8.2/10122 votes#1 - 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
- 7.9/1074 votes
#2 - 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 votes
#3 - 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
- 7.7/1060 votes
#4 - 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
- 8.3/1062 votes
#5 - 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
- 7.9/1059 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.4/1055 votes
#7 - 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
- 8.3/1051 votes
#8 - 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
- 8.0/1050 votes
#9 - 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
- 8.5/1060 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.8/1046 votes
#11 - 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
- 6.4/1051 votes
#12 - 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
- 8.2/1054 votes
#13 - 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
- 8.1/1048 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.5/1046 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.5/1047 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.5/1044 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.9/1040 votes
#18 - 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
- 8.0/1053 votes
#19 - 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
- 8.1/1040 votes
#20 - 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
- 8.3/1049 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.7/1044 votes
#22 - 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
- 8.1/1045 votes
#23 - 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 votes
#24 - 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
- 7.9/1059 votes
#25 - 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 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!
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
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Johnny Yuma" is the best rated episode of "The Rebel" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 122 votes. Directed by Irvin Kershner and written by N/A, it aired on 10/4/1959. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Judgement".