- 8.3/1054 votes
#1 - Johnny Yuma at Appomattox
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1960
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: N/A
- 8.3/1046 votes
#2 - The Bequest
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1960
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: N/A
- 7.8/1042 votes
#3 - The Champ
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1960
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: N/A
- 8.5/1054 votes
#4 - The Waiting
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1960
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: N/A
- 6.7/1038 votes
#5 - To See the Elephant
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1960
Rancher Bull Hollingsworth commissions Yuma to make a man out of his sheltered son, Seldon.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1038 votes
#6 - Deathwatch
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1960
Yuma finds himself in the midst of a confrontation between a sheep man haunted by war memories and Mexican bandits.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1048 votes
#7 - Run, Liller, Run
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1960
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: N/A
- 7.9/1049 votes
#8 - The Hunted
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1960
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: N/A
- 8.2/1051 votes
#9 - The Legacy
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1960
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: N/A
- 7.0/1037 votes
#10 - Don Gringo
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1960
Yuma escorts young Demetria to an arranged marriage after her family escorts are killed by Apaches. On the way, she starts to express feelings for Yuma, which begins to trouble him.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1039 votes
#11 - Explosion
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1960
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: N/A
- 8.0/1044 votes
#12 - Vindication
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1960
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: N/A
- 7.5/1041 votes
#13 - The Scalp Hunter
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1960
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: N/A
- 7.2/1039 votes
#14 - Berserk
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1960
Yuma stops to visit Dunsen who arrives in town and commences to randomly shoot townspeople. The townspeople believe Dunsen's war service has driven him mad and want to kill Dunsen but deputy Maggio permits Yuma to talk Dunsen to sanity.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1045 votes
#15 - The Hope Chest
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1960
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: N/A
- 7.4/1036 votes
#16 - The Liberators
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1961
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: N/A
- 8.0/1040 votes
#17 - The Guard
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1961
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: N/A
- 7.8/1031 votes
#18 - The Promise
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1961
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: N/A
- 7.8/1044 votes
#19 - Jerkwater
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/1961
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: N/A
- 7.5/1036 votes
#20 - Paperback Hero
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/1961
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: N/A
- 7.1/1034 votes
#21 - The Actress
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/5/1961
Yuma is chosen by an esteemed but unethical itinerant actress to take part in her performance. While Yuma and she dispute wages, they are kidnapped by a man who demands that the actress performs for his traumatized daughter.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1038 votes
#22 - The Threat
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1961
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: N/A
- 7.9/1043 votes
#23 - The Road to Jericho
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/19/1961
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: N/A
- 7.2/1032 votes
#24 - The Last Drink
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/26/1961
Yuma is on a mission to rescue his cousin Eddie who has become a student of gunslinger Dawes.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1036 votes
#25 - The Burying of Sammy Hart
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1961
Elderly Kiowa Sammy Hart is believed to have kidnapped a boy, who has actually gone to stay with Hart in his last hours. But the boy's father is on the hunt planning to kill Sammy, and Yuma hopes to stop him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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!
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 2 Ratings Summary
"Johnny Yuma at Appomattox" is the best rated episode of "The Rebel" season 2. It scored 8.3/10 based on 54 votes. Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and written by N/A, it aired on 9/18/1960. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Bequest".