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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!

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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 6 Episode 2 - Incident of Iron Bull
    8.5/10(118 votes)

    S6:E2

    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:Unknown

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  2. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 29 - Incident at Seven Fingers
    8.3/10(115 votes)

    S6:E29

    Sam Turner steals Rowdy's horse. Sam is an escapee from the army guardhouse, charges with breaking and running in the face of fire. Rowdy's horse goes lame. Rowdy catches Sam and offers him a job. Captain Coulter and his men rush into camp and arrests Sam. Favor says things don't add up and comes to his defense.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 1 - Incident of the Red Wind
    8.2/10(121 votes)

    S6:E1

    Favor tells Rowdy to let Lou Bowdart drive the herd up the San Marcos trail.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Dean Riesner

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  4. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 7 - Incident at Two Graves
    8.2/10(115 votes)

    S6:E7

    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:Unknown

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  5. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 18 - Incident at Gila Flats
    8.2/10(95 votes)

    S6:E18

    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:Unknown

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  6. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 20 - Incident of the Swindler
    8.2/10(101 votes)

    S6:E20

    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:Unknown

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  7. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 22 - Incident at Zebulon
    8.2/10(109 votes)

    S6:E22

    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

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  8. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 23 - Incident at Hourglass
    8.2/10(107 votes)

    S6:E23

    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:Unknown

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  9. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 26 - Incident at Deadhorse (1)
    8.2/10(130 votes)

    S6:E26

    The town's richest and most popular man is convicted and sentenced to be hung for the revenge murder of his son's killer. He is undaunted by this because he is counting on no one in town be willing to act as executioner.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 27 - Incident at Deadhorse (2)
    8.2/10(136 votes)

    S6:E27

    When Wishbone and Mushy realize Hannibal is not safe they try to help. They are brought back tied up while Hannibal is tarred and feathered. Hannibal returns to Deadhorse and the men want to help him against Favor's better judgment.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 5 - Incident at Paradise
    8.1/10(108 votes)

    S6:E5

    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

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  12. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 10 - Incident at Confidence Creek
    8.0/10(122 votes)

    S6:E10

    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

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  13. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 24 - Incident at the Odyssey
    8.0/10(79 votes)

    S6:E24

    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:Unknown

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  14. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 9 - Incident of the Prophecy
    7.9/10(113 votes)

    S6:E9

    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:Unknown

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  15. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 13 - Incident of the Geisha
    7.9/10(111 votes)

    S6:E13

    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

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  16. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 21 - Incident of the Wanderer
    7.9/10(104 votes)

    S6:E21

    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

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  17. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 3 - Incident at El Crucero
    7.8/10(129 votes)

    S6:E3

    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

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  18. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 6 - Incident at Farragut Pass
    7.8/10(111 votes)

    S6:E6

    In return for crossing her land to water, E.J. Farragut wants Favor to hire her grandson Billy.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Jack Turley

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  19. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 8 - Incident of the Rawhiders
    7.8/10(120 votes)

    S6:E8

    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:Unknown

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  20. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 25 - Incident of the Banker
    7.8/10(96 votes)

    S6:E25

    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:Unknown

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  21. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 19 - Incident of the Pied Piper
    7.7/10(97 votes)

    S6:E19

    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:Unknown

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  22. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 15 - Incident of the Rusty Shotgun
    7.6/10(105 votes)

    S6:E15

    Three brothers think Wish is their sister's intended.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 4 - Incident of the Travellin' Man
    7.5/10(85 votes)

    S6:E4

    Jagger is fished out of the river with leg irons on. His story doesn't match that of Matt Harger.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 11 - Incident of the Death Dancer
    7.5/10(85 votes)

    S6:E11

    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

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  25. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 14 - Incident at Ten Trees
    7.5/10(112 votes)

    S6:E14

    The drovers find a young white woman dressed as an indian, babbling.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Incident of Iron Bull" is the best rated episode of "Rawhide" season 6. It scored 8.5/10 based on 118 votes. Directed by Christian Nyby and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/3/1963. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Incident at Seven Fingers".