# The Rebel (1959)

> A former Confederate private drifts across the post-Civil War frontier, helping settlers threatened by bad men.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/12903

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 76
- Episode runtime: 30 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: western, drama
- Created by: Nick Adams
- Network: ABC
- Cast: Nick Adams, Ruta Lee, John Dehner, John Carradine, Clu Gulager, George Macready, Carleton G. Young, Iron Eyes Cody
- TMDB rating: 7.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052505/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: earnest, wistful, plainspoken, dusty, hopeful

## Synopsis

The Rebel (1959-1961) is an American television western created by Nick Adams for ABC. Nick Adams stars as Johnny Yuma, a former Confederate Army private who roams the American frontier after the Civil War, a rootless drifter who keeps finding himself drawn into the troubles of settlers squeezed by greedy landowners and hard men with guns. Each episode is a self-contained frontier story built around a small town, a homestead, or a threatened family, with Yuma stepping in to protect the vulnerable and then riding on. Guest players such as Ruta Lee, John Dehner, and John Carradine appear in single or double episodes as townsfolk, schemers, and gunmen, giving the series a rotating cast of frontier characters. Running 76 episodes across two seasons, it is a classic episodic western in the tradition of the early network horse operas, with a plainspoken, earnest tone and a steady sense of honor. Its atmosphere is dusty, open, and wistful, a long ride through the Old West where stubborn decency matters more than spectacle. Fans of Have Gun - Will Travel, Maverick, and Paladin will find the same lone-wanderer appeal and sense of frontier justice here.

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