Season 2 • Episode 40
LatestA 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.
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.
Acting
Nick Adams commits to the tortured soul bit with surprising depth.
Writing
Voiceover journal entries that invented the 'sad cowboy narrator' trope.
Creator
Nick Adams
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nick Adams was so desperate to escape Elvis's shadow that he created, produced, and starred in this himself — talk about hustle.
The Rebel arrived right as Westerns peaked on TV, but its ex-Confederate hero quietly sidestepped slavery politics entirely — a 1959 choice that aged like milk.
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