Rawhide
El Hombre Bravo
TV Flash files “El Hombre Bravo” as hour 204 of 218 in the TV Flash guide — Rawhide (1959–1965) on CBS, season 7, episode 29, aired 1965-05-14, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E29: listed hour 204 of 218 in the Rawhide guide, hour 29 of 30 in season 7. It aired 1965-05-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Spanish Camp” (S07E28). Next is “The Gray Rock Hotel” (S07E30).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Federals come looking for a revolutionry, El Hombre Bravo... who Gil and Mushy realize is a schoolteacher that they've met.
Viewer FAQ
Where does El Hombre Bravo sit in the Rawhide guide?
S07E29 is listed hour 204 of 218 — hour 29 of 30 in season 7, season 7 episode 29.
When did Rawhide S07E29 air?
El Hombre Bravo aired 1965-05-14 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…