The Rebel backdrop
Western

The Worst Episodes of The Rebel

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

Binge this in 1d 14h•Peaking at 8.4/10

After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys... THE REBEL is

Airs on
ABC
BestEpisodes
WorstEpisodes
BestSeasons
AllEpisodes

Seasons2

All12

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Worst Episode
    Click to reveal
    The Rebel Season 1 Episode 12 - Gun City
    6.4/10(61 votes)

    S1:E12

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  2. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 5 - To See the Elephant
    6.7/10(50 votes)

    S2:E5

    Rancher Bull Hollingsworth commissions Yuma to make a man out of his sheltered son, Seldon.

    Director:Irvin Kershner
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  3. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 38 - The Found
    6.7/10(42 votes)

    S2:E38

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  4. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 21 - The Actress
    7.0/10(42 votes)

    S2:E21

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  5. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 29 - Absolution
    7.2/10(51 votes)

    S1:E29

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  6. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 35 - Lady of Quality
    7.2/10(53 votes)

    S1:E35

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

    7. Trending NowTRENDING NOW

    The 20 BEST Episodes of The Rebel

    READ
  7. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 6 - Deathwatch
    7.2/10(47 votes)

    S2:E6

    Yuma finds himself in the midst of a confrontation between a sheep man haunted by war memories and Mexican bandits.

    Director:Irvin Kershner
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  8. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 10 - Don Gringo
    7.2/10(45 votes)

    S2:E10

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  9. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 14 - Berserk
    7.2/10(46 votes)

    S2:E14

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  10. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 24 - The Last Drink
    7.2/10(41 votes)

    S2:E24

    Yuma is on a mission to rescue his cousin Eddie who has become a student of gunslinger Dawes.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  11. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 26 - UnSurrendered Sword
    7.3/10(51 votes)

    S1:E26

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  12. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 27 - The Capture of Tremblor
    7.3/10(50 votes)

    S1:E27

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  13. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 36 - The Earl of Durango
    7.3/10(55 votes)

    S1:E36

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  14. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 26 - The Pit
    7.3/10(42 votes)

    S2:E26

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  15. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 31 - The Proxy
    7.3/10(39 votes)

    S2:E31

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  16. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 37 - Ben White
    7.3/10(43 votes)

    S2:E37

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  17. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 7 - School Days
    7.4/10(67 votes)

    S1:E7

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  18. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 16 - Glory
    7.4/10(54 votes)

    S1:E16

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  19. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 28 - Blind Marriage
    7.4/10(54 votes)

    S1:E28

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  20. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 25 - The Burying of Sammy Hart
    7.4/10(43 votes)

    S2:E25

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  21. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 30 - The Ballad of Danny Brown
    7.4/10(43 votes)

    S2:E30

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  22. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 34 - The Uncourageous
    7.4/10(41 votes)

    S2:E34

    Yuma strays into Mexico and becomes involved in the conflict between a successful matador and the rest of his family, who are against his grooming his son to follow in his profession.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  23. The Rebel Season 2 Episode 36 - The Calley Kid
    7.4/10(41 votes)

    S2:E36

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  24. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 15 - Gold Seeker
    7.5/10(52 votes)

    S1:E15

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  25. The Rebel Season 1 Episode 17 - The Unwanted
    7.5/10(51 votes)

    S1:E17

    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:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

Worst Episodes Summary

"Gun City" is the worst rated episode of "The Rebel". It scored 6.4/10 based on 61 votes. Directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/27/1959. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "To See the Elephant".