Rawhide
The Winter Soldier
TV Flash files “The Winter Soldier” as hour 196 of 218 in the TV Flash guide — Rawhide (1959–1965) on CBS, season 7, episode 21, aired 1965-03-12, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E21: listed hour 196 of 218 in the Rawhide guide, hour 21 of 30 in season 7. It aired 1965-03-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Violent Land” (S07E20). Next is “Prairie Fire” (S07E22).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A deserter, Hap Johnson, joins the herd and the Army comes looking for him. Hap leaves before they arrive, but his belongings make Gil look like an accomplice... and the soldiers arrest him.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Winter Soldier sit in the Rawhide guide?
S07E21 is listed hour 196 of 218 — hour 21 of 30 in season 7, season 7 episode 21.
When did Rawhide S07E21 air?
The Winter Soldier aired 1965-03-12 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Fleming as Favor and Eastwood as Rowdy on the drive — the cattle-drive workplace is the premise from week one.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Rawhide is the cattle-drive procedural: Head 'em up, move 'em out, and Clint Eastwood learning the sneer that later conquered spaghetti westerns. Watch it now as the TV cowboy-to-global-star pipeline in weekly form — trail dust as workplace drama, years before Eastwood became a one-name industry.
The cattle are already moving when the cameras find them — January 9, 1959, CBS, trail boss Gil Favor and ramrod Rowdy Yates punching a weekly clock that looks like dust and sounds like a job. Rawhide is not a campfire postcard. It is a cattle-drive procedural: Head 'em up, move 'em out, and a young Clint Eastwood learning the sneer the later spaghetti years would sell as destiny. Eric Fleming holds the drive. Sheb Wooley and Paul Brinegar's Wishbone keep the workplace from becoming a statue. Charles Marquis…
Filed against
- Eric Fleming as Gil Favor
Eric Fleming drove the herd as Gil Favor on Rawhide — Head 'em up, move 'em out, cattle-drive procedural, and the TV cowboy pipeline that taught a young Clint Eastwood the sneer. Trail dust as workplace drama. TV Flash files him as 1950s…
- Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates
Clint Eastwood played Rowdy Yates on Rawhide — the cattle-drive procedural, head 'em up, move 'em out, a weekly trail that taught a sneer in public. TV cowboy as workplace drama: dust, a crew, years of driving beef as plot. TV Flash files…
- Sheb Wooley as Pete Nolan
Sheb Wooley's Pete Nolan scouted Rawhide as cattle-drive procedural weather — Head 'em up, move 'em out, Clint Eastwood learning the sneer that later conquered spaghetti westerns. Trail dust as workplace drama. TV Flash files him as 1950s…
- Paul Brinegar as Wishbone
Paul Brinegar played Wishbone on Rawhide, the 1950s cattle-drive procedural — head ’em up, move ’em out, trail dust as workplace drama. Clint Eastwood learning the sneer that later conquered other ranges. TV Flash files him as cook-wagon…