What is “Rawhide”?
A: Rawhide is an American Western TV series starring Eric Fleming and Clint
Eastwood.
The show aired for how many seasons?
A: Eight.
On what network was it aired?
A: The CBS network.
When did the show air?
A: 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.
The series was produced and sometimes directed by whom?
A: Charles Marquis Warren, who also produced early episodes of Gunsmoke.
The show is fondly remembered by many for its what?
A: Its theme, "Rawhide".
Rawhide was the sixth-longest running American
television Western with how many years?
A: Spanning 7-1/2 years.
The show was set in what decade?
A: The 1860s.
Rawhide portrays the challenges faced by whom?
A: The drovers of a cattle drive.
Most episodes are introduced with what?
A: A monologue by Gil Favor (Eric Fleming), trail boss.
In a typical Rawhide story, the drovers come upon
people on the trail and do what?
A: Involve themselves in other people's affairs, usually encountering
various and sundry corrupt individuals.
Many times, one or more of the crew ventures into a
nearby town and do what?
A: They encounter some trouble from crooked townspeople or lawless
politicians from which they need to be rescued.
Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood) was “what” in the earliest
episodes?
A: Young and at times impetuous.
As a result, Favor had to do what?
A: Keep a tight rein on him.
Favor is a what?
A: A savvy and strong leader, who always plays "square" with his fellow men.
Producer Charles Warren called on the diary written in
1866 by whom to shape the character of Favor?
A: Trail boss George C. Duffield
Favor has to fight at times and usually does what?
A: Wins.
Some Rawhide stories were easy in production terms, but
the peak form of the show was what?
A: Convincing and naturalistic, and sometimes brutal.
A frequent story line was the constant need to find
what?
A: Water for the cattle.
The scout spent much of his time looking for water,
sometimes finding what?
A: That water holes and even rivers had dried up.
In some ways, the show was similar to what TV series?
A: Wagon Train, which had debuted on NBC on September 18, 1957.
For example, neither the wagon train nor the herd did
what?
A: Move very much.
Rawhide frequently dealt with what?
A: Controversial topics.
Robert Culp played an ex-soldier on the drive who had
become dangerously addicted to what?
A: Morphine.
Mexican drover Jesús faced racism at times from where?
A: Outside of the crew.
Several shows deal with the aftermath of what?
A: The American Civil War, which ended four years earlier.
Rough characters were in the shows, and in one episode,
Gil Favor is tortured by having what?
A: Having his face held near a fire.
In "Incident of the Town in Terror", people think that
a sick Yates has what?
A: "The plague" (anthrax), and they enforce at gunpoint a quarantine of the
cattle drovers outside the town.