Rawhide

Rawhide Cast

Series Description

The Rawhide TV show was a 60 minute western, action series on CBS about a group of men who drove cattle to market in the old west. There were rustlers, wild indians and plenty of other dangers to deal with along the way. This TV show was the catalyst for Clint Eastwood's career.

Rawhide Cast

Clint Eastwood .... Rowdy Yates
Eric Fleming .... Gil Favor
Paul Brinegar .... Wishbone
Steve Raines .... Jim Quince
James Murdock .... Mushy
Rocky Shahan .... Joe Scarlet
Robert Cabal .... Hey Soos
Sheb Wooley .... Pete Nolan
William R. Thompkins .... Toothless
John Cole .... Bailey
Charles H. Gray .... Clay Forrester

Rawhide Theme Song

Title: "Rawhide"

Written By: "Ned Washington" and "Dmitri Tiomkin"

Performed By: "Frankie Laine"

Keep movin', movin', movin',
Though they're disapprovin',
Keep them doggies movin' Rawhide!

Don't try to understand 'em,
Just rope and throw and grab 'em,
Soon we'll be living high and wide.

My heart's calculatin'
My true love will be waitin',
Be waiting at the end of my ride.

Move 'em on, head 'em up,
Head 'em up, move 'em out,
Move 'em on, head 'em out Rawhide!

Set 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, let 'em out,
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in Rawhide...

Rawhide Trivia

Clint Eastwood got his first starring role as Rowdy Yates on Rawhide. While visiting a friend at CBS studios, a studio executive saw him and thought he looked like a cowboy. His first 3 big films "A Fistful Of Dollars", "For A Few Dollars More" and "The Good, The Bad, & the Ugly" were Spanish/Italian/German co-productions and, therefore, not originally produced in English. When those films came to the U.S., Eastwood insisted on dubbing his own voice tracks himself.

They must have let the Rawhide cast dress themselves or something because Eric Fleming (as Gil Favor) can be seen wearing jeans that are obviously Wranglers in several episodes. Nobody else, just Fleming! You can see the Wrangler rivets and the "W" on the pockets. Unfortunately, that doesn't conform with the time period of Rawhide as Wranglers weren't sold until 1947!

While Clint Eastwood got his first big break on the Rawhide TV show, he never again appeared in a role on television; not even as a guest star! He strictly played roles in movies thereafter. Clint had signed on to play one of the caped crusader's villains named, "Two-face" on the Batman TV show but it got canceled before his episode came up.

Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, California in 1986. Sixteen years later (2002) he was sworn in as the State of California's Park Commissioner. He showed the crowd his Commissioner's badge and said, "You're all under arrest".

Rawhide won a "Bronze Wrangler" from the "Western Heritage Awards" in 1961, 62, 64, and 65 for the best "Fictional Television Drama"!

Eric Fleming left Rawhide at the end of the seventh season and, therefore, so did trail boss Gil Favor. Clint Eastwood really got a chance to shine because his character, Rowdy Yates, took over as head man and organizing another cattle drive! Unfortunately that drive went to TV never neverland (well, at least it never ended) when Rawhide was removed from the CBS lineup in January of 1966. A totally different type of show about an animal reserve in Africa titled, "Daktari", took Rawhide's time slot and ran with it for 89 episodes over 4 seasons.

Rawhide Opening Narrative

Version #1: "It sounds simple when you start up ... get the herd to Abilene. Before you're halfway there, the cattle are the least of your worries. I know. Gil Favor, Trail Boss."

Version #2: "This is the landscape of Rawhide. Desert, forest, mountain, and plains. It is intense heat, bitter cold, torrential rain, blinding dust, men risking their lives, earning small reward, the life of challenge ... Rawhide!"

Episodes List With Original Air Dates

Season 1

  1. Incident of The Tumbleweed Wagon (1/9/1959)
  2. Incident at Alabaster Plain (1/16/1959)
  3. Incident with an Executioner (1/23/1959)
  4. Incident of the Widowed Dove (1/30/1959)
  5. Incident On the Edge of Madness (2/6/1959)
  6. Incident of the Power and the Plow (2/13/1959)
  7. Incident at Barker Springs (2/20/1959)
  8. Incident West of Lano (2/27/1959)
  9. Incident of the Town in Terror (3/4/1959)
  10. Incident of the Golden Calf (3/13/1959)
  11. Incident of the Coyote Weed (3/20/1959)
  12. Incident at Cubasco (4/3/1959)
  13. Incident of the Curious Street (4/10/1959)
  14. Incident of the Dog Days (4/17/1959)
  15. Incident of the Calico Gun (9/24/1959)
  16. Incident of the Misplaced Indians (5/1/1959)
  17. Incident of Fear in the Streets (5/8/1959)
  18. Incident Below the Brazos (5/15/1959)
  19. Incident of the Dry Drive (5/22/1959)
  20. Incident of the Judas Trap (6/5/1959)
  21. Incident in No Man's Land (6/12/1959)
  22. Incident of a Burst of Evil (6/26/1959)
  23. Incident of the Roman Candles (7/10/1959)

Season 2
  1. Incident of the Day of the Dead (9/18/1959)
  2. Incident at Dangerfield Dip (10/2/1959)
  3. Incident of the Shambling Man (10/9/1959)
  4. Incident at Jacob's Well (10/16/1959)
  5. Incident of the Thirteenth Man (10/23/1959)
  6. Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse (10/30/1959)
  7. Incident of the Haunted Hills (11/6/1959)
  8. Incident of the Stalking Death (11/13/1959)
  9. Incident of the Valley in Shadow (11/20/1959)
  10. Incident of the Blue Fire (12/11/1959)
  11. Incident at Spanish Rock (12/18/1959)
  12. Incident of the Druid's Curse (1/8/1960)
  13. Incident at Red River Station (1/15/1960)
  14. Incident of the Devil and His Due (1/22/1960)
  15. Incident of the Wanted Painter (1/29/1960)
  16. Incident at Tinker's Dam (2/5/1960)
  17. Incident of the Night Horse (2/19/1960)
  18. Incident of the Sharpshooter (2/26/1960)
  19. Incident of the Dust Flower (3/4/1960)
  20. Incident at Sulphur Creek (3/11/1960)
  21. Incident of the Champagne Bottles (3/18/1960)
  22. Incident of the Stargazer (4/1/1960)
  23. Incident of the Dancing Death (4/8/1960)
  24. Incident of the Arana Sacar (4/22/1960)
  25. Incident of the Deserter (4/29/1960)
  26. Incident of the One Hundred Amulets (5/6/1960)
  27. Incident of the Murder Steer (5/13/1960)
  28. Incident of the Music Maker (5/20/1960)
  29. Incident of the Silent Web (6/3/1960)
  30. Incident of the Last Chance (6/10/1960)
  31. Incident of the Garden of Eden (6/17/1960)

Season 3
  1. Incident at Rojo Canyon (9/30/1960)
  2. Incident of the Challenge (10/14/1960)
  3. Incident at Dragoon Crossing (10/21/1960)
  4. Incident of the Night Visitor (11/4/1960)
  5. Incident of the Slavemaster (11/11/1960)
  6. Incident on the Road to Yesterday (11/18/1960)
  7. Incident at Superstition Prairie (12/2/1960)
  8. Incident at Poco Tiempo (12/9/1960)
  9. Incident of the Captive (12/16/1960)
  10. Incident of the Buffalo Soldier (1/1/1962)
  11. Incident of the Broken Word (1/20/1961)
  12. Incident at the Top of the World (1/27/1961)
  13. Incident Near the Promised Land (2/13/1961)
  14. Incident of the Big Blowout (2/10/1961)
  15. Incident of the Fish Out of Water (2/17/1961)
  16. Incident on the Road Back (2/24/1961)
  17. Incident of the New Start (3/3/1961)
  18. Incident of the Running Iron (3/10/1961)
  19. Incident near Gloomy River (3/17/1961)
  20. Incident of the Boomerang (3/24/1961)
  21. Incident of his Brother's Keeper (3/31/1961)
  22. Incident in the Middle of Nowhere (4/7/1961)
  23. Incident of the Phantom Bugler (4/14/1961)
  24. Incident of the Lost Idol (4/28/1961)
  25. Incident of the Running Man (5/5/1961)
  26. Incident of the Painted Lady (5/12/1961)
  27. Incident before Black Pass (5/19/1960)
  28. Incident of the Blackstorms (5/26/1961)
  29. Incident of the Night on the Town (6/2/1961)
  30. Incident of the Wager on Payday (6/16/1961)
  31. Incident of Fear in the Streets (6/23/1961)

Season 4
  1. Incident at Rio Salado (9/29/1961)
  2. Sendoff (10/2/1961)
  3. Long Shakedown (10/13/1961)
  4. Judgment at Hondo Seco (10/20/1961)
  5. Lost Tribe (10/27/1961)
  6. Inside Man (11/3/1961)
  7. Black Sheep (11/10/1961)
  8. Prairie Elephant (11/17/1961)
  9. Little Fishes (11/24/1961)
  10. Blue Sky (12/8/1961)
  11. Gentleman's Gentleman (12/15/1961)
  12. Twenty-Five Santa Clauses (12/22/1961)
  13. Long Count (1/5/1962)
  14. Captain's Wife (1/12/1962)
  15. Peddler (1/19/1962)
  16. Incident of the Woman Trap (1/26/1962)
  17. Bosses' Daughter (2/2/1962)
  18. Deserter's Patrol (2/9/1962)
  19. Greedy Town (2/16/1962)
  20. Grandma's Money (2/23/1962)
  21. Pitchwagon (3/2/1962)
  22. Hostage Child (3/9/1962)
  23. Immigrants (3/16/1962)
  24. Child Woman (3/23/1962)
  25. A Woman's Place (3/30/1962)
  26. Reunion (4/6/1962)
  27. The House of the Hunter (4/20/1962)
  28. Gold Fever (5/4/1962)
  29. The Devil and the Deep Blue (5/11/1962)
  30. Abilene (5/18/1962)

Season 5
  1. Incident of the Hunter (9/28/1962)
  2. Incident of the Portrait (10/5/1962)
  3. Incident at Cactus Wells (10/12/1962)
  4. Incident of the Prodigal Son (10/19/1962)
  5. Incident of the Four Horsemen (10/26/1962)
  6. Incident of the Lost Woman (11/2/1962)
  7. Incident of the Dogfaces (11/9/1962)
  8. Incident of the Wolvers (11/16/1962)
  9. Incident at Sugar Creek (11/23/1962)
  10. Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom (11/30/1962)
  11. Incident of the Querencias (12/7/1962)
  12. Incident at Quivira (12/14/1962)
  13. Incident of Decision (12/28/1962)
  14. Incident of the Buryin' Men (1/4/1963)
  15. Incident at the Trail's End (1/11/1963)
  16. Incident at Spider Rock (1/18/1963)
  17. Incident of the Mountain Man (1/25/1963)
  18. Incident at Crooked Hat (2/1/1963)
  19. Incident of Judgment Day (2/8/1963)
  20. Incident of the Gallows Tree (2/22/1963)
  21. Incident of the Married Widow (3/1/1963)
  22. Incident of the Pale Rider (3/15/1963)
  23. Incident of the Comanchero (3/22/1963)
  24. Incident of the Clown (3/29/1963)
  25. Incident of the Black Ace (4/12/1963)
  26. Incident of the Hostages (4/19/1963)
  27. Incident of White Eyes (5/3/1963)
  28. Incident at Rio Doloroso (5/10/1963)
  29. Incident at Alkali Sink (5/24/1963)

Season 6
  1. Incident of the Red Wind (9/26/1963)
  2. Incident of Iron Bull (10/3/1963)
  3. Incident at El Crucero (10/10/1963)
  4. Incident of the Travellin' Man (10/17/1963)
  5. Incident at Paradise (10/24/1963)
  6. Incident at Farragut Pass (10/31/1963)
  7. Incident at Two Graves (11/7/1963)
  8. Incident of the Rawhiders (11/14/1963)
  9. Incident of the Prophecy (11/21/1963)
  10. Incident at Confidence Creek (11/28/1963)
  11. Incident of the Death Dancer (12/5/1963)
  12. Incident of the Wild Deuces (12/12/1963)
  13. Incident of the Geisha (12/19/1963)
  14. Incident at Ten Trees (1/2/1964)
  15. Incident of the Rusty Shotgun (1/9/1964)
  16. Incident of the Midnight Cave (1/16/1964)
  17. Incident of the Dowry Dundee (1/23/1964)
  18. Incident at Gila Flats (1/30/1964)
  19. Incident of the Pied Piper (2/6/1964)
  20. Incident of the Swindler (2/20/1964)
  21. Incident of the Wanderer (2/27/1964)
  22. Incident at Zebulon (3/5/1964)
  23. Incident at Hourglass (3/12/1964)
  24. Incident at the Odyssey (3/26/1964)
  25. Incident of the Banker (4/2/1964)
  26. Incident of El Toro (4/9/1964)
  27. Incident at Deadhorse - Part 1 (4/16/1964)
  28. Incident at Deadhorse - Part 2 (4/23/1964)
  29. Incident of the Gilded Goddess (4/30/1964)
  30. Incident at Seven Fingers (5/7/1964)
  31. Incident of the Peyote Cup (5/14/1964)

Season 7
  1. Race (9/25/1964)
  2. Enormous Fist (10/2/1964)
  3. Piney (10/9/1964)
  4. Lost Herd (10/16/1964)
  5. A Man Called Mushy (10/23/1964)
  6. Canliss (10/30/1964)
  7. Damon's Way - Part 1 (11/13/1964)
  8. Damon's Way - Part 2 (11/30/1964)
  9. Backshooter (11/27/1964)
  10. Corporal Dasovik (12/4/1964)
  11. Photographer (12/11/1964)
  12. No Dogs or Drovers (12/18/1964)
  13. The Meeting (1/1/1965)
  14. Book (1/8/1965)
  15. Josh (1/15/1965)
  16. A Time for Waiting (1/22/1965)
  17. Moment in the Sun (1/29/1965)
  18. Texas Fever (2/5/1965)
  19. Blood Harvest (2/12/1965)
  20. Violent Land (3/5/1965)
  21. Winter Soldier (3/12/1965)
  22. Prairie Fire (3/19/1965)
  23. Retreat (3/26/1965)
  24. Empty Sleeve (4/2/1965)
  25. Diehard (4/9/1965)
  26. Mrs. Harmon (4/16/1965)
  27. The Calf Women (4/30/1965)
  28. The Spanish Camp (5/7/1965)
  29. El Hombre Bravo (5/14/1965)
  30. The Gray Rock Hotel (5/21/1965)
Season 8
  1. Encounter at Boot Hill (9/24/1965)
  2. Six Weeks to Bent Fork (9/28/1965)
  3. Walk into Terror (10/5/1965)
  4. Escape to Doom (10/12/1965)
  5. Hostage for Hanging (10/19/1965)
  6. Vasquez Woman (10/26/1965)
  7. Clash at Broken Bluff (11/2/1965)
  8. Pursuit (11/9/1965)
  9. Duel at Daybreak (11/16/1965)
  10. Brush War at Buford (11/23/1965)
  11. Testing Post (11/30/1965)
  12. Crossing at White Feather (12/7/1965)

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