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 meet up with adventure and drama.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Rawhide" is "Abilene", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by Anton Leader and written by Charles Larson. "Abilene" aired on 5/18/1962 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Damon's Road (2)".
NaN/10 0 votes#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
- 5.7/10 91 votes
#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
- 6.0/10 96 votes
#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
- 6.3/10 84 votes
#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
- 6.8/10 106 votes
#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
- 6.9/10 78 votes
#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
- 7.1/10 88 votes
#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
- 7.2/10 143 votes
#8 - 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
- 7.2/10 66 votes
#9 - 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
- 7.2/10 89 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.2/10 86 votes
#11 - 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
7.3/10 196 votes#12 - 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.
7.3/10 143 votes#13 - 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
7.3/10 166 votes#14 - 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
7.3/10 126 votes#15 - 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
- 7.3/10 91 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.3/10 95 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.3/10 105 votes
#18 - 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
- 7.3/10 92 votes
#19 - 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
7.3/10 86 votes#20 - 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
- 7.3/10 87 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.3/10 71 votes
#23 - El Hombre Bravo
Season 7 Episode 29 - Aired 5/14/1965
Favor and Mushy are driving six prize bulls toward the American border in Mexico. A band of Mexicans tell Favor they are looking for El Hombre Bravo. General Velasquez's men rope a drive steer and search the wagons for El Hombre Bravo. Favor and Mushy meet Pajarito, a school teacher and eight orphans heading to a mission north of the border. Pajarito wrote pamphlets for the revolutionaries and signed them El Hombre Bravo.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Herman Groves
7.4/10 304 votes#24 - Incident of the Tumbleweed
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1959
After a marshal and deputy are wounded and killed, Gil and Rowdy volunteer to finish the delivery of the prison wagon with seven dangerous prisoners to Ft Craig for trial, while the outlaw husband of one prisoner is in pursuit to free her.
Director: Richard Whorf
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 139 votes#25 - Incident of the Misplaced Indians
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/1/1959
Rowdy finds two indians dead outside a house. Amelia Spaulding is inside singing and making candy.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A