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The Rebel: Season 1

36 episodes Premiered Oct 4, 1959 Updated Jul 18, 2026
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Season 1 Episodes

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Mytharc (5): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S1·E1 Mytharc

Johnny Yuma

Oct 4, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E2 Core

Judgement

Oct 11, 1959 · 30 min

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.

S1·E3 Mytharc

Yellow Hair

Oct 18, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E4 Core

Vicious Circle

Oct 25, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E5 Core

Panic

Nov 1, 1959 · 30 min

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.

S1·E6 Core

The Scavengers

Nov 8, 1959 · 30 min

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.

S1·E7 Core

School Days

Nov 15, 1959 · 30 min

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 affec

S1·E8 Core

Dark Secret

Nov 22, 1959 · 30 min

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 emplo

S1·E9 Core

Misfits

Nov 29, 1959 · 30 min

Yuma becomes the leader teenage gang that plans to rob a bank, with the full intention of making them decide not to go through with it.

S1·E10 Core

In Memoriam

Dec 6, 1959 · 30 min

Johnny Yuma fulfills a promise made to a dying Union soldier. He rides into Lassiter City to return a keepsake medal to the boy's family. The mother proudly receives the medal and

S1·E11 Core

The Vagrants

Dec 20, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E12 Core

Gun City

Dec 27, 1959 · 30 min

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 perceiv

S1·E13 Core

The Death of Gray

Jan 3, 1960 · 30 min

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 rans

S1·E14 Core

Angry Town

Jan 10, 1960 · 30 min

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.

S1·E15 Mytharc

Gold Seeker

Jan 17, 1960 · 30 min

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 Yu

S1·E16 Core

Glory

Jan 24, 1960 · 30 min

Glory, a saloon girl, has been banished from town for murder without trial. Yuma offers to help her but while in town he runs afoul of Emma Longdon who has falsely accused Glory to

S1·E17 Core

The Unwanted

Jan 31, 1960 · 30 min

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 tha

S1·E18 Core

The Crime

Feb 7, 1960 · 30 min

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 bo

S1·E19 Core

Noblesse Oblige

Feb 14, 1960 · 30 min

Yuma visits his former commanding officer Quincy Bannister who is irrationally and overtly pursuing the prosecution of alleged murderer Newt Schofield.

S1·E20 Core

Land

Feb 21, 1960 · 30 min

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

S1·E21 Core

He's Only a Boy

Feb 28, 1960 · 30 min

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 char

S1·E22 Core

Take Dead Aim

Mar 6, 1960 · 30 min

Yuma is befriended by a married couple who perform a shooting act. When the alienated wife forces her affections upon Johnny to persuade him to run away with her, the obsessive hus

S1·E23 Core

The Rattler

Mar 13, 1960 · 30 min

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 de

S1·E24 Core

You Steal My Eyes

Mar 20, 1960 · 30 min

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

S1·E25 Core

Fair Game

Mar 27, 1960 · 30 min

A bounty hunter taking a beautiful, high class, woman in for murder at a stage depot, is poisoned to death, but Yuma is determined to finish taking her in for the dead man.

S1·E26 Core

UnSurrendered Sword

Apr 3, 1960 · 30 min

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.

S1·E27 Core

The Capture of Tremblor

Apr 10, 1960 · 30 min

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?

S1·E28 Core

Blind Marriage

Apr 17, 1960 · 30 min

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 daught

S1·E29 Core

Absolution

Apr 24, 1960 · 30 min

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 assuag

S1·E30 Core

A Grave for Johnny Yuma

May 1, 1960 · 30 min

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 J

S1·E31 Core

In Memory of a Son

May 8, 1960 · 30 min

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

S1·E32 Core

Paint a House with Searlet

May 15, 1960 · 30 min

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.

S1·E33 Core

Grant of Land

May 22, 1960 · 30 min

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 hi

S1·E34 Core

Night on a Rainbow

May 29, 1960 · 30 min

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 w

S1·E35 Mytharc

Lady of Quality

Jun 5, 1960 · 30 min

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 b

S1·E36 Mytharc

The Earl of Durango

Jun 12, 1960 · 30 min

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 an

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