CHEYENNE: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

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• Release Year: 1955
• Genre: Western
• Plot: In the 1950s, a posse of popular Warner Bros. TV Westerns galloped into American living rooms: Maverick, Sugarfoot, Bronco, Lawman, Colt .45. The sagebrush rage began with Cheyenne, an epic series of gun-blazing action and panoramic prairie vistas that ran for eight top-rated seasons and helped turn a nation of accountants, housewives, sales clerks and kids into armchair cowpokes.; ; This DVD set contains the complete first season, 15 episodes that pit the laconic hero against rustlers, outlaws, hostile Indians, a crooked sheriff and trigger-happy hooligans. Bullets scream, wit and fists fly, justice prevails. And, as the dust settles, riding off to new adventure is Cheyenne Bodie (Clint Walker), six-and-a-half feet of cowboy brawn, courage and integrity.; ; No collection of classic TV Westerns is complete without Cheyenne, the trailblazing 1955 series that premiered within weeks of Gunsmoke. The strapping Clint Walker stars as Cheyenne Bodie, the iconic role that earned him his place in the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Cheyenne is a classic Western hero in the drifter tradition, accepting jobs ranging from frontier scout to trail boss. In this first season, he is accompanied at times by sidekick Smitty (L.Q. Jones). 'It takes about a minute to know a man,' one character remarks during the course of Cheyenne's first season. But we size up Cheyenne in an instant. He is a man of honor, straight shooting and plainspoken. In one episode, he declines an offered position of ranch foreman. 'I don't like the job,' he states, 'and when I don't like a job, I turn it down.' When a woman refers to Indians as 'savages' in the first episode, Cheyenne enlightens her, 'The Indians think we're the savages.' Several episodes, including 'Quicksand' and 'The Last Train West,' echo the John Ford masterpiece, Stagecoach, as Cheyenne finds himself amongst a diverse and disparate group of people who are thrown together by circumstance.; ; Cheyenne was part of a new breed of 'adult Western.' The episode 'Johnny Bravo' (was this the inspiration for Greg's rock star nom de plume on The Brady Bunch?) deals with a rancher who disapproves of his daughter's affair with a Mexican. Keep a sharp lookout for actors who would later become Hollywood's most wanted. A pre-Maverick James Garner appears as different characters in three episodes. Dennis Hopper is hot-triggered gunfighter the Utah Kid, in 'Quicksand.' And that's the future Miss Hathaway, Nancy Kulp, as a sassy waitress in 'Johnny Bravo.' Cheyenne was originally broadcast as one of three rotating series under the banner, Warner Brothers Presents, but it quickly established itself as the runaway hit. Like the best Westerns, it is anything but quaint nostalgia. With its timeless setting, compelling stories, charismatic hero, and positive values, the sun will never set on Cheyenne.; ; Drifting from job to job, a foreman on a ranch, a trail scout for a wagon train, a recently deputized lawman encountering plenty of villains, beautiful girls, and gunfights. Cheyenne Bodie was a tall, strapping western adventurer in the days following the Civil War.; ; Cheyenne was based on a movie of the same name starring Dennis Morgan in 1947.; ; First aired on September 20, 1955 until December 17, 1962 for a total of 7 seasons and 108 episodes.; ; The cast and crew are:; *Clint Walker (as Cheyenne Bodie); *L.Q.Jones (as Smitty 1955-1956); *Russ McCubbin - The Stuntman for Clint Walker; ; The First season consisted of 15 episodes and they are as follows:; 01 Mountain Fortress - Aired 9/20/55; 02 Julesburg - Aired 10/11/55; 03 The Argonauts - Aired 11/1/55; 04 Border Showdown - Aired 11/22/55; 05 The Outlander - Aired 12/13/55; 06 The Travelers - Aired 1/3/56; 07 Decision - Aired 1/24/56; 08 The Storm Riders - Aired 2/7/56; 09 Rendezvous at Red Rock - Aired 2/21/56; 10 West of the River - Aired 3/20/56; 11 Quicksand - Aired 4/3/56; 12 Fury at Rio Hondo - 4/17/56; 13 Star in the Dust - 5/1/56; 14 Johnny Bravo - Aired 5/15/56; 15 The Last Train West - Aired 5/29/56;
• Cast: Clint Walker; Clyde Howdy; Chuck Hicks; Lane Chandler; Mickey Simpson; Jack Mower; John Truax; Lane Bradford; Frank DeKova; Terry Frost; Don Megowan; Andrew Duggan; I. Stanford Jolley; Harry Harvey; Gil Perkins; Trevor Bardette; Robert J. Wilke; Hal Baylor; Myron Healey; Walter Barnes; Michael Forest; Robert Anderson; Richard Reeves; Ray Teal; William Fawcett; Tom Monroe; Harry Tyler; Robert Carson; Sam Flint; Randy Stuart; Peter Whitney; Jean Byron; James Griffith; James Garner; Diane Brewster; Leo Gordon; Regis Toomey; Morris Ankrum; Walter Coy; Peter Brown; Robert Foulk; John Cliff; Carlyle Mitchell; Michael Dante; Max Baer Jr.; K.L. Smith; Tim Graham; Gene Roth; Saundra Edwards; Paul Fierro; Duane Grey; William Lally; Charles Horvath; Harry Strang; Hank Patterson; Guy Wilkerson; Adele Mara; L.Q. Jones; Rodolfo Acosta; Jack Elam; Ross Elliott; Wright King; Patrick McVey; Richard Webb; Richard Garland; Denver Pyle; Michael Pate; Harry Lauter; Nestor Paiva; Walter Reed; Dean Fredericks; Robert Hover; Sherwood Price; Steve Darrell; Frank Ferguson; Don Haggerty; Stacy Keach Sr.; Kelly Thordsen; Robert McQueeney; Joseph Gallison; Gregg Palmer; Brad Weston; Tom McKee; Oliver McGowan; William Meigs; Carlos Romero; Dan Sheridan; Edward Colmans; Don Wilbanks; Stanley Farrar; Roy Wright; Francis De Sales; Peter Breck; Phil Tully; Ralph Neff; Jeanne Cooper; Mort Mills; George Wallace; Benny Baker; Lee Van Cleef; Murray Alper; Owen Orr; X Brands; Charles Tannen; Mike Ragan; Sol Gorss; Charles Fredericks; Eddie Little Sky; Kenneth MacDonald; John Roy; John Harmon; Forrest Lewis; Zon Murray; Gerald Mohr; Peggie Castle; Dennis Hopper; Whitney Blake; Mala Powers; Susan Seaforth Hayes; Rhodes Reason; Alan Hale Jr.; Joanna Barnes; Joy Page; Marie Windsor; Vaughn Taylor; John Russell; Liam Sullivan; Ann Robinson; Nancy Hale; Merry Anders; John Archer; Robert F. Simon; Edd Byrnes; Barry Kelley; Robert Crawford Jr.; R.G. Armstrong; Lisa Gaye; Lisa Montell; Howard Petrie; Kathy Bennett; Roger Mobley; Anne Whitfield; H.M. Wynant; Joe De Santis; Gail Kobe; Jason Evers; Ed Kemmer; Steve Brodie; Harry Shannon; Dawn Richard; Paul Savage; Whit Bissell; James Seay; John Litel; Barry Atwater; Sheldon Allman; William Phipps; Stuart Randall; Harold J. Stone; Tod Griffin; Jim Boles; Robert Knapp; Roberto Contreras; John Doucette; Tommy Farrell; Ed Prentiss; Gilman Rankin; Ron Hayes; Charlie Briggs; John Milford; Joel Ashley; Miguel Ángel Landa; Robert Keys; Sam Buffington; Francis McDonald; Tom Gilson; David Alpert; Dan Blocker; Gayla Graves; Maurice Manson; Michael Greene; Charles Irving; Robert B. Williams; Ralph Moody; Rory Mallinson; Mack Williams; William Mims; Julie Adams; Paul Mantee; Richard Collier; Howard Negley; Don Beddoe; Adrienne Marden; Joseph Breen; Henry Rowland; George J. Lewis; Craig Duncan; Ollie O'Toole; Emory Parnell; Rankin Mansfield; Kim Charney; Thomas Browne Henry; Fay Roope; George Petrie; John Rayner; Philip Carey; Tom Fadden; Michael Keep; Gary Vinson; Wilton Graff; John Zaccaro; Tony Young; Chris Alcaide; Michael Landon; George Keymas; Dub Taylor; Rusty Wescoatt; Yvette Duguay; Nancy Kulp; Pierre Watkin; Nolan Leary; Roy Glenn; John Cason; Marshall Bradford; Bill Erwin; Stan Jones; Fred Coby; Rayford Barnes; Pierce Lyden; Harry Hines; Ed Dickey; James Waters; Marshall Reed; Carol Henry; Henry Wills; Jake Sheffield; Alex Sharp; Dick Rich; Robert Lynn; George Barrows; Iron Eyes Cody; Joe Brooks; Frank Sully; Forrest Taylor; Lorne Greene; Larry Ward; Doris Dowling; Rod Taylor; Lois Collier; Richard Denning; Penny Edwards; James Gleason; Margaret Hayes; Arthur Hunnicutt; Andrea King; Barbara Lawrence; Beverly Michaels; Fay Spain; Bonnie Bolding; John Carradine; Richard Crenna; Kathleen Crowley; Angie Dickinson; Sue George; Erin O'Brien; John Qualen; Joan Weldon; Evelyn Ankers; Theona Bryant; Ann McCrea; Audrey Totter; Connie Stevens; Jeff York; Patricia Huston; Robert Lowery; Scott Marlowe; Paula Raymond; Suzi Carnell; Susan Cummings; Dorothy Green; Angela Greene; Will Hutchins; Edmon Ryan; Anita Sands; Ray Stricklyn; Patrice Wymore; Margarita Cordova; Chad Everett; Ronnie Haran; Sally Kellerman; Ruta Lee; Maureen Leeds; Lisa Lu; Jeff Morrow; Roy Roberts; Jean Willes; Edward Andrews; Adelle August; Onslow Stevens; John Alderson; Carl Esmond; Douglas Fowley; James Gavin; Barton MacLane; Carlos Rivas; Patricia Tiernan; Grant Withers; Dan Barton; Mary Castle; Tom Conway; Dani Crayne; John Dehner; Jennifer Howard; Jil Jarmyn; Douglas Kennedy; Ainslie Pryor; Claude Akins; Robert Bray; Theodora Davitt; Olive Sturgess; Tim Considine; Pat Crowley; Faith Domergue; James Drury; Madlyn Rhue; Shirley Ballard; Robert Colbert; John Howard; Andra Martin; Wynn Pearce; John Anderson; Jolene Brand; Ellen Burstyn; James Coburn; Susan Crane; Ty Hardin; Patricia Michon; Joan O'Brien; Dawn Wells; James Best; Robert Brubaker; Raoul De Leon; Dick Foran; George Gaynes; Weaver Levy; Judson Pratt; Carl Reindel; Adam Williams; Steve Conte; Stanley Adams; Robert Armstrong; Barbara Eiler; Paul Engle; Sally Fraser; Stephanie Griffin; Hayden Rorke; Ian Wolfe; Buddy Baer; Sebastian Cabot; Anthony George; Clark Howat; George N. Neise; Mark Roberts; Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams; Sheb Wooley; Mike Connors; Russ Conway; Joan Evans; Sean Garrison; Jonathan Hole; Charles Quinlivan; Bartlett Robinson; Bill Cord; Edgar Stehli; Robert Clarke; Richard Coogan; Donald May; Vito Scotti; Jacques Aubuchon; Walter Brooke; Tom Drake; Richard Evans; Jock Gaynor; Richard Hale; Robert Hogan; Dorothea Lord; Stephen Roberts; Hanley Stafford; Ellen Corby; Ronnie Dapo; Arlene Martel; Amanda Randolph; Victoria Vetri; Bill Zuckert; Peter Coe; Jack Pepper; Paul Brinegar; Louis Jean Heydt; Clegg Hoyt; Gordon Jones; Karen Kadler; Carl Milletaire; Stafford Repp; Peggy Webber; Marc Cavell; Bruce Cowling; Darryl Duran; Christopher Olsen; John Reach; Addison Richards; Sydney Smith; Douglas Spencer; Geoffrey Toone; Will Wright; Vince Barnett; Raymond Hatton; John Marley; Chuck Wassil; Adam West; Alan Baxter; Lawrence Dobkin; Donna Martell; Robert Warwick; Sonya Wilde; Kathie Browne; Kevin Hagen; Harry Holcombe; Dayton Lummis; Carol Nicholson; John Rodney; Simon Scott; William Windom; Robert Nash; Pat Woodell; Billy Chapin; Jeffrey Silver; Paul E. Burns; Tom Duggan; Fred Sherman; Murvyn Vye; Gregory Walcott; Paul Birch; Charlita; Robin Hughes; Jack La Rue; Mike Lane; Britt Lomond; Douglas Rodgers; Almira Sessions; Russell Thorson; Linda Watkins; Virginia Aldridge; Don 'Red' Barry; Joe Dominguez; Roy Engel; Kim Winona; Russ Bender; John Holland; Kasey Rogers; Tol Avery; Willis Bouchey; James Hurst; Brad Johnson; Ahna Capri; Hampton Fancher; John Hubbard; Joyce Meadows; Jimmy Murphy; William Sargent; Willard Waterman; Lillian Bronson; Frank Cady; Booth Colman; Ana Maria Majalca; King Moody; Nelson Olmsted; James Stacy; Eugene Iglesias; Billy Griffith; Russell Hicks; Helene Marshall; Tom Pittman; Bob Steele; Mel Welles; Stephen Coit; Kelo Henderson; Slim Pickens; Alan Wells; Isabelle Dwan; Frank Nechero; Paul Smith; Karl Swenson; Morgan Woodward; Paul Dubov; George Kennedy; Steve Mitchell; Frank Albertson; Alan Caillou; Jeff DeBenning; Paul Langton; Richard L. Bare; Leslie H. Martinson; Lee Sholem; Robert Sparr; George Waggner; Paul Landres; Leslie Goodwins; Walter Doniger; Thomas Carr; Joseph Kane; Otto Lang; Douglas Heyes; Franklin Adreon; Alan Crosland Jr.; Richard C. Sarafian; Edward Ludwig; Howard W. Koch; Montgomery Pittman; Paul Henreid; William J. Hole Jr.; Jerry Hopper; Emory Horger; Lew Landers; Arthur Lubin; Robert B. Sinclair; Herbert L. Strock; Gunther von Fritsch; James P. Yarbrough; William Hale; Irving J. Moore; Warren Douglas; Dean Riesner; Berne Giler; Howard Browne; George F. Slavin; Roy Huggins; Wells Root; Peter Germano; Gerald Drayson Adams; Fred Freiberger; James Gunn; James O'Hanlon; Albert Aley; David Lang; Buckley Angell; D.D. Beauchamp; R. Wright Campbell; Frederick Brady; Steve Frazee; N.B. Stone Jr.; Kenneth Higgins; Lee Loeb; Joseph Chadwick; Harry Sinclair Drago; Oliver Drake; Sloan Nibley; L.L. Foreman; Joyce Fierro; Charles B. Smith; Lester Fuller; Arnold Belgard; Charles Lang; Alan Le May; Don Martin; Winston Miller; Clarke Reynolds; B. Traven; Jack DeWitt; Bennett Foster; Norman A. Fox; Noel M. Loomis; Lewis Meltzer; L.J. Searles; James R. Webb; Burt Arthur; John Byrne; Jack Emanuel; Fredric M. Frank; Sidney Morse; N. Richard Nash; Jack Natteford; Harold Shumate; Louis Stevens; Harlan Ware; Donald R. Wilson; Harry S. Franklin; Melvin Levy; Lewis Reed; Sam Rolfe; Teddi Sherman; Barney Slater; W.C. Tuttle; Thomas W. Blackburn; Bob Fisher; Alan Lipscott; Finlay McDermid; Sidney Biddell; Eustace Cockrell; Will Cook; Ric Hardman; Richard Matheson; Ray Nafziger; Arthur W. Silver; William O. Turner; Al C. Ward; Richard Wormser; Marvin Zable; Cy Chermak; Guy de Vry; Arthur Fitz-Richard; Irene Winston; Ron Bishop; Richard Collins; László Görög; Robert Hamner; E.M. Parsons; Anthony Spinner; Jack R. Usher; Bob Wehling; Harry Whittington; William Faulkner; Jules Furthman; Ernest Hemingway; Kenneth Gamet; W. Hermanos
• Director: Richard L. Bare
• Runtime: 10:30
• Company: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Bros., Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Series