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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 2 - The Sendoff
    8.6/10(142 votes)

    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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  2. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 15 - The Peddler
    8.5/10(155 votes)

    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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  3. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 16 - The Woman Trap
    8.4/10(133 votes)

    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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  4. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 25 - A Woman's Place
    8.4/10(127 votes)

    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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  5. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 13 - The Long Count
    8.3/10(122 votes)

    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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  6. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 1 - Rio Salado
    8.1/10(124 votes)

    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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  7. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 4 - Judgment at Hondo Seco
    8.1/10(95 votes)

    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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  8. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 6 - The Inside Man
    8.1/10(122 votes)

    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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  9. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 7 - The Black Sheep
    8.1/10(122 votes)

    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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  10. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 11 - The Gentleman's Gentleman
    8.1/10(131 votes)

    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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  11. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 14 - The Captain's Wife
    8.1/10(147 votes)

    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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  12. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 17 - The Boss's Daughters
    8.1/10(139 votes)

    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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  13. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 22 - Hostage Child
    8.1/10(132 votes)

    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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  14. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 29 - The Devil and the Deep Blue
    8.1/10(109 votes)

    S4:E29

    Favor wants to fatten the herd for a week. Another herd is three to five days behind. The trail boss is Ben Wade and all the drovers are old. Charlie Holt , owners representative, comes onto Helen Wade, and vice versa. Two of Wade's cattle have Texas Tick.

    Director:George Templeton
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 3 - The Long Shakedown
    8.0/10(125 votes)

    S4:E3

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

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 5 - The Lost Tribe
    8.0/10(118 votes)

    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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  17. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 18 - The Deserters' Patrol
    8.0/10(115 votes)

    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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  18. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 20 - Grandma's Money
    8.0/10(120 votes)

    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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  19. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 10 - The Blue Spy
    7.8/10(123 votes)

    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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  20. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 26 - Reunion
    7.8/10(116 votes)

    S4:E26

    Pete's friend Grey Hawk's son, Wild Horse has escaped and is raiding. General Perry is bringing 500 head of cattle for the indians. Pete is leading Lieutenant Matthew Perry to his father.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Elliott Arnold

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  21. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 27 - House of the Hunter
    7.8/10(131 votes)

    S4:E27

    A deaf mute delivers a letter for Rowdy at the camp. Rowdy picks up a guy, Kilo, whose wagon was stolen. They make camp. In the morning, Kilo and the horses are gone. Rowdy walks to a house and enters. The door shuts behind him. Mackie and five others lock Rowdy in a room. Someone shoots at Rowdy from outside. The six are being held prisoner.

    Director:Tay Garnett
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 19 - The Greedy Town
    7.7/10(126 votes)

    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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  23. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 21 - The Pitchwagon
    7.7/10(132 votes)

    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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  24. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 12 - Twenty-Five Santa Clauses
    7.6/10(138 votes)

    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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  25. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 24 - The Child-Woman
    7.6/10(118 votes)

    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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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"The Sendoff" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide" season 4. It scored 8.6/10 based on 142 votes. Directed by George Templeton and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/2/1961. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Peddler".