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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!

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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
    Rawhide Season 4 Episode 1 - Rio Salado
    8.2/10(117 votes)

    #1 - Rio Salado

    S4:E1

    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 out on him and his Ma.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #2 - 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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  3. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 3 - The Long Shakedown
    8.2/10(117 votes)

    #3 - The Long Shakedown

    S4:E3

    An overbearing Favor leads to many drovers quitting. Five replacements stir trouble.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 4 - Judgment at Hondo Seco
    8.1/10(94 votes)

    #4 - Judgment at Hondo Seco

    S4:E4

    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:Unknown

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  5. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 5 - The Lost Tribe
    8.1/10(112 votes)

    #5 - The Lost Tribe

    S4:E5

    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:Unknown

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  6. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 6 - The Inside Man
    8.1/10(114 votes)

    #6 - The Inside Man

    S4:E6

    Craddock and Clay Forrester plot to steal the herd. Shelia Brewster is running away from her army fiancee.

    Director:George Templeton
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 7 - The Black Sheep
    8.1/10(115 votes)

    #7 - The Black Sheep

    S4:E7

    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

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  8. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 8 - The Prairie Elephant
    7.4/10(113 votes)

    #8 - The Prairie Elephant

    S4:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 9 - The Little Fishes
    7.5/10(118 votes)

    #9 - The Little Fishes

    S4:E9

    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

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  10. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 10 - The Blue Spy
    7.8/10(115 votes)

    #10 - The Blue Spy

    S4:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 11 - The Gentleman's Gentleman
    8.1/10(122 votes)

    #11 - The Gentleman's Gentleman

    S4:E11

    Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll. Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 12 - Twenty-Five Santa Clauses
    7.6/10(133 votes)

    #12 - Twenty-Five Santa Clauses

    S4:E12

    Mushy tells Wish he sees Santa Claus - Mr. Bateman - in Texas in the middle of August. Bateman is 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 until Christmas.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Charles Larson

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

    #13 - 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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  14. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 14 - The Captain's Wife
    8.0/10(139 votes)

    #14 - The Captain's Wife

    S4:E14

    Nora Holloway is ambitious for her captain husband to advance. She resorts to lying.

    Director:Tay Garnett
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

    #16 - 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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  17. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 17 - The Boss's Daughters
    8.1/10(134 votes)

    #17 - The Boss's Daughters

    S4:E17

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 18 - The Deserters' Patrol
    8.0/10(107 votes)

    #18 - The Deserters' Patrol

    S4:E18

    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:Unknown

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  19. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 19 - The Greedy Town
    7.8/10(117 votes)

    #19 - The Greedy Town

    S4:E19

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 20 - Grandma's Money
    8.0/10(111 votes)

    #20 - Grandma's Money

    S4:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 21 - The Pitchwagon
    7.7/10(124 votes)

    #21 - The Pitchwagon

    S4:E21

    When Frank is killed by indians, a collection is taken for his family. Clay suggests a poker game to run it up.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Lou Morheim

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  22. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 22 - Hostage Child
    8.2/10(120 votes)

    #22 - Hostage Child

    S4:E22

    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:Unknown

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  23. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 23 - The Immigrants
    7.3/10(108 votes)

    #23 - The Immigrants

    S4:E23

    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

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  24. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 24 - The Child-Woman
    7.6/10(110 votes)

    #24 - The Child-Woman

    S4:E24

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Elliott Arnold

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  25. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 25 - A Woman's Place
    8.2/10(119 votes)

    #25 - 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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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Rio Salado" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide" season 4. It scored 8.2/10 based on 117 votes. Directed by Ted Post and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/29/1961. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Sendoff".