Rawhide — Season 4
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
About this season
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.
Episodes (30)
1. Rio Salado
Aired 29 September 1961 • 48 min
Rowdy and Hey Soos are robbed by Antonio Marcos. He is leading a revolution against the Texas land grant. Rowdy meets his Dad, who ran out on him and his Ma.
2. The Sendoff
Aired 2 October 1961 • 48 min
The drovers are beating the scrub for strays. Favor finds wagon remains and twelve graves.
3. The Long Shakedown
Aired 13 October 1961
An overbearing Favor leads to many drovers quitting. Five replacements stir trouble.
4. Judgment at Hondo Seco
Aired 20 October 1961
Quince gets a letter. He needs a couple of days off. Jim, Pete, Rowdy and Hey Soos go to Hando Seco. Casey the bartender knocks their drinks out of their hands when he finds out they rode in with Jim. Jim asks Judge Matt Quince how's his niece Joanna. She wants help running away. She's in love with Brad Lyons. He has a murder warrant on his head.
5. The Lost Tribe
Aired 27 October 1961
Indians stampede the herd. The sheriff says it's a 100 Cheyenne headed for Mexico. Pete picks up their trail. Pete asks Rowdy not to tell Favor right away. Little Hawk, the Chief, is the father of Pete's dead wife.
6. The Inside Man
Aired 3 November 1961 • 60 min
Craddock and Clay Forrester plot to steal the herd. Shelia Brewster is running away from her army fiancee.
7. The Black Sheep
Aired 10 November 1961
Favor asks sheepherder,Tod Stone, to let the herd pass his flock. He won't. They take the herd over the ridge to the next valley. Tod takes a shortcut and beats them. Rowdy and Collins scatter the flock. Tod the herd. Rowdy fights Tod. Tod falls on his scaling knife. Favor tells Rowdy he's taking Tod and his flock to Twin Hat.
8. The Prairie Elephant
Aired 17 November 1961 • 60 min
Favor finds a circus that is lost. Pascal the owner and clown beats his wife, Jenny, who wants to run away with Dario the other half of her high wire act.
9. The Little Fishes
Aired 24 November 1961
Gilmore tells Favor there's a panic brewing back east. He needs to cut ten days off the drive. Gilmore says don't tell the drovers about the panic. Tom Gwynn ,a fishbreeder, is sick with fever. He's taking shad to California to claim a $10,000 prize.
10. The Blue Spy
Aired 8 December 1961 • 60 min
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
Aired 15 December 1961
Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll. Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.
12. Twenty-Five Santa Clauses
Aired 22 December 1961
Mushy tells Wish he sees Santa Claus - Mr. Bateman - in Texas in the middle of August. Bateman is lost. He keels over. He, his wife Mag, and their nine-year-old boy, Danny, are on their way to New York. Danny won't last until Christmas.
13. The Long Count
Aired 5 January 1962 • 60 min
Martha Hastings is running a way station for outlaws. Rowdy, Pete and Wish are hired as census takers.
14. The Captain's Wife
Aired 12 January 1962 • 60 min
Nora Holloway is ambitious for her captain husband to advance. She resorts to lying.
15. The Peddler
Aired 19 January 1962
The drovers discover peddler Mendel J. Sorkin trying to drive a small herd of cattle all by himself. Mendel wants to sell the herd in a nearby town and use the money to return to his native country.
16. The Woman Trap
Aired 26 January 1962
Pete and Rowdy find a whole herd of good looking women heading to Fort Worth to get married.
17. The Boss's Daughters
Aired 2 February 1962 • 60 min
The drover are stopped by fence at Vance Caldwell's ranch and are told they will have to wait until he returns to get permission to pass. But the fence isn't Favor's only problem, his daughters are about to join him on the trail.
18. The Deserters' Patrol
Aired 9 February 1962 • 60 min
The indians want to trade six soldiers they hold for thier Chief. Favor is commissioned as a captain to make the exchange.
19. The Greedy Town
Aired 16 February 1962 • 60 min
Ada Randolph offers the town $300,000 if they find her dead son, a convicted murderer innocent, and run the sheriff out of town.
20. Grandma's Money
Aired 23 February 1962 • 60 min
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
Aired 2 March 1962 • 60 min
When Frank is killed by indians, a collection is taken for his family. Clay suggests a poker game to run it up.
22. Hostage Child
Aired 9 March 1962 • 60 min
A thirteen year old indian is going to Fort Lacey to see his sister. The commandant hates all indians. He and his wife Azuela have a son.
23. The Immigrants
Aired 16 March 1962 • 60 min
Quince, Clay and Wish are captured and told by Count Ulrich they are his property and will work on his manor house.
24. The Child-Woman
Aired 23 March 1962 • 60 min
Mushy's cousin asks him to take her sister to his mom, to get out of the saloons. She doesn't want to go.
25. A Woman's Place
Aired 30 March 1962 • 60 min
A wagon falls on Harve. Rowdy and Favor go for a doctor. Dr. Daniel Pearson, a quack, says he's the only doctor in town. Mrs. James directs them to Dr. Louise Amadon.
26. Reunion
Aired 6 April 1962 • 60 min
Pete's friend Grey Hawk's son, Wild Horse has escaped and is raiding. General Perry is bringing 500 head of cattle for the indians. Pete is leading Lieutenant Matthew Perry to his father.
27. House of the Hunter
Aired 20 April 1962 • 60 min
A deaf mute delivers a letter for Rowdy at the camp. Rowdy picks up a guy, Kilo, whose wagon was stolen. They make camp. In the morning, Kilo and the horses are gone. Rowdy walks to a house and enters. The door shuts behind him. Mackie and five others lock Rowdy in a room. Someone shoots at Rowdy from outside. The six are being held prisoner.
28. Gold Fever
Aired 4 May 1962 • 60 min
Hosea Brewer has been prospecting Lost Mine ten years after everyone has left. The thought of gold and his three daughters attract the drovers.
29. The Devil and the Deep Blue
Aired 11 May 1962 • 60 min
Favor wants to fatten the herd for a week. Another herd is three to five days behind. The trail boss is Ben Wade and all the drovers are old. Charlie Holt , owners representative, comes onto Helen Wade, and vice versa. Two of Wade's cattle have Texas Tick.
30. Abilene
Aired 18 May 1962
The herd finally arrives in Abilene, the end of a long, hard drive. While most of the drovers plan to spend their pay painting the town, Favor has a few other ideas. He is going to buy some land and get out of the cattle business. Don Grenfell also has been told to quit due to a bad back. The drovers are all quarantined at Oddity House due to small pox.