January 9, 1955...Rawhide Debuts On CBS Complete with the famous theme song, sung by Frankie Laine, here is the first episode of this huge hit. The opening monologue was standard too and was delivered by the shows star...trail boss Gil Favor, played by Eric Fleming. Clint Eastwood played Rowdy Yates, but at the time, as a relative unknown, was not the star of the show as top billing went to his better known costar, Fleming. Rawhide aired on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes. The series was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Warren, who also produced early episodes of Gunsmoke. Spanning seven and a half years, Rawhide was the fifth-longest-running television western, exceeded only by eight years of Wagon Train, nine years of The Virginian, fourteen years of Bonanza, and twenty years of Gunsmoke. Head em up! Move em out! -Bobby Ellerbee youtu.be/6YrRx3GMXzQ
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:12:44 +0000
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