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The Best Episodes of The Rebel

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Rebel Season 2 Episode 4 - The Waiting
    8.5/10(55 votes)

    #1 - The Waiting

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown

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  2. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 5 - Panic
    8.3/10(66 votes)

    #2 - Panic

    S1:E5

    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:Unknown

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  3. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 8 - Dark Secret
    8.3/10(54 votes)

    #3 - Dark Secret

    S1:E8

    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

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  4. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 10 - In Memoriam
    8.3/10(62 votes)

    #4 - In Memoriam

    S1:E10

    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:Unknown

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  5. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 21 - He's Only a Boy
    8.3/10(50 votes)

    #5 - He's Only a Boy

    S1:E21

    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:Unknown

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  6. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 1 - Johnny Yuma at Appomattox
    8.3/10(55 votes)

    #6 - Johnny Yuma at Appomattox

    S2:E1

    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:Unknown

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  7. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 1 - Johnny Yuma
    8.2/10(132 votes)

    #7 - Johnny Yuma

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown

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  8. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 2 - The Bequest
    8.2/10(47 votes)

    #8 - The Bequest

    S2:E2

    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:Unknown

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  9. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 20 - Land
    8.1/10(42 votes)

    #9 - Land

    S1:E20

    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:Unknown

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  10. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 24 - You Steal My Eyes
    8.1/10(49 votes)

    #10 - You Steal My Eyes

    S1:E24

    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:Unknown

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  11. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 9 - The Legacy
    8.1/10(53 votes)

    #11 - The Legacy

    S2:E9

    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:Unknown

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  12. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 29 - Miz Purdy
    8.1/10(45 votes)

    #12 - Miz Purdy

    S2:E29

    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:Unknown

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  13. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 9 - Misfits
    8.0/10(52 votes)

    #13 - Misfits

    S1:E9

    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

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  14. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 14 - Angry Town
    8.0/10(49 votes)

    #14 - Angry Town

    S1:E14

    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:Unknown

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  15. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 23 - The Rattler
    8.0/10(49 votes)

    #15 - The Rattler

    S1:E23

    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:Unknown

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  16. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 17 - The Guard
    8.0/10(41 votes)

    #16 - The Guard

    S2:E17

    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:Unknown

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  17. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 13 - The Death of Gray
    7.9/10(59 votes)

    #17 - The Death of Gray

    S1:E13

    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:Unknown

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  18. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 18 - The Crime
    7.9/10(42 votes)

    #18 - The Crime

    S1:E18

    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:Unknown

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  19. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 19 - Noblesse Oblige
    7.9/10(55 votes)

    #19 - Noblesse Oblige

    S1:E19

    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:Unknown

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  20. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 25 - Fair Game
    7.9/10(62 votes)

    #20 - Fair Game

    S1:E25

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 30 - A Grave for Johnny Yuma
    7.9/10(47 votes)

    #21 - A Grave for Johnny Yuma

    S1:E30

    When Yuma comes to meet a unknown woman who has written him, he discovers her grave, and her embittered brother digging a grave for Johnny Yuma, whom he blames for her death. But Johnny never met the girl, so he joins the man incognito to find the impostor.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 8 - The Hunted
    7.9/10(51 votes)

    #22 - The Hunted

    S2:E8

    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:Unknown

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  23. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 11 - Explosion
    7.9/10(40 votes)

    #23 - Explosion

    S2:E11

    Yuma witnesses as Roy Shandell murders his partner to keep the money from a stage robbery. Yuma nabs Shandell and delivers him to the Socorro jail but Shandell's father uses nitroglycerin to force the son's release.

    Director:Irvin Kershner
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 12 - Vindication
    7.9/10(47 votes)

    #24 - Vindication

    S2:E12

    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:Unknown

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  25. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 23 - The Road to Jericho
    7.9/10(44 votes)

    #25 - The Road to Jericho

    S2:E23

    Yuma rescues Arthur Sutro, who was staked to an ant hill by Indians. Sutro tells Yuma he is responsible for him now. But Sutro wants to rob Yuma's peacefully reclusive and scholarly friend Portal of an imagined fortune of gold.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Waiting" is the best rated episode of "The Rebel". It scored 8.5/10 based on 55 votes. Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/9/1960. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Panic".