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The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Rawhide Season 4 Episode 30 - Abilene
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Abilene

    S4:E30

    The herd finally arrives in Abilene, the end of a long, hard drive. While most of the drovers plan to spend their pay painting the town, Favor has a few other ideas. He is going to buy some land and get out of the cattle business. Don Grenfell also has been told to quit due to a bad back. The drovers are all quarantined at Oddity House due to small pox.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Charles Larson

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  2. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 8 - Damon's Road (2)
    5.7/10(108 votes)

    #2 - Damon's Road (2)

    S7:E8

    Damon has Favor's crew believing the railroad is the future. Favor escapes and goes to his crew, who want to be railroaders. Favor gets Quince to sent a false telegram that Damon's payroll arrived a week ago. Favor tells Damon's old crew. They go for a showdown with Damon.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Robert Lewin

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  3. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 7 - Damon's Road (1)
    6.0/10(114 votes)

    #3 - Damon's Road (1)

    S7:E7

    Jonathan Damon is building the C&L Railroad. His crew has quit do to lack of pay. The store says no more credit. Goldie, his girl, and the three girls in her act are leaving. He needs to dig up 20 men. Favor shows up with 2400 cattle and 28 men. Damon tricks the drovers in o signing work contracts and having Favor arrested for abducting Goldie.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Robert Lewin

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  4. Rawhide Season 8 Episode 7 - The Vasquez Woman
    6.2/10(97 votes)

    #4 - The Vasquez Woman

    S8:E7

    Colonel Emilio Vasquez ""buys"" 200 head from Quince, Jed and Simon in Mexico. Jed goes to town to see if the pesos are worth anything. The gringo who runs the town says they're just paper. Emilio's wife, Maria, was left behind and is in the bar. Emilio sneaks into town and kills the gringo, but doesn't get Maria. Jed escapes with Maria. Jed and Emilio argue over the terms of her return.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Rawhide Season 8 Episode 6 - Hostage for Hanging
    6.6/10(129 votes)

    #5 - Hostage for Hanging

    S8:E6

    Rowdy is held for ransom by a family of crooked horse traders. Quince, Jed, Wish and Simon try to dicker unsuccessfully. The family is led by Ma Gufler. Her two sons are Jesse and dim-witted Max. They prepare to hang Rowdy. Jed rides in to talk things over.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Rawhide Season 8 Episode 8 - Clash at Broken Bluff
    6.7/10(94 votes)

    #6 - Clash at Broken Bluff

    S8:E8

    Rowdy must convince a young widow to allow the herd on her land to protect it from the a norther. She is involved in the suffragette movement. The saloon owner will do anything to stop women from getting the vote. The drovers are allowed to vote if they stick around. The saloon owner buys their votes, but Rowdy has second thoghts.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writer:Ed Adamson

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  7. Rawhide Season 6 Episode 30 - Incident of the Peyote Cup
    7.1/10(104 votes)

    #7 - Incident of the Peyote Cup

    S6:E30

    Hey Soos is captured by a small secretive tribe of Indians, and forced to drink peyote liquid. An indian girl helps him escape. The new drover, Mister Brothers was a missionary and tried to convert this tribe. They came to believe if they crucified white men they dead ancestors would come back to life.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Dick Nelson

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  8. Rawhide Season 1 Episode 13 - Incident of the Curious Street
    7.2/10(195 votes)

    #8 - Incident of the Curious Street

    S1:E13

    Favor and Rowdy are looking for strays. They enter a deserted mining town. Matt Lucas is the caretaker. He says he's the only one there. Leaving they hear an organ. Mrs. Miller and her daughter, Angie, say Lucas and his son, Waldo, gunned down the stage coach driver, and is holding them hostage.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Earl Baldwin

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  9. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 12 - Incident at Spanish Rock
    7.2/10(141 votes)

    #9 - Incident at Spanish Rock

    S2:E12

    Claiming to represent President Diaz of Mexico, Villegro and his men want to take one of Gil's men, the son of their biggest enemy, into custody. As they are in Texas and need all hands to drive their herd, Gil is not in favor of doing so.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 24 - Incident of the Dancing Death
    7.2/10(114 votes)

    #10 - Incident of the Dancing Death

    S2:E24

    When the son of a gypsy queen is murdered, she insists one of the drovers did it and demands the killer be found and turned over. Gil rebuffs her, prompting the old woman to predict trouble for the drive, which does start to happen.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Rawhide Season 5 Episode 24 - Incident of the Comanchero
    7.2/10(108 votes)

    #11 - Incident of the Comanchero

    S5:E24

    Sisters Benaventura and Teresa cut Maria Jose Chappela off an indian torture rack.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Rawhide Season 8 Episode 4 - Walk into Terror
    7.2/10(105 votes)

    #12 - Walk into Terror

    S8:E4

    A mine cave in traps Quince and Simon. New drover Ed says he's found some blasting gel and gun cotton. He and his buddy Jerry will blow them out for $500. It is a perilous journey hauling the unstable gel to the mine in a rickety old wagon.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Rawhide Season 1 Episode 5 - Incident On the Edge of Madness
    7.3/10(226 votes)

    #13 - Incident On the Edge of Madness

    S1:E5

    A fanatical Southern loyalist lures drovers from Favor and Rowdy with tales of founding a new Confederate empire; guest Lon Chaney Jr.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writers:David Victor, Herbert Little Jr.

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  14. Rawhide Season 1 Episode 10 - Incident of the Golden Calf
    7.3/10(163 votes)

    #14 - Incident of the Golden Calf

    S1:E10

    Brother Bent the newest drover sparks gold fever, when he flashes a huge nuggett.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Endre Bohem

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  15. Rawhide Season 1 Episode 16 - Incident of the Misplaced Indians
    7.3/10(159 votes)

    #15 - Incident of the Misplaced Indians

    S1:E16

    Rowdy finds two indians dead outside a house. Amelia Spaulding is inside singing and making candy.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 1 - Incident of the Day of the Dead
    7.3/10(168 votes)

    #16 - Incident of the Day of the Dead

    S2:E1

    Rowdy is tricked into breaking a stallion to pay off a gambling debt by a woman. The horse killed one man and injured others including the daughter of the owner. Rowdy is involved in more than breaking a horse - the break up of a family.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 13 - Incident of the Druid Curse
    7.3/10(128 votes)

    #17 - Incident of the Druid Curse

    S2:E13

    Professor Lismore and his daughter Mave have come to Texas from Boston to look for rumored Druid stones. Favor tells Jim Lark, who tried to force his intentions on Mave, to draw his pay in the morning. Lark and two other drovers hear the Professor speak figuratively about the value of finding the stones. The three draw their pay. They kidnap the Professor and Mave. They go about trying to force the Professor to disclose the location of the "treasure".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 23 - Incident of the Stargazer
    7.3/10(135 votes)

    #18 - Incident of the Stargazer

    S2:E23

    A woman gets off the stage expecting to meet her husband. But she was let off in the middle of nowhere, a good 30 miles from her home. Pete decides to help her get there but when they arrive, she recognizes everyone except her husband.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 27 - Incident of the 100 Amulets
    7.3/10(105 votes)

    #19 - Incident of the 100 Amulets

    S2:E27

    Hey Soos goes to town to visit his mother but, while buying supplies to take to her, he is attacked as the town believe his mother is a witch who has cursed the town.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Rawhide Season 7 Episode 14 - The Book
    7.3/10(74 votes)

    #20 - The Book

    S7:E14

    Pop Stark promotes gunfights for profit. Billy his latest boy just lost. Carl Hatcher loaned Pop money. His brothers are coming to collect. Pop arranges a gunfight between Rowdy and Austin Ware, a professional gunfighter.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Rawhide Season 8 Episode 9 - The Pursuit
    7.3/10(100 votes)

    #21 - The Pursuit

    S8:E9

    Jed is being pursued by Marshall Hanson Dickson, a well known lawman. Dickson claims Jed Is James Carothers wanted dead of alive for murder in Missouri. Jed says he was cleared of the charge.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Rawhide Season 1 Episode 20 - Incident of the Judas Trap
    7.4/10(143 votes)

    #22 - Incident of the Judas Trap

    S1:E20

    With wolves threatening the herd, Pete is sent to town to get a wolver and traps. None are available, but he meets his old flame, Nora Sage. She is later found strangled in her room. Brad Morgan, Medrina Wilcox's foreman also came to see her. Medrina has a herd but only one man. They pool herds. Brad was a wolver, and directs Favor's men in placing the traps. Brad toys with the affections of Nora, Medrina and her sister Paula. Favor lets the sheriff take Pete, but says he needs Morgan.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Rawhide Season 2 Episode 21 - Incident at Sulphur Creek
    7.4/10(107 votes)

    #23 - Incident at Sulphur Creek

    S2:E21

    Horse thieves who have victimized Comanches also strike the drive's ramuda. Gil sends a group headed by Pete and Rowdy out to purchase replacement mounts. They encounter a preacher on his way to officiate a christening at the Lacey ranch, where he says horses are for sale. The drovers find their own stolen horses corralled there. So do the Comanches, who put the ranch under siege.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 8 - The Prairie Elephant
    7.4/10(120 votes)

    #24 - The Prairie Elephant

    S4:E8

    Favor finds a circus that is lost. Pascal the owner and clown beats his wife, Jenny, who wants to run away with Dario the other half of her high wire act.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Rawhide Season 4 Episode 23 - The Immigrants
    7.4/10(115 votes)

    #25 - The Immigrants

    S4:E23

    Quince, Clay and Wish are captured and told by Count Ulrich they are his property and will work on his manor house.

    Director:Tay Garnett
    Writer:Elliott Arnold

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Abilene" is the worst rated episode of "Rawhide". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Anton Leader and written by Charles Larson, it aired on 5/18/1962. This episode scored 5.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Damon's Road (2)".