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The Worst Episodes of Rawhide

Every episode of Rawhide ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Rawhide!

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

Worst Episodes Summary

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

  • Abilene
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    #1 - Abilene

    Season 4 Episode 30 - Aired 5/18/1962

    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

  • Damon's Road (2)
    5.7/1091 votes
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    #2 - Damon's Road (2)

    Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1964

    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

  • Damon's Road (1)
    6.0/1096 votes
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    #3 - Damon's Road (1)

    Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1964

    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

  • The Vasquez Woman
    6.3/1085 votes
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    #4 - The Vasquez Woman

    Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1965

    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: N/A

  • Hostage for Hanging
    6.8/10108 votes
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    #5 - Hostage for Hanging

    Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1965

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Clash at Broken Bluff
    6.9/1079 votes
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    #6 - Clash at Broken Bluff

    Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1965

    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

  • Incident of the Peyote Cup
    7.1/1089 votes
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    #7 - Incident of the Peyote Cup

    Season 6 Episode 30 - Aired 5/14/1964

    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

  • Incident of the Dancing Death
    7.2/1097 votes
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    #8 - Incident of the Dancing Death

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 4/8/1960

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Immigrants
    7.2/1096 votes
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    #9 - The Immigrants

    Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/16/1962

    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

  • Incident of the Black Ace
    7.2/1069 votes
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    #10 - Incident of the Black Ace

    Season 5 Episode 26 - Aired 4/12/1963

    A gypsy tells Wish's fortune he draws the death card three times.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: Dean Riesner

  • The Book
    7.2/1066 votes
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    #11 - The Book

    Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1965

    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: N/A

  • Walk into Terror
    7.2/1090 votes
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    #12 - Walk into Terror

    Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1965

    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: N/A

  • The Pursuit
    7.2/1087 votes
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    #13 - The Pursuit

    Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1965

    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: N/A

  • Incident On the Edge of Madness
    7.3/10198 votes
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    #14 - Incident On the Edge of Madness

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/1959

    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

    Writer: David Victor, Herbert Little Jr.

  • Incident of the Golden Calf
    7.3/10143 votes
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    #15 - Incident of the Golden Calf

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/13/1959

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

    Director: Jesse Hibbs

    Writer: Endre Bohem

  • Incident of the Curious Street
    7.3/10167 votes
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    #16 - Incident of the Curious Street

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/10/1959

    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

  • Incident of the Judas Trap
    7.3/10126 votes
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    #17 - Incident of the Judas Trap

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/5/1959

    With wolves threatening the herd, Pete is sent to town to get a wolver and traps. None are available, but he meets his old flame, Nora Sage. She is later found strangled in her room. Brad Morgan, Medrina Wilcox's foreman also came to see her. Medrina has a herd but only one man. They pool herds. Brad was a wolver, and directs Favor's men in placing the traps. Brad toys with the affections of Nora, Medrina and her sister Paula. Favor lets the sheriff take Pete, but says he needs Morgan.

    Director: Jesse Hibbs

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the Day of the Dead
    7.3/10144 votes
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    #18 - Incident of the Day of the Dead

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1959

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident at Sulphur Creek
    7.3/1093 votes
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    #19 - Incident at Sulphur Creek

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/11/1960

    Horse thieves who have victimized Comanches also strike the drive's ramuda. Gil sends a group headed by Pete and Rowdy out to purchase replacement mounts. They encounter a preacher on his way to officiate a christening at the Lacey ranch, where he says horses are for sale. The drovers find their own stolen horses corralled there. So do the Comanches, who put the ranch under siege.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the Deserter
    7.3/1087 votes
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    #20 - Incident of the Deserter

    Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 5/6/1960

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Prairie Elephant
    7.3/10106 votes
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    #21 - The Prairie Elephant

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1961

    Favor finds a circus that is lost. Pascal the owner and clown beats his wife, Jenny, who wants to run away with Dario the other half of her high wire act.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident of the Querencias
    7.3/1086 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • Incident of the Comanchero
    7.3/1091 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • Incident of the Dowry Dundee
    7.3/1089 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • A Man Called Mushy
    7.3/1099 votes
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    #25 - A Man Called Mushy

    Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1964

    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