Cheyenne (TV series)

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This article is about the western television series. "Cheyenne" may also refer to the name of a 2006 MTV reality show featuring American singer/guitarist Cheyenne Kimball

Cheyenne was the first "adult" western television series produced by Warner Brothers studios, and was overhauled after the first season by Roy Huggins. The series featured Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie, a physically huge cowboy wandering the Old West. The show ran from 1955 to 1963, except for the time Walker struck for higher pay and the series was temporarily replaced by a similar show called Bronco that featured Ty Hardin as Bronco Lane, a physically huge cowboy wandering the Old West. Afterward, the two series alternated in the same time slot from 1958 to 1962, with Bronco as the junior partner (only a snippet of his theme song was heard in the opening credits, as a kind of aural footnote to Cheyenne's). Occasionally both Cheyenne and Bronco appeared together in the same episode, both deadly serious as they worked together. Diane Brewster first appeared as Samantha Crawford, the swindler with a fake southern accent, in an episode of Cheyenne called "Dark Rider" before the character memorably migrated to Maverick to become the Maverick brothers' most celebrated nemesis.

Walker revived the Cheyenne Bodie character in 1991 for the TV-movie The Gambler Returns: Luck of the Draw, which presented a host of TV cowboys from the 1950s, including Gene Barry as Bat Masterson, Hugh O'Brien as Wyatt Earp, Chuck Connors as The Rifleman, and Jack Kelly in his final appearance as Bart Maverick, a year before his death.

Dell Comics produced a comic book based on the series. After 3 issues in their Four Color Comics series, it got its own title for issues #4-25 from (1957-1962). All issues had photo covers.