Rawhide 

1 9 5 9 - 1 9 6 6 (USA)
216 x 50 minute episodes

"This is the landscape of Rawhide - desert, forest, mountain and plains. It is intense heat, bitter cold, torrential rain, blinding dust; men risking their lives, earning small reward - a life of challenge - Rawhide."

"It is men like trail scout Pete Nolan, the cantankerous Wishbone, Ramrod Rowdy Yates, good natured Mushy, and trail boss Gil Favor - these men are Rawhide!"

The time was the 1860s - Gil Favor and Rowdy Yates (played by a very young Clint Eastwood) moved cattle across the country, with episodes depicting the struggles and hardships they faced on their cattle drive from San Antonio, Texas, to Sedalia, Kansas.

Gil was the trail boss, the supervisor of the entire cattle-drive operation. Rowdy was his right-hand man and 2IC. 

Other regulars were the cooks (like Wishbone), drovers (notably Simon Blake and Hey Soos), and scouts who helped the cattle drive stay together.

The Rawhide theme (made famous again in the late 70s courtesy of the Blues Brothers movie) was sung by Frankie Laine.

Rollin' rollin' rollin'
Though the streams are swollen
Keep them doggies rollin' Rawhide
Through rain and wind and weather
Hell bent for leather
Wishing my gal was by my side
All those things I'm missing
good loving and kissin'
are waiting at the end of my ride

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Gil Favor Eric Fleming Rowdy Yates Clint Eastwood Pete Nolan Sheb Wooley Wishbone Paul Brinegar Harkness 'Mushy' Mushgrove James Murdock Clay Forrester Charles Gray Joe Scarlett Rock Shahan Jim Quince Steve Raines Hey Soos Patines Robert Cabal Solomon King Raymond St. Jaques Ian Cabot David Watson Jed Colby John Ireland