Rawhide
  
Rawhide on DVD!
picFinally! The complete first season of Rawhide available on DVD from Paramount Home Video.
Rawhide videos
picThe Captain's Wife
Miss Barbara Stanwyck stars as the title character, a woman who secretly wishes a man would make her "content to be a woman."
picThe Pitchwagon
Buddy Ebsen guest stars and yes! Rowdy sings! Pretty well, too.
picIncident of Iron Bull
Racial tensions mount when Rowdy hires a Comanche.
picIncident of Tumbleweed Wagon
In this premier episode of the series the boys get caught up with a band of criminals.
picIncident at Spider Rock
A saloon singer proves a disruptive presence on the cattle drive. Lon Chaney Jr. guest stars.
picIncident at Farragut Pass
Frankie Avalon guest stars as a boy with an attitude problem.
picThat's My Pa
Four box set totaling 47 tracks
About this site

Fans of the western series Rawhide will find much of interest here at the Rawhide site, including an episode guide and the text of the series' episode introductions, most often delivered by "Gil Favor, trail boss." You will find also a great number of episode reviews, posted by visitors to this site, and a form which you may use to post your own reviews. So sit back, pull up a plate of Wishbone's chili, and have yourself a good read.
 
Joining the drive: Twitter and Yahoo Groups

In addition to stopping by this site for Rawhide information, you can join the Rawhide discussion list, hosted at Yahoo Groups. (The discussion list has an RSS feed you can subscribe to.) If you're looking for information about the show that you can't find on this site, you might try searching the archives of the discussion list.

You can also subscribe to TVRawhide on Twitter. There I'll post occasional site-related announcements and will let people know when new episode reviews have been posted here. TVRawhide will also "tweet" the headlines of new comments posted to the Rawhide Yahoo Group. Here are the latest TVRawhide tweets:
    Rawhide t-shirts and greeting cards

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    You can order Rawhide-inspired t-shirts and greeting cards from Zazzle.com (featuring artwork by this site's owner).

    Diary of a trailboss

    One of the sources for Rawhide was a diary written by George C. Duffield in 1866. In that year Duffield drove cattle from Texas to Iowa. His diary covers the period from February 17th of 1866 to November 7th of the same year. Duffield's entry for November 6th reads, "Got Home sick & tired & glad to get to rest." Gil Favor probably felt the same at the end of a drive. You can download the diary here (Adobe PDF, 1.0 MB; you can download Adobe Acrobat Reader here).

    A history of the series, by Philip Lindley

    Television and the home entertainment revolution of the 80's and 90's have made permanently accessible to us their accumulated wealth. Viewers over a certain age ... say forty, have not forgotten and could never abandon the feelings stirred by the small-screen recreations of America's frontier history - the Wild West - and the list of favourites in a popular poll would be likely to contain the same few titles. Among them would be "Rawhide", the brainchild of a man called Charles Marquis Warren. Read more.

    About the site's creator (Debra Hamel)

    I started the Rawhide site back in 1996, my project for teaching myself html, and it has grown and changed and moved over the years so that it is as you now see it. I hope it's helpful to you. I am also the author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece (published in 2003 by Yale University Press), a sometimes raucous history written for a popular audience. Most of the sites in my vast online universe can be accessed via the teal menu near the top of this page.

    Rawhide: 1959-65 (CBS)
    Eric Fleming as Gil Favor
    Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates
    Sheb Wooley as Pete Nolan
    Paul Brinegar as Wishbone
    James Murdock as Mushy
    Theme performed by Frankie Laine
    Eric Fleming movies
    picThe Glass Bottom Boat
    Doris Day mistaken as a spy! Sounds like a light-hearted 60's romp to me. In addition to our man Eric Fleming, the movie also features Arthur Godfrey (by the way, am I the only one who can sing about dotting the "i" for the inventors?), Paul Lynde, Dick Martin, and Dom DeLuise.
    picCurse of the Undead
    Eric Fleming stars as Preacher Dan Young in this, yes, vampire western. How cool is that?
    picQueen of Outer Space
    Eric stars with Zsa Zsa Gabor, dahling, in this hilarious sci-fi flick. A reviewer at the Internet Movie Database says the movie "reeks of cardboard sets, silly dialogue, and more phallic symbols, hot babes, and sexual innuendo than you can wave a stick (or laser gun) at."
    picConquest of Space
    Eric stars as Captain Barney Merritt in this story about the first manned expedition to Mars. A reviewer at amazon.com numbers among the movie's merits its inclusion of: "MST3K ready dialog! The obligitory accidental weightlessness scene! ... The first ever burial in space! The first ever snowfall on Mars!" In other words, you can't lose!
    The Rawhide theme
    picRockin'/Hell Bent for Leather
    Head 'em up, move 'em out! Frankie Laine performed the rousing song played over the opening credits of Rawhide. The Rawhide theme is among the 24 tracks on this CD.
    Sheb Wooley Sings
    picThe Purple People Eater
    31 tracks including the classic title song
    picWild and Wooley, Big Unruly Me
    29 tracks
    picRawhide/How the West was Won
    24 tracks including Sheb's version of the Rawhide theme (this is not the version performed in the opening credits of the show!)
    picThat's My Pa
    Four box set totaling 47 tracks
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