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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
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Season 1

  • Johnny Yuma
    8.2/10122 votes
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    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

  • Judgement
    7.9/1074 votes
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    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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    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

  • Vicious Circle
    7.7/1060 votes
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    Vicious Circle

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1959

    Yuma is accosted by two ex Yankee Prisoners seeking to take gold from a Captain Pollack who later Yuma learns is a demented ex-Confederate prison officer who hoards prisoner mined gold with which he plans to reverse the outcome of the war.

    Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer: N/A

  • Panic
    8.3/1062 votes
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    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

  • The Scavengers
    7.9/1059 votes
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    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

  • School Days
    7.4/1055 votes
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    School Days

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1959

    Realizing Yuma is literate and in admiration of his ability to stand up to illiterate Armbruster family, Liam O'Shea offers Yuma a temporary schoolmaster job and he gains the affection of Peggy of which Troy Armbruster is jealous.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • Dark Secret
    8.3/1051 votes
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    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

  • Misfits
    8.0/1050 votes
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    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

  • In Memoriam
    8.5/1060 votes
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    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 Vagrants
    7.8/1046 votes
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    The Vagrants

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/1959

    Yuma is arrested for vagrancy upon arrival in town put on a road gang of a group of men that the corrupt sheriff has falsely arrested for vagrancy to work on projects without wages and he immediately starts leading a plan to escape.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gun City
    6.4/1051 votes
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    Gun City

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/27/1959

    Yuma arrives in a town in which the local editor checks guns and, when he checks Johnny's, one is discovered missing. It is learned Ted Keller has taken the gun to settle a perceived injustice to his father.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Death of Gray
    8.2/1054 votes
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    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

  • Angry Town
    8.1/1048 votes
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    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

  • Gold Seeker
    7.5/1046 votes
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    Gold Seeker

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1960

    After seeing a man kill his Indian wife over gold, Yuma tries to take him to the nearest fort for trial, but the Indian Chief and father of the murdered woman captures them, and Yuma must convince him that he did not kill her.

    Director: Bernard McEveety

    Writer: N/A

  • Glory
    7.5/1047 votes
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    Glory

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1960

    Glory, a saloon girl, has been banished from town for murder without trial. Yuma offers to help her but while in town he runs afoul of Emma Longdon who has falsely accused Glory to keep her from her brother Don.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Unwanted
    7.5/1044 votes
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    The Unwanted

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1960

    Yuma rescues old Sam Amister from thieves and takes him to his hometown where Yuma learns Amister is hated for grave robbery but Yuma expects there is more to his grave digging than just stealing valuables.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Crime
    7.9/1040 votes
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    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

  • Noblesse Oblige
    8.0/1053 votes
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    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

  • Land
    8.1/1040 votes
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    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

  • He's Only a Boy
    8.3/1049 votes
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    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

  • Take Dead Aim
    7.7/1044 votes
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    Take Dead Aim

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/6/1960

    Yuma is befriended by a married couple who perform a shooting act. When the alienated wife forces her affections upon Johnny to persuade him to run away with her, the obsessive husband vows to kill him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Rattler
    8.1/1045 votes
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    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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    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

  • Fair Game
    7.9/1059 votes
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    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

  • UnSurrendered Sword
    7.2/1043 votes
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    UnSurrendered Sword

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/3/1960

    Johnny goes to a small Mexican town to retrieve a General's sword for the General's widow, and he finds the circumstances of the General's death differ from what he was told.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Capture of Tremblor
    7.2/1043 votes
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    The Capture of Tremblor

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/10/1960

    Johnny, badly wounded, is taken to the town of Tremblor, where the doctor saves his arm. But why is the doctor being kept in a jail cell?

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • Blind Marriage
    7.5/1046 votes
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    Blind Marriage

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/17/1960

    Yuma gets involved at a stagecoach station when prejudice toward a Chinese father and daughter becomes physical. He assists again as thieves attempt to steal a dowry for the daughter's arranged marriage.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • Absolution
    7.3/1043 votes
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    Absolution

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/24/1960

    When a sweetheart of Johnny's youth is dying, her husband, a former Union officer for whom she betrayed Yuma, seeks out Yuma so Johnny can say that he forgives the woman and assuage her guilt.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • A Grave for Johnny Yuma
    7.8/1046 votes
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    A Grave for Johnny Yuma

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/1/1960

    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: N/A

  • In Memory of a Son
    7.8/1046 votes
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    In Memory of a Son

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/8/1960

    Charlie Burton summons Yuma and three other members of a rebel raiding party in which his son was killed. He informs them that he is giving them a gold mine in the Mojave Desert in memory of his son. But mistrust and murder ensue.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • Paint a House with Searlet
    7.5/1043 votes
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    Paint a House with Searlet

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/15/1960

    Johnny intervenes when fanatical Ezra Taber and his son harass, torment and terrorize a widow because of her former career as a dance hall girl.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • Grant of Land
    7.8/1046 votes
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    Grant of Land

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/22/1960

    Johnny signs on as a hand for a Congressional Medal of Honor winner, former Union soldier Paul Travis, who has settled for health reasons among Confederate sympathizers who mean him harm.

    Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer: N/A

  • Night on a Rainbow
    7.7/1046 votes
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    Night on a Rainbow

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/29/1960

    Yuma arrives a year after being summoned by Ted Evans, a drummer from his Confederate regiment, to find the man addicted to pain medication and acts to help Evans break the habit while experiencing interference from an unscrupulous druggist.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • Lady of Quality
    7.2/1040 votes
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    Lady of Quality

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/5/1960

    Yuma comes upon a woman whose mind has become unstable after the murder of her husband. After the woman mistakes Yuma for her dead husband, he takes her for medical treatment and baits a trap for the murderers.

    Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer: N/A

  • The Earl of Durango
    7.3/1046 votes
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    The Earl of Durango

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/12/1960

    Yuma arrives in town to begin his job as bodyguard for a man who is killed upon his arrival. Oddly the townspeople are elated by the death but Yuma is determined to have justice and receives unwanted assistance.

    Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer: N/A