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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!

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...
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:CBS

Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Incident of El Toro" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide" season 5. It scored 8.1/10 based on 97 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/21/1962. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Incident of the Hunter".

  • Incident of El Toro
    8.1/1097 votes

    #1 - Incident of El Toro

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1962

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the Hunter
    8.0/10106 votes

    #2 - Incident of the Hunter

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1962

    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

  • Incident of the Portrait
    8.4/10123 votes

    #3 - Incident of the Portrait

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1962

    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

    Writer: Michael Gleason, William Blinn

  • Incident at Cactus Wells
    8.0/1097 votes

    #4 - Incident at Cactus Wells

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1962

    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: N/A

  • Incident of the Prodigal Son
    7.6/10106 votes

    #5 - Incident of the Prodigal Son

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1962

    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

  • Incident of the Four Horsemen
    7.7/10105 votes

    #6 - Incident of the Four Horsemen

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1962

    Favor and Clay are witnesses at a the wedding of Amy Gault and Frank Louden. Gus Marsdon provokes Frank into shooting Amy's brother Carl. Tom Gault, Amy's father, sends Ben Kerran after them. Frank and Tom claim the same 100,000 acres.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: Charles Larson

  • Incident of the Lost Woman
    7.7/1095 votes

    #7 - Incident of the Lost Woman

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1962

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

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the Dogfaces
    8.2/10100 votes

    #8 - Incident of the Dogfaces

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1962

    Rowdy,Quince and Clay help out three soldiers being attacked by Indians. They were sent to break the treaty with Broken Bow.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Gene L. Coon

  • Incident of the Wolvers
    7.7/1099 votes

    #9 - Incident of the Wolvers

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1962

    Rowdy hires wolfers Abner Cannon and his children.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident at Sugar Creek
    8.1/10112 votes

    #10 - Incident at Sugar Creek

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1962

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

    Director: Christian Nyby

    Writer: Fred Freiberger

  • Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
    8.4/10115 votes

    #11 - Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1962

    Rowdy gets drugged in a bar with Shelia, the bar owner's girl and wakes up married to her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Winston Miller

  • Incident of the Querencias
    7.3/1087 votes

    #12 - Incident of the Querencias

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/7/1962

    Gil's old friend, Lije Crowning, has had his ranch foreclosed on by the bank. Lije wants to take his thirty head with the drive to Colorado.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: Joseph Petracca

  • Incident at Quivira
    7.8/1099 votes

    #13 - Incident at Quivira

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1962

    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: N/A

  • Incident of Decision
    7.9/1089 votes

    #14 - Incident of Decision

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1962

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the Buryin' Men
    7.5/1095 votes

    #15 - Incident of the Buryin' Men

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1963

    Favor and Rowdy see two Cheyenne. They are watching a burying wagon. It's owner, Pomeroy K. Tollliver (Poke) surrenders to Favor thinking they're a posse. The wagon is broken. Favor will have the wagon fixed and Poke can ride to Rock City with the herd.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: Jack Turley

  • Incident of the Trail's End
    8.0/1096 votes

    #16 - Incident of the Trail's End

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1963

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ed Adamson

  • Incident at Spider Rock
    8.2/10115 votes

    #17 - Incident at Spider Rock

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/18/1963

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

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the Mountain Man
    7.7/10100 votes

    #18 - Incident of the Mountain Man

    Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/25/1963

    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: N/A

    Writer: Richard Fielder

  • Incident at Crooked Hat
    7.6/1081 votes

    #19 - Incident at Crooked Hat

    Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/1/1963

    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: N/A

    Writer: Joseph Petracca

  • Incident of Judgment Day
    8.0/10112 votes

    #20 - Incident of Judgment Day

    Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1963

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

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the Gallows Tree
    8.1/1092 votes

    #21 - Incident of the Gallows Tree

    Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1963

    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: N/A

  • Incident of the Married Widow
    8.2/10110 votes

    #22 - Incident of the Married Widow

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1963

    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: N/A

  • Incident of the Pale Rider
    7.9/10104 votes

    #23 - Incident of the Pale Rider

    Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/15/1963

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

    Director: Christian Nyby

    Writer: Dean Riesner

  • Incident of the Comanchero
    7.3/1092 votes

    #24 - Incident of the Comanchero

    Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 3/22/1963

    Sisters Benaventura and Teresa cut Maria Jose Chappela off an indian torture rack.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the Clown
    7.6/1073 votes

    #25 - Incident of the Clown

    Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 3/29/1963

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Charles Larson