Rawhide (TV series)

Rawhide
Opening title sequence
Genre	Western
Starring	Eric Fleming Clint Eastwood Paul Brinegar Sheb Wooley John Ireland Raymond St. Jacques
Theme music composer	Dimitri Tiomkin (Music) Ned Washington (Lyrics)
Opening theme	"Rawhide" performed by Frankie Laine
Composers	Bernard Herrmann Rudy Schrager Nathan Scott Fred Steiner Lyn Murray Richard Shores Johnny Green Don B. Ray Hugo Friedhofer Billy May
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	217 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Ben Brady
Producers	Endre Bohem Vincent M. Fennelly Bruce Geller Bernard L. Kowalski Charles Marquis Warren Robert E. Thompson
Production locations	California Tucumcari, New Mexico
Cinematography	Neal Beckner Philip H. Lathrop John M. Nickolaus Jr. Howard Schwartz Jack Swain
Editors	James Baiotto Leon Barsha Gene Fowler Jr. George A. Gittens Frank Gross Roland Gross Jack Kampschroer George Watters
Running time	50 min.
Production company	CBS Television Network Productions
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	January 9, 1959 (1959-01-09) – December 7, 1965 (1965-12-07)
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Rawhide is an American Western television series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. The show aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights from January 9, 1959^[1] to September 3, 1965 before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until December 7, 1965, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes. The series was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Marquis Warren, who also produced early episodes of Gunsmoke. The show is remembered by many for its theme song, "Rawhide".

Spanning 7+1⁄2 years, Rawhide was the sixth-longest-running American television Western, exceeded only by Wagon Train, The Virginian, Bonanza, Death Valley Days and Gunsmoke.