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''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,〔(Trivia about ''Cheyenne'' at IMDB )〕 and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr. ==Series history== The series began as a part of ''Warner Brothers Presents'', a program that alternated three different series in rotation. In its first year, ''Cheyenne'' traded broadcast weeks with ''Casablanca'' and ''Kings Row''.〔Ronald Jackson and Doug Abbott. ("Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker," ) ''50 Years of the Television Western'', AuthorHouse, 2008, page 76. Retrieved 24 June 2010.〕 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 Cheyenne Indians, who then reared him. In the series the character Bodie maintains a positive and understanding attitude toward the Native Americans despite the slaughter of his parents. ''Cheyenne'' 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.〔Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh. ("Cheyenne (Western)," ) ''The complete directory to prime time network and cable TV shows, 1946-Present'', Random House, 2007, page 246. Retrieved 24 June 2010.〕 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. Hardin was featured as the quasi main character during Bodie's absence. 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. For most of their runs, ''Cheyenne'', ''Bronco'', and ''Sugarfoot'', starring Will Hutchins, alternated in the same time slot. ''Cheyenne'' was the senior partner of the three. Only a snippet of the ''Bronco'' theme song was heard in the opening credits, as a kind of aural footnote to that of ''Cheyenne''. Occasionally Cheyenne, Bronco, and Sugarfoot appeared together in the same episode of each other's series. 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. The trapper has also framed Tom "Sugarfoot" Brewster of murder. Even 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. 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. At 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. However, because Cheyenne Bodie never appeared in "Ragan", the two programs are only tenuously linked.〔 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cheyenne (1955 TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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