- 8.5/1060 votesLoading...
#1 - In Memoriam
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1959
Johnny Yuma fulfills a promise made to a dying Union soldier. He rides into Lassiter City to return a keepsake medal to the boy's family. The mother proudly receives the medal and then asks Yuma to stay on as a cowhand.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1054 votesLoading...
#2 - The Waiting
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1960
Yuma stops at a bar where a bounty hunter is holding the wife of the outlaw he hopes to collect on. Seeing Yuma's descriptive resemblance to the outlaw, the bounty hunter decides upon an alternative plan---killing Yuma and passing him off as the outlaw. Will the wife go along with this idea?
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1062 votesLoading...
#3 - Panic
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1959
Yuma tries to saves a very ill family against a mob lead by a townsman who's calling it diphtheria, and wants to burn them out.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1051 votesLoading...
#4 - Dark Secret
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1959
After Yuma kills a man in self defense, he finds himself in the position of having to mediate between the man's dangerously defensive widow and his associates who include his employer and co-workers.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 8.3/1049 votesLoading...
#5 - He's Only a Boy
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1960
Yuma is in town to deliver a letter to Lick Stribling when he is targeted by young Virgil Moss who wants to make his name as a gunfighter to defend his family name against the charge of cowardice.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1054 votesLoading...
#6 - Johnny Yuma at Appomattox
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1960
General Grant pays a post-war visit to the South, and Johnny tells young Jimmy the story of Lee's surrender.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1046 votesLoading...
#7 - The Bequest
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1960
Jeremy Hake receives a double blow of bad news---that his mine is worthless, and that his family is in need. Hake commits murder in a robbery attempting to help his family. Hake asks Yuma to surrender him for the reward offered for the murder and give the money to his family.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10122 votesLoading...
#8 - Johnny Yuma
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1959
Johnny Yuma returns home one year after the war's end to find a gang of thugs have extorted a local mine and murdered his father while his father's deputy and the rest of the town live in fear and despair.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1054 votesLoading...
#9 - The Death of Gray
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1960
A Confederate colonel and two of his marauders live in seclusion to avoid consequences of the war but the two marauders kidnap a banker's daughter and send Yuma to collect the ransom.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1051 votesLoading...
#10 - The Legacy
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1960
The Ricker family frames Yuma for a murder that one of them has committed and then arranges for Yuma to flee town before he is hanged. But Yuma refuses to leave.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1048 votesLoading...
#11 - Angry Town
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1960
Yuma kills a man appointed sheriff by his gang leader brother who seeks revenge by intimidating the fearful townspeople into not transacting any business with him.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1040 votesLoading...
#12 - Land
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1960
Yuma brings old farmer Frank Gottwald a document proving he's right in his land dispute with Dan Hauser. But since Gottwald lacks money for an appeal, and despite his bad heart, he agrees to Hauser's deal to walk his entire land in the hot sun---which could prove fatal.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1045 votesLoading...
#13 - The Rattler
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/13/1960
Snake bit, Yuma collapses at the home of a marshal who's been targeted by hired killers. He is taken in by the marshal's wife and son. But when they are both gone, the marshal's deputy, Roader, kills the marshal on his return home and frames Yuma.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1049 votesLoading...
#14 - You Steal My Eyes
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/20/1960
Yuma finds a trapper caught in a bear trap and takes him to cabin where he discovers the man's blind daughter who mistakes him for an enemy until the actual brigands come to steal pelts meant to pay for the woman's eye operation.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1043 votesLoading...
#15 - Miz Purdy
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 4/2/1961
After convincing a woman living alone at her homestead that he is not an outlaw, Yuma joins forces with her to fend off marauders who have robbed a bank and killed a neighboring family.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1050 votesLoading...
#16 - Misfits
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1959
Yuma becomes the leader teenage gang that plans to rob a bank, with the full intention of making them decide not to go through with it.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: Arnold Belgard
- 8.0/1053 votesLoading...
#17 - Noblesse Oblige
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1960
Yuma visits his former commanding officer Quincy Bannister who is irrationally and overtly pursuing the prosecution of alleged murderer Newt Schofield.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1044 votesLoading...
#18 - Vindication
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1960
After his horse is killed by Apaches, Yuma is found by a stagecoach driver. On the stage is Travers, who is blind and tormented by a previous stagecoach encounter with Apaches, in which his wife was killed when they were left by a driver.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1040 votesLoading...
#19 - The Guard
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1961
A sadistic former Union prison guard who tortured Yuma wants revenge for the punishment he suffered when Yuma escaped from the POW camp.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1074 votesLoading...
#20 - Judgement
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1959
Yuma believes there is something very corrupt about a town that tries a horse thief, and sentences him to hang within hours of his capture.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1066 votesLoading...
#21 - Yellow Hair
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1959
A mortally wounded soldier stumbles into Johnny's camp. Before he dies, he says only one thing: "Fort Concho." Johnny rides to the fort and discovers it empty of soldiers. The sole survivor is a coward who hid during the fighting and survived--knowing Indians do not harm the mentally infirm--by pretending to be crazy. Before Johnny can leave, he's captured by Kiowas who plan to torture him to death.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1059 votesLoading...
#22 - The Scavengers
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1959
Yuma happens upon a ruthless gang of drifters running out of supplies and proceeds to join in the defense of a nearby family that he has learned the gang is targeting.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1040 votesLoading...
#23 - The Crime
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1960
Yuma finds items on a dead horse and brings them to the home indicated, where he is arrested by the Sheriff for suspected murder. He is cleared but remains to defend the Mexican boy then held for the crime and being railroaded by the deputy.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1059 votesLoading...
#24 - Fair Game
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/27/1960
A bounty hunter taking a beautiful, high class, woman in for murder at a stage depot, is poisoned to death, but Yuma is determined to finish taking her in for the dead man.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1049 votesLoading...
#25 - The Hunted
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1960
Yuma's friend Jim Colburn has been found innocent of a murder for which he was to hang. Before the news of his innocence arrived, Colburn escaped from jail with a posse unaware of his innocence in pursuit.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Rebel
Every episode of The Rebel ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Rebel!
The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was...
Genre:Western
Network:ABC
Best Episodes Summary
"In Memoriam" is the best rated episode of "The Rebel". It scored 8.5/10 based on 60 votes. Directed by Irvin Kershner and written by N/A, it aired on 12/6/1959. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Waiting".