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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 Worst Episode
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    Rawhide Season 4 Episode 30 - Abilene
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Abilene

    S4:E30

    The herd finally arrives in Abilene, the end of a long, hard drive. While most of the drovers plan to spend their pay painting the town, Favor has a few other ideas. He is going to buy some land and get out of the cattle business. Don Grenfell also has been told to quit due to a bad back. The drovers are all quarantined at Oddity House due to small pox.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Charles Larson

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  2. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 8 - Damon's Road (2)
    5.6/10(102 votes)

    #2 - Damon's Road (2)

    S7:E8

    Damon has Favor's crew believing the railroad is the future. Favor escapes and goes to his crew, who want to be railroaders. Favor gets Quince to sent a false telegram that Damon's payroll arrived a week ago. Favor tells Damon's old crew. They go for a showdown with Damon.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Robert Lewin

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  3. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 7 - Damon's Road (1)
    5.9/10(108 votes)

    #3 - Damon's Road (1)

    S7:E7

    Jonathan Damon is building the C&L Railroad. His crew has quit do to lack of pay. The store says no more credit. Goldie, his girl, and the three girls in her act are leaving. He needs to dig up 20 men. Favor shows up with 2400 cattle and 28 men. Damon tricks the drovers in o signing work contracts and having Favor arrested for abducting Goldie.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Robert Lewin

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  4. Rawhide Season 8 Episode 7 - The Vasquez Woman
    6.2/10(94 votes)

    #4 - The Vasquez Woman

    S8:E7

    Colonel Emilio Vasquez ""buys"" 200 head from Quince, Jed and Simon in Mexico. Jed goes to town to see if the pesos are worth anything. The gringo who runs the town says they're just paper. Emilio's wife, Maria, was left behind and is in the bar. Emilio sneaks into town and kills the gringo, but doesn't get Maria. Jed escapes with Maria. Jed and Emilio argue over the terms of her return.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Rawhide Season 8 Episode 8 - Clash at Broken Bluff
    6.7/10(89 votes)

    #5 - Clash at Broken Bluff

    S8:E8

    Rowdy must convince a young widow to allow the herd on her land to protect it from the a norther. She is involved in the suffragette movement. The saloon owner will do anything to stop women from getting the vote. The drovers are allowed to vote if they stick around. The saloon owner buys their votes, but Rowdy has second thoghts.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writer:Ed Adamson

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  6. Rawhide Season 8 Episode 6 - Hostage for Hanging
    6.9/10(122 votes)

    #6 - Hostage for Hanging

    S8:E6

    Rowdy is held for ransom by a family of crooked horse traders. Quince, Jed, Wish and Simon try to dicker unsuccessfully. The family is led by Ma Gufler. Her two sons are Jesse and dim-witted Max. They prepare to hang Rowdy. Jed rides in to talk things over.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 30 - Incident of the Peyote Cup
    7.1/10(100 votes)

    #7 - Incident of the Peyote Cup

    S6:E30

    Hey Soos is captured by a small secretive tribe of Indians, and forced to drink peyote liquid. An indian girl helps him escape. The new drover, Mister Brothers was a missionary and tried to convert this tribe. They came to believe if they crucified white men they dead ancestors would come back to life.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Dick Nelson

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  8. Rawhide Season 1 Episode 13 - Incident of the Curious Street
    7.2/10(180 votes)

    #8 - Incident of the Curious Street

    S1:E13

    Favor and Rowdy are looking for strays. They enter a deserted mining town. Matt Lucas is the caretaker. He says he's the only one there. Leaving they hear an organ. Mrs. Miller and her daughter, Angie, say Lucas and his son, Waldo, gunned down the stage coach driver, and is holding them hostage.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Earl Baldwin

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  9. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 12 - Incident at Spanish Rock
    7.2/10(131 votes)

    #9 - Incident at Spanish Rock

    S2:E12

    Claiming to represent President Diaz of Mexico, Villegro and his men want to take one of Gil's men, the son of their biggest enemy, into custody. As they are in Texas and need all hands to drive their herd, Gil is not in favor of doing so.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 24 - Incident of the Comanchero
    7.2/10(101 votes)

    #10 - Incident of the Comanchero

    S5:E24

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

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Rawhide Season 8 Episode 4 - Walk into Terror
    7.2/10(102 votes)

    #11 - Walk into Terror

    S8:E4

    A mine cave in traps Quince and Simon. New drover Ed says he's found some blasting gel and gun cotton. He and his buddy Jerry will blow them out for $500. It is a perilous journey hauling the unstable gel to the mine in a rickety old wagon.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Rawhide Season 8 Episode 9 - The Pursuit
    7.2/10(93 votes)

    #12 - The Pursuit

    S8:E9

    Jed is being pursued by Marshall Hanson Dickson, a well known lawman. Dickson claims Jed Is James Carothers wanted dead of alive for murder in Missouri. Jed says he was cleared of the charge.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Rawhide Season 1 Episode 5 - Incident On the Edge of Madness
    7.3/10(216 votes)

    #13 - Incident On the Edge of Madness

    S1:E5

    A fanatical Southern loyalist lures drovers from Favor and Rowdy with tales of founding a new Confederate empire; guest Lon Chaney Jr.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writers:David Victor, Herbert Little Jr.

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  14. Rawhide Season 1 Episode 10 - Incident of the Golden Calf
    7.3/10(155 votes)

    #14 - Incident of the Golden Calf

    S1:E10

    Brother Bent the newest drover sparks gold fever, when he flashes a huge nuggett.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Endre Bohem

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  15. Rawhide Season 1 Episode 16 - Incident of the Misplaced Indians
    7.3/10(152 votes)

    #15 - Incident of the Misplaced Indians

    S1:E16

    Rowdy finds two indians dead outside a house. Amelia Spaulding is inside singing and making candy.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 1 - Incident of the Day of the Dead
    7.3/10(156 votes)

    #16 - Incident of the Day of the Dead

    S2:E1

    Rowdy is tricked into breaking a stallion to pay off a gambling debt by a woman. The horse killed one man and injured others including the daughter of the owner. Rowdy is involved in more than breaking a horse - the break up of a family.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 23 - Incident of the Stargazer
    7.3/10(127 votes)

    #17 - Incident of the Stargazer

    S2:E23

    A woman gets off the stage expecting to meet her husband. But she was let off in the middle of nowhere, a good 30 miles from her home. Pete decides to help her get there but when they arrive, she recognizes everyone except her husband.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 24 - Incident of the Dancing Death
    7.3/10(106 votes)

    #18 - Incident of the Dancing Death

    S2:E24

    When the son of a gypsy queen is murdered, she insists one of the drovers did it and demands the killer be found and turned over. Gil rebuffs her, prompting the old woman to predict trouble for the drive, which does start to happen.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 27 - Incident of the 100 Amulets
    7.3/10(98 votes)

    #19 - Incident of the 100 Amulets

    S2:E27

    Hey Soos goes to town to visit his mother but, while buying supplies to take to her, he is attacked as the town believe his mother is a witch who has cursed the town.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 23 - The Immigrants
    7.3/10(106 votes)

    #20 - The Immigrants

    S4:E23

    Quince, Clay and Wish are captured and told by Count Ulrich they are his property and will work on his manor house.

    Director:Tay Garnett
    Writer:Elliott Arnold

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  21. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 5 - A Man Called Mushy
    7.3/10(106 votes)

    #21 - A Man Called Mushy

    S7:E5

    Mushy is swindled out of the wagons and the remuda. He is fired, kidnapped by gypsies, sold into slavery and rescued by his new girlfriend.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:John Mantley

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  22. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 11 - The Photographer
    7.3/10(75 votes)

    #22 - The Photographer

    S7:E11

    A photograher leads an unsuspecting Rowdy into a den of thieves.

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 14 - The Book
    7.3/10(71 votes)

    #23 - The Book

    S7:E14

    Pop Stark promotes gunfights for profit. Billy his latest boy just lost. Carl Hatcher loaned Pop money. His brothers are coming to collect. Pop arranges a gunfight between Rowdy and Austin Ware, a professional gunfighter.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 30 - The Gray Rock Hotel
    7.3/10(117 votes)

    #24 - The Gray Rock Hotel

    S7:E30

    Favor brings five of his men, sick from either food or water, into a ghost town to the Gray Rock Hotel. Lottie was on the way to Fort McCloud when her horse went lame. Favor asks Lottie to help care for the five. Favor sends Quince to Gold Ridge for a doctor. Four guys are looking for Lottie. She tries to create dissension among the drovers. Lottie tells Favor she is on the run. Mushy defends Lottie from Marty's advances. Quince falls off his horse. The four find him. Lottie asks Favor to teach her to use a gun.

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Rawhide Season 8 Episode 5 - Escort to Doom
    7.3/10(90 votes)

    #25 - Escort to Doom

    S8:E5

    Rowdy enlists the aid of eight Indians who have been trailing the herd to get to the Little Red River. Their leader, Yellow Sun, looks white. The drovers, particularly Wish doesn't like it. The other Indians, particularly Quadero doesn't like it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Abilene" is the worst rated episode of "Rawhide". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Anton Leader and written by Charles Larson, it aired on 5/18/1962. This episode scored 5.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Damon's Road (2)".