The Rebel
Johnny Yuma is an angry young former Confederate Army soldier drifting through an apparently meaningless existence in the 1860s Wild West. While in search of his identity, he defends people from hostile Indians, crooked land developers, and evil ranchers.
- 1959-1961
- 2 seasons
- ABC
- Action & Adventure
Johnny Yuma is an angry young former Confederate Army soldier drifting through an apparently meaningless existence in the 1860s Wild West. While in search of his identity, he defends people from hostile Indians, crooked land developers, and evil ranchers.
Season 1 Episode Guide
36 Episodes 1959 - 1960
Episode 1
Johnny Yuma
Sun, Oct 4, 1959 25 mins
Johnny Yuma, a former Confederate soldier, returns to his hometown in Texas two years after the end of the Civil War to discover that an outlaw gang led by a ruthless businessman has killed his father, the sheriff, and taken over the town and the nearby gold mine as well. Although urged by his aunt, his father's deputy and the town's newspaper editor to leave town, Johnny is determined to exact revenge on the men responsible for his father's death.
Episode 2
Judgment
Sun, Oct 11, 1959 30 mins
Johnny captures Will Randall who tried to steal is horse so he could flee a pursuing posse. Johnny agrees to testify against Randall, but is surprised how quickly the man's trial and subsequent execution are scheduled. Johnny is determined to find out the reasons behind the hasty proceedings, but gets little help from the townspeople who hate Randall because he served in the Union army.
Episode 3
Yellow Hair
Sun, Oct 18, 1959 25 mins
A mortally wounded soldier stumbles into Johnny's camp. Before he dies, he says only one thing: "Fort Concho." Johnny rides to the fort and discovers it empty of soldiers. The sole survivor is a coward who hid during the fighting and survived--knowing Indians do not harm the mentally infirm--by pretending to be crazy. Before Johnny can leave, he's captured by Kiowas who plan to torture him to death.
Episode 4
Vicious Circle
Sun, Oct 25, 1959 30 mins
Yuma is accosted by two ex Yankee Prisoners seeking to take gold from a Captain Pollack who later Yuma learns is a demented ex-Confederate prison officer who hoards prisoner mined gold with which he plans to reverse the outcome of the war.
Episode 5
Panic
Sun, Nov 1, 1959 25 mins
Seeing vultures circling a cabin, Johnny Yuma rides to investigate and discovers a family stricken with illness. Johnny rides to the nearest town to fetch the doctor, but the townspeople, led by the hardware store owner insist he leave town immediately because they fear Yuma has contracted diphtheria from the squatters. When Johnny rides back to help the family, the townspeople try to burn down the cabin with Yuma and the sick folk still inside.
Episode 6
The Scavengers
Sun, Nov 8, 1959 25 mins
Yuma happens upon a ruthless gang of drifters running out of supplies and proceeds to join in the defense of a nearby family that he has learned the gang is targeting.
Episode 7
School Days
Sun, Nov 15, 1959 25 mins
Realizing Yuma is literate and in admiration of his ability to stand up to illiterate Armbruster family, Liam O'Shea offers Yuma a temporary schoolmaster job and he gains the affection of Peggy of which Troy Armbruster is jealous.
Episode 8
Dark Secret
Sun, Nov 22, 1959 25 mins
After Yuma kills a man in self defense, he finds himself in the position of having to mediate between the man's dangerously defensive widow and his associates who include his employer and co-workers.
Episode 9
Misfits
Sun, Nov 29, 1959 25 mins
Johnny Yuma seizes leadership of a teen gang whose dream is to rob the local bank and never have to work again. When Yuma spied their comfy fire in a suspiciously familiar mountain nook, the trio attacked him, but the tiny terror fought them off, then eloquently ventured to dissuade them from their sketchy plan. But when Skinny, Billy and Bull track The Rebel with a cause to his hotel room which directly overlooks the bank, the fledgling author interrogates the misfits, then devises a shrewder game plan. Is the bitter, ex-Confederate soldier using the naive teen mob to enact revenge on the haughty North ?
Episode 10
In Memoriam
Sun, Dec 6, 1959 25 mins
Johnny rides into a small town during their holiday commemorating the death of the town matriarch's son, Phillip Lassiter in battle four years earlier. Johnny rides to the Lassister ranch and explains to Mrs. Lassister that he was with her son when he died and was entrusted with a medallion to be returned to her after the war. The grateful woman offers Johnny a cushy job, but young Beth Lassister warns Johnny to ride out before its too late.
Episode 11
The Vagrants
Sun, Dec 20, 1959 25 mins
Yuma is arrested for vagrancy upon arrival in town put on a road gang of a group of men that the corrupt sheriff has falsely arrested for vagrancy to work on projects without wages and he immediately starts leading a plan to escape.
Episode 12
Gun City
Sun, Dec 27, 1959 25 mins
Yuma arrives in a town in which the local editor checks guns and, when he checks Johnny's, one is discovered missing. It is learned Ted Keller has taken the gun to settle a perceived injustice to his father.
Episode 13
The Death of Gray
Sun, Jan 3, 1960 25 mins
A Confederate colonel and two of his marauders live in seclusion to avoid consequences of the war but the two marauders kidnap a banker's daughter and send Yuma to collect the ransom.
Episode 14
Angry Town
Sun, Jan 10, 1960 25 mins
Yuma kills a man appointed sheriff by his gang leader brother who seeks revenge by intimidating the fearful townspeople into not transacting any business with him.
Episode 15
Gold Seeker
Sun, Jan 17, 1960 25 mins
After seeing a man kill his Indian wife over gold, Yuma tries to take him to the nearest fort for trial, but the Indian Chief and father of the murdered woman captures them, and Yuma must convince him that he did not kill her.
Episode 16
Glory
Sun, Jan 24, 1960 25 mins
Johnny Yuma rescues dance hall floozy Glory, left in the desert to die by vigilantes who claim the young woman murdered a miner in their town, Longdon. Johnny agrees to take her the 100 miles to the next city, when she consents to stand trial there, hoping to get justice. Glory's embarrassed boyfriend Don Longdon and his twisted sister Emma track the pair, to handle the execution themselves.
Episode 17
The Unwanted
Sun, Jan 31, 1960 30 mins
Yuma rescues old Sam Amister from thieves and takes him to his hometown where Yuma learns Amister is hated for grave robbery but Yuma expects there is more to his grave digging than just stealing valuables.
Episode 18
The Crime
Sun, Feb 7, 1960 30 mins
Yuma finds items on a dead horse and brings them to the home indicated, where he is arrested by the Sheriff for suspected murder. He is cleared but remains to defend the Mexican boy then held for the crime and being railroaded by the deputy.
Episode 19
Noblesse Oblige
Sun, Feb 14, 1960 25 mins
Yuma visits his former commanding officer Quincy Bannister who is irrationally and overtly pursuing the prosecution of alleged murderer Newt Schofield.
Episode 20
Land
Sun, Feb 21, 1960 25 mins
Yuma brings old farmer Frank Gottwald a document proving he's right in his land dispute with Dan Hauser. But since Gottwald lacks money for an appeal, and despite his bad heart, he agrees to Hauser's deal to walk his entire land in the hot sun---which could prove fatal.
Episode 21
He's Only a Boy
Sun, Feb 28, 1960 25 mins
Yuma is in town to deliver a letter to Lick Stribling when he is targeted by young Virgil Moss who wants to make his name as a gunfighter to defend his family name against the charge of cowardice.
Episode 22
Take Dead Aim
Sun, Mar 6, 1960 25 mins
Johnny Yuma reluctantly joins a traveling act - a marksman and his beautiful target/wife. The Great Bianco is impressed with The Rebel's quick draw and honest demeanor, while Bianco's younger wife flirts with Johnny, and bickers with Bianco. Like Confederate soldier Johnny, The Great Bianco also fought for losing cause, as a Magyar nobleman in the Hungarian Revolt, who along with Kossuth, fled into exile. Will this Triple Alliance be a winning combo too ?
Episode 23
The Rattler
Sun, Mar 13, 1960 25 mins
Snake bit, Yuma collapses at the home of a marshal who's been targeted by hired killers. He is taken in by the marshal's wife and son. But when they are both gone, the marshal's deputy, Roader, kills the marshal on his return home and frames Yuma.
Episode 24
You Steal My Eyes
Sun, Mar 20, 1960 25 mins
Yuma finds a trapper caught in a bear trap and takes him to cabin where he discovers the man's blind daughter who mistakes him for an enemy until the actual brigands come to steal pelts meant to pay for the woman's eye operation.
Episode 25
Fair Game
Sun, Mar 27, 1960 30 mins
Yuma meets Pace at a stage depot. They are soon joined by passengers on an arriving stage to wait overnight for a stage connection. Among the passengers on the arriving stage are bounty hunter Farnum with his prisoner Cynthia Kenyon who is wanted for murder. When Farnum is poisoned, the others want to release Kenyon to prevent harm to themselves but Yuma prevents it.
Episode 26
Unsurrendered Sword
Sun, Apr 3, 1960 25 mins
Johnny goes to a small Mexican town to retrieve a General's sword for the General's widow, and he finds the circumstances of the General's death differ from what he was told.
Episode 27
The Captive of Temblor
Sun, Apr 10, 1960 25 mins
Johnny, badly wounded, is taken to the town of Tremblor, where the doctor saves his arm. But why is the doctor being kept in a jail cell?
Episode 28
Blind Marriage
Sun, Apr 17, 1960 30 mins
Yuma gets involved at a stagecoach station when prejudice toward a Chinese father and daughter becomes physical. He assists again as thieves attempt to steal a dowry for the daughter's arranged marriage.
Episode 29
Absolution
Sun, Apr 24, 1960 25 mins
When a sweetheart of Johnny's youth is dying, her husband, a former Union officer for whom she betrayed Yuma, seeks out Yuma so Johnny can say that he forgives the woman and assuage her guilt.
Episode 30
A Grave for Johnny Yuma
Sun, May 1, 1960 25 mins
When Yuma comes to meet a unknown woman who has written him, he discovers her grave, and her embittered brother digging a grave for Johnny Yuma, whom he blames for her death. But Johnny never met the girl, so he joins the man incognito to find the impostor.
Episode 31
In Memory of a Son
Sun, May 8, 1960 25 mins
Charlie Burton summons Yuma and three other members of a rebel raiding party in which his son was killed. He informs them that he is giving them a gold mine in the Mojave Desert in memory of his son. But mistrust and murder ensue.
Episode 32
Paint a House with Scarlet
Sun, May 15, 1960 30 mins
Johnny intervenes when fanatical Ezra Taber and his son harass, torment and terrorize a widow because of her former career as a dance hall girl.
Episode 33
Grant of Land
Sun, May 22, 1960 30 mins
Johnny signs on as a hand for a Congressional Medal of Honor winner, former Union soldier Paul Travis, who has settled for health reasons among Confederate sympathizers who mean him harm.
Episode 34
Night on a Rainbow
Sun, May 29, 1960 30 mins
Yuma arrives a year after being summoned by Ted Evans, a drummer from his Confederate regiment, to find the man addicted to pain medication and acts to help Evans break the habit while experiencing interference from an unscrupulous druggist.
Episode 35
Lady of Quality
Sun, Jun 5, 1960 25 mins
Yuma comes upon a woman whose mind has become unstable after the murder of her husband. After the woman mistakes Yuma for her dead husband, he takes her for medical treatment and baits a trap for the murderers.
Episode 36
The Earl of Durango
Sun, Jun 12, 1960 30 mins
Yuma arrives in town to begin his job as bodyguard for a man who is killed upon his arrival. Oddly the townspeople are elated by the death but Yuma is determined to have justice and receives unwanted assistance.