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After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys... THE REBEL is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.
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After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys... THE REBEL is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.
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Episode 1
General Grant pays a post-war visit to the South, and Johnny tells young Jimmy the story of Lee's surrender.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiGuest stars George Macready, Ed Nelson, J. Pat O'Malley, Cosmo Sardo, Carl Sklover
Episode 2
Jeremy Hake receives a double blow of bad news---that his mine is worthless, and that his family is in need. Hake commits murder in a robbery attempting to help his family. Hake asks Yuma to surrender him for the reward offered for the murder and give the money to his family.
Directed by Irvin KershnerGuest stars John Carradine, Elisha Cook Jr., John Pickard, Natalie Masters, William Meader, Jack Tornek, Robert Swan, Cosmo Sardo
Episode 3
Yuma buys the contract of a war buddy, who is now a boxer past his prime, and attempts to discourage the friend from further competition.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiGuest stars Michael Ansara, Ed Kemmer, William Harlow, John Indrisano, John George
Episode 4
Yuma stops at a bar where a bounty hunter is holding the wife of the outlaw he hopes to collect on. Seeing Yuma's descriptive resemblance to the outlaw, the bounty hunter decides upon an alternative plan---killing Yuma and passing him off as the outlaw. Will the wife go along with this idea?
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiGuest stars Claude Akins
Episode 5
Rancher Bull Hollingsworth commissions Yuma to make a man out of his sheltered son, Seldon.
Directed by Irvin KershnerGuest stars Mark Goddard, Ellen Corby, Ken Mayer, Bill Coontz, Cosmo Sardo
Episode 6
Yuma finds himself in the midst of a confrontation between a sheep man haunted by war memories and Mexican bandits.
Directed by Irvin KershnerGuest stars Frank Silvera, James Best
Episode 7
Yuma is shackled by a sheriff to Traskel and forced to flee on foot with him when Traskel knocks out the sheriff and the horses ride off. Traskel believes that his twin brother is in pursuit and wants to kill him.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars Richard Jaeckel, Ed Nelson, John Pickard
Episode 8
Yuma's friend Jim Colburn has been found innocent of a murder for which he was to hang. Before the news of his innocence arrived, Colburn escaped from jail with a posse unaware of his innocence in pursuit.
Directed by Irvin KershnerGuest stars Dorothy Adams, Lennie Weinrib, Arlene Martel, Leonard Nimoy, Nick Dennis, Joe Dominguez
Episode 9
The Ricker family frames Yuma for a murder that one of them has committed and then arranges for Yuma to flee town before he is hanged. But Yuma refuses to leave.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars Soupy Sales, Jon Lormer, Paul Picerni, Robert Hutton, James Chandler, Cosmo Sardo
Episode 10
Yuma escorts young Demetria to an arranged marriage after her family escorts are killed by Apaches. On the way, she starts to express feelings for Yuma, which begins to trouble him.
Directed by Irvin KershnerGuest stars Gigi Perreau, Rosa Turich, Eugene Iglesias, Edgar Barrier
Episode 11
Yuma witnesses as Roy Shandell murders his partner to keep the money from a stage robbery. Yuma nabs Shandell and delivers him to the Socorro jail but Shandell's father uses nitroglycerin to force the son's release.
Directed by Irvin KershnerGuest stars Douglas Spencer, L.Q. Jones, Ross Elliott
Episode 12
After his horse is killed by Apaches, Yuma is found by a stagecoach driver. On the stage is Travers, who is blind and tormented by a previous stagecoach encounter with Apaches, in which his wife was killed when they were left by a driver.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars James Drury, Martha Vickers
Episode 13
John Sims, Yuma's godfather, saves him from an attack by Indians at his campsite. He asks Yuma in turn to help him track renegade Indian Masi and take his scalp, as revenge for the killing of his wife.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiGuest stars John Dehner, Hal Needham
Episode 14
Yuma stops to visit Dunsen who arrives in town and commences to randomly shoot townspeople. The townspeople believe Dunsen's war service has driven him mad and want to kill Dunsen but deputy Maggio permits Yuma to talk Dunsen to sanity.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars K.T. Stevens, Tom Drake
Episode 15
Yuma aids Ulysses Bowman in a gun battle and accompanies him back to his camp where Yuma learns that Ulysses is in the habit of offering a chest with two hundred dollars to any man who will marry his daughter Felicity.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiGuest stars William Demarest, Soupy Sales, Cathy O'Donnell, William Harlow
Episode 16
A woman doctor, her sister, and their ailing father have been left behind by townspeople fleeing hostile Indians. A group of Mexican insurgents led by a demagogic Commandante and bent on reclaiming old Spanish Land Grants arrive in town to take advantage of the situation.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiGuest stars Nico Minardos, Joan Vohs, Nick Dennis
Episode 17
A sadistic former Union prison guard who tortured Yuma wants revenge for the punishment he suffered when Yuma escaped from the POW camp.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars William Phipps, Dee Pollock, Ed Nelson
Episode 18
When Yuma arrives to give Laurie Buford her late father's affects, he learns that she is being forced into marriage to a brutal man, so he vows to stop the marriage.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiGuest stars Peter Whitney, Victor Izay, Gigi Perreau, John George
Episode 19
George Campbell, who blames Yuma for his brother's death in the war, provokes a gun battle in which Yuma is wounded after being forced to kill Campbell's nephew. Yuma's godfather John Sims then comes to help Yuma escape from Campbell's vengeance.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiGuest stars John Dehner, John Marley, James Chandler, Ray Spiker, Sid Troy
Episode 20
When a newswoman observes Yuma defending a boy against an adult bully, she decides to promote him as the typical Western hero in a news story, much to the Yuma's displeasure and possibly detrimental to his safety.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiGuest stars Virginia Gregg, Bobby Diamond, Dan White, Cosmo Sardo, Duke Fishman
Episode 21
Yuma is chosen by an esteemed but unethical itinerant actress to take part in her performance. While Yuma and she dispute wages, they are kidnapped by a man who demands that the actress performs for his traumatized daughter.
Directed by Irvin KershnerGuest stars Vic Perrin, Virginia Field, Sandra Knight
Episode 22
Yuma arrives in a town in which an old friend of his father is sheriff. He learns an advance team of marauders, including the man who killed Yuma's father, has arrived. But none of townspeople, including the sheriff, want to defend the town.
Directed by Irvin KershnerGuest stars Aladdin, Richard Bakalyan, Trevor Bardette, Ben Wright
Episode 23
Yuma rescues Arthur Sutro, who was staked to an ant hill by Indians. Sutro tells Yuma he is responsible for him now. But Sutro wants to rob Yuma's peacefully reclusive and scholarly friend Portal of an imagined fortune of gold.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiGuest stars Warren Stevens, Robert Middleton
Episode 24
Yuma is on a mission to rescue his cousin Eddie who has become a student of gunslinger Dawes.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiGuest stars Tom Drake
Episode 25
Elderly Kiowa Sammy Hart is believed to have kidnapped a boy, who has actually gone to stay with Hart in his last hours. But the boy's father is on the hunt planning to kill Sammy, and Yuma hopes to stop him.
Guest stars Iron Eyes Cody, George D. Wallace, Peggy Stewart
Episode 26
Yuma arrives in a town with a woman to help her search for her husband. The husband has written of a successful mine but the townspeople are most resistant to help in the search.
Guest stars Sheldon Allman, Myron Healey, Olive Sturgess, Ned Glass, Steve Franken, Victor Izay, William Meader, Jack Tornek
Episode 27
Yuma is forced to kill outlaw Jake Fellows in a gunfight and then learns he has a deaf mute son. Yuma proceeds to help the boy find a home but two of Fellows' associates are on the trail to take the boy to recover loot that they think he held.
Guest stars Yvette Vickers, Tom Nolan, Frank De Kova
Episode 28
An embittered confederate prison camp survivor talks Yuma into a card bet of two weeks servitude on the man's property. When Yuma loses the bet, he learns that service must be under the prison camp conditions the man suffered.
Guest stars Frank Overton, Jamie Farr
Episode 29
After convincing a woman living alone at her homestead that he is not an outlaw, Yuma joins forces with her to fend off marauders who have robbed a bank and killed a neighboring family.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars Patricia Breslin, Jason Evers, Ken Mayer
Episode 30
Emily Hardy is awaiting the return of her fiancé Danny Brown from prison. But Emily 's brother Vergil is bent on revenge against Danny, who killed his son in self-defense. though Vergil convinced the town to convict him of murder.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars Tex Ritter
Episode 31
Yuma joins an uneasy voluntary alliance with two other men. They hope to bring back a fugitive bank president from Mexico to testify about a bank failure scheme which may force homesteaders to lose their land. But they will have to evade the Mexican militias in bringing him back.
Guest stars Vic Damone, Royal Dano
Episode 32
Three murderous stage robbers hold up the stage Yuma is on, killing the drivers. When they find that a mining executive on the stage was not carrying the payroll with him as they thought, they plan to hold the man's son for ransom until they get it. But a saloon girl offers to take the son's place.
Guest stars Yvette Vickers, William Phipps
Episode 33
Seeking water, Yuma is forced to side with two brothers who are in a stand off in a feud with their uncle and cousin, who betrayed the brothers' father and brother after a bank robbery, and are now better fortified and supplied.
Guest stars Leif Erickson, Jack Elam
Episode 34
Yuma strays into Mexico and becomes involved in the conflict between a successful matador and the rest of his family, who are against his grooming his son to follow in his profession.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars George Dolenz, Eugene Iglesias
Episode 35
Because he had been a member of secret group during the war, Yuma is asked by Jefferson Davis' wife to ensure her husband's safety upon his prison release. But one of the members of the group means to kill both Davis and Yuma.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars Frieda Inescort, William Schallert, Richard Gaines, Buck Taylor
Episode 36
Johnny tracks down the man who knocked him out at his campsite and stole his horse and gun. When he finds him, he is forced to dig a bullet out of the man's brother, a well-known gunslinger.
Guest stars Richard Bakalyan
Episode 37
When the posse chasing Ben White and his gang capture White's wife, Yuma is given the task of taking her to a town jail while the posse searches for the outlaw. But the treachery of White's wife places Yuma in a precarious situation.
Guest stars Mary Murphy, William Henry, Charles Aidman
Episode 38
While traveling with a posse, Yuma encounters the quarry's wife, who is having a baby. He stays with her and the baby while the outlaw is trapped between the posse and two bounty hunters.
Guest stars George Sawaya
Episode 39
When Yuma stops to see his old friend Coley Wilks, Yancey Daggett takes Coley hostage. Yuma is then sent to negotiate a deal with Coley's brother, a sheriff, to exchange Coley for Yancey's brother who is scheduled to hang.
Guest stars Corey Allen, Aladdin, Ed Kemmer
Episode 40
A Shoshone chief keeps three prisoners in exchange for three braves held in jail. But Yuma then learns that the braves have already been killed. Since they had killed a white woman, the chief decrees that just two hostages will be executed, and Yuma must decide who.
Guest stars Terry Moore, Charles Aidman, Ken Mayer
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