Episode
Rawhide: Incident On the Edge of Madness
Overview
A fanatical Southern loyalist lures drovers from Favor and Rowdy with tales of founding a new Confederate empire; guest Lon Chaney Jr.
Details
- Series
- Rawhide
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1959-02-06
- Runtime
- 52 min
Episode context
Incident On the Edge of Madness is Episode 5 in Season 1 of Rawhide. It aired on 1959-02-06. The runtime is 52 min.
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Episode 4: Incident of the Widowed Dove
Rowdy tries to help Clovis leave her sheriff husband.
Episode 6: Incident of the Power and the Plow
Gil Favor gets permission from rancher Jed Reston to drive his herd over Reston's land. He discovers, however, that Reston has a bigoted attitude toward Indians, particularly a local Comanche named Taslatch who wants to be a farmer and who's paid for a mail-order plow. (Reston's recently had his son, Matt, give Taslatch 15 lashes on a trumped-up rustling charge.) Favor earns Reston's enmity by siding with Taslatch. Tensions soon escalate until violence is set to erupt between the Comanches and local townspeople and Favor must take decisive steps to intervene.
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Episode 3: Incident with an Executioner
A stage load of passengers being chased by the man with the black satchel wrecks. Favor takes them to his camp. The man is a hired executioner after someone from the stage or the herd.
Episode 7: Incident at Barker Springs
Brazo, a retired gunfighter, attempts to keep his kid brother from taking up the family business.
Episode 2: Incident at Alabaster Plain
Rowdy's wartime friend, they spent time in a POW camp, is getting married. The bride's stepbrother, a murderer sixteen times over, has returned to claim his share of the family fortune.
Episode 8: Incident West of Lano
Four stranded women provide a love interest and a complication for Favor. A freight hauler with a gunfighter says he's using the only river crossing first.
Episode 1: Incident of the Tumbleweed
After a marshal and deputy are wounded and killed, Gil and Rowdy volunteer to finish the delivery of the prison wagon with seven dangerous prisoners to Ft Craig for trial, while the outlaw husband of one prisoner is in pursuit to free her.
Episode 9: Incident of the Town in Terror
When Rowdy and two steers are thought to have anthrax, The only medical help is a young lady with two years of nursing school. Her town doesn't want anything to do with the drovers or the herd.
Episode 10: Incident of the Golden Calf
Brother Bent the newest drover sparks gold fever, when he flashes a huge nuggett.
Episode 11: Incident of the Coyote Weed
Banditos inside and outside threaten the herd and the drovers.
Episode 12: Incident of the Chubasco
The drive faces a formidable tasks climbing to a plateau known for it's high winds and dust storms. Favor hires Tom Bryan more for his wagon than the man. Tom sneaks a woman dressed in a bridal gown into the wagon. Jefferson Devereaux, a wealthy land owner, comes looking for a man and a woman, his wife, Jenny. Rowdy was a POW with Tom. He says Tom sold out. Jeff and forty men will be back in the morning for Tom and Jenny.
Episode 13: Incident of the Curious Street
Favor and Rowdy are looking for strays. They enter a deserted mining town. Matt Lucas is the caretaker. He says he's the only one there. Leaving they hear an organ. Mrs. Miller and her daughter, Angie, say Lucas and his son, Waldo, gunned down the stage coach driver, and is holding them hostage.