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The Best Episodes of The Rebel Season 2

Every episode of The Rebel Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Rebel Season 2!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Rebel Season 2 Episode 4 - The Waiting
    8.4/10(64 votes)

    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 2 Episode 1 - Johnny Yuma at Appomattox
    8.2/10(63 votes)

    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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  3. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 2 - The Bequest
    8.2/10(53 votes)

    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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  4. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 9 - The Legacy
    8.1/10(56 votes)

    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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  5. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 29 - Miz Purdy
    8.1/10(52 votes)

    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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  6. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 33 - Helping Hand
    8.0/10(43 votes)

    S2:E33

    Seeking water, Yuma is forced to side with two brothers who are in a stand off in a feud with their uncle and cousin, who betrayed the brothers' father and brother after a bank robbery, and are now better fortified and supplied.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 11 - Explosion
    7.9/10(46 votes)

    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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  8. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 12 - Vindication
    7.9/10(53 votes)

    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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  9. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 35 - Mission-Varina
    7.9/10(42 votes)

    S2:E35

    Because he had been a member of secret group during the war, Yuma is asked by Jefferson Davis' wife to ensure her husband's safety upon his prison release. But one of the members of the group means to kill both Davis and Yuma.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 8 - The Hunted
    7.8/10(58 votes)

    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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  11. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 17 - The Guard
    7.8/10(48 votes)

    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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  12. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 19 - Jerkwater
    7.8/10(51 votes)

    S2:E19

    George Campbell, who blames Yuma for his brother's death in the war, provokes a gun battle in which Yuma is wounded after being forced to kill Campbell's nephew. Yuma's godfather John Sims then comes to help Yuma escape from Campbell's vengeance.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 23 - The Road to Jericho
    7.8/10(49 votes)

    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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  14. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 27 - Shriek of Silence
    7.8/10(44 votes)

    S2:E27

    Yuma is forced to kill outlaw Jake Fellows in a gunfight and then learns he has a deaf mute son. Yuma proceeds to help the boy find a home but two of Fellows' associates are on the trail to take the boy to recover loot that they think he held.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 40 - The Executioner (Last Show)
    7.8/10(41 votes)

    S2:E40

    A Shoshone chief keeps three prisoners in exchange for three braves held in jail. But Yuma then learns that the braves have already been killed. Since they had killed a white woman, the chief decrees that just two hostages will be executed, and Yuma must decide who.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 3 - The Champ
    7.7/10(50 votes)

    S2:E3

    Yuma buys the contract of a war buddy, who is now a boxer past his prime, and attempts to discourage the friend from further competition.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 15 - The Hope Chest
    7.7/10(51 votes)

    S2:E15

    Yuma aids Ulysses Bowman in a gun battle and accompanies him back to his camp where Yuma learns that Ulysses is in the habit of offering a chest with two hundred dollars to any man who will marry his daughter Felicity.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 18 - The Promise
    7.7/10(39 votes)

    S2:E18

    When Yuma arrives to give Laurie Buford her late father's affects, he learns that she is being forced into marriage to a brutal man, so he vows to stop the marriage.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 7 - Run, Liller, Run
    7.6/10(56 votes)

    S2:E7

    Yuma is shackled by a sheriff to Traskel and forced to flee on foot with him when Traskel knocks out the sheriff and the horses ride off. Traskel believes that his twin brother is in pursuit and wants to kill him.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 28 - Two Weeks
    7.6/10(44 votes)

    S2:E28

    An embittered confederate prison camp survivor talks Yuma into a card bet of two weeks servitude on the man's property. When Yuma loses the bet, he learns that service must be under the prison camp conditions the man suffered.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 32 - Decision at Sweetwater
    7.6/10(49 votes)

    S2:E32

    Three murderous stage robbers hold up the stage Yuma is on, killing the drivers. When they find that a mining executive on the stage was not carrying the payroll with him as they thought, they plan to hold the man's son for ransom until they get it. But a saloon girl offers to take the son's place.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 13 - The Scalp Hunter
    7.5/10(50 votes)

    S2:E13

    John Sims, Yuma's godfather, saves him from an attack by Indians at his campsite. He asks Yuma in turn to help him track renegade Indian Masi and take his scalp, as revenge for the killing of his wife.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 16 - The Liberators
    7.5/10(44 votes)

    S2:E16

    A woman doctor, her sister, and their ailing father have been left behind by townspeople fleeing hostile Indians. A group of Mexican insurgents led by a demagogic Commandante and bent on reclaiming old Spanish Land Grants arrive in town to take advantage of the situation.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 20 - Paperback Hero
    7.5/10(43 votes)

    S2:E20

    When a newswoman observes Yuma defending a boy against an adult bully, she decides to promote him as the typical Western hero in a news story, much to the Yuma's displeasure and possibly detrimental to his safety.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 22 - The Threat
    7.5/10(47 votes)

    S2:E22

    Yuma arrives in a town in which an old friend of his father is sheriff. He learns an advance team of marauders, including the man who killed Yuma's father, has arrived. But none of townspeople, including the sheriff, want to defend the town.

    Director:Irvin Kershner
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Waiting" is the best rated episode of "The Rebel" season 2. It scored 8.4/10 based on 64 votes. Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/9/1960. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Johnny Yuma at Appomattox".