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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!

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".

  • Johnny Yuma at Appomattox
    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

  • The Bequest
    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

  • The Champ
    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

  • The Waiting
    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

  • To See the Elephant
    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

  • Deathwatch
    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

  • Run, Liller, Run
    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

  • The Hunted
    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

  • The Legacy
    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

  • Don Gringo
    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

  • Explosion
    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

  • Vindication
    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

  • The Scalp Hunter
    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

  • Berserk
    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

  • The Hope Chest
    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

  • The Liberators
    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

  • The Guard
    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

  • The Promise
    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

  • Jerkwater
    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

  • Paperback Hero
    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

  • The Actress
    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

  • The Threat
    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

  • The Road to Jericho
    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

  • The Last Drink
    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

  • The Burying of Sammy Hart
    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