The best episodes of Rawhide

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01
S04E26 · April 6, 1962 · 1h
Reunion9.0
The drovers are reunited with their former scout, Pete Nolan, who is trying to deal with Wild Horse, an Indian who has gone renegade and is attacking the horses that Pete is escorting to General Augustus Perry.
02
S05E10 · November 30, 1962 · 1h
Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom9.0
After a night of partying in a cow town, Rowdy wakes up the next morning and discovers that he's married. However, his new wife's intended has something to say about it.
03
S01E16 · May 1, 1959 · 1h
Incident of the Misplaced Indians8.5
04
S03E02 · October 14, 1960 · 1h
Incident of the Challenge8.5
05
S03E09 · December 16, 1960 · 1h
Incident of the Captive8.5
06
S03E30 · June 16, 1961 · 1h
Incident of the Wager on Payday8.5
07
S04E16 · January 26, 1962 · 1h
Woman Trap8.5
08
S04E18 · February 9, 1962 · 1h
The Deserters' Patrol8.5
09
S04E23 · March 16, 1962 · 1h
The Immigrants8.5
A German count takes three of the drovers prisoner and puts them to work as his servants.
10
S04E24 · March 23, 1962 · 1h
The Child-Woman8.5
Mushy gets involved in a family squabble when his cousin asks him to deliver her sister to their mother. Problem is, the sister wants to pursue a career as a saloon girl, and doesn't want to go.
11
S04E28 · May 4, 1962 · 1h
Gold Fever8.5
A demented gold miner holds the drovers prisoner in a ghost town in the hopes that they'll help him--and his three equally captive daughters--mine the gold that he has convinced himself exists.
12
S04E29 · May 11, 1962 · 1h
The Devil and the Deep Blue8.5
Favor has to deal with another trail boss whose herd has ticks, and threatens to spread the ticks to Favor's cows.
13
S05E19 · February 8, 1963 · 1h
Incident of Judgment Day8.5
Two Confederate POWs "arrest" Rowdy and take him to a trial in a deserted town, with a drunk ex-judge as the man in the charge.
14
S05E29 · May 24, 1963 · 1h
Incident at Alkali Sink8.5
While is Gil is away, Rowdy returns to the camp and finds a wedding underway... and a suspicious father-in-law lurking in the background.
15
S06E03 · October 10, 1963 · 1h
Incident at El Crucero8.5
Rose Cornelius and her clan cut off the drovers from passing through a open range valley, and Gil has to become sheriff of the nearby town to get her arrested.
16
S06E04 · October 17, 1963 · 1h
Incident of the Travellin' Man8.5
The drovers pull a sick man, Bolivar Jagger, out of a river only to discover that he's wearing leg irons. At the next town, they discover that the Harger brothers plan to lynch Jagger for killing their father.
17
S06E12 · December 12, 1963 · 1h
Incident of the Wild Deuces8.5
Mushy wins big at a local saloon, but his earnings drive the drovers to distraction... and get Mushy into trouble when he leaves the herd.
18
S06E15 · January 9, 1964 · 1h
Incident of the Rusty Shotgun8.5
Wishbone gets involved in a case of mistaken identity and faces a shotgun wedding to the woman he supposedly abandoned 12 years ago.
19
S06E29 · April 30, 1964 · 1h
Incident of the Gilded Goddess8.5
"Gilded Goddess" Lisa Temple, who runs a casino, is an old flame of Rowdy's and wanted for murder when she stumbles into the drovers' camp.
20
S06E31 · May 14, 1964 · 1h
Incident of the Peyote Cup8.5
A former preacher turned drover, Brothers, aids Hey Soos locate a small tribe of Indiana that Brothers preached to years ago.
21
S07E04 · October 16, 1964 · 1h
The Lost Herd8.5
When Gil puts the herd at risk to meet a deadline and miscalculates, his competence comes under question.
22
S07E05 · October 23, 1964 · 1h
A Man Called Mushy8.5
After a band of Gypsies cons Mushy out of the drive's wagons and supplies, he goes off on his own.
23
S07E12 · December 18, 1964 · 1h
No Dogs or Drovers8.5
The drovers arrive in a town and while Gil and Rowdy get a warm welcome, the townspeople are hostile toward the other drovers running roughshod over their gentrified town.
24
S07E14 · January 8, 1965 · 1h
The Book8.5
Pop Starke tries to sucker Rowdy into signing on with his travelling show as a gunfighter.
25
S07E15 · January 15, 1965 · 1h
Josh8.5
A 70-year-old drover, Josh Breeden, insists that he can still do the job, but Gil has his doubts and Josh refuses to let anyone help him.

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