RAWHIDE

CBS TELEVISION

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Plot Summary
Gil Favor, as the trail boss is on a cattle drive,
with his side kick and ramrod, Rowdy Yates,
run into, all sorts of characters and adventures,
on a continuous cattle drive..
by ethanedwards

Series Cast
Clint Eastwood ... Rowdy Yates (217 episodes, 1959-1965)
Paul Brinegar ... Wishbone (215 episodes, 1959-1965)
Steve Raines ... Jim Quince (214 episodes, 1959-1965)
Eric Fleming ... Gil Favor (202 episodes, 1959-1965)
James Murdock ... Mushy (202 episodes, 1959-1965)
Rocky Shahan ... Joe Scarlett / ... (181 episodes, 1959-1965)
Robert Cabal ... Hey Soos (112 episodes, 1959-1965)
Sheb Wooley ... Pete Nola

and manyof Duke's 'Pals'
John Ireland, Edward Faulkner
Burgess Meredith ,Cesar Romero
Bob Steele, Dan Duryea
Jay C. Flippen, Marie Windsor
Broderick Crawford ,John Agar
Chill Wills,Albert Dekker
Neville Brand, Debra Paget
Strother Martin ,Timothy Carey
William Fawcett ,Harry Carey Jr.
Hank Worden ,Woody Strode

Other guest stars, included:-

Buddy Ebsen, Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Lord, Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Claude Akins, Eddie Albert, Michael Ansara, Mary Astor, Frankie Avalon, John Drew Barrymore, James Best, Charles Bronson, McDonald Carey, Jr., Elisha Cook, Linda Cristal, Robert Culp, Royal Dano, Troy Donahue, Brian Donlevy, , Barbara Eden, Leif Erickson, Beverly Garland, Charles Herbert, Earl Holliman, Alan Hale, Jr., Dwayne Hickman, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Ruta Lee, Jock Mahoney, Mercedes McCambridge, Burgess Meredith, Robert Middleton, Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Leslie Nielsen, Susan Oliver, J. Pat O'Malley, Marion Ross, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbara Stanwyck, Ed Wynn, & Dick York,

Series Directed
Andrew V. McLaglen (6 episodes, 1959-1962)
Joseph Kane (6 episodes, 1960)
who worked with Duke.
and many more...

Trivia
* Soon after Clint Eastwood made his Italian westerns, Jolly Films (which produced Per un pugno di dollari (1964)) came out with a film called (in English) "The Magnificent Stranger", which was actually two episodes of "Rawhide" (1959) edited together ("The Backshooter" and "Incident of the Running Man"). Clint Eastwood sued and the film was withdrawn.

* Clint Eastwood got his role in "Rawhide" (1959) while visiting a friend at the CBS lot when a studio exec spotted him because he "looked like a cowboy."

"Rawhide Theme"
Created and Composed by Dimitri Tiomkin
Lyrics by Ned Washington
Recorded by Frankie Laine

Goof
In some episodes Gil Favor is seen wearing Wrangler jeans - rivets and the trademark "W" on two pockets. The Wrangler brand wasn't sold until 1947.

Filming Locations
Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
(western streets)
Big Sky Ranch - 4927 Bennett Road, Simi Valley, California, USA
Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA
CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA
Chinese Camp, California, USA
Lone Pine, California, USA
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
Nogales, Arizona, USA
Red Rock Canyon State Park - Highway 14, Cantil, California, USA
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Rawhide is an American Western series that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network
on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September 3, 1965,
before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966,
with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes.
Starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood, the series
was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Marquis Warren
who also produced early episodes of Gunsmoke.

Spanning seven and a half years, Rawhide was the fifth-longest-running American television Western,
beaten only by eight years of Wagon Train, nine years of The Virginian,
fourteen years of Bonanza, and twenty years of Gunsmoke.

Another childhood favourite, but to me,
not as great as the ones, already mentioned.
Ironically, Clint Eastwood was critiscized in this series,
and critics felt he would go no futher.
Great knowledgeable critics, heh!!!!

Interestingly Clint began filming
A Fistful of Dollars, in 1964 while on a summer break from Rawhide.
Apparently he took with him, and wore the same boots,
shirt and gun grips that he wore on the series.
He got the role after practically every other
cowboy actor in Hollywood had turned it down.

Another childhood favourite, but to me,
not as great as the ones, already mentioned.
Ironically, Clint Eastwood was critiscized in this series,
and critic felt he would go no futher.
Great knowledgeable critics, heh!!!!


Hi Keith:

I agree with you - not as good as many of the other classic westerns that were previously mentioned, but no one can deny that it had one of the classic theme songs which 50 odd years later, I can still sing word-for-word..!!

Your comment about the critics and Clint Eastwood was funny - wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall when these same critics, for example, got together over a beer with the numerous people who turned down The Beatles when they were shopping around for a record label back in 1962 or 1963.becasue they thought they would never amount to anything..:teeth_smile:

It was my grandmothers favorite show. I liked the way Rowdy hung his hat on his gun.

Hi may2,

Interestingly Clint began filming
A Fistful of Dollars, in 1964 while on a summer break from Rawhide.
Apparently he took with him, and wore the same boots,
shirt and gun grips that he wore on the series.
He got the role after practically every other
cowboy actor in Hollywood had turned it down.

Hi may2,

Interestingly Clint began filming
A Fistful of Dollars, in 1964 while on a summer break from Rawhide.
Apparently he took with him, and wore the same boots,
shirt and gun grips that he wore on the series.
He got the role after practically every other
cowboy actor in Hollywood had turned it down.

I had read somewhere that Clint wasn't too keen on the role originally either (he eventually took it on for a $15,000 paycheck after James Coburn either turned it down outright or Sergio Leone wouldn't budge on th $25,000 that Coburn was asking for).

But Clint's wife persuaded him to take on the role saying that at worst, they would enjoy a modest paycheck coupled with a summer vacation in Italy and Spain (where the exterior shots were filmed).

So Clint acquiesced and the rest is history as they say..!!

I loved this series as well, but probably only saw about one-third of the total episodes made.
BTW - Did they ever get the herd to market? They had so many distractions that the herd had to stay in one place for days at a time while they tended to other matters!:teeth_smile:
Cheers - Jay:beer:

I've only been privvy to seeing maybe ten episodes and I greatly enjoyed all of them. One that stuck in my mind had Strother Martin in it.

As a youth, this was one of my favorite TV shows. If Clint wasn't so old, I was hoping he might run for President. His answer to the illegal alien problem might have been,
"now, Head e'm up, and move'm out !

Chester :newyear:

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The 30 September marked the accidental death of Eric Fleming, who played trail boss in Rawhide, with Rowdy ( Eastwood) as ramrod.

Poor Eric was drowned aged 42, 42 years ago, only a few years after leaving Rawhide whilst filming in South America when a canoe overturned.

There were 2 in the canoe, Eric was a very experienced swimmer and diver but the current dragged him down the Heluaga River, whereas the other man was able to swim to safety.

Eric's body was found 3 days later, and his fiancee was at t he river that day he drowned, they were to be married 2 days later, this was the final shoot i think, and they were then retiring to Hawiia where he had brought a farm.

RIP Eric.

The 30 September marked the accidental death of Eric Fleming, who played trail boss in Rawhide, with Rowdy ( Eastwood) as ramrod.

Poor Eric was drowned aged 42, 42 years ago, only a few years after leaving Rawhide whilst filming in South America when a canoe overturned.

There were 2 in the canoe, Eric was a very experienced swimmer and diver but the current dragged him down the Heluaga River, whereas the other man was able to swim to safety.

Eric's body was found 3 days later, and his fiancee was at t he river that day he drowned, they were to be married 2 days later, this was the final shoot i think, and they were then retiring to Hawiia where he had brought a farm.

RIP Eric.
Thanks for this Jessie, it was indeed a tragic event.

Just also wanted to add that they have Clint Eastwoods picture pretty central on the DVD series covers... i guess he is alive, he has the big name etc.. he draws the people that are too young to remember Eric, and how he was pivotal in carrying that series, and after he left at the end of series 7, series 8 with Rowdy as ramrod only lasted half the season beofre it was pulled, once Eric left that was it, the audience had already seen so many of their favourites get pushed, but the Boss gone... no way...................... it just was not going to fly.
No Boss..no takers.....

Eric also did 2 episodes of Bonanza, 1 of them in 2 parts and aired the day it was announced he had drowned, it starred Dina Merril and was called " The persued" it's on utube the other episode was a single airing close to the other one.
Also i think i may have the date of Eric s death wrong, have to double check, but i think it was 28 Sept not the 30..

Just also wanted to add that they have Clint Eastwoods picture pretty central on the DVD series covers... i guess he is alive, he has the big name etc.. he draws the people that are too young to remember Eric, and how he was pivotal in carrying that series, and after he left at the end of series 7, series 8 with Rowdy as ramrod only lasted half the season beofre it was pulled, once Eric left that was it, the audience had already seen so many of their favourites get pushed, but the Boss gone... no way...................... it just was not going to fly.
No Boss..no takers.....

Eric also did 2 episodes of Bonanza, 1 of them in 2 parts and aired the day it was announced he had drowned, it starred Dina Merril and was called " The persued" it's on utube the other episode was a single airing close to the other one.
Also i think i may have the date of Eric s death wrong, have to double check, but i think it was 28 Sept not the 30..
I agree Jessie, once you lose your main characters, the series has gone.
Eric died on September 28th. 1966.

Mister Favor was a wonderful character. Wishbone, too. And Jim Quince. And good ol' Mushy.

Let us not forget Sheb Wooley who played Pete the scout. Sheb was in some pretty good westerns - "War Wagon", "High Noon", "Outlaw Josie Wales" and "Silverado". I think the last film he was in was "Hoosiers".
His part in "Rio Bravo" was completely edited out from the film.
For the more ancient of us, he also wrote and performed the song "Purple People Eater". When I was about nine years old, my folks gave me fifty cents while we were in a tavern. I cleaned the place out after I had played it on the juke box six times in a row.


We deal in lead, friend.

Six times in a row, Gorch? You're lucky they didn't run you out of town.

Just watched a Rawhide
Incident of the Peyote Cup
In which Gil Favor and Wishbone only appeared for a few minutes,
and Rowdy Yates, not at all
In fact it had nothing to do with the cattle either!!

Watched it here
Westerns on the Web- Rawhide (http://www.westernsontheweb.com/?page_id=6570)
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