Matt Lucas is the caretaker. He says he's the only one there. Leaving they hear an organ. Mrs. Miller and her daughter, Angie, say Lucas and his son, Waldo, gunned down the stage coach driver, and is holding them hostage.

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    Director:Ted Post
  15. Background image for Incident of the Dog Days
    7.6/10(167 votes)

    #14 - Incident of the Dog Days

    S1:E14

    Favor stops Talby from shooting Johnny Camber, who he says is Billy Carter, who killed his daughter. Clark accuses Carl Myers of being a trail camp thief and a card cheat. Favor decides to take the herd across the dry plain at the worst time of the year. The men begin to question Favor's judgment. Eventually all but six of his men quit.

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  16. Background image for Incident of the Calico Gun
    7.6/10(155 votes)

    #15 - Incident of the Calico Gun

    S1:E15

    Favor and Pete find Jenny Watson outside a burned cabin. Her parents who died of a sickness were burned with the cabin. Favor invites Jenny to ride along to Silver Junction. Jenny is in cahoots with three brothers to rob Favor of the drive's payroll.

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  17. Background image for Incident of the Misplaced Indians
    7.3/10(145 votes)

    #16 - Incident of the Misplaced Indians

    S1:E16

    Rowdy finds two indians dead outside a house. Amelia Spaulding is inside singing and making candy.

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    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Incident of Fear in the Streets
    7.5/10(157 votes)

    #17 - Incident of Fear in the Streets

    S1:E17

    Pete is injured, so Favor and Rowdy into a nearby town for a doctor. Because the town lynched a man the day before, the residents along with Favor and Rowdy are held hostage until the Sheriff and the man who led the lynching are also hung.

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  19. Background image for Incident Below the Brazos
    7.8/10(145 votes)

    #18 - Incident Below the Brazos

    S1:E18

    Favor's welcome to Paradise Valley is a group of gun toting farmers warning the herd better not do any damage to their property. Lightning stampedes the remuda and kills farmer Ken Wade. His wife urges Eli to avenge her husband's death.

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    Director:Jack Arnold
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Incident of the Dry Drive
    8.0/10(158 votes)

    #19 - Incident of the Dry Drive

    S1:E19

    Jess Hode, a bitter ex-trailboss who the owners thought was too old, demands half of Favor's herd for the only water around. Jess' son stands by him but soon comes to see through his old man. Favor tries a couple other water holes but they are dry.

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  21. Background image for Incident of the Judas Trap
    7.3/10(130 votes)

    #20 - Incident of the Judas Trap

    S1:E20

    With wolves threatening the herd, Pete is sent to town to get a wolver and traps. None are available, but he meets his old flame, Nora Sage. She is later found strangled in her room. Brad Morgan, Medrina Wilcox's foreman also came to see her. Medrina has a herd but only one man. They pool herds. Brad was a wolver, and directs Favor's men in placing the traps. Brad toys with the affections of Nora, Medrina and her sister Paula. Favor lets the sheriff take Pete, but says he needs Morgan.

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    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Incident in No Man's Land
    7.4/10(129 votes)

    #21 - Incident in No Man's Land

    S1:E21

    Favor and Rowdy ride into a settlement of women to find out the source of explosions threatening to stampede the herd. They're told to go to the camp. It uses contract prison labor. The women are the wives and girlfriends of the convicts. Todd McCauley has one month to go, but Clement won't release him saying he knows where the money he stole is. Todd arranges a breakout. The convicts need horses and head for the drive.

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    Director:Jack Arnold
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Incident of a Burst of Evil
    7.8/10(151 votes)

    #22 - Incident of a Burst of Evil

    S1:E22

    A badly beaten wild man, Bing, says that Comancheros are planning to take the herd. Rowdy befriends a woman, once a countess, now being held by the Comancheros. She offers a mirror for the kindness Rowdy has shown. Rowdy says he couldn't accept it. She sneaks it into his saddlebag. At a trading post the mirror is identified as one taken in a Comanche raid. Rowdy is thought to be a Comanchero and has to fight his way out. Rowdy goes to the Comanchero camp to get Louisa to back up his story and is caught. Loouisa tells Rowdy of the Comancheros plans. Bing was sent by the Comancheros to lead the drive to them.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Incident of the Tumbleweed" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 326 votes. Directed by Richard Whorf and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/9/1959. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Incident at Alabaster Plain".