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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".

  • In Memoriam
    8.5/1060 votes
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    #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

  • The Waiting
    8.5/1054 votes
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    #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

  • Panic
    8.3/1062 votes
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    #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

  • Dark Secret
    8.3/1051 votes
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    #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

  • He's Only a Boy
    8.3/1049 votes
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    #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

  • Johnny Yuma at Appomattox
    8.3/1054 votes
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    #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

  • The Bequest
    8.3/1046 votes
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    #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

  • Johnny Yuma
    8.2/10122 votes
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    #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

  • The Death of Gray
    8.2/1054 votes
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    #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

  • The Legacy
    8.2/1051 votes
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    #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

  • Angry Town
    8.1/1048 votes
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    #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

  • Land
    8.1/1040 votes
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    #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

  • The Rattler
    8.1/1045 votes
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    #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

  • You Steal My Eyes
    8.1/1049 votes
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    #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

  • Miz Purdy
    8.1/1043 votes
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    #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

  • Misfits
    8.0/1050 votes
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    #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

  • Noblesse Oblige
    8.0/1053 votes
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    #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

  • Vindication
    8.0/1044 votes
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    #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

  • The Guard
    8.0/1040 votes
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    #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

  • Judgement
    7.9/1074 votes
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    #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

  • Yellow Hair
    7.9/1066 votes
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    #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

  • The Scavengers
    7.9/1059 votes
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    #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

  • The Crime
    7.9/1040 votes
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    #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

  • Fair Game
    7.9/1059 votes
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    #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

  • The Hunted
    7.9/1049 votes
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    #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