Description
Rawhide is an American Western television series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. The show aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959, to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965, until December 7, 1965, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes. The series was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Marquis Warren, who also produced early episodes of Gunsmoke. The show is fondly remembered by many for its theme, "Rawhide".
Spanning 7+1⁄2 years, Rawhide was the sixth-longest running American television Western, exceeded only by 8 years of Wagon Train , 9 years of The Virginian , 14 years of Bonanza , 18 years of Death Valley Days , and 20 years of Gunsmoke.
