The Best Episodes of Rawhide Season 4
Every episode of Rawhide Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Rawhide Season 4!
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.
Season 4 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Rawhide" season 4 is "Rio Salado", rated 8/10 from 106 user votes. It was directed by Ted Post and written by N/A. "Rio Salado" aired on 9/29/1961 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Sendoff".
8.0/10 106 votes#1 - Rio Salado
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1961
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 our on him and his Ma.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10 120 votes
#2 - 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
- 8.0/10 105 votes
#3 - The Long Shakedown
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1961
An overbearing Favor leads to many drovers quitting. Five replacements stir trouble.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 88 votes
#4 - Judgment at Hondo Seco
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1961
Quince gets a letter. He needs a couple of days off. Jim, Pete, Rowdy and Hey Soos go to Hando Seco. Casey the bartender knocks their drinks out of their hands when he finds out they rode in with Jim. Jim asks Judge Matt Quince how's his niece Joanna. She wants help running away. She's in love with Brad Lyons. He has a murder warrant on his head.
Director: Perry Lafferty
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 104 votes
#5 - The Lost Tribe
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1961
Indians stampede the herd. The sheriff says it's a 100 Cheyenne headed for Mexico. Pete picks up their trail. Pete asks Rowdy not to tell Favor right away. Little Hawk, the Chief, is the father of Pete's dead wife.
Director: George Templeton
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 104 votes
#6 - The Inside Man
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1961
Craddock and Clay Forrester plot to steal the herd. Shelia Brewster is running away from her army fiancee.
Director: George Templeton
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 107 votes
#7 - The Black Sheep
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1961
Favor asks sheepherder,Tod Stone, to let the herd pass his flock. He won't. They take the herd over the ridge to the next valley. Tod takes a shortcut and beats them. Rowdy and Collins scatter the flock. Tod the herd. Rowdy fights Tod. Tod falls on his scaling knife. Favor tells Rowdy he's taking Tod and his flock to Twin Hat.
Director: Anton Leader
Writer: Charles Larson
- 7.3/10 105 votes
#8 - The Prairie Elephant
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1961
Favor finds a circus that is lost. Pascal the owner and clown beats his wife, Jenny, who wants to run away with Dario the other half of her high wire act.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10 108 votes
#9 - The Little Fishes
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1961
Gilmore tells Favor there's a panic brewing back east. He needs to cut ten days off the drive. Gilmore says don't tell the drovers about the panic. Tom Gwynn ,a fishbreeder, is sick with fever. He's taking shad to California to claim a $10,000 prize.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: Charles Larson
- 7.7/10 105 votes
#10 - The Blue Spy
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1961
A woman wanders into camp needing help. She is an actress who one of the men recognizes later. She worked as a Union spy during the war. Although most of the men hate her, one even more so as he was court-martialed due to her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10 111 votes
#11 - The Gentleman's Gentleman
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1961
Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll. Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10 122 votes
#12 - Twenty-Five Santa Clauses
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1961
Mushy tells Wish he sees Santa Claus (Mr. Bateman) in the middle of August, in the middle of Texas. He's lost. He keels over. He, his wife Mag, and their nine year old boy, Danny, are on their way to New York. Danny won't last till Xmas.
Director: N/A
Writer: Charles Larson
- 8.3/10 106 votes
#13 - 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
- 8.0/10 131 votes
#14 - The Captain's Wife
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1962
Nora Holloway is ambitious for her captain husband to advance. She resorts to lying.
Director: Tay Garnett
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10 133 votes
#15 - 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
- 8.5/10 111 votes
#16 - 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
- 8.1/10 119 votes
#17 - The Boss's Daughters
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1962
The drover are stopped by fence at Vance Caldwell's ranch and are told they will have to wait until he returns to get permission to pass. But the fence isn't Favor's only problem, his daughters are about to join him on the trail.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10 97 votes
#18 - The Deserters' Patrol
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1962
The indians want to trade six soldiers they hold for thier Chief. Favor is commissioned as a captain to make the exchange.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10 105 votes
#19 - The Greedy Town
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/1962
Ada Randolph offers the town $300,000 if they find her dead son, a convicted murderer innocent, and run the sheriff out of town.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10 98 votes
#20 - Grandma's Money
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/1962
On a trip to collect a debt, Rowdy sees an elderly woman apparently hounded by thieves. After rescuing her they go to a nearby town where Rowdy is to collect the debt and she awaits a stage. However, she frames Rowdy for multiple thefts.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10 108 votes
#21 - The Pitchwagon
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1962
When Frank is killed by indians, a collection is taken for his family. Clay suggests a poker game to run it up.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lou Morheim
- 8.2/10 107 votes
#22 - Hostage Child
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1962
A thirteen year old indian is going to Fort Lacey to see his sister. The commandant hates all indians. He and his wife Azuela have a son.
Director: Harmon Jones
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 92 votes
#23 - The Immigrants
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/16/1962
Quince, Clay and Wish are captured and told by Count Ulrich they are his property and will work on his manor house.
Director: Tay Garnett
Writer: Elliott Arnold
- 7.6/10 100 votes
#24 - The Child - Woman
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1962
Mushy's cousin asks him to take her sister to his mom, to get out of the saloons. She doesn't want to go.
Director: N/A
Writer: Elliott Arnold
- 8.3/10 107 votes
#25 - A Woman's Place
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1962
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: N/A