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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 7.6/1082 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 7.3/1093 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
- 7.7/1075 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
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".