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The Best Episodes of Rawhide Season 5

Every episode of Rawhide Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Rawhide Season 5!

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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 5 Episode 3 - Incident of the Portrait
    8.5/10(144 votes)

    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:William Blinn, Michael Gleason

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  2. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 11 - Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
    8.4/10(132 votes)

    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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  3. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 8 - Incident of the Dogfaces
    8.3/10(115 votes)

    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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  4. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 27 - Incident of the Hostages
    8.3/10(87 votes)

    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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  5. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 1 - Incident of El Toro
    8.2/10(112 votes)

    S5:E1

    When a wild bull distracts the herd, a trouble-making hired hand is charged with taking him down. Meanwhile, a rising river, injured men and a frustrated trail boss add to the tension of the trail.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 2 - Incident of the Hunter
    8.2/10(121 votes)

    S5:E2

    Rowdy recognizes the new drover as a fellow Confederate soldier. But when Clay identifies him as a bounty hunter, the crew becomes paranoid about who he's after.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Charles Larson

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  7. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 21 - Incident of the Gallows Tree
    8.2/10(107 votes)

    S5:E21

    In Cottonwood, at the Pair-A-Dice Saloon, Qunice gets in a fight with Major Courtney. Jim swears he'll kill him.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 22 - Incident of the Married Widow
    8.2/10(132 votes)

    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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  9. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 4 - Incident at Cactus Wells
    8.1/10(114 votes)

    S5:E4

    A suspicious old cowboy who's been tracking Favor's drive asks to join the crew, and turns out to be an ex-con. While most of the drovers want him out, Favor stands by his new hire.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 10 - Incident at Sugar Creek
    8.1/10(129 votes)

    S5:E10

    An injured ex-con Sam Garrett is refused treatment by his home town.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Fred Freiberger

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  11. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 23 - Incident of the Pale Rider
    8.1/10(120 votes)

    S5:E23

    The new man is a dead ringer for the man Rowdy shot in a Wells Fargo holdup.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Dean Riesner

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  12. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 29 - Incident at Rio Doloroso
    8.1/10(102 votes)

    S5:E29

    Don Francisco Maldonaldo sentences Favor and Rowdy to die for the death of his son.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 14 - Incident of Decision
    8.0/10(107 votes)

    S5:E14

    When Rowdy buys eighteen cattle for the next drive he has to contend with a young would be drover with a crooked leg and banditos.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 16 - Incident of the Trail's End
    8.0/10(111 votes)

    S5:E16

    Harry Maxton has glaucoma. Gil offers Harry a job to Rowdy's surprise.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Adamson

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  15. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 20 - Incident of Judgment Day
    8.0/10(134 votes)

    S5:E20

    Rowdy's ex-commanding officer, Captain Cabot convenes a make shift courts-martial for him in a ghost town.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 17 - Incident at Spider Rock
    7.9/10(130 votes)

    S5:E17

    Lola's saloon is watering the booze and cheating the drovers. The supplies Wish bought are bad.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 9 - Incident of the Wolvers
    7.8/10(115 votes)

    S5:E9

    Rowdy hires wolfers Abner Cannon and his children.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 13 - Incident at Quivira
    7.8/10(117 votes)

    S5:E13

    Monty Fox comes stumbling up to the night camp playing the concertina, saying he's found the promised land. He says he's found Quivera, Coronado's golden city. He says he'll share with those who help him against those who chased him out.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 25 - Incident of the Clown
    7.8/10(84 votes)

    S5:E25

    Morris G. Stevens, a failed actor, toured the world as a clown. Now a philologist he wants to create a Comanche dictionary.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Charles Larson

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  20. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 30 - Incident at Alkali Sink
    7.8/10(105 votes)

    S5:E30

    Burt Harvey is accused of cowardice at Gettysburg by his new father-in-law.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 5 - Incident of the Prodigal Son
    7.7/10(123 votes)

    S5:E5

    Sam Hargas finds a half baked, half starved greenhorn, Ben Whitney IV. His horse stepped in a chuck hole. He's a rich brat.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Richard Fielder

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  22. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 7 - Incident of the Lost Woman
    7.7/10(109 votes)

    S5:E7

    Favor finds a woman, Lissa Hobson, still alive but not by much, and her baby, Tad.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 18 - Incident of the Mountain Man
    7.7/10(116 votes)

    S5:E18

    Thomas and the men of the wagon train are ready to string up Josh Green for killing Thomas's boy. Josh is a mountain man lost in the modern world.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Richard Fielder

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  24. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 19 - Incident at Crooked Hat
    7.7/10(97 votes)

    S5:E19

    Gil stands by his old friend Jack Jennings. Jack's a gunfighter. In a fair fight he shot the brother of the most powerful man in the town.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Joseph Petracca

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  25. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 28 - Incident of White Eyes
    7.7/10(108 votes)

    S5:E28

    Favor and Hey Soos rescue Domingo, Lt. Carter and the Butlers from a runaway stage. The make to a stage station and fight off indians.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writers:Edward J. Lakso, Shimon Wincelberg

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Incident of the Portrait" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide" season 5. It scored 8.5/10 based on 144 votes. Directed by Ted Post and written by William Blinn, Michael Gleason, it aired on 10/5/1962. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom".