Cheyenne

Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

Creators and Cast

Creators

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Roy Huggins

Creator

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Clint Walker

Cheyenne Bodie

Episodes

Specials

2 episodes

S0 E1 · The Lonely Gunfighter: The Legacy of Cheyenne

2006-06-06

A season 1 DVD extra, this featurette is a recent interview with Clint Walker. Clint tells how he got into show business and about auditioning and filming Cheyenne.

S0 E2 · Kung Fu: The Legend Continues "Gunfighters"

1995-02-27

No summary.

Season 1

15 episodes

S1 E1 · Mountain Fortress

1955-09-20

Cheyenne, Smitty and a woman they just rescued from an Indian attack are trapped by a band of desperados in their fortified mountain hideaway.

S1 E2 · Julesburg

1955-10-11

Trying to guide a lost wagon train, Cheyenne and Smitty tangle with a gang of cattle rustlers.

S1 E3 · The Argonauts

1955-11-01

Cheyenne tries to help two prospectors in their search for a gold mine, but then they encounter renegade Indians who try to rob them.

S1 E4 · Border Showdown

1955-11-22

Pursuing the bandits who killed a friend of theirs, Cheyenne and Smitty find that the gang has taken over an entire town and only the local padre has the courage to stand against them.

S1 E5 · The Outlander

1955-12-13

Cheyenne's previous acquaintance with a woman involves him in blackmail and nearly gets him killed.

S1 E6 · The Travelers

1956-01-03

No summary.

S1 E7 · Decision

1956-01-24

Guiding a cavalry troop through Indian territory, Cheyenne leads a mutiny to avoid a massacre.

S1 E8 · The Storm Riders

1956-02-07

A rancher named John Dembro gives shelter to Cheyenne who's been hurt in an ""incident"" on the adjoining ranch owned by Martin Storm. Both Dembro's teenaged daughter, Johnny, and her stepmother, Sheila, are anxious to treat Cheyenne's injuries and they become bitter rivals. Soon Dembro persuades the recovered Cheyenne to help him unite the other small ranchers to oppose Storm who maintains his authority through a hired ""gun"" named Swallow. Cheyenne kills Swallow in a shootout. Dembro becomes drunk in the ensuing celebration and dies in a fire, though Sheila could have saved him. Now free of her husband, Sheila makes a play for Cheyenne who spurns her. Hurt and angry, the increasingly-deranged Sheila has Cheyenne arrested, claiming he killed her husband. Sheila's deemed too crazy to give credible testimony so Cheyenne is freed but townspeople, believing Cheyenne's guilty, form a lynch mob, egged on by Storm. Johnny arrives on the scene and convinces the crowd of Cheyenne's innocence. Sto

S1 E9 · Rendezvous at Red Rock

1956-02-21

Pat Keogh is a bank robber and killer who, when the episode begins, has just killed a man and Cheyenne has been accused by a group of vigilantes. Keogh rescues Cheyenne, admitting to him that he was the guilty party, and he cuts Cheyenne in on the bank robbery he's about to make in Red Rock with the help of two accomplices. Cheyenne meets a marshal friend who is trailing Keogh and enlists Cheyenne's help in stopping Keogh. Cheyenne foils the plot, but not after a lot of gunplay.

S1 E10 · West of the River

1956-03-10

It's been five years since Ed McKeever's two daughters, Ruth and Jenny, were kidnapped by Chief Tanaka. A scout has just located the women and Cheyenne is assigned to lead the rescue mission of volunteers made up mostly of stockade prisoners from a nearby fort.

S1 E11 · Quicksand

1956-04-01

Cheyenne meets a sly Indian's test of courage to save a wagonload of white settlers.

S1 E12 · Fury at Rio Hondo

1956-04-17

In a Mexico wracked by political unrest, Cheyenne tangles with revolutionaries, a con man and a blonde pickpocket.

S1 E13 · Star in the Dust

1956-05-01

A small-town sheriff, whom Cheyenne admires, is hoodwinked by a woman.

S1 E14 · Johnny Bravo

1956-05-15

Cheyenne's friend falls for a rancher's pretty daughter, but the rancher prefers Cheyenne as his son-in-law.

S1 E15 · The Last Train West

1956-05-29

The train to California carries some mighty interesting passengers, including Cheyenne and his...

Season 2

20 episodes

S2 E1 · The Dark Rider

1956-09-11

Murder enters the dealings when Cheyenne gets involved with a charming swindler on a cattle drive.

S2 E2 · The Long Winter

1956-09-25

Cheyenne waits out a winter with a cattle drive.

S2 E3 · Death Deals the Hand

1956-10-09

Cheyenne and Hoot Hollister take the river boat to St. Louis for a night on the town.

S2 E4 · The Bounty Killers

1956-10-23

Marshal Frank Moxon saves Cheyenne's life.

S2 E5 · The Law Man

1956-11-06

Cheyenne is sent by the Cattlemen's Association to stop a cattle rustling.

S2 E6 · Mustang Trail

1956-11-20

Cheyenne hunts wild horses.

S2 E7 · Lone Gun

1956-12-04

Cheyenne is forced into a gunfight with the Laverson brothers, leaving two dead and one out for revenge.

S2 E8 · The Trap

1956-12-18

Cheyenne rides into Stagge City (pop. 407) and is promptly arrested on a trumped-up charge of vagrancy. He's given a 90-day sentence which must be served by performing hard labor at the Stagge Silver Mine. From the other convict-workers at this mine, Cheyenne learns that even when his sentence has been served, excuses will be made to extend it indefinitely. Cheyenne also learns that Mr. Stagge, rendered mute by a stroke, has had his mine effectively stolen from him by a conniving woman named Iris Danner who was originally hired to teach Stagge's daughter, Virginia. Iris runs the mine with the support of gunslinger, Les Shore. By playing off Iris and Shore against each other, Cheyenne eventually frees himself and his fellow prisoners while returning control of the mine to Stagge and his daughter.

S2 E9 · The Iron Trail

1957-01-01

Cheyenne takes an old mill train home.

S2 E10 · Land Beyond the Law

1957-01-15

Cheyenne is suspected of being a member of the Ellwood gang.

S2 E11 · Test of Courage

1957-01-29

Cheyenne must get a herd of horses to a desolate cavalry base.

S2 E12 · War Party

1957-02-12

While panning gold, Morgan Trude shoots Cheyenne, thinking he is going to rob him.

S2 E13 · Deadline

1957-02-26

Cheyenne helps an honest newspaper in a fight against a crooked man.

S2 E14 · Big Ghost Basin

1957-03-12

Cheyenne rides into Crowheart carrying a dead man he found along the trail.

S2 E15 · Born Bad

1957-03-26

While working as a small town sheriff Cheyenne falls for a girl who's father was a sheriff & her brother is a killer.

S2 E16 · The Brand

1957-04-09

Cheyenne Bodie (Clint Walker) stops at a cabin for help with a lame horse, and is shot at. He soon ends up on the wrong side of a posse.

S2 E17 · Decision at Gunsight

1957-04-23

Cheyenne takes over a livery stable in exchange for money he is owed. Then he finds out why he got it so cheap. A protection racket runs the town and Cheyenne faces a showdown with the leader when he refuses to pay.

S2 E18 · The Spanish Grant

1957-05-07

The only survivor of a stage coach robbery is an infant boy. He is also the heir to a large land grant and someone else wants the land.

S2 E19 · Hard Bargain

1957-05-21

A bank robber that Cheyenne is bringing in, saves him when he's caught in a bear trap.

S2 E20 · The Broken Pledge

1957-06-04

An Indian uprising results when reporter Fay Kirby tries to interview Sitting Bull.

Season 3

20 episodes

S3 E1 · Incident at Indian Springs

1957-09-24

A schoolmaster kills an outlaw. His reward: The school is besieged by the outlaw's brothers.

S3 E2 · The Conspirators

1957-10-08

Clint Walker sings and dances as Cheyenne poses as an actor to expose a ring of Southern subversives.

S3 E3 · The Mutton Puncher

1957-10-22

Cheyenne serves as the stake in a poker game---and a pretty rancher wins.

S3 E4 · Border Affair

1957-11-05

Sebastian Cabot and Erin O'Brien play an aging general and his unwilling bride.

S3 E5 · Devil's Canyon

1957-11-19

Cheyenne guides a group of ruthless fortune hunters on a dangerous search for buried diamonds.

S3 E6 · Town of Fear

1957-12-03

An entire town turns against Cheyenne when he tries to prove a friend is not guilty of murder.

S3 E7 · Hired Gun

1957-12-17

A rancher who hired Cheyenne fears he's a gunman out to kill him.

S3 E8 · Top Hand

1957-12-31

Cheyenne turns down the job of top hand for rancher Ben Gentry but finds two more offers awaiting him for the same job.

S3 E9 · The Last Comanchero

1958-01-14

Cheyenne must stand up to a lynch mob to protect his captive, a man who sold guns to the Indians.

S3 E10 · The Gamble

1958-01-28

Cheyenne takes over a saloon for a woman whose daughter is coming home after years in the East.

S3 E11 · Renegades

1958-02-11

An Indian-hating colonel threatens to ruin Cheyenne's peace negotiations.

S3 E12 · The Empty Gun

1958-02-25

When Matt Reardon tries to aid the widow of a man he killed, he learns her son is out for vengeance.

S3 E13 · White Warrior

1958-03-11

Cheyenne, leading a wagon train in Apache territory, meets a band of braves and tries to free a teenage captive from them.

S3 E14 · Ghost of the Cimarron

1958-03-25

Forced to aid a wounded gunman, Cheyenne is mistaken for a gang member by lawmen.

S3 E15 · Wagon-Tongue North

1958-04-08

Cheyenne, in disguise, acts as a trail boss for a woman whose husband he killed in self-defense.

S3 E16 · The Long Search

1958-04-22

A 10-year-old boy has disappeared, and Cheyenne is aided in the search by a Sioux youth, whose tribe has been accused of kidnapping the boy.

S3 E17 · Standoff

1958-05-06

Cheyenne aids a village that faces destruction by an outlaw who's avenging the deaths of two of his men.

S3 E18 · Dead to Rights

1958-05-20

A suave attorney stymies Cheyenne's hunt for a killer.

S3 E19 · Noose at Noon

1958-06-03

An innocent man must hang for murder---or his wife will be killed.

S3 E20 · The Angry Sky

1958-06-17

A woman comes to Cheyenne's aid after he is wounded while trailing a killer.

Season 4

13 episodes

S4 E1 · Blind Spot

1959-09-21

A sinister plot interrupts Cheyenne's efforts to unite a family split by the Civil War.

S4 E2 · The Reprieve

1959-10-05

Cheyenne poses as robber Wes McQueen to find the late crook's hidden loot.

S4 E3 · The Rebellion

1959-10-12

Cheyenne gets mixed up in a murder plot while delivering printing equipment.

S4 E4 · Trial by Conscience

1959-10-26

Taking a cue from "Hamlet," Cheyenne uses an old stage trick to trap a killer.

S4 E5 · The Imposter

1959-11-02

Cheyenne hires on as a ranch hand to investigate murder and fraud.

S4 E6 · Prisoner of Moon Mesa

1959-11-16

Cheyenne faces a hostile countryside when he replaces a popular foreman.

S4 E7 · Gold, Glory and Custer - Prelude (1)

1960-01-04

This two-part episode depicts events leading up to the famous Little Bighorn massacre. As an Indian scout with Col. Custer's regiment, Cheyenne Bodie helps search for gold on a Sioux reservation. (Part 1 of 2)

S4 E8 · Gold, Glory and Custer - Requiem (2)

1960-01-11

Colonel Custer's regiment is wiped out in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Risking a charge of desertion, Cheyenne decides to appear at Major Reno's court martial. (Part 2 of 2)

S4 E9 · Riot at Arroyo Soco

1960-02-01

Shooting the son of a prominent citizen wasn't the most popular act of Cheyenne's career---but it was the only way to stop a lynch mob.

S4 E10 · Apache Blood

1960-02-08

Cheyenne sides with a white man raised by Apaches when a vengeful character tries to break up his marriage.

S4 E11 · Outcast of Cripple Creek

1960-02-29

Disgusted by corruption, Cheyenne resigns as marshal and is promptly jailed---but his successor can't keep the peace alone.

S4 E12 · Alibi for the Scalped Man

1960-03-07

A bridegroom disappears and Cheyenne is jailed on a trumped-up murder charge.

S4 E13 · Home Is the Brave

1960-03-14

The enemies of a dead hero try to prevent his honorable burial.

Season 5

13 episodes

S5 E1 · The Long Rope

1960-10-03

Cheyenne is reminded of a scene from his boyhood when Fred Baker comes to him for help.

S5 E2 · Counterfeit Gun

1960-10-10

Cheynne is guarding a gold shipment when thieves attack, steal the gold and kill a man.

S5 E3 · Road to Three Graves

1960-10-31

Delivering mine equipment, Cheyenne runs into a feud between rival mine owners.

S5 E4 · Two Trails to Santa Fe

1960-10-28

An Apache woman named Alleah is to be tortured to death for marrying a white man. Cheyenne helps her to escape and the angry Apaches ride to attack a nearby mining settlement in retaliation.

S5 E5 · Savage Breed

1960-12-19

Al Lestrade, Dodge City's marshal, is on vacation, hunting buffalo. But a cartridge from the shot fired to stampede an approaching herd is traced to Lestrade's rifle.

S5 E6 · Incident at Dawson Flats

1961-01-09

Arriving at a friend's wedding, Cheyenne becomes the target in a murder plot that could turn into a massacre. McIntyre: Jock Gaynor. Selma: Joan O'Brien. Bostrum: Gerald Mohr. Jasper: Hampton Fancher. Cyrus: Morris Ankrum.

S5 E7 · Duel at Judas Basin

1961-01-30

"Duel at Judas Basin" combines the trinity of Cheyenne, Bronco, and Sugarfoot in one episode. This 'summit meeting' provides an exciting episode for young fans knowing that the bad guys didn't have a chance. But one gets framed for murder, jailed and broken out; another is working undercover to infiltrate the bad guys, is almost taken prisoner, gets away, and all the while Cheyenne has to hold it all together as the three fight the local law, Crazy Horse and the bad guys.

S5 E8 · The Return of Mr. Grimm

1961-02-13

A hate-filled father arranges a lynching for Cheyenne to avenge the death of his son, killed while resisting arrest.

S5 E9 · The Beholden

1961-02-27

Cheyenne no sooner brings a robber in than a marshal releases him.

S5 E10 · The Frightened Town

1961-03-20

Outlaws take over an entire town, but only Cheyenne is willing to help the marshal (Andrew Duggan).

S5 E11 · Lone Patrol

1961-04-10

A stubborn cavalry captain ignores Cheyenne's advice---and leads his patrol into certain slaughter.

S5 E12 · Massacre at Gunsight Pass

1961-05-01

Cheyenne's in the middle when Indians attack the stage in which he and his prisoner are traveling.

S5 E13 · The Greater Glory

1961-05-15

Cheyenne and Billy the Kid join forces to help a woman in trouble.

Season 6

14 episodes

S6 E1 · Winchester Quarantine

1961-09-25

A fiery cattlewoman involves Cheyenne in her business and her life.

S6 E2 · Trouble Street

1961-10-02

Cheyenne stops in Colton City to put up some supplies and a man by the name of Kell provokes him into a fight.

S6 E3 · Cross Purpose

1961-10-09

A bride is left in the lurch when her groom turns fugitive on their wedding day.

S6 E4 · The Young Fugitives

1961-10-23

Young Gilby Collins outshoots ""the Great Kinsey"" in a carnival competition and wins a gun. When Nita, Kinsey's assistant, congratulates Collins, her sore-loser boss manhandles her. Collins comes to her defense, Kinsey draws a gun, and Collins shoots him dead. Kinsey's relatives, the Crawfords, plan to lynch Collins despite Nita's insistence that Collins fired in self defense. Cheyenne steps forward, saying that Collins should be taken to the Marshal in a nearby town for a fair trial. Not trusting the legal system, however, Collins flees toward Mexico along with Nita. The elder Crawford organizes a posse and goes after them. Cheyenne rides along with the posse, anxious to see that justice is done even if it means risking a horsewhipping at the hands of the vengeful Crawford.

S6 E5 · Day's Pay

1961-10-30

On the trail of a sheriff's killer, Cheyenne is interrupted by a town's plea for help in dealing with a gang of terrorists.

S6 E6 · Retaliation

1961-11-13

Townspeople oppose Cheyenne as he tries to capture robbers who made off with an unpopular tycoon's fortune.

S6 E7 · Storm Center

1961-11-20

A young orphan begs Cheyenne to help him find his parents. Cheyenne agrees---then the boy himself disappears.

S6 E8 · Legacy of the Lost

1961-12-04

Cheyenne learns that his white father may still be alive.

S6 E9 · The Brahma Bull

1961-12-11

A bull complicates Cheyenne's efforts to help a sick child.

S6 E10 · The Wedding Rings

1962-01-08

Cheyenne tangles with a bandit who named himself dictator of a Mexican province.

S6 E11 · The Idol

1962-01-29

The Kirby brothers are determined to kill gunfighter Ben Shelby---but it's Cheyenne they have cornered.

S6 E12 · One Way Ticket

1962-02-19

Cheyenne's distractions while escorting an outlaw to jail: the outlaw's friends, the outlaw's enemies---and a pretty widow.

S6 E13 · The Bad Penny

1962-03-12

When four men receive notes threatening their lives, Cheyenne suggests the notes may have come from a newcomer in town. This gets a hearty laugh, because the new arrival is pretty young Penelope Piper.

S6 E14 · A Man Called Ragan

1962-04-23

Marshal Frank Ragan rides into Stark City to visit Johnny Wilson. But Wilson has disappeared and cattle baron Ben Stark tells Ragan he had better do the same. Clint Walker does not appear in this episode, which was the pilot for the series The Dakotas; hence, it is not included in the DVD release of season six.

Season 7

13 episodes

S7 E1 · The Durango Brothers

1962-09-24

After defeating a bully, Cheyenne discovers his prize: the man's old-maid sister (Sally Kellerman).

S7 E2 · Satonka

1962-10-01

Cheyenne's after a killer and Indians tell him his quarry is a monster called Satonka.

S7 E3 · Sweet Sam

1962-10-08

Shortly after arriving in Rock Springs, Sam Pridemore stops a killer and becomes a town hero. Cheyenne knows the man and suspects he is after the gold in the bank.

S7 E4 · Man Alone

1962-10-15

Cheyenne helps a wounded cowboy who is suffering from amnesia. He suspects the man was a member of a band of outlaws that robbed the Cattlemen's Association.

S7 E5 · The Quick and the Deadly

1962-10-22

Jud Ainley is on trial for murder and the main witness against him, lawman Harry Thomas is discredited as a witness and charged with robbery.

S7 E6 · Indian Gold

1962-10-29

Charlie Teeney and his followers go looking for gold on the Sioux reservation after they see White Crow come into town with two small bags of gold.

S7 E7 · Dark Decision

1962-11-05

A blind singer, under the spell of a crooked gambler, backs up an accusation of murder against Cheyenne.

S7 E8 · Pocketful of Stars

1962-11-12

Cheyenne is involved in an Indian uprising when the railroad threatens to run through sacred burial grounds.

S7 E9 · The Vanishing Breed

1962-11-19

Cheyenne, appointed to the state senate, starts a campaign to preserve the buffalo.

S7 E10 · Vengeance Is Mine

1962-11-26

Cheyenne's first job as sheriff: quell a friend's thirst for vengeance.

S7 E11 · Johnny Brassbuttons

1962-12-03

An Indian is accused of treason when an Army unit he's leading gets ambushed.

S7 E12 · Wanted for the Murder of Cheyenne Bodie

1962-12-10

Cheyenne is charged with murder---his own.

S7 E13 · Showdown at Oxbend

1962-12-17

Cheyenne takes on an evil cattleman (Andrew Duggan).