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Cheyenne (1955 TV series)

Cheyenne
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Also known as ''Warner Brothers Presents ... Cheyenne
and
Cheyenne: Bronco
and
The Cheyenne Show: Bronco and Sugarfoot
Genre Western
Developed by Roy Huggins
Directed by Irving J. Moore
Starring Clint Walker
Theme music composer William Lava
Stanley D. Jones
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 7
(including the first season on Warner Brothers Presents)
No. of episodes 108 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) William T. Orr
Producer(s)

Roy Huggins
Arthur W. Silver
Sidney Biddel
Burt Dunne
William L. Stuart
Oren W. Haglund (production manager)
Harry Blackledge (wardrobe)

Gordon Bau (make-up)
Location(s) California
Running time 48 mins.
Release
Original network ABC
Picture format Black-and-white
Audio format Monaural
Original release September 20, 1955 (1955-09-20) – December 17, 1962 (1962-12-17)
Chronology
Preceded by Warner Brothers Presents
Followed by The Dakotas
Related shows Bronco
Maverick
Sugarfoot

Roy Huggins
Arthur W. Silver
Sidney Biddel
Burt Dunne
William L. Stuart
Oren W. Haglund (production manager)
Harry Blackledge (wardrobe)

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.

The series began as a part of Warner Brothers Presents, a "wheel program" that alternated three different series in rotation. In its first year, Cheyenne traded broadcast weeks with Casablanca and Kings Row. Thereafter, Cheyenne was overhauled by new producer Roy Huggins and left the umbrella of WBP. The show starred Clint Walker, a native of Illinois, as Cheyenne Bodie, a physically large cowboy with a gentle spirit in search of frontier justice who wanders the American West. The first episode, about robbers pretending to be Good Samaritans, is titled "Mountain Fortress" and features James Garner (who had briefly been considered for the role of Cheyenne) as a guest star, but with higher billing given to Ann Robinson as Garner's intended bride. The episode reveals that Bodie's parents were massacred by Indians, the tribe of which is unknown. He was taken by Cheyenne Indians when he was ten years old, who then raised him and he left them by choice when he was 18 years old (Series 1, Episode 10: West of the River). In the series the character Bodie maintains a positive and understanding attitude toward the Native Americans despite the slaughter of his parents.


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