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The Rebel

JOHNNY YUMA'S JOURNAL

Western

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.

Oct 4, 19592 seasons76 episodesEndedEN

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Nick Adams

Johnny Yuma

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Seasons

Season 1

36 episodes

Premiered Oct 4, 1959

Season 2

40 episodes

Premiered Sep 18, 1960

Episodes

1–6 of 36

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Ep 1

Johnny Yuma

Oct 4, 1959

30m

Johnny Yuma returns home one year after the war's end to find a gang of thugs have extorted a local mine and murdered his father while his father's deputy and the rest of the town live in fear and despair.

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Ep 2

Judgement

Oct 11, 1959

30m

Yuma believes there is something very corrupt about a town that tries a horse thief, and sentences him to hang within hours of his capture.

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Ep 3

Yellow Hair

Oct 18, 1959

30m

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.

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Ep 4

Vicious Circle

Oct 25, 1959

30m

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.

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Ep 5

Panic

Nov 1, 1959

30m

Yuma tries to saves a very ill family against a mob lead by a townsman who's calling it diphtheria, and wants to burn them out.

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Ep 6

The Scavengers

Nov 8, 1959

30m

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.

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