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Walker reprised the Cheyenne Bodie character in 1991 for the TV-movie The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw and also played Cheyenne in an episode of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues in 1995. However, because Cheyenne Bodie never appeared in 'Ragan', the two programs are only tenuously linked.

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He told reporters that he felt like 'a caged animal.' Though Cheyenne aired for seven years, the series made only 108 episodes because it was in repeated alternation with other programs and was out of production during Clint Walker's contract dispute.Īt the conclusion of the sixth season, a special episode was aired, 'A Man Named Ragan', the pilot for a program called The Dakotas, starring Larry Ward, Chad Everett, Jack Elam, and Michael Greene, that was to have replaced Cheyenne in the middle of the next season. Įven after returning to the program - having been prohibited from seeking other work during the long contract negotiation - Walker was unhappy to continue to play a role which he felt he had already exhausted. The trapper has also framed Tom 'Sugarfoot' Brewster of murder. In the 1961 Cheyenne episode 'Duel at Judas Basin,' Walker, Hardin, and Hutchins join forces to stop a trapper (Jacques Aubuchon) from selling guns to the Sioux Indians. Occasionally Cheyenne, Bronco, and Sugarfoot appeared together in the same episode of each other's series.

Only a snippet of the Bronco theme song was heard in the opening credits, as a kind of aural footnote to that of Cheyenne. Cheyenne was the senior partner of the three.

When Warners renegotiated Walker's contract and the actor returned to the show in 1959, Bronco was spun off as a show in its own right and became independently successful.įor most of their runs, Cheyenne, Bronco, and Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins, alternated in the same time slot. Hardin was featured as the quasi main character during Bodie's absence. The interim saw the introduction of a virtual Bodie-clone called Bronco Layne, played by Ty Hardin, born in New York City but reared in Texas. In the series the character Bodie maintains a positive and understanding attitude toward the Native Americans despite the slaughter of his parents.Ĭheyenne ran from 1955 to 1963, except for a hiatus when Walker went on strike for better terms (1958–1959) among other demands, the actor wanted increased residuals, a reduction of the 50-percent cut of personal appearance payments that had to be turned over to Warner Brothers, and a release from the restriction of recording music only for the company's own label. The episode reveals that Bodie's parents were massacred by Cheyenne Indians, who then reared him. 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 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. Thereafter, Cheyenne was overhauled by new producer Roy Huggins and left the umbrella of WBP. In its first year, Cheyenne traded broadcast weeks with Casablanca and Kings Row. The series began as a part of Warner Brothers Presents, a program that alternated three different series in rotation. (including the first season on Warner Brothers Presents )

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