Rawhide (1959)
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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Episode 1 - Incident of the Tumbleweed
Release Date: 1959-01-09After a marshal and deputy are wounded and killed, Gil and Rowdy volunteer to finish the delivery of the prison wagon with seven dangerous prisoners to Ft Craig for trial, while the outlaw husband of one prisoner is in pursuit to free her.
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Episode 2 - Incident at Alabaster Plain
Release Date: 1959-01-16Rowdy's wartime friend, they spent time in a POW camp, is getting married. The bride's stepbrother, a murderer sixteen times over, has returned to claim his share of the family fortune.
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Episode 3 - Incident with an Executioner
Release Date: 1959-01-23A stage load of passengers being chased by the man with the black satchel wrecks. Favor takes them to his camp. The man is a hired executioner after someone from the stage or the herd.
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Episode 4 - Incident of the Widowed Dove
Release Date: 1959-01-30Rowdy tries to help Clovis leave her sheriff husband.
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Episode 5 - Incident On the Edge of Madness
Release Date: 1959-02-06A fanatical Southern loyalist lures drovers from Favor and Rowdy with tales of founding a new Confederate empire; guest Lon Chaney Jr.
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Episode 6 - Incident of the Power and the Plow
Release Date: 1959-02-13Gil Favor gets permission from rancher Jed Reston to drive his herd over Reston's land. He discovers, however, that Reston has a bigoted attitude toward Indians, particularly a local Comanche named Taslatch who wants to be a farmer and who's paid for a mail-order plow. (Reston's recently had his son, Matt, give Taslatch 15 lashes on a trumped-up rustling charge.) Favor earns Reston's enmity by siding with Taslatch. Tensions soon escalate until violence is set to erupt between the Comanches and local townspeople and Favor must take decisive steps to intervene.
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Episode 7 - Incident at Barker Springs
Release Date: 1959-02-20Brazo, a retired gunfighter, attempts to keep his kid brother from taking up the family business.
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Episode 8 - Incident West of Lano
Release Date: 1959-02-27Four stranded women provide a love interest and a complication for Favor. A freight hauler with a gunfighter says he's using the only river crossing first.
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Episode 9 - Incident of the Town in Terror
Release Date: 1959-03-04When Rowdy and two steers are thought to have anthrax, The only medical help is a young lady with two years of nursing school. Her town doesn't want anything to do with the drovers or the herd.
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Episode 10 - Incident of the Golden Calf
Release Date: 1959-03-13Brother Bent the newest drover sparks gold fever, when he flashes a huge nuggett.
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Episode 11 - Incident of the Coyote Weed
Release Date: 1959-03-20Banditos inside and outside threaten the herd and the drovers.
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Episode 12 - Incident of the Chubasco
Release Date: 1959-04-03The drive faces a formidable tasks climbing to a plateau known for it's high winds and dust storms. Favor hires Tom Bryan more for his wagon than the man. Tom sneaks a woman dressed in a bridal gown into the wagon. Jefferson Devereaux, a wealthy land owner, comes looking for a man and a woman, his wife, Jenny. Rowdy was a POW with Tom. He says Tom sold out. Jeff and forty men will be back in the morning for Tom and Jenny.
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Episode 13 - Incident of the Curious Street
Release Date: 1959-04-10Favor 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.
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Episode 14 - Incident of the Dog Days
Release Date: 1959-04-17Favor stops Talby from shooting Johnny Camber, who he says is Billy Carter, who killed his daughter. Clark accuses Carl Myers of being a trail camp thief and a card cheat. Favor decides to take the herd across the dry plain at the worst time of the year. The men begin to question Favor's judgment. Eventually all but six of his men quit.
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Episode 15 - Incident of the Calico Gun
Release Date: 1959-04-24Favor and Pete find Jenny Watson outside a burned cabin. Her parents who died of a sickness were burned with the cabin. Favor invites Jenny to ride along to Silver Junction. Jenny is in cahoots with three brothers to rob Favor of the drive's payroll.
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Episode 16 - Incident of the Misplaced Indians
Release Date: 1959-05-01Rowdy finds two indians dead outside a house. Amelia Spaulding is inside singing and making candy.
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Episode 17 - Incident of Fear in the Streets
Release Date: 1959-05-08Pete is injured, so Favor and Rowdy into a nearby town for a doctor. Because the town lynched a man the day before, the residents along with Favor and Rowdy are held hostage until the Sheriff and the man who led the lynching are also hung.
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Episode 18 - Incident Below the Brazos
Release Date: 1959-05-15Favor's welcome to Paradise Valley is a group of gun toting farmers warning the herd better not do any damage to their property. Lightning stampedes the remuda and kills farmer Ken Wade. His wife urges Eli to avenge her husband's death.
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Episode 19 - Incident of the Dry Drive
Release Date: 1959-05-22Jess Hode, a bitter ex-trailboss who the owners thought was too old, demands half of Favor's herd for the only water around. Jess' son stands by him but soon comes to see through his old man. Favor tries a couple other water holes but they are dry.
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Episode 20 - Incident of the Judas Trap
Release Date: 1959-06-05With 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.
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Episode 21 - Incident in No Man's Land
Release Date: 1959-06-12Favor and Rowdy ride into a settlement of women to find out the source of explosions threatening to stampede the herd. They're told to go to the camp. It uses contract prison labor. The women are the wives and girlfriends of the convicts. Todd McCauley has one month to go, but Clement won't release him saying he knows where the money he stole is. Todd arranges a breakout. The convicts need horses and head for the drive.
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Episode 22 - Incident of a Burst of Evil
Release Date: 1959-06-26A badly beaten wild man, Bing, says that Comancheros are planning to take the herd. Rowdy befriends a woman, once a countess, now being held by the Comancheros. She offers a mirror for the kindness Rowdy has shown. Rowdy says he couldn't accept it. She sneaks it into his saddlebag. At a trading post the mirror is identified as one taken in a Comanche raid. Rowdy is thought to be a Comanchero and has to fight his way out. Rowdy goes to the Comanchero camp to get Louisa to back up his story and is caught. Loouisa tells Rowdy of the Comancheros plans. Bing was sent by the Comancheros to lead the drive to them.