List of Rawhide episodes

Gil and Rowdy volunteer to finish the delivery of a prison wagon containing seven dangerous prisoners to Fort Craig for trial.

Rowdy finds a close friend from the army is getting married, but a visit from the bride's stepbrother causes complications.

The drovers rescue several passengers from a stagecoach that overturns and discover that a gunman known as "The Executioner" is following them with unknown intentions.

While partying in a small town, Rowdy attempts to help a woman with a dangerous husband – the town marshal.

The drovers are approached by a Colonel looking for men to join his Confederacy of Panama. Gil must act to prevent losing his cowhands.

Gil enters into a dispute between a landowner and Comanche settlers – on the side of the Comanches.

Gil takes on two brothers as cowhands – a retired gunfighter and his masked kid brother who is determined to follow in his footsteps which leads to trouble in the small town of Barker Springs whose residents live in fear of a local rancher (DeForest Kelley) who dominates by killing those who oppose him.

Gil and Rowdy help four stranded women with a broken wagon, allowing them to accompany the trail herd to the next town. On the way, they reach a river crossing and enter into a dispute over who will cross first with some traders approaching from the other side.

A suspected case of anthrax affects the trail herd, including Rowdy, preventing Gil from advancing the herd past a town where the residents fear being infected by the killer disease.

Gil takes on a wandering preacher who has been run out of a town following a gold strike. Several cowhands become anxious to learn the name of the town to try their fortune there.

The trail herd comes under threat after a dead man is found hanging from a tree branded with a Mexican bandit's initial.

Gil recruits some extra hands to help drive the herd across a difficult plateau only to discover that one of the new men is hiding another man's wife in his wagon. Soon her husband shows up, with 40 men, intent on reclaiming her at any cost.

Gil and Rowdy wander into a deserted mining town only to find a pair of female stagecoach passengers being held hostage by two men.

Gil is determined to drive the trail across a wide stretch of dry plains, leading to low morale and heightened tensions between the cowhands.

Gil allows a young lady to travel with the drive after the apparent loss of her family, unaware that she is part of an outlaw outfit preparing to steal the next payroll when it is delivered to the drovers.

Rowdy discovers a house with two dead Delaware Indians lying outside showing no obvious signs of how they died. Indoors, a woman appears to be in shock and unable to speak, so Gil arranges to escort her to a nearby fort.

Gil and Rowdy ride into a town looking for a doctor after a scout, Pete, is injured. They quickly discover that the town's citizens are being held hostage by a man seeking to hang those responsible for the lynching his son.

The trail herd's horses break free and stampede during a lightning storm, killing a farmer. His death prompts a range war between the drovers and local farmers led by Eli Becker (Leslie Nielsen) and Cort Wesley (Martin Landau) set out to exact revenge.

A disgruntled old rancher and ex-trail boss refuses to let Gil water his thirsty cattle on his land, knowing they will die of thirst before they reach a suitable source of water to supply the full herd.

When wolves start attacking the herd, Gil needs the help of an unpleasant wolfer.

When explosions start unsettling the herd, Gil and Rowdy investigate the source. They soon discover a quarry being worked by chain gangs.

After finding a wild-looking man following the cattle drive, the drovers learn that a band of Comancheros plan on attacking the herd.

Pete and Jim find David Colby shooting Roman candles by the trail. He says he is trying to scare away the Indians that killed his folks and burned them out. He is headed to Eberley to find his uncle but Favor suspects something different.

Rowdy is blackmailed into attempting to ride a horse after being seen managing a runaway, as the workers revolt from a mysterious rancho.

When the herd is forcibly infected with Texas fever, Gil must keep from being blackmailed into treatment for them.

The drovers run across an elderly man (Victor McLaglen in his final role) who experiences flashbacks to his days as a boxer that make him uncontrollably violent.

The drovers come across a small farming settlement suffering from a severe water shortage.

Rowdy and Wishbone are pressured into jury duty while looking for a dentist in a town.

In order to secure an escape from prairie fire, Gil must defend a smokehouse and its owner.

The only water available to Gil's outfit can only be procured by negotiating with the unfriendly Paneequah.

Gil's best efforts to catch a dangerous puma lead to helping a woman whose son the puma has killed.

Encounters with Cheyenne lead to Gil finding a captured girl, who must decide whether she will return to American culture.

The drovers battle the weather, superstition, and interference to keep the herd safe when an unlucky stranger joins the outfit.

One of Gil's drovers is tortured by men looking for a Mexican revolutionary, until those in power change their minds about their loyalty to the man's enemies.

The drovers meet a father and daughter searching the Texan prairie for signs that a druid civilization once lived there.

After finding a dead man, Gil and Rowdy go in search of a doctor, fearing that they have caught smallpox.

Accused of a murder, Gil aims to prove his innocence.

When a painter is found wounded on the prairie, a painting of a town called Lampton where a man is due to be hanged becomes a much-wanted item.

Wishbone's storied brother pays the outfit a visit and lives up to his reputation.

An old acquaintance demands Gil's help to capture a mustang before the herd will be allowed through a pass.

Gil must save Rowdy when he is framed for robbery and murder.

The drovers meet an old Irishman and his daughter, and Pete helps her secure the future she has dreamed of.

The drovers find a pair of competing brothers are responsible for the loss of the remuda and some horses belonging to the Comanches.

Gil and Rowdy are impressed by some criminals into carrying their very fragile cargo.

Trail scout Pete, escorts a woman home where she believes the man claiming to be her husband is an impostor.

The drovers experience trouble when gypsies visit their camp.

When some cattle skinners use the features of the natural landscape to steal the herd, Gil responds in kind.

Suffering with a bad back, Wishbone arrives in a mining town to recuperate. There he finds reasons to consider leaving the trail drive and settle down for good.

Trail wrangler Hey Soos goes to visit his mother, but he gets a violent reception and claims that his mother is a witch who has cursed the town.

When a cowhand shows up dead near a steer branded "Murder", recruited from a town where three men have also been killed, the drovers begin to worry.

A German colony works on the drovers' pity to steal 50 steers, but the patriarch of the colony sides with Gil after he is hurt helping them.

Two convicts on the run, two murders on the prairie, and a young girl who is unable to speak lead the drovers into a confusing set of events.

A young couple learns to understand each other better after a stint traveling with the outfit.

Rowdy attempts to buy 150 head of cattle from an English family to top up the trail herd, but the transaction proves to be less than ideal.

Unaware that the Civil War has ended, a group of Confederate soldiers prepares to stop the trail herd advancing through territory they were ordered to hold.

Gil's search for water and a Mexican's search for a princess coincide to produce strange results.

The drovers must determine whether to follow another trail boss who says Gil asked him to take over.

A young boy sneaks into camp one night in search of his father that he knows has the initials "G.F.".

When the drovers learn that a plantation owner is using former Union prisoners as slaves, a rescue plan is required.

An ex-outlaw trying to repay those he robbed 10 years ago returns to his home town to turn himself into the law only to find he is accused of murder.

Wishbone violates Comanche custom when he rescues a dying man.

Rowdy and Quince must find out why they were accused of murder, as well as who would shoot up a Catholic church and send nuns on the stagecoach.

Mushy's mother comes to take him home with her, but the cattle outfit conspires to keep him, and circumstances assist.

A horse belonging to the outfit is stolen by a soldier, and he and Rowdy must work together to stay alive.

One of Gil's drovers is sent to a ranch where a former flame is now married, and must overcome his past to save her in the present.

As the trail herd races fast to stay ahead of a Texas Norther, Gil recruits a convalescent civil war veteran as a drover though not without risks.

Arriving in Sedalia, Missouri, the drovers must prevail with an economic panic and a bitter woman to complete the cattle drive.

Gil's outfit considers disbanding in Sedalia after disappointment and celebration, but the men decide to hang together when a mystery surrounding a former member of the team leads to Rowdy's possible lynching.

During Gil's visit to Philadelphia, clashes between the east and the Wild West bring difficulties with each side to light.

On the way back to Texas to pay cattle owners, Gil is accused of stealing a horse.

After accepting a new herd to drive, Gil is forced to assume the role of ramrod when a cattle owner insists of being trail boss.

When Quince is accused of rebranding cattle and sentenced to hang, Gil must investigate to uncover the true rustlers.

Rowdy and another drover ends up at the latter's family home looking for water, and enlist the drovers to build a new home and uncover a mystery.

An Australian rancher and his hand team up with the drovers to safely pass through Comanche territory.

While waiting for a telegraph, Nolan is asked to escort a crippled man's wife to a dance where things become complicated.

Gil and Rowdy lend their help to preserve the enterprise of a reclusive man in the mountains.

When a Judge and his son-in-law demand a toll for the herd to cross a river, Gil discovers a set of family conflicts.

The drovers meet a brother and sister with a sick mother, but soon learn their father is a fugitive with a price on his head.

Rowdy is hunted by army impersonators and must warn a nearby fort of their plot before the soldiers are all killed.

Gil goes in search of a trail boss who stole $15,000 from some Missouri ranchers who are demanding repayment of the debt from his herd.

The drovers must help Kiowa chief White Eyes back to where whites live before he dies in order to rescue Rowdy and Pete from the Kiowa.

Nolan and Mushy are drawn into helping an outlaw meet his son and reclaim his former life.

Gil receives a lawsuit, accused of herding 750 cattle which were stolen by the rancher he drives them for.

Rowdy goes after two outlaws who steal the cashbox from the drover's chuck wagon, but with no other witnesses he appears to be the thief.

The drovers lose their herd when Rowdy meets a local bandit, and his own estranged father, who is looking for the reward promised by turning the bandit in.

Before the team can start their new drive, a fugitive wagonmaster is hunted by the mother of a deceased member of his train. When the dead man's partner mistakes Gil for the master, the different parties prove what they're made of.

Gil's traditional seasoning tactics for the herd and the team start to fail him, and he worries that his men are too old. When his green replacement hands let a stampede get the best of them, Gil is left wondering if he's out of business.

Quince answers a letter for help from his niece, and is sentenced to hang by his own brother.

A Cheyenne chief proves to be Pete Nolan's father-in-law, and the drovers change loyalties to take the Cheyenne safely to Mexico.

Two strangers join the drovers and help each other decide which decision they really want to make.

Rowdy's temper threatens to start a war between the drovers and an outfit of sheepherders, but he is the perfect person to end it too.

A circus impedes the herd's progress, and Wishbone is dispatched to move the feuding performers out of the way.

Gil tries to push the herd more than twice as hard due to bad news he has received, but is held back by his men's interest in a species of fish making its way to California.

When an old enemy riles some of the men, a war against old scores and the desert lead to a life or death wager by Gil.

A stranded English valet who wants to be useful comes in handy when the drovers must convince a town to crack down on some buffalo hunters.

In Gil's absence, the drovers get caught up with a conniving couple, but their plans change when a doctor reveals some serious news.

The drovers run into a former member of the team, who's become a marshal with the job of taking the census. Rowdy, Pete and Wishbone are drafted to help count people and animals on a ranch where the owner is hiding something.

A world-weary captain's wife stationed at a prairie fort goes rogue and casualties ensue. Gil and his men must defend the fort in the absence of the soldiery and eliminate the threat she causes.

When a ne'er-do-well peddler joins the drovers and does his best for them, his luck turns at last.

A deceptive land owner in West Texas fools women into becoming mail-order brides for his men, and the women and Gil's drovers must save their own lives when they refuse to follow him any farther.

Gil's sister-in-law and daughters meet a ranch owner en route to visiting the drovers. Gil and the owner rendezvous, where each man wants something from the land and the girls.

Gil and Pete are drawn into a battle of survival four layers deep, and with Pawnee chief Ogalla dead, they must keep a poorly-defended fort from being destroyed.

Clay Forrester finds himself back in a town where he was previously responsible for a criminal's death. This time he must decide on which side of the law he belongs.

Rowdy gets mixed up with a worldly-wise woman who's a little older.

The drovers meet a patent medicine man who wants to reconcile with his wife, and cook up a far-fetched scheme to raise money for the family of a deceased member of the outfit.

A Tonkawa mother who has married the U.S. colonel at a Texas fort attempts to use her biracial son as a hostage to get help for her tribe.

The drovers are impressed by an exiled German military officer, and teach the servants in his colony to think like free Americans.

Mushy's mother's order to find his cousins and send them home to her leads to a brawl between Gil, a teenage girl, and a local saloon owner.

When one of the drovers is injured, only a female doctor is available to treat him. Her presence in town is suspicious to some of the citizens, and she and the drovers must reveal what those citizens are up to.

Pete reunites with the outfit, and two fathers on opposing sides of an Indian war reunite with their own sons, with tragic results.

Rowdy is kidnapped along with many others who knew the son of a vindinctive man. Costars James Murdock, Steve Raines, Rocky Shahan, Robert Cabal, Robert F. Simon, Rosemary DeCamp, Paula Raymond, Lester Matthews, Peter Adams, Lane Bradford, Harry Shannon and Hal Jon Norman

A bankrupt miner with a family of daughters lures drovers to his claim to get husbands for them.

When a drover leading a herd near Gil's dies, Gil takes charge of both herds, and must face the bitterness and resignation of all his men.

Gil saves a bounty hunter who comes after him.

A man who accidentally killed a farmer joins the drovers and must escort the farmer's daughter.

An outlaw hunting his wife's lover joins the drovers and causes trouble.

The drovers take on a testy young man, and he is convinced to drop the chip on his shoulder by a pal in the outfit who has one as well.

After Gil and Clay witness a marriage and a killing between feuding families, Gil tries to push the herd across their disputed land before more trouble comes. When it proves impossible, Gil wrangles peace between sides.

The drovers defend a widow (Fay Spain) who is escaping her husband's family. Stars R. G. Armstrong, Dean Stanton, Hampton Fancher, and Roy Engel.

The drovers encourage some former Yankee soldiers to face up to the Comanche, in order to free a captive woman and her son.

Rowdy hires an abusive man and his three children to kill the wolves that are attacking the herd, and must help them stand up to him.

A hand working with the drovers angered his wife's father in years past, and when he is injured and the drovers must seek a doctor for him in the town where the father-in-law lives, no one will help.

Rowdy must find a way out when an outlaw pretending to be a preacher marries him to a disgruntled girl.

A down-and-out former boss of Gil's joins the herd with his querencia cattle, and causes havoc with the drive.

Mushy is led away by tales of gold from an old prospector. When Rowdy goes after them, the three of them stumble onto army deserters who intend to keep the runaways in their hideout permanently to ensure their silence.

When Rowdy and Quince buy some cattle from a farmer, his son insists on joining them as a hand, but he is captured by a bandit and learns some hard truths.

A man pretending to be an undertaker attaches himself to the drovers, leaving Gil at his wits' end, until Indians present him with an apt opportunity to offload the buryin' man.

A former trail boss of Gil's rides drag and takes disrespect from the drovers, until his knowledge of the trail gives him a high point on which to retire.

An heiress who ran from home ends up in the drover's camp and everyone learns to see each other differently.

Rowdy ends up escorting a mountain man and his daughter to a marshal, but the trio doesn't reach their destination.

Gil stands between a gunfighter he hired and the man's old feuds.

Rowdy is tracked down by former Yankee prisoners who are determined to hang him.

Quince is in the wrong place at the wrong time, and to save him Gil must find out who has killed a prominent citizen.

Gil must find a way to clear his own name and that of the woman who's been claiming he's her husband.

Gil hires a man that looks like someone Rowdy shot, and Rowdy fears for his life.

A Comanchero who has been left for dead is picked up by two nursing nuns, and Rowdy meets them all and attempts to help.

The outfit makes it safely through Comanche territory by taking along a man who speaks Indian languages and has another helpful trick in his bag.

Wishbone feels sorry for himself until a gypsy convinces him he's about to die. Gil uses Wishbone's sudden kindness to the drovers to garner more appreciation for him as they confront a man claiming the gypsy's daughter in marriage.

The drovers return a family of white children who were taken in by Apaches after Arapahos capture them and barter them to the outfit.

Gil meets a stagecoach carrying a man the Apaches want, and must save the travelers until the man will give himself up.

When the drovers cross land that is claimed by a Mexican family, the chief's daughter insists on truth being told, which leads to Gil's and Rowdy's rescue from execution and the clan's workers claiming their freedom.

Rowdy takes a newly-married couple along with the outfit in a search for water, with the bride's father in pursuit of them.

The drovers arrive at their destination but are prevented from moving on with life by a quarantine. When the quarantine is lifted, they plan to begin a new drive.

 * This episode appears hidden on the Season 4 DVD boxset extras as preview episode for season 5 the last disc. There has been much confusion over its actual air date and although it was originally planned for season 4, it aired at the end of season 5.

Rowdy is sent to search for water and meets a man who claims he knows how to get the herd through the area, but Rowdy must boss when Gil falls over a cliff, and when other drovers are injured, he begins to suspect sabotage.

Former warriors meet in Gil's outfit and narrowly avoid another outbreak of war.

A feisty girl with many brothers falls in love with Gil as he plots to get his herd across her land, and Gil is conflicted about whether to quit bossing and stay in El Crucero.

A man wearing leg irons washes up in the river. Gil invites him to travel with the outfit, but comes to regret it.

A struggling farmer attempts to convince the people of Paradise Valley to act more kindly, but is unsuccessful until a flood is averted with the drovers' help.

A wealthy woman won't let the drovers cross her land unless they will take along her unruly grandson.

An fighting Irishman takes a shine to Rowdy and lets him in on his last life's dream.

When Rowdy stumbles into some rawhiders and is coerced into marrying one, Gil appears to be willing to give him enough rope to hang himself with.

Gil's drovers accidentally kill a man, and the outfit is followed by the dead man's brothers looking for vengeance.

A man cons the drovers out of the herd, until Rowdy and the man's partner pull a con of their own.

An African lion who has escaped from Elitch Gardens in Denver, called Death Dancer, is hunter and huntee when the drovers meet a man looking for revenge on the animal.

Mushy is lucky at poker and wins a crooked dealer's money, leaving Rowdy and Wishbone to save him and his money.

A Japanese servant girl and the drovers meet and learn important lessons as they handle a band of Indians who believe that the girl is a goddess.

A woman being called a witch by the Cheyenne is befriended by the drovers and reveals a tragedy.

Wishbone runs into a family who's determined that he's the long-awaited fiance of their spinster sister.

A mishap frightens Wishbone and leads him to think he is blind, until another frightening incident shocks him out of it.

Gil is called upon to judge between an expectant mother and her estranged husband, and must reunite the two of them before his herd is upset by her cattle.

Enemies overlook prejudices just in time to save a part of the drovers' outfit stranded between warring natives.

Gil must get his cattle and his money back when a stampede sends the herd toward a man running an orphanage.

Wishbone is coerced into helping a former acquaintance and finds a former flame.

A man who comes upon the drovers after a storm convinces them to take him miles out of their way, seemingly for nothing.

Gil is horsewhipped when he tries to save a drover from lynching, and he's determined to clean the town of Zebulon from the men who cleaned it up.

Gil must take his own court-martial defense in hand when a former acquaintance frames him for murder.

Gil is reminded to treat his drovers like grown men by a jovial traveler searching for the woman he loves.

Gil is sick of the men's attitudes, and accepts the situation when he gets stuck trading jobs with a banker.

A professional hangman is rescued by Rowdy and Quince when his enemies bury him alive, and in turn saves Hey Soos when he is bitten by a rattlesnake. Burgess Meredith and Broderick Crawford from Highway Patrol guest stars.

The hangman whom the drovers rescued is determined to carry out his job in the town of Deadhorse despite discouragement from the townspeople, and the drovers are persuaded to back him up.

An old acquaintance of Rowdy's who is accused of murder shanghais him into helping her escape the law, until he begins to see through her story and his emotions.

A Buffalo soldier (William Marshall) escaping the army shows himself to be loyal and generous, going against the charges he faces upon capture.

A tribe of Indians who were half-converted to Christianity long ago attempts to kill Hey Soos and the missionary who taught them.

Rowdy disagrees with Gil and they each end up bossing a herd in a race to the next destination.

In the process of hiring in a town with job shortages, Gil is accused of killing a man, and his conscience keeps him working to take care of the man's widow and children.

Gil hopes to pick up some drovers when he meets an old acquaintance, but the man is carrying out his own scheme to recapture the wealth he was cheated out of.

A hard decision on the trail costs Gil his herd, but his honesty gains him a new herd at the end of the driving season.

A mistake and a misunderstanding lead Mushy to leave the drovers' team, and he lands in a lot of hot water.

A gunfighter and his wife come to a festival, but the situation is not as it seems.

In a spoof of the Western, Gil and his drovers are fooled by a harsh, greedy railroad builder who's lost his crew.

Gil gives tit for tat and won't stop until he gets back the outfit he lost to a greedy railroader.

Rowdy is mistaken for the man who shot a robber with a price on his head, and is shunned as he works to uncover the truth.

A minor officer with no experience stands by his convictions when his detachment and circumstances are against him.

Rowdy is assigned to escort an irritating photo enthusiast to a rendezvous, and discovers just how quick-thinking the man is.

Gil and Rowdy are given special treatment in town, while the rest of the drovers aren't welcomed anywhere.

Gil and another trail boss are kidnapped by a pack of outlaws being herded by a big businessman intent on commanding a beef empire.

A bookie with no limits is responsible for many deaths in a small town, until Rowdy wins a shooting contest with a faster draw than the man's prize gunfighter.

An aging cattle man can't bring himself to accept the job Gil can give him, but his prospects everywhere else are negative.

Rowdy is asked to visit a man he helped condemn to hang and consider changing the testimony he gave at the court-martial.

Gil is stronghanded into accepting a former drover who's bringing a wanted man into Denver, along with the expected complications.

To save Pete from hanging, Gil must uncover who's been rustling cattle and murdering those who could tell. Nearly a repeat episode of Season 3, Episode 18, "Incident of the Running Iron".

An old man brings his grandson to the boy's father working on Gil's drive, to see if the man can be trusted with the job of father.

In a nod to Season 2 episode Incident of the Valley in Shadow, Rowdy experiences the same as Gil, in being captured by Indians and helping to find a white girl living with them.

A soldier deserts his post by hanging on with Gil's outfit and some travelers who have been with the cattle drive, and the cowboys are held responsible for dealing with him.

Wishbone and Gil each have a herd that is growing desperate for rain, and a lot of things on the prairie are burning.

Gil is trapped into helping a colonel right a wrong he committed on the eve of his retirement.

A one-armed drover is sent with Pete and others into a town he used to be associated with, looking for salt to keep the herd from dying, and he and those he knew face the past.

When $50,000 shows up in camp, Gil is determined to keep it secure no matter what.

Wishbone meets the family of a man who no drover outfit will hire, and quits the drive to help, including covering for the man's wife when she shoots her husband.

Mushy gifts the drive's calves to two sisters who are running their father's ranch, and Rowdy falls in love with the older sister, who gives her life to save him.

A dying doctor and his apprentice prevent the drovers from reaching water with their treasure digging, but both sides successfully negotiate to avoid loss of life and get what they want.

When Gil and Mushy pick up some steers from across the Mexican border, they meet an infamous man escaping the Mexican revolutionaries and the Mexican federal officers by escorting a band of children to a mission in New Mexico. Gil must take charge of helping the children to safety when the officers catch up to the man and his friends.

Gil's outfit arrives in a deserted town very sick with a mysterious illness, and meet a woman running from her past crimes.

Rowdy has taken control of the cattle drive, and can't find justice for a drover who is killed by a man taking the law into his own hands.

The loyalty of Rowdy's men is tested by a prize horse.

Rowdy is given a lucrative deal by a cattle owner, but obstacles plague the time-limited drovers all the way along the trail. Rowdy finally uses the herd to protect the whole outfit and show a corrupt sheriff and a disrespectful ramrod how much his word means.

When Simon and Quince are trapped in a mine shaft, the race is on to free them before the air runs out.

Rowdy hires some Chiricahua to move the herd along, but the drovers are unsure how things will turn out when the Chiricahuas' enemies, the Pawnee, also show up.

A family reneges on a deal with the drovers and holds Rowdy for ransom.

Rowdy's drovers have their herd commandeered for worthless money issued by the Mexican revolutionaries, and consider using the Mexican commander's estranged wife to exchange for the herd. His wife insists on returning to him, but only out of love for someone else.

The drovers are caught up in an election feud between townspeople and a female rancher who wants women's suffrage.

A marshal comes after Jed, and Jed and Rowdy stand up for each other until the case can be cleared up.

Rowdy contracts with a man (Charles Bronson) who has an uncertain past, and their men on both sides make the association personal.

The drovers become mixed up with parties who can't forget the War Between the States is over, and must cut their way through the shenanigans on both sides to keep the herd moving.

A band of robbers posing as U.S. Army take some of the herd, and Rowdy and Jed head out to right matters.

A father and son pair among the drovers reminds Rowdy of his relationship with his own father, complete with a disastrous scheme.