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The Best Episodes of Rawhide Season 5

Genres:WesternDrama
Network:CBS

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...
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  • Incident of the Portrait
    8.4/10(125)
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    #1 - 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: William Blinn, Michael Gleason

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  • Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
    8.3/10(118)
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    #2 - 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

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  • Incident of the Dogfaces
    8.2/10(101)
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    #3 - 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

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  • Incident of the Married Widow
    8.2/10(113)
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    #4 - 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

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  • Incident of the Hostages
    8.2/10(80)
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    #5 - Incident of the Hostages

    Season 5 Episode 27

    Aired 4/19/1963

    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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  • Incident of El Toro
    8.1/10(98)
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    #6 - 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

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  • Incident at Sugar Creek
    8.1/10(114)
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    #7 - 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

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  • Incident at Spider Rock
    8.1/10(118)
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    #8 - 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

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  • Incident of Judgment Day
    8.1/10(115)
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    #9 - 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

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  • Incident of the Gallows Tree
    8.1/10(94)
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    #10 - 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

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  • Incident of the Hunter
    8.0/10(107)
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    #11 - 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

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  • Incident at Cactus Wells
    8.0/10(98)
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    #12 - 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

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  • Incident of the Trail's End
    8.0/10(98)
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    #13 - 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

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  • Incident at Rio Doloroso
    8.0/10(90)
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    #14 - Incident at Rio Doloroso

    Season 5 Episode 29

    Aired 5/10/1963

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

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

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  • Incident of Decision
    7.9/10(92)
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    #15 - 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

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  • Incident of the Pale Rider
    7.9/10(105)
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    #16 - 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

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  • Incident of the Wolvers
    7.8/10(102)
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    #17 - 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

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  • Incident at Quivira
    7.8/10(103)
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    #18 - 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

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  • Incident at Alkali Sink
    7.8/10(94)
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    #19 - Incident at Alkali Sink

    Season 5 Episode 30

    Aired 5/24/1963

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Incident of the Four Horsemen
    7.7/10(107)
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    #20 - 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

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  • Incident of the Lost Woman
    7.7/10(97)
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    #21 - 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

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  • Incident of the Mountain Man
    7.7/10(103)
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    #22 - 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

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  • Incident of the Clown
    7.7/10(77)
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    #23 - 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

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  • Incident of White Eyes
    7.7/10(97)
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    #24 - Incident of White Eyes

    Season 5 Episode 28

    Aired 5/3/1963

    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

    Writer: Edward J. Lakso, Shimon Wincelberg

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  • Incident of the Prodigal Son
    7.6/10(108)
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    #25 - 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

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Incident of the Portrait" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide" season 5. It scored 8.4/10 based on 125 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".