Today, The Clint Eastwood Archive
is very happy to announce that it is joining forces with Explosive Media in
co-promoting their fabulous sets of the classic TV series, Rawhide (1959-1965).
Rawhide’s history on DVD has at times been a rather frustrating journey. Whilst
they have been available through Paramount Video on Region 1 in the United
States, the hunt for them within the European market on Region 2 has proven
rather patchy. In England for instance, their releases have become painfully
slow in coming through. Released through Revelation Films, their last set
(Season 3) was released back in July 2011, with Season 4 not ‘scheduled’ for
release until June 2016 – a five year gap between seasons is hardly very
encouraging. One could of course opt for the region 1 equivalent, but you would
have to start with a multi-region player - which isn’t always the ideal
solution. Then there is the NTSC system, which again is arguably inferior to
that of a purer PAL picture. I did actually invest in the first season of
Rawhide on Region 1, but unfortunately, I felt the picture was somewhat grainy
and perhaps a little dark and muted. As a consequence, I didn’t invest further
and decided to shelve the Rawhide collecting until further, future options might
become available. Then I discovered Explosive Media’s DVDs…
I have to admit, these
beautifully presented Region 2 sets somehow slipped deep under my radar. How? I
don’t honestly know? However, hooking up with Ulrich Bruckner through Explosive
Media’s stunning blu-ray release The Best
of Rawhide Vol. 1 (see below), lead me to also discover their continuing
series of Rawhide DVDs. It was in deed refreshing to discover these Region 2
sets, and it was clear from talking to Ulrich that he was fully committed to
the cause. The entire project is clearly a labour of love and Ulrich was
wasting little time in releasing each season. I have to say, after sampling
their DVDs I was highly impressed by the quality. ‘Incident of the Tumbleweed’
(Season 1, episode 1) for instance, proved far better in comparison to the
Region 1 alternative, in overall clarity and in terms of very little grain. The
Audio (in both English and German) is also perfectly clear throughout.
So far, Explosive Media have
released the first 5 Seasons of Rawhide with Season 6 available very soon on
December 18th 2015. Be sure to check back here for the remainder of
the series, Season 7 box sets will be available from February26th, 2016 with
the concluding Season 8 (a single box) arriving in May of 2016.
There is also
something very special in the works from Explosive Media coming towards the end
of next year around September/October of 2016 – but more news on that closer
the time.
In the meantime, check out these
beautiful sets, with full episode listings and links to Amazon where they can
be ordered…
Rawhide 1.1
Episodes:
1. Incident of the Tumbleweed Wagon
After 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.
2. Incident at Alabaster Plain
The drovers stop to fill water barrels at a mission where Rowdy finds
his close friend from the Army is getting married. The drovers are invited to
the wedding feast that evening but the bride's stepbrother's arrival causes
complications.
3. Incident with an Executioner
The drovers rescue the passengers in a stagecoach that overturns. They
learn a gunman known as "The Executioner" was following the coach.
Now he is following them while they are with the drovers and no one knows who
his target is.
4. Incident of the Widowed Dove
The drovers party in a small town but with big consequences. One
drover is killed over a crooked roulette wheel and Rpwdy quits the drive to
help a woman. Rowdy may pay with his life because the woman is the wife of the
Marshal.
5. Incident on the Edge of Madness
The drive trapped by high water is approached by a Colonel and lady
looking for men to join his Confederacy of Panama. Fearing his men will leave,
Favor tries to cross, losing a man. The men leave not realizing what the
Colonel's plans are.
6. Incident of the Power and the Plow
Needing water and grass for the herd Favor has the okay from a rancher
until he befriends a Comanche boy with candy. The rancher wants the Comanche
lands so he is willing to start an Indian war and sacrifice his only son who he
despises.
7. Incident at Barker Springs
Trying to push a herd through late in the season is just one of the
hurdles facing Gil. A hand who insists on covering his face and a visitor who
says his horse came up lame are two others. When he uncovers the truth it may
be too late.
8. Incident West of Lano
A dead steer leads Favor to four women sharpshooters with a broken
wheel who join the drive to the next town. Their leader finds Favor a man to
her liking but a conflict with a wagon train of hides at a river crossing
creates problems.
9. Incident of the Town in Terror
Rowdy and two cattle are stricken with a disease similar to deadly
anthrax. Some drivers and the nearby townsfolk are frightened, allowing no
traffic to the drover camp or out in the direction of town. But one fearless
nurse is undeterred.
10. Incident of the Golden Calf
Gil hires on an unusual drover - a preacher run off by his gold-crazed
parishioners. Gil's steer-men constantly try to wheedle the location of the
gold-strike from Brother Bent, whose preaching against the worship of Mammon
cost him his pulpit. Gil's much more concerned with a gang of cowboys following
the herd, but staying out of sight.
11. Incident of the Coyote Weed
A band of Mexican bandits send a spy to join the cattle drive and
poison the drovers with coyote weed so they can swoop in and steal the herd.
12. Incident of the Chubasco
In need of more hands to help get the herd through a dangerous
plateau, Gil goes to the nearest town but may not be too happy with the
pickins. To top it off he hires an "educated" man who may be hiding
something worse than any chubasco.
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Rawhide 1.2
Episodes:
13. Incident of the Curious Street
Favor and Rowdy go after strays but find a deserted town with two
women being hostage by a man and his son who killed their stagecoach driver and
want a ransom. It runs into a cat and mouse game between them with one woman
changing sides.
14. Incident of the Dog Days
Favor is forced to hire several drovers of questionable character. The
men question his choices. The herd is facing a dry plain with limited water
access. Favor has to decide on the route and his personnel decisions backfire
on him.
15. Incident of the Calico Gun
On a long cattle drive, the crew pick up a girl who's parents had just
died. Her seeming innocence has both Rowdy and Favor fooled until they get near
Silver Springs where all the men are to pick up their pay.
16. Incident of Fear in the Streets
Pete 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.
17. Incident of the Misplaced Indians
Mr. Favor's found some dead Indians in front of a house of a woman,
who is so shocked, that she can't say a thing.
18. Incident below the Brazos
Favor and crew drive the herd into an area populated by farmers who
have previously waged a range war against cattlemen. A group of farmers warns
Favor to keep his men and cattle off farmland, but a thunderstorm causes some
of the horses to stampede and a farmer is killed. The man's death threatens to
start a war between the farmers and the drovers.
19. Incident of the Dry Drive
Facing a drought, Favor is being pressured by a corrupt and revengeful
acquaintance Jess Hode for first half and then his entire herd for access to
water. However, when Hode's son comes to realize the truth about his dad, he
tries to help.
20. Incident of the Judas Trap
A local wolver Gil hires to kill a pack besieging the Rawhiders' cattle
is more dangerous than Canis lupus. Smirking Brad Morgan promised 3 well-set
women to run off with him. Conveniently, one just rebuffed the scout Pete's
plea to get back together. The wolf-man sets up Pete to take the fall for
murdering saloon owner Nora Sage. While Gil waits for a river up ahead to
subside, Morgan lays metal traps for the canyon's gray wolves.
21. Incident in No Man's Land
Prisoners break out of prison and try to steal the drovers' horses.
22. Incident of the Burst of Evil
A crazed man following the drovers comes into camp for help followed
by Rowdy finding three hungry women and a boy alone. A mirror slipped to Rowdy
by them causes the people at a trading post to think the drovers are
Comancheros.
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Rawhide 2.1
Episodes:
1. Incident of the Day of the Dead
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.
2. Incident at Dangerfield Dip
A dying woman stumbles into the cattle drive. Her husband, a feared
gunslinger turned rancher, soon shows up and accuses the drovers of shooting
her. Gil & Rowdy fear that their cattle are coming down with a deadly disease,
so they turn the herd towards the Rodney Dangerfield chemical dipping station,
on the widowed rancher's recommendation.
3. Incident of the Shambling Man
When a delusional old man attacks the passing drovers, his
daughter-in-law enlists Gil & Rowdy's help with the powerful ex-boxing champ.
The Marshal who made the town safe, is now drunk on his own power, enforcing
petty rules to keep the tiniest semblance of trouble out of his jurisdiction.
Factoring heavily into the situation is that the daughter-in-law is exquisite
and widowed.
4. Incident at Jacob's Well
Rowdy is saved from falling down a well by a woman. Later, the woman's
family and friends had to manage to steal the drovers' horses.
5. Incident of the Thirteenth Man
Wishbone, in desperate need of a dentist, finds one in Blanton. Along
with Rowdy they both encounter two problems: the doctor is on trial for murder
and both of them have been picked to be on the jury. The verdict is the final
surprise.
6. Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse
Mr. Favor is stuck in a house, because the owner of the house is
attacked by some men.
7. Incident of the Haunted Hills
Desperate for water, Gil's drive is forced into a deadly confrontation
between the Paneequa tribe and surveyors, over the Lake of the Haunted Hills.
The valley's ghostly winds and geysers are sacred to the tribe, while the U.S.
Army survey is headed by a stubborn Indian killer Captain, who orders a
Paneequa woman tortured. Gil hopes his drover Tasunka, who left the tribe as a
teen, can mediate the dispute with minimal bloodshed, but when Gil finds that
the local White settlement Heliotrope is a ghost town due to the dispute, the
trail boss tells Rowdy to take over
8. Incident of the Stalking Death
Gil shoots and wounds a puma while while out scouting for the cattle
drive. The puma escaped and kills the young son of a local rancher's widow. Gil
and the guys go on the hunt for the puma along with a friend of the widow
(Cesar Romero) who also happens to want to kill Gil because he's jealous of the
attention the widow shows Gil.
9. Incident of the Valley in Shadow
Driving a herd through Cheyenne country, Favor finds out some of his
hands may have hired on for more than just the beeves. There is a large reward
being offered for a white girl who has been missing since she was a small
child.
10. Incident of the Blue Fire
In the midst of a thunderstorm and despite his men's objections, Mr.
Favor hires a man who comes across the camp, blamed for bringing bad luck with
him, and one bad break follows another.
11. Incident at Spanish Rock
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.
12. Incident of the Druid's Curse
A woman and his father join the drovers, but the drovers don' t know
that they're cursed by the druids.
13. Incident at Red River Station
Favor and Rowdy accidentally get the smallpox, and they leave the herd
to find vaccine for themselves, and the town around.
14. Incident of the Devil and His Due
Gil is allowed to continue the cattle drive, despite being accused of
murder by the victim's wife and son, after Rowdy is deputized to guard him.
Meanwhile, the real killers, three outlaws, scheme to steal church funds from a
priest befriended by Gil and Rowdy.
15. Incident of the Wanted Painter
The drovers find a painter from back East on their way, whose paintings
help the men of a former Army Major map the town in attempt to bust him out of
jail. Mr. Favor gets in the way to help justice be served and stop future
bloodshed.
16. Incident at Tinker's Dam
Wishbone buries his brother "alive" to keep Kiowas from
killing him for romancing the stony chief's wife. T.J. turns out to be a
comical embarrassment: a pot fixer whose customers fight to scalp him for his
shoddy tinking, which is his ploy for woman chasing. For years, trail cook
Wishy's fellow drovers heard the cook laud his misplaced little brother's
prowess as a warrior, politician, you name it. But angering the Kiowa at the
moment is deadly serious, because the tribe is divided over signing a treaty.
Young braves oppose old Chief Wankawa inking the doc.
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Rawhide 2.2
Episodes:
17. Incident of the Night Horse
An embittered mustanger known by Gil Favor in his younger days blocks
the pass that the herd needs to use to reach a river ford where they can cross
safely. The mustanger is haunted by a fierce stallion who killed his son, once
a friend of Favor.
18. Incident of the Sharpshooter
An outlaw usurps a dead man's identity and he is heading for the next
town along with the drovers. When Rowdy gets in the middle of his business he
finds himself in serious trouble and it is up to Mr. Favor to figure out a way
of saving him.
19. Incident of the Dust Flower
The drovers rescue an injured traveler and his grown daughter, who is
sensitive about her unmarried status. The woman flees, but scout Pete Nolan
locates her. Upon learning that she can't face patronizing relatives in the
town she's moving to, Pete decides to accompany her there and pose as her
fiancé.
20. Incident at Sulphur Creek
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.
21. Incident of the Champagne Bottles
It looks like the drovers are moving smoothly until they find a very
slow moving wagon on their way, allegedly carrying champagne. As it turns out
it was not only champagne and everyone could be in danger.
22. Incident of the Stargazer
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.
23. Incident of the Dancing Death
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.
24. Incident of the Arana Sacar
The owner of a remote trading post and his wife are coerced into
backing a rustler's scheme to get the drovers drunk, swipe the herd and sell
the beeves to hide skinners.
25. Incident of the Deserter
While taking a mountain short cut, Wishbone is injured in a fall
caused by a bullying ore freighter. He seeks aid in a small mining town, where
he becomes attached to a widow, who is the freighter's fiancée.
26. Incident of the One Hundred Amulets
Jesus 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.
27. Incident of the Murder Steer
A steer with the word "MURDER" branded on its side,
considered an omen of violent death, is seen shortly after four mysterious
riders from the same town join the drive.
28. Incident of the Music Maker
When Gil receives a nasty wound that becomes seriously infected, he is
unaware of a Swiss jack-of-all-trades that has totally unarmed his cowboys. The
Swiss has a plan for some of the cattle.
29. Incident of the Silent Web
A young girl is so shocked at her father's murder that she cannot speak.
She is taken captive by two escaped convicts.
30. Incident of the Last Chance
Gil takes a protective interest in a stranded tenderfoot couple. Rowdy
is interested in the wife.
31. Incident of the Garden of Eden
Rowdy leaves to buy cattle to replenish the herd. He comes to a town
of an eccentric English patriarch living with his beautiful daughter. Rowdy
doesn't understand why he seems so afraid to sell the cattle without his
foreman's permission.
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Rawhide 3.1
Episodes:
1. Incident at Rojo Canyon
Not knowing the Civil War is long over, a Confederate battalion
defends an isolated canyon, as Gil's drive approaches. Following the cattle
drive is a U.S. cavalry squadron, dispatched to stop mysterious raids on local
farms. The green, young cavalry don't know the raiders are CSA veterans who are
well dug in and itchy for serious battle. The much older U.S. cavalry sergeant
looks suspiciously familiar to drover Jim Quince, who fought under flamboyant
rebel General Jeb Stuart.
2. Incident of the Challenge
Aztec Mitla saves Gil's life from a dust storm, in the last steps of
his 1500 mile walk to find a legendary princess to save his village in Mexico.
Gil accompanies Mitla to the nearest town, and both seem to discover what they
desperately need: water for Gil's dying cattle, and a gorgeous raven-tressed
b-girl wearing a necklace of Mexican coins. But the saloon dancer's married
lover, the town's mayor, stands defiantly in the way of both quests.
3. Incident at Dragoon Crossing
Favor is taking a short but very tough route which the men question.
Another trail boss John Cord tells Favor he is wrong. When Favor becomes sick,
he asks Cord to take over but the men question Cord's motives.
4. Incident of the Night Visitor
Following the death of his mother, 12 year-old Joey Gardner sets out
in search of the father who left him at birth. The only clues he has to his
identity are that he is a drover, has a scar below his left ear and his
initials are G.F
5. Incident of the Slavemaster
Confederate prison commandant is shot by a wife whose Union soldier
husband disappeared after the War Between the States. She tracked the ex-warden
down because she believes her spouse is still alive, so he tries to soothe her,
saying he released all his POWs. Trail boss Gil, who fought for the South,
intervenes between the livid woman and the reptilian jailer turned wealthy
cotton planter, but then Gil's drovers find the woman dead.
6. Incident on the Road to Yesterday
Reformed thief Ralph Bartlett is determined to repay all his victims.
Gil Favor is the second last name on the list. The last victim lives in a
nearby town where unknown to Bartlett, he is wanted for murder.
7. Incident at Superstition Prairie
Wishbone finds an old Indian who has been left in a cave to die by his
tribe. Against the advice of others on the drive, he takes the man out and
tries to bring him back to his tribe. But the tribe feels that their custom has
been insulted and won't take him back, putting the blame on the entire cattle
drive.
8. Incident at Poco Tiempo
Rowdy and Jim, approached by a makeshift posse, are asked a lot of
questions but not given many answers. Taken to the town they were headed anyway
it is mostly burnt; the bank robbed, a local priest killed and they look good
for all of it.
9. Incident of the Captive
Mushy's no-nonsense mom foils a stage robbery on her way to see him.
Martha Mushgrove pulled down one highwayman's mask to slap him, so the robbers
track her to eliminate a witness. Meanwhile her son, all-thumbs Harkness
Mushgrove III begs Gil to train him to be a drover, to impress Mom.
10. Incident of the Buffalo Soldier
The trail crew meet up with a troop of buffalo soldiers - usually
freed slaves recruited post Civil War for the US cavalry out west. A
rebellious, former sergeant (played by Woody Strode), repeatedly busted down to
private for various infractions, is befriended by Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood).
Killing a fellow soldier in self-defense, the distrusting rebel runs, taking
Rowdy's horse. Rowdy is forced to pursue him, hoping he will give himself up.
11. Incident of the Broken Word
Rancher Ben Foley is trying to sell off his herd to Favor in bad
faith. Meanwhile, drover Frank Price is falsely accused of murder.
12. Incident at the Top of the World
Robert Culp plays as a Civil War veteran named Craig Kern, who has
become addicted to morphine after it was used on him during treatment of a war
injury. The head of a Kansas veteran's hospital asks the trail boss to take
Kern on as a drover so he can reconnect with the world. Kern decides to try and
kick his addiction on the trail. Oh, and the men are trying to stay ahead of a
vicious winter storm. As an added complication, Kern's fiancée (Jan Shepard)
joins the drive, determined to be with him despite the repeated warning that a
cattle drive is "no place for a woman."
13. Incident near the Promised Land
The drive reaches Sedalia but Favor's problems are just beginning. A
bank crash back east has wiped out all the cattle buyers and the only viable
grazing land is owned by embittered widow Emma Cardwell who is intent on
bankrupting Favor.
14. Incident of the Big Blowout
Gil & crew reach trail's end in Sedalia, but Gil's hard drinking
is not to celebrate: his fiancée has married another. Waiting for one drover is
his own beautiful fiancée, closely tracked by a short-tempered bounty hunter.
Gil's approached by another trail boss with a local ranching opportunity. Will
Gil return to Philly, stay in Missouri, or meet his men at Chickenfeather
Siding for another drive?
15. Incident of the Fish Out of Water
Gil visits his girls encountering an Indian on the train. Gil sees the
Indian from the train in a wagon with handcuffs on. He discovers the man is a
prisoner. With help they decide to break him out. Both Gil and Eleanor learn
about raising the girls.
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Rawhide 3.2
Episodes:
16. Incident on the Road Back
The men are back together and headed to San Antonio with a herd of
horses.
17. Incident of the New Start
Favor is ramrod instead of trail boss to save his men's jobs. The
trail boss is an older rancher trying to prove he is "king of the
hill" to everyone including his young wife. He won't listen to Favor and
his wife leaves with a drover.
18. Incident of the Running Iron
While herding strays, Quince comes across a man altering brands.
Before Quince can pursue him a posse comes upon the site and charges Quince
with rustling. Gil and Rowdy have only hours clear him before Quince faces a
vigilante court.
19. Incident near Gloomy River
A dry water hole forces Rowdy and Dan Fletcher who knows the area to
investigate. A dam has temporally cutoff the water adding to the feud between
Cal Fletcher and Frank Travis. Dan's return ignites Cal's hatred for Dan and
love for Flora.
20. Incident of the Boomerang
Entering dangerous Commanche Territory is a herd bound for Australia,
whose only drovers are a wizened Ozzie, his stunning fiancée, and a huge
Aboriginal. Gil helps strike a bargain with the Commanche chief for safe
passage, but when a cowboy, having escaped from prison, is rejected as a
drover, he offers the chief a scheme to seize both herds. The cowboy's half
Commanche, and the Australian fiancée's his former grifting partner.
21. Incident of the Brother's Keeper
Pete Nolan takes an injured Wishbone to Mineral Springs for some rest
only to find himself in the middle of a romantic feud between a paralyzed
rancher, his wife and brother when Pete is asked to escort the wife to a barn
dance.
22. Incident in the Middle of Nowhere
Favor and Rowdy looking for grazing and water in the Lost Mountains
find their path blocked by Indians and an old white man. They hire a guide but
he is killed after a lost woman joins them. She has friends that put the group
in danger.
23. Incident of the Phantom Bugler
At a river the drovers are startled by a bugle and stopped by a group
of Jayhawkers wanting $5 per head to cross the river. They are lead by a Judge
who has conned his son-in-law into thinking they own the land and are acting
legally
24. Incident of the Lost Idol
The drovers come across a teenage brother and sister and their ill
dying mother, alone on the trail. The family had planned to relocate to the
East to elude the outlaw father who had just escaped from jail and is evading
bounty hunters.
25. Incident of the Running Man
Rowdy gets involved in intrigue as he tries to warn an Army outpost
about an impending outlaw attack.
26. Incident of the Painted Lady
Favor's herd is held for ransom by a town who lost $15,000 to Texas
drover Thad Clemens. Favor finds him in a nearby town where it appears he lost
the money to lady saloon owner. However, Favor finds the situation is much more
complicated.
27. Incident before Black Pass
Rowdy and Pete are taken hostage by Kiowas who want safe passage to
Black Pass from the Army for their Chief. A scared fortune telling drover
causes problems when tells on Favor to the Army and a rancher wanting revenge
for his wife.
28. Incident of the Blackstorms
When the law refused to act against his wife's murderer because she
was the wife of an Indian, Dr. Sky Blackstorm turned to a life of crime. Now he
is returning to town and uses Pete and Mushy as pawns to regain custody of his
son.
29. Incident of the Night on the Town
A femme fatale sues Gil for part of his herd. The widow's foreman,
fast gun Rance scares everybody, while her tricky lawyer Lewis Lewis hogties
Gil in court. The drovers itch to shoot their way out, but Gil sets another
scheme off.
30. Incident of the Wager on Payday
Rowdy is framed for murder when a young practical joker's scheme to
rob his father's bank takes a tragic turn.
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Rawhide 4.1
Episodes:
1. Incident at Rio Salado
Favor has been hired to drive a new herd but the appearance of Rowdy's
dad is an unpleasant surprise for Rowdy. His dad frames Rowdy to force a local
bandit with a $5000 reward into the open. He collects but Favor loses his herd
over it.
2. The Sendoff
While gathering mavericks in deep brush, Favor discovers the remnants
of a wagon train destroyed by Comanches along with 12 graves. Some are looking
for a a survivor including a woman whose son was killed and the man helping
her.
3. The Long Shakedown
Favor pushes the men hard to shake out those who won't make it. This
time the old hands may be the ones who can't cut it compared to a group of
young and eager hands he hired. The old hands quit and the new hands show how
green they are.
4. Judgement at Hondo Seco
Drover Jim Quince's niece begs for his help in keeping her fiancé from
being tried for murder by her bitter father. Her father has become a hanging
judge, following the accidental shooting of his wife. When Judge Quince sent a
posse to keep the young couple from eloping, a member of the group fired at the
fiancé, who killed him in self defense.
5. The Lost Tribe
With Rowdy, Quince, Hey Soos, and Nolan who was married to one of them
earlier as their reluctant guide, a breakaway group of Cheyenne Indians flee an
oppressive reservation and head for Mexico - with a posse in hot pursuit.
6. The Inside Man
Favor picks up 750 head from a cattle dealer but a single drover
arrives with the herd. He is a talented drover who rubs the men the wrong way.
He and the dealer plan to steal Favor's herd until he meets a runaway woman on
the drive
7. The Black Sheep
Rowdy escorts an injured sheepman and his flock to a nearby town.
However, when the town's residents think he is one of the sheepmen, Rowdy finds
himself on the receiving end of the same kind of treatment he used to dish out
to sheepmen.
8. The Prairie Elephant
A lost circus with an elephant and lion is scaring the herd and
horses. Favor sends Wishbone to guide the circus to their destination. Wishbone
becomes involved in a fiery romantic triangle as he guides them to Brailey.
9. The Little Fishes
As Favor picks up 700 cattle, the owner tells him a financial crisis
in the east will make the whole herd worthless unless Favor beats the news to
Abilene. Favor can't tell the men as a man with fish distracts the men from
their jobs.
10. The Blue Spy
A woman wanders into camp needing help. She is an actress who one of
the men recognizes later. She worked as a Union spy during the war, although
most of the men hate her, one even more so as he was court-martialed due to
her.
11. The Gentleman's Gentleman
When his Lord dies after being rescued by Favor, a valet assumes the
same role for Favor creating havoc on the drive. The buffalo hunter who shot
the Lord is creating problems for Favor and the herd. The valet may be the key
to the issues.
12. Twenty-Five Santa Clauses
A conman and his wife con the drovers into pooling their efforts to
prepare a Christmas celebration for a sickly Mexican boy. The boy isn't sick
and Rowdy ignores Favors orders to move the herd across a river trapping the
herd.
13. The Long Count
Rowdy and Pete run into problems crossing a ranch owned by a lady with
a rough foreman. In the nearby town the men find Clay Forrester working as a
marshal taking the census. He wrangles Favor's men to work for him on it and
his scheme.
14. The Captain's Wife
When Favor goes to a fort for supplies, he finds only civilians left
to hold off Comancheros in the area. The wife of the commandant sent out the
last of the soldiers on her own hoping her husband would win a promotion and
trip east.
15. The Peddler
The men spot a Jewish peddler trying to herd cattle from his wagon.
Favor lets him join the drive for his safety. However, over time he proves to
be a lucky charm for the drive and eventually finds his own luck and love.
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Episodes:
16. The Woman Trap
The drovers come across a group of women who say they headed to Fort
Worth to marry homesteaders. After a dance they go their separate ways until
one is found dying. Favor, Rowdy, and Hey Soos try to help but find themselves
hostages, too.
17. The Boss's Daughter
Favor finds his path blocked at a property line by an owner protecting
his rights. At the same time his two daughters and sister-in-law decide to
visit the cattle drive. The rancher wants to marry his sister-in-law and adopt
his daughters.
18. The Deserters' Patrol
Warned not to cross Pawnee lands, Favor and Nolan ride to a nearby
fort for details. They find the fort undermanned awaiting reinforcements and
themselves drafted into the Army to rescue six soldiers held hostage who are
really deserters.
19. The Greedy Town
Clad in deepest mourning, a very wealthy woman comes to the small town
where her dead son robbed a bank and killed a man. She is prepared to pay each
resident several years' income if they agree to wipe her son's crimes off the
books.
20. Grandma's Money
On a trip to collect a debt, Rowdy sees an elderly woman apparently
hounded by thieves. After rescuing her they go to a nearby town where Rowdy is
to collect the debt and she awaits a stage. However, she frames Rowdy for
multiple thefts.
21. The Pitchwagon
When a drover is killed by Indians saving a pitchman, the drovers try
to raise money for the his family. The pitchman suggests a rigged card game but
when that fails his idea of a concert with his wife may leave the drovers high
and dry.
22. Hostage Child
A Tonkawa boy is found starving on his way to Fort Lacey to find his
sister to help his starving tribe. He unknowingly unearths that Col. Briscoe
known as the butcher of Indians is unwittingly married to his sister thinking
she is Spanish.
Clay, Wishbone, and Jim find some of their cattle have anthrax and
while isolated are taken captive by a Prussian military Officer and held as
slaves. When they tell the other workers about American freedom, trouble
erupts.
24. The Child Woman
Mushy's cousin and her younger sister are in a nearby town. The
younger 15 year old is the star attraction at the saloon. The older sister
married to the owner wants mushy to take her sister away but the girl resists
leaving.
25. A Woman's Place
Harv's chest is crushed by a wagon. The closest doctor is female who
the men don't trust. Complicating the situation a quack in the town is plotting
to have her run out of town to save his business.
26. The Reunion
The drivers are helped by Pete Nolan who is scouting for the Army. He
has worked to obtain a peace treaty with the Pawnee but the General sent to
sign it and the Pawnee Chief both find conflict with their sons over it leading
to tragedy.
27. The House of the Hunter
Rowdy is kidnapped and finds himself trapped in a house with a motley
group of characters who have no idea why they are being held against their
will. This proves to be Rawhide's version of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little
Indians."
28. Gold Fever
The crew stumbles on a ghost town with a prospector and his three
daughters. The prospector tries to keep some of the men there for his daughters
by salting a claim but it soon mushrooms out of control.
29. The Devil and the Deep Blue
The herd is close to Abilene with another herd a few days behind and
few buyers in Abilene. When the second herd discovers tick fever, the trail
boss is murdered and Favor takes over not knowing the sick cattle are now in
his herd.
30. Abilene
One of the drovers falls sick the night before they end the drive at
Abilene. The sick man may have smallpox forcing the sheriff to quarantine the
men. Favor needs to leave to seal a deal on a ranch and an old foe of Rowdy
wants revenge.
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Episodes:
1. Incident of the Hunter
A man looking for a job is recognized by Rowdy and Clay. Rowdy knows
him as a fellow Confederate soldier while Clay knows him as a bounty hunter.
When he admits it, everyone begins to think he is after them causing the men to
revolt.
2. Incident of the Portrait
After unintentionally killing a blind girl's father, a man signs on as
a drover with Favor. When Favor is asked to escort the girl to another town.
Favor unwittingly assigns the man as her driver where he comes to cherish her
company.
3. Incident at Cactus Wells
Forrester notices a man trailing the herd for a few days but he's
elusive. After one of the men stampedes the herd, the man drives in a few
strays and asks for a job. The men are suspicious of his actions and they soon
learn he has a past.
4. Incident of the Prodigal Son
They find a young man half baked at a water hole. His attitude gets
him off to a bad start with the men except for old horse wrangler Sam Hargis.
The kid Ben Whitney is a rich kid but he does his job and develops a
relationship with Sam.
5. Incident of the Four Horsemen
The herd is caught in a possible range war over land and a woman.
Favor needs additional drovers to push the herd out of the area but unknown to
him the four men he is able to hire are pushing him into the war and want his
herd as well.
6. Incident of the Lost Woman
Favor finds a passed out woman and her baby in the wilderness. The
lady recovers and tells Favor her husband is dead and she is headed to
California. She neglects to tell him the grandfather and uncles of the baby are
after the baby.
7. Incident of the Dogfaces
The drovers rescue soldiers under Indian attack. Chief Broken Bow
surrounds the herd. Favor finds Sgt. Duclos was involved with the death of the
Chief's son and wife. The Chief takes a settler's wife and son hostage forcing
the Sgt's hand.
8. Incident of the Wolvers
With Favor gone, Rowdy has a problem when a pack of wolves start
causing bothering the herd. A wolfer and his family offer Rowdy a deal to
handle the wolves. At first bypassing the offer, Rowdy later agrees but runs
into complications.
9. Incident at Sugar Creek
As the herd nears Sugar Creek Sam Garrett is seriously hurt and they
learn the herd is facing tick fever ahead. When the people of Sugar Creek learn
Sam is with the herd, the town turns on the drovers except for Marcie who runs
the saloon.
10. Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
Wishbone and Rowdy go to town for supplies. Rowdy decides to get a
bath and spend the evening on the town. At the saloon the bartenders spike the
drinks he and a lady have hoping to break them up. Instead Rowdy wakes up with
a bride.
11. Incident of the Querencias
Gil stops to see an old friend only to find he broke except for 30
head of cattle. He asks Gil to let him add his cattle to the herd and go to
Colorado with Gil. Gil relents and does it but his men suffer for it when Lije
breaks the rules.
12. Incident at Quivira
Monty Fox wanders into camp dehydrated and starved. Once revived he
has Mushy believing his story about Quivira which is a pot of gold and Fountain
of Youth all in one. They steal supplies to search for Quivira forcing Rowdy to
find them.
13. Incident of Decision
On the way to meet Favor Rowdy, Quince, and Hey Soos buy some cattle
of their own from Harvey Calvin. Calvin's son with a crippled leg has learned
to doctor animals but wants to be a drover. Rowdy resists but he tries facing
new problems.
14. Incident of the Buryin' Man
The drive first encounters "The Buryin' Man" with his fancy
wagon and then a banker and school teacher in Cheyenne territory. The number of
Cheyenne keeps increasing while they learn the newcomers are not who they
appear to be.
15. Incident of the Trail's End
Harry Maxton is told he is going blind and only has a year or two.
Broke he runs into Favor who started with Maxton. Favor offers Maxton a job
riding drag. Maxton has a rough reputation and one of the drovers, Frank Slade
wants revenge.
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Episodes:
16. Incident at Spider Rock
The drovers go to town for supplies and some relation. When they see
that the saloon and storekeepers are ripping them of with crooked games and bad
supplies, they take the saloon apart and get new supplies - plus a saloon
singer.
17. Incident of the Mountain Man
Rowdy and men stop a lynching of mountain man Josh Green by a wagon
train. Rowdy agrees to take him, his daughter and the Father of the victim to a
town for a proper trial. When Green escapes with his daughter, Rowdy goes after
him.
18. Incident at Crooked Hat
A rider comes in and picks a gunfight with a man he believes to be
gunfighter. When he is shot, Favor and the shooter take him to the doctor
trapping themselves in town waiting for the Sheriff. A renewed relationship
adds fuel to the fire.
19. Incident of Judgment Day
During Rowdy's birthday party, two ex-Confederate POW's arrive to take
Rowdy to settle an old issue. Expecting to discuss the old conflict, Rowdy
finds himself on trial for his life in front of a drunk judge in a ghost town.
20. Incident of the Gallows Tree
Quince wakes up in the livery stable drunk after a night on the town
with some of the drovers. After he leaves, the body of the leading citizen is
found behind the stable door shot. Quince is arrested the next day but
remembers nothing.
21. Incident of the Married Widow
While in town the men stop at the "salon" owned by
enchanting Abigail Fletcher. A picture hangs on the wall of her late husband
Gil Favor. Favor comes in to see for himself. He finds a friend needing help
with Gil as her husband.
22. Incident of the Pale Rider
Rowdy, Hey Soos, and Calhoun go to town for supplies and money at
Wells Fargo. After collecting the money, Rowdy is held up but when Calhoun
interrupts the robbery, he is wounded while Rowdy kills the robber. Or does he?
23. Incident of the Comanchero
The drovers find two stranded nuns who rescued a Comanchero near death
from a torture apparatus. As the man slowly heals, the new Comanchero leader
tells the drovers he wants the man back. Rowdy has to decide whether to protect
him.
24. Incident of the Clown
A clumsy philologist (and former circus clown) stumbles into the trail
camp. The man is hoping to compile a dictionary of the Comanche language so
that they and the whites can better understand each other. It's a critical time
for understanding, as the local Comanche chief is threatening war against the
whites if his young son, who became ill while studying under a government
education plan, fails to recover.
25. Incident of the Black Ace
A gypsy tells Wish's fortune he draws the death card three times.
26. Incident of the Hostages
Taking in three White children kidnapped by passing Arapahos puts the
fatherly drovers in peril. Longing to return to the Apaches who raised them
after white men killed their settler parents, Yellow Sky and her younger
siblings resist the drovers' every step toward turning them over to authorities
in the next town. Arapahos seized the children from the Apaches during tribal
warfare. Widower Gil, who misses his two daughters, expects gratitude for a
noble act, but the Apache chief, Ulzana, wants the children back and will fight
the drovers for them, if necessary.
27. Incident of White Eyes
Favor and Hey Soos stop a runaway stagecoach with a dying driver and
several passengers after an Indian attack. Favor leads the coach to the next
station. Apaches are waiting and Favor soon learns why along with the other
passengers.
28. Incident at Rio Doloroso
Rowdy and Wishbone are warned the herd is crossing private land but
Rowdy neglects to give Favor the details. When the locals try to stampede the
herd, their leader is killed by the cattle but Favor and Rowdy are sentenced to
die for it.
29. Incident at Alkali Sink
Rowdy, running the drive, returns to camp to find it in the midst of a
wedding between Burt Harvey and Lorraine Stanton. After the wedding, Lorraine's
father Cliff arrives calling Burt a coward and trying to break up the couple.
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