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"Rawhide ... Second Season Vol. Two ... Paramount Pictures (2007)", Jan 1 2009
CBS Television and Paramount Pictures presents "RAWHIDE: SECOND SEASON VOL TWO" (5 February 1960 - 17 June 1960) (822 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 17: Incident at Tinker's Dam (guest stars Monte Blue & Anthony Dexter)
Original Air Date--5 February 1960
Season 2, Episode 18: Incident of the Night Horse (guest star George Wallace)
Original Air Date--19 February 1960
Season 2, Episode 19: Incident of the Sharpshooter (guest stars Jock Mahoney, Norman Leavitt, Kenne Duncan & Fred Lerner)
Original Air Date--26 February 1960
Season 2, Episode 20: Incident of the Dust Flower (guest stars Tom Drake)
Original Air Date--4 March 1960
Season 2, Episode 21: Incident at Sulphur Creek (guest star John Dehner)
Original Air Date--11 March 1960
Season 2, Episode 22: Incident of the Champagne Bottles(guest stars Patricia Barry,
Lane Bradford, John Hart & Hugh Marlowe)
Original Air Date--18 March 1960
Season 2, Episode 23: Incident of the Stargazer (guest stars Buddy Ebsen & Richard Webb)
Original Air Date--1 April 1960
Season 2, Episode 24: Incident of the Dancing Death (guest stars Anthony Caruso & Warren Oates)
Original Air Date--8 April 1960
Season 2, Episode 25: Incident of the Arana Sacar (guest star Cloris Leachman)
Original Air Date--22 April 1960
Season 2, Episode 26: Incident of the Deserter (guest stars Bob Steele & Rush Williams)
Original Air Date--29 April 1960
Season 2, Episode 27: Incident of the One Hundred Amulets (guest star R.G. Armstrong)
Original Air Date--6 May 1960
Season 2, Episode 28: Incident of the Murder Steer (guest star James Franciscus)
Original Air Date--13 May 1960
Season 2, Episode 29: Incident of the Music Maker (guest star Werner Klemperer)
Original Air Date--20 May 1960
Season 2, Episode 30: Incident of the Silver Web (guest star Don Haggerty)
Original Air Date--3 June 1960
Season 2, Episode 31: Incident of the Last Chance (guest star Guy Teague,
Hank Patterson & John Kerr)
Original Air Date--10 June 1960
Season 2, Episode 32: Incident in the Garden of Eden (guest stars John Ireland, Debra Paget,Robert Coote & J. Pat O'Malley)
Original Air Date--17 June 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: 822 mins on 4 DVD's ~ Paramount Pictures ~ (12/18/2007)
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