8.1/10103 votes#1 - Incident of the Red Wind
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1963
Favor tells Rowdy to let Lou Bowdart drive the herd up the San Marcos trail.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: Dean Riesner
- 8.4/10101 votes
#2 - Incident of Iron Bull
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1963
Joseph a Comanche is hired after returning the remuda. Colonel Macklin and Sargeant Graogan are accompanting the herd as far as Waycross.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10108 votes
#3 - Incident at El Crucero
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1963
Rose Cornelius and her ten brothers have fenced off the trail Favor needs to cross to get the herd to water.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Charles Larson
- 7.5/1076 votes
#4 - Incident of the Travellin' Man
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1963
Jagger is fished out of the river with leg irons on. His story doesn't match that of Matt Harger.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1098 votes
#5 - Incident at Paradise
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1963
Rowdy rescues nester Higgins from being used for target practice and gets involved in his fight to stay on his farm.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: Charles Larson
- 7.6/1095 votes
#6 - Incident at Farragut Pass
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1963
In return for crossing her land to water, E.J. Farragut wants Favor to hire her grandson Billy.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: Jack Turley
- 8.1/1096 votes
#7 - Incident at Two Graves
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1963
Wish volunteers Rowdy to fight Jeremiah O'Neal for money. O'Neal gives the fight away and Rowdy wins $50. The losers are ready to tar and feather O'Neal. Rowdy helps him escape. O'Neal has a cross made by the indians for the Spaniards. He speaks of a lost mine.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10103 votes
#8 - Incident of the Rawhiders
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1963
While scouting Rowdy stumbles on rawhiders. After Rowdy refuses to kill Brock in a fight, the leader forces Brock to give Rowdy his intended bride in return for his life. Rowdy is allowed to escape leading the rawhiders to the herd.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10100 votes
#9 - Incident of the Prophecy
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1963
The drovers have a Saturday off for the first time in a long time. To wake up the dead town. Rowdy and his friend Rabbit shoot at a schoolhouse bell. A bullet ricochets and kills Jud Hilton. His brother, Brother William, a tetched self proclaimed minister, puts a curse on them and say they can't outrun death.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10107 votes
#10 - Incident at Confidence Creek
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1963
Elwood P. Gilroy and his assistant Crystal Simpson steal the ownership papers for the herd, and sell the herd to Orville Tippet at a large loss. Elwood ditches Crystal. Rowdy and Crystal follow Elwood to bring him back to justice.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: Jack Turley
- 7.5/1075 votes
#11 - Incident of the Death Dancer
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1963
Carlock has been tracking an African lion for four years. Favor hires him to get the lion. Mushy wants to be a hunter.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: Dean Riesner
- 7.4/1087 votes
#12 - Incident of the Wild Deuces
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1963
When Mushy wins $1500 at Lorelei's Trailbalazer playing seven card stud deuces wild his troubles begin.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: Jack Turley
- 7.9/1098 votes
#13 - Incident of the Geisha
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1963
After Rowdy tells Hey Soos to let a wild stallion go, Hey Soos tries to saddle it again. It bolts knocking Rowdy down and injuring his back. The remuda is stampeded. Out collecting the horses Hey Soos sees the stallion. He tries to lasso it. He is knocked of his horse by a limb and rolls down a hill into a stream. He awakes with his clothes drying overhead. He is in a kimona and a geisha kneels nearby.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: Charles Larson
- 7.5/1099 votes
#14 - Incident at Ten Trees
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1964
The drovers find a young white woman dressed as an indian, babbling.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1091 votes
#15 - Incident of the Rusty Shotgun
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1964
Three brothers think Wish is their sister's intended.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1080 votes
#16 - Incident of the Midnight Cave
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1964
Wish nearly falls off the high trail and awakes blind.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1089 votes
#17 - Incident of the Dowry Dundee
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1964
Rowdy and Quince come across a wee lass, with for huge bulls and a wagon of heirlooms.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1086 votes
#18 - Incident at Gila Flats
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1964
While helping the Army deliver cattle to an Apache tribe, Favor, Wishbone and Quince run into a band of renegade Indians determined to stop them.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1084 votes
#19 - Incident of the Pied Piper
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1964
After a tornado scatters the herd, they are a 100 head short. They learn a man running an orphanage sold them to the local banker. Realizing the banker is the guilty party, Favor decides to teach him a lesson and recover some of his money.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1086 votes
#20 - Incident of the Swindler
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1964
An old ""friend"" of Wish's tells him he is a wanted man for a murder in New Orleans thirteen years ago.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1093 votes
#21 - Incident of the Wanderer
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/1964
Michob, a peddler, comes out of a rain storm, bone dry. Things begin to go wrong and he is labeled a jinx.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Carey Wilber
- 8.2/1094 votes
#22 - Incident at Zebulon
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1964
Favor goes to Zebulon, Johnny Larkin is taken by a group of masked riders and charged with a woman's death. When Favor is horse whipped he is determined to find out the identity of the major, the head of the regulator.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Dean Riesner
- 8.3/1093 votes
#23 - Incident at Hourglass
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1964
The herd needs to get through Hourglass pass where the army is preparing to blast for a dam. Favor's hometown friend is married to the Post Adjutant. When she kills an officer, she lies to get Favor convicted of the murder.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1072 votes
#24 - Incident at the Odyssey
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 3/26/1964
Favor is pushing hard to outrun hoof and mouth disease just as he had seven years earlier. Pan an ex-circus performer searches for a lady he heard singing eleven years earlier.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1084 votes
#25 - Incident of the Banker
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 4/2/1964
An old friend of Favor's, a banker, backs him into a corner and is allowed to take over as trail boss, while Favor runs his bank.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Rawhide Season 6
Every episode of Rawhide Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Rawhide Season 6!
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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Season 6 Ratings Summary
"Incident of the Red Wind" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide" season 6. It scored 8.1/10 based on 103 votes. Directed by Thomas Carr and written by Dean Riesner, it aired on 9/26/1963. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Incident of Iron Bull".