The essential episodes of Rawhide
Watch these 25 in order and you've got Rawhide — each pick states its reason.
- 01
The drovers deal with a tumbleweed (prison) wagon and a beautiful female prisoner, Dallas.
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A German count takes three of the drovers prisoner and puts them to work as his servants.
- 10
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
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.
- 12
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.
- 13
Favor has to deal with another trail boss whose herd has ticks, and threatens to spread the ticks to Favor's cows.
- 14
Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
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.
- 15
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.
- 16
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.
- 17
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.
- 18
Incident of the Travellin' Man
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.
- 19
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.
- 20
Wishbone gets involved in a case of mistaken identity and faces a shotgun wedding to the woman he supposedly abandoned 12 years ago.
- 21
Incident of the Gilded Goddess
"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.
- 22
A former preacher turned drover, Brothers, aids Hey Soos locate a small tribe of Indiana that Brothers preached to years ago.
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When Gil puts the herd at risk to meet a deadline and miscalculates, his competence comes under question.
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New drover Danny Hawks is suspected of stealing horses, and Rowdy has to decide his guilt or innocence.
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Rowdy deals with an alcoholic trail guide and his young son.
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