# Cheyenne (1955)

> A former army scout drifts across the post Civil War West, taking whatever job the frontier offers and always standing as a big-hearted hero.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/893

## Facts

- Seasons: 7
- Episodes: 108
- Episode runtime: 48 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: western, drama
- Created by: Roy Huggins
- Network: ABC
- Cast: Clint Walker, George D. Wallace, Marie Windsor, Howard Petrie, Tom Gilson, Harry Shannon, James Best, Philip Carey
- TMDB rating: 8.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047720/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: mild
- Tone: earnest, wholesome, adventurous, nostalgic, steady

## What critics say

Critics and viewers broadly regard Cheyenne as a pioneering hour-long western with a dependable, larger-than-life lead performance and a reliable frontier formula.

## Synopsis

Cheyenne (1955-1962) is an American western television series created by Roy Huggins for ABC, produced by Warner Bros. Television, and one of the earliest hour-long dramas to run for multiple seasons. Clint Walker plays Cheyenne Bodie, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifts from job to job, sometimes a cowboy, sometimes a lawman, always a larger-than-life hero. Supporting players such as Plank, played by George D. Wallace, appear across a run of 108 black-and-white episodes spread over seven seasons. Each story is largely self-contained, built from the trouble a stranger finds in a frontier town: rustlers, cattle disputes, corrupt officials and wary settlers, with Bodie stepping in to restore fairness. The tone is earnest and steady, with a wholesome sense of adventure, open landscapes and a faith in plain decency. Its place in television history is as a pioneering template for serialized western drama, a series that fans of Gunsmoke, Maverick and Have Gun Will Travel will find familiar in its wandering hero and moral frontier justice.

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