Rawhide-1st Season (1958)

"...a rare gem...If you're a fan of Westerns or even of early TV, this is a must have...some truly excellent storytelling.  Cynthia Boris, DVD Verdict

Editor's Note Before he became a fixture in the spaghetti Western genre, iconic actor Clint Eastwood shot to fame in the 1950s and '60s television series RAWHIDE. Considered one of the best TV Westerns of all time, the classic series followed the episodic adventures of a band of rovers hired to drive cattle through the lawless terrain of the 1870s Wild West while encountering both natural and manmade dangers like anthrax and cattle rustlers. Eastwood starred as rover Rowdy Yates, the straight-arrow assistant to a tough-as-nails trail boss, Gil Favor (Eric Fleming), who also presided over trail hands Mushy (James Murdock), Quince (Steve Raines), Nolan (Sheb Wooley) and Wishbone (Paul Brinegar). This collection includes all 22 episodes of the cult favorite's debut season, which included guest appearances by Leslie Nielsen, Martin Landau, Lon Chaney, Dick Van Patten, DeForest Kelley, and Jack Lord.

	Clint Eastwood
	Eric Fleming
	James Murdock
	Steve Raines
	Ben Brady - Executive Producer
	Bruce Geller - Producer
	George A. Gittens, et. al. - Editor
	John B. Goodman, et. al. - Art Director
	John M. Nickolaus, Jr., et. al. - Cinematographer
	Louis Vittes, et. al. - Writer
	Rudy Schrager, et. al. - Original Music By
	Thomas Carr, et. al. - Director

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3 stars out of 5 -- "RAWHIDE quickly became popular with its catchy theme and amazingly-vocied star Eric Fleming as trail boss Gil Favor." 10/01/2006 p.116