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The Worst Episodes of The Rebel

Every episode of The Rebel ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Rebel!

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

Worst Episodes Summary

"Gun City" is the worst rated episode of "The Rebel". It scored 6.4/10 based on 51 votes. Directed by Irvin Kershner and written by N/A, it aired on 12/27/1959. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Found".

  • Gun City
    6.4/1051 votes
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    #1 - 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

  • The Found
    6.6/1034 votes
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    #2 - The Found

    Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 6/4/1961

    While traveling with a posse, Yuma encounters the quarry's wife, who is having a baby. He stays with her and the baby while the outlaw is trapped between the posse and two bounty hunters.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • To See the Elephant
    6.7/1038 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Don Gringo
    7.0/1037 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • The Actress
    7.1/1034 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • UnSurrendered Sword
    7.2/1043 votes
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    #6 - UnSurrendered Sword

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/3/1960

    Johnny goes to a small Mexican town to retrieve a General's sword for the General's widow, and he finds the circumstances of the General's death differ from what he was told.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Capture of Tremblor
    7.2/1043 votes
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    #7 - The Capture of Tremblor

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/10/1960

    Johnny, badly wounded, is taken to the town of Tremblor, where the doctor saves his arm. But why is the doctor being kept in a jail cell?

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • Lady of Quality
    7.2/1040 votes
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    #8 - Lady of Quality

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/5/1960

    Yuma comes upon a woman whose mind has become unstable after the murder of her husband. After the woman mistakes Yuma for her dead husband, he takes her for medical treatment and baits a trap for the murderers.

    Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer: N/A

  • Berserk
    7.2/1039 votes
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    #9 - 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 Last Drink
    7.2/1032 votes
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    #10 - 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 Proxy
    7.2/1031 votes
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    #11 - The Proxy

    Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 4/16/1961

    Yuma joins an uneasy voluntary alliance with two other men. They hope to bring back a fugitive bank president from Mexico to testify about a bank failure scheme which may force homesteaders to lose their land. But they will have to evade the Mexican militias in bringing him back.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Absolution
    7.3/1043 votes
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    #12 - Absolution

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/24/1960

    When a sweetheart of Johnny's youth is dying, her husband, a former Union officer for whom she betrayed Yuma, seeks out Yuma so Johnny can say that he forgives the woman and assuage her guilt.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Earl of Durango
    7.3/1046 votes
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    #13 - The Earl of Durango

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/12/1960

    Yuma arrives in town to begin his job as bodyguard for a man who is killed upon his arrival. Oddly the townspeople are elated by the death but Yuma is determined to have justice and receives unwanted assistance.

    Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer: N/A

  • Deathwatch
    7.3/1038 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • School Days
    7.4/1055 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • The Liberators
    7.4/1036 votes
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    #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 Pit
    7.4/1034 votes
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    #17 - The Pit

    Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/12/1961

    Yuma arrives in a town with a woman to help her search for her husband. The husband has written of a successful mine but the townspeople are most resistant to help in the search.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ballad of Danny Brown
    7.4/1035 votes
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    #18 - The Ballad of Danny Brown

    Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/9/1961

    Emily Hardy is awaiting the return of her fiancé Danny Brown from prison. But Emily 's brother Vergil is bent on revenge against Danny, who killed his son in self-defense. though Vergil convinced the town to convict him of murder.

    Director: Bernard McEveety

    Writer: N/A

  • The Calley Kid
    7.4/1034 votes
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    #19 - The Calley Kid

    Season 2 Episode 36 - Aired 5/21/1961

    Johnny tracks down the man who knocked him out at his campsite and stole his horse and gun. When he finds him, he is forced to dig a bullet out of the man's brother, a well-known gunslinger.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ben White
    7.4/1036 votes
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    #20 - Ben White

    Season 2 Episode 37 - Aired 5/28/1961

    When the posse chasing Ben White and his gang capture White's wife, Yuma is given the task of taking her to a town jail while the posse searches for the outlaw. But the treachery of White's wife places Yuma in a precarious situation.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gold Seeker
    7.5/1046 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • Glory
    7.5/1047 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • The Unwanted
    7.5/1044 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • Blind Marriage
    7.5/1046 votes
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    #24 - Blind Marriage

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/17/1960

    Yuma gets involved at a stagecoach station when prejudice toward a Chinese father and daughter becomes physical. He assists again as thieves attempt to steal a dowry for the daughter's arranged marriage.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A

  • Paint a House with Searlet
    7.5/1043 votes
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    #25 - Paint a House with Searlet

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/15/1960

    Johnny intervenes when fanatical Ezra Taber and his son harass, torment and terrorize a widow because of her former career as a dance hall girl.

    Director: Irvin Kershner

    Writer: N/A