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"Rawhide ... Second Season Vol. One ... Paramount Pictures (2007)", Janv. 1 2009
CBS Television and Paramount Pictures presents "RAWHIDE: SECOND SEASON VOL. ONE" (18 September 1959 - 29 January 1960) (720 mins/In Glorious Black & White) (digitally remastered in Dolby) -- Rawhide was a television western series that aired on the U.S. network CBS from 1959 to 1966. The show starred Eric Fleming and launched the career of Clint Eastwood --- The series ran for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 episodes, all filmed and broadcast in black and white --- It was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Marquis Warren who also produced early episodes of Gunsmoke --- Warren based Rawhide on the movie Cattle Empire that he directed in 1958 and for which Endre Bohem was a screenwriter and Paul Brinegar, Steve Raines and Rocky Shahan were actors; all also worked in Rawhide --- Its premiere episode reached the top 20 in the Nielsen Ratings. It rose steadily in popularity until, towards the end of the series run, it was one of America's top ten shows --- Rawhide was the fourth longest-running American TV western, beaten only by nine years of The Virginian and Wagon Train, fourteen years of Bonanza, and twenty years of Gunsmoke.
The episode would be introduced, usually by some words from Gil Favor but sometimes by others --- The typical Rawhide story involved drovers, portrayed by Eric Fleming (Trail Boss Gil Favor) and Clint Eastwood (ramrod Rowdy Yates), coming upon people on the trail and getting drawn into solving whatever problem they presented or were confronting --- Some of the stories were obviously easier in production terms but the peak form of the show was convincing and naturalistic, and sometimes brutal. Its situations could range from parched plains to anthrax, ghostly riders to wolves, cattle raiding, bandits, murderers, and so forth --- A problem on such drives was the constant need for water, and the scout spent much of his time looking for it, sometimes finding water holes, even rivers had dried up - In some ways it was similar to the TV series Wagon Train that debuted in 1957.
Of all the western characters on TV, these were the only real cowboys, because they drove cows. There were also sheep boys who drove sheep, pig boys who looked after pigs, etc. The name cowboys became a generic name in western films and TV series --- The theme song's lyrics were written by Ned Washington in 1958. It was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin and sung by pop singer Frankie Laine. The theme song became very popular --- It was covered several times and parts of the song also appear in more recent movies like The Blues Brothers and Shrek.-- (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
List of Season, Episode, Title and Original Air Date:
Season 2, Episode 1: Incident of the Day of the Dead (guest star Viveca Lindfors)
Original Air Date--18 September 1959
Season 2, Episode 2: Incident of the Roman Candles (guest star Beverly Garland)
Original Air Date--25 September 1959
Season 2, Episode 3: Incident at Dangerfield Dip (guest star Douglas Kennedy)
Original Air Date--2 October 1959
Season 2, Episode 4: Incident of the Shambling Man (guest stars Anne Francis, Victor McLaglen, Gene Nelson, Robert Lowery, Harry Carey Jr. & Earle Hodgins)
Original Air Date--9 October 1959
Season 2, Episode 5: Incident at Jacob's Well (guest stars David Brian & Patricia Medina)
Original Air Date--16 October 1959
Season 2, Episode 6: Incident of the 13th Man (guest stars Edward Platt & Paul Fix)
Original Air Date--23 October 1959
Season 2, Episode 7: Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse (guest stars Vera Miles, Gene Evans, Leif Erickson & John Agar)
Original Air Date--30 October 1959
Season 2, Episode 8: Incident of the Haunted Hills (guest stars John Drew Barrymore,
Kent Smith & Strother Martin)
Original Air Date--6 November 1959
Season 2, Episode 9: Incident of the Stalking Death (guest stars Cesar Romero, Mari Blanchard & Martin Garralaga)
Original Air Date--13 November 1959
Season 2, Episode 10: Incident of the Valley in Shadow (guest stars Leo Gordon, Rick Jason & Fay Spain)
Original Air Date--20 November 1959
Season 2, Episode 11: Incident of the Blue Fire (guest star Skip Homeier)
Original Air Date--11 December 1959
Season 2, Episode 12: Incident at Spanish Rock (guest star Jacques Aubuchon)
Original Air Date--18 December 1959
Season 2, Episode 13: Incident of the Druid Curse (guest stars Claude Akins, Luana Patten & Don Keefer)
Original Air Date--8 January 1960
Season 2, Episode 14: Incident at Red River Station (guest star James Dunn)
Original Air Date--15 January 1960
Season 2, Episode 15: Incident of the Devil and His Due (guest star Neville Brand)
Original Air Date--22 January 1960
Season 2, Episode 16: Incident of the Wanted Painter (guest stars Arthur Franz,
Steve Brodie & Robert Lowery)
Original Air Date--29 January 1960
BIOS:
1. Eric Fleming (aka: Edward Heddy)
Date of Birth:: 4 July 1925 - Santa Paula, California
Date of Death: 28 September 1966 - Tingo Maria area, Peru (drowned)
2. Clint Eastwood
Date of Birth: 31 May 1930 - San Francisco, California
Date of Death: Still Living
Great job by Paramount Pictures and their staff for releasing this long awaited edition with collectible Seasons with unforgettable episodes --- looking forward to more of the same from the rousing CBS Television vintage era --- order your copy now from Amazon their Western Classics -- all my heroes have been cowboys!
Total Time: 720 mins on 4 DVD's ~ Paramount Pictures ~ (05/29/2007)
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