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The Best Episodes of The Rebel Season 1

Every episode of The Rebel Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Rebel Season 1!

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

    #1 - 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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  2. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 2 - Judgement
    7.7/10(84 votes)

    #2 - Judgement

    S1:E2

    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:Unknown

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  3. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 3 - Yellow Hair
    7.8/10(72 votes)

    #3 - Yellow Hair

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 4 - Vicious Circle
    7.7/10(64 votes)

    #4 - Vicious Circle

    S1:E4

    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:Unknown

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

    #5 - 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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  6. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 6 - The Scavengers
    7.7/10(63 votes)

    #6 - The Scavengers

    S1:E6

    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:Unknown

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  7. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 7 - School Days
    7.3/10(57 votes)

    #7 - School Days

    S1:E7

    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:Unknown

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

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

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

    #10 - 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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  11. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 11 - The Vagrants
    7.8/10(48 votes)

    #11 - The Vagrants

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 12 - Gun City
    6.4/10(51 votes)

    #12 - Gun City

    S1:E12

    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:Unknown

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

    #13 - 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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  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 15 - Gold Seeker
    7.5/10(46 votes)

    #15 - Gold Seeker

    S1:E15

    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:Unknown

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  16. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 16 - Glory
    7.4/10(48 votes)

    #16 - Glory

    S1:E16

    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:Unknown

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  17. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 17 - The Unwanted
    7.5/10(45 votes)

    #17 - The Unwanted

    S1:E17

    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: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 20 - Land
    8.1/10(42 votes)

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

    #21 - 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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  22. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 22 - Take Dead Aim
    7.6/10(45 votes)

    #22 - Take Dead Aim

    S1:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

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

    #25 - 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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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Johnny Yuma" is the best rated episode of "The Rebel" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 132 votes. Directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/4/1959. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Judgement".