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Cheyenne Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 1957 - 1958
Episode 1
Incident at Indian Springs
Tue, Sep 24, 195760 mins
On a nice peaceful day the schoolteacher Jim Ellis drives through town with a couple of the local boys to go fishing and study their spelling. They say hi to Cheyenne who is the sheriff on his way to the bank to cash his paycheck. One of the boys is the banker's son. The four Curran brothers ride into town. Two enter the bank to hold it up catching Cheyenne by surprise. As they prepare to exit, the bank president pulls a gun from a drawer causing enough commotion that the robbers drop the money. Cheyenne is able to wound one of them as they ride away. Cheyenne and his posse come up empty handed. The next day Ellis comes in town with the body of Roy Curran. He says he shot Curran in his barn and wants the reward. The town wants to celebrate but Ellis will have none of it. Later, during recess at the school Ellis sees the other three brothers coming so he rings the bell warning the town. With the students in the school on the floor the outlaws yell for Ellis to come out. Cheyenne arrives scaring the men away but Ellis has a confession that changes the situation and the town's attitude toward him. Only Cheyenne will back him.
Episode 2
The Conspirators
Tue, Oct 8, 195760 mins
Cheyenne with a wagon train is rescued from an Indian attack by the Army and given orders to report to the Department of the Army in Washington D.C. There Cheyenne is given details about a group working to raise money to bring back Baylor's 27th Calvary and the fight for the Confederacy. Cheyenne is to go undercover as the singer/actor/dancer Jim Thornton Merritt to expose the confederate conspiracy. Cheyenne is an exact double for Merritt but first he is trained to talk, sing, act, and dance like Merritt plus his background including his wife's. They kidnap Merritt to make the switch during a performance. His wife likes this new husband but fellow actor George who leads the conspiracy begins to think he is an impostor due to little changes. When they accidentally run into an old acquaintance of Cheyenne's on a train George thinks he knows how to finally expose him. Adding to Cheyenne's woes he is told that the real Merritt has escaped putting the scheme in danger.
Episode 3
The Mutton Puncher
Tue, Oct 22, 195760 mins
Ben Creed would like Cheyenne to stay on as his top foreman. They respect each other but Cheyenne doesn't like Creed's methods. Ben pays his men well and buys the drinks - just enough to get the men into poker games to win back their wages. While leaving he's jumped and given a sizable headache. On second thought he stays with Ben to repay him for saving his hide not realizing Ben set up the whole event. Later, while driving a herd of cattle they run into Thora Flagg in a wagon which is overturned when the herd startles the horses pulling the wagon. After Cheyenne helps pull Thora from under the wagon, Ben tells him to help Thora get to where she wants to go. Thora takes advantage of this to keep Cheyenne to guide her to the nearby town and railhead where she wants to sell her stock. When she is unable to hire Cheyenne as her foreman, she decides to win him and the $4000 Ben wants to cross his land. Cheyenne comes to regret this when he returns with Thora who isn't selling cattle as everyone thought but what every cattleman hates -- sheep! Cheyenne does get revenge on Creed!
Episode 4
Border Affair
Tue, Nov 5, 195760 mins
Cheyenne is hired to ramrod some cattle south of the border. After completing his task, he is arrested by the French and soon escapes. At about the same time Princess Maria Felitzia arrives in Mexico to marry Gen. Dubeauchaie in an arranged marriage. Her and Baroness Entrada who accompanied her are shocked when they meet the General who is much older and massively obese. Her handmaid Juana is from a local village so the Princess decides the two of them will runaway to her village. With the French soldiers following them she decides they should split up. Cheyenne runs into the Princess who tries to make everyone believe she is a peasant girl named Juanita. He takes her to a rebel camp where he is well known. Her attitude causes Cheyenne and others to call her a princess. The French locate the camp taking the men captive. Cheyenne is recognized and taken to Empress Carlotta who explains who the girl really is. Her identity is soon revealed putting her life in danger and she is caught between duty and her feelings for Cheyenne.
Episode 5
Devil's Canyon
Tue, Nov 19, 195760 mins
Cheyenne is a partner in a stage line with Chip and Alice Claney in Lead City. Cheyenne and Chip were scouts together years before. Cheyenne has decided it is time to move in part because he is coming between Chip and Alice as she becomes disenchanted with Chip's drinking. After making his last run, Cheyenne is asked by Alice to get Chip from the saloon to make the next stage run to Mountain City to deliver the mail. Chip is drunk saying he has a new partner King Forest with whom he will make a fortune. Alice begs Cheyenne to take her with him. Chip hears her after awakening. After telling Cheyenne off, he goes outside where a shot is heard. Chip is found shot. Cheyenne returns to the depot finding the office ransacked and his rifle missing. The sheriff takes Cheyenne in but Forest and Garth swear he was seen elsewhere at the time of the shooting. Forest and Garth have a business deal for Cheyenne as he has the same information that Chip had - the location of a landslide where a man was killed who was carrying a treasure of diamonds.
Episode 6
Town of Fear
Tue, Dec 3, 195760 mins
Cheyenne rides into Twin Forks with the bandit Durango Kid in tow. The Kid had tried to rob Cheyenne who captured him and plans to turn him over to his friend Sheriff Sam Townley. Cheyenne stands to collect a $500 reward put up by the local bank. The town erupts in celebration that night with lots of drinking. Bill Jenkins urges the party on with the idea of lynching the Kid. A mob led by him and Ted Curtis with urging by Bob Crowley go to the Sheriff's office. The Sheriff confronts the crowd with a gun telling them to go home. Someone pushes Ted Curtis into the Sheriff causing the gun to fire and kill Ted. Jenkins and Crowley blame the Sheriff resulting in him being jailed and Jenkins being named temporary sheriff by the mayor. Ted's dad Jed owns the bank as well as a large ranch so he has control over what happens. Cheyenne decides to stay in town for the trial plus he wants to help Sam. It soon becomes clear there is foul play when the Durango Kid is killed escaping and Bob Crowley appears to move in to take his cousin Ted's spot with Jed Curtis. Cheyenne has to put himself in danger to resolve the murder.
Episode 7
Hired Gun
Tue, Dec 17, 195760 mins
Cheyenne rides into a town and enters the saloon to ask for directions to the Bridgeman Ranch which he heard was hiring. At the bar stands Preacher, a hit man who recognizes Cheyenne. He tries to get Cheyenne to stay by offering a drink and a room but Cheyenne declines. He leaves with Cheyenne saying he needs to stable his horse. As Cheyenne rides away Preacher pulls a knife but is shot by the Sheriff before he can throw it. Before dying, he says he was hired to kill by the potential employer of Cheyenne. He tried to kill Cheyenne for recognizing him. The sheriff then asks Cheyenne to take the job but work for him too so they can figure out who sent for the hit man in the first place and who he was really supposed to kill. There is a feud between the heavy Bridgeman who has a beautiful wife Lilli and Kiley Rand who have competing ranches and are fighting over the open range land. Cheyenne and the Sheriff are surprised when he learns who hired him and why.
Episode 8
Top Hand
Tue, Dec 31, 195760 mins
Cheyenne works as Top Hand for Sloane who was just bought out by Gentry. The new owner expected him to stay on but Cheyenne decides to get out of this range war and move on even after he's approached by the remaining two owners. At the saloon he rescues the young Clay Conover from a gunfight with bully Chris Barlow the foreman for George Lambert. Clay is always in the shadow of his older sister Marie who was left in charge of their ranch. On Cheyenne's way out of town he's jumped by three of Lambert's men and "taught a lesson." When Marie Conover and her brother find him, he decides to stay and work for her to show that he learned a lesson; just not the one they wanted. Marie thinks Lambert only asked her to marry him to take control of the ranch but in fact he loves her. Things really heat up when the ranchers and farmers band together after Gentry decides to illegally close the dam and stop the flow of precious water they all need to survive.
Episode 9
The Last Comanchero
Tue, Jan 14, 195860 mins
Cheyenne is a Marshal working with Deputy Mal Wheeler charged with tracking down all the Comancheros in the New Mexico Territory. Their last target is Rafe Larkin who they track to a burned out ranch where the Comanches killed the couple living there. Cheyenne and Mal run across a man hiding in the rocks. He claims he is just prospecting for gold but Cheyenne suspects he's really Rafe Larkin, the Comanchero they've been looking for. Mal is wounded in an ambush so Cheyenne takes him into the nearest town, Tascosa. The sheriff and townspeople prove less than friendly when they find out who he brought to town. Now he just has to keep Rafe locked up long enough for a trial, fend off a lynch mob and get some sleep -- all without any help from the locals until a young man Benji Danton offers his. Cheyenne swears in Benji as a deputy but to his dismay the next day he learns he is the son of the couple killed and his fiancé is missing who Rafe has as a prisoner.
Episode 10
The Gamble
Tue, Jan 28, 195860 mins
Cheyenne's partner, Luke Winters, on a cattle drive to Dodge City loses $2500 at Robbie James' saloon. He gives her an IOU for the money. A furious Cheyenne who knows Robbie rides in and learns she will release their herd if he manages her saloon for a month. Robbie's daughter Dani Monet is visiting her after ten years attending school in the East. She knows nothing about her mother's situation; especially that she is the owner of the Tailgate Casino. Dani was to meet her in Dodge City but she arrives a week early in Robbie's hometown on the same stage that picks up a stranded Cheyenne. Dani's arrival is coincidental to the combine trying to move in and take over Robbie's business. Dani's education about the wild West is on the fast track when she learns about her mother's true profession and that the West is not exactly what she imagined. Robbie not only has to try to keep her secret from her daughter but deal with the combine who are now trying to force a hostile takeover by threatening to reveal Robbie's 10-year secret.
Episode 11
Renegades
Tue, Feb 11, 195860 mins
Sgt. Tom Wayne is killed at Verdi River when he blows himself and twenty Indians up to save his troop. Before he died he asked Cheyenne to help his teenage son Jed who just turned of age to enlist. After recovering from a wound, Cheyenne finds Jed in jail at Santa Fe. Alone and bitter he tags along with Cheyenne to Fort Sumner to enlist. Cheyenne is suppose to report to Fort Sumner with orders concerning the Comanches near there. They find a Colonel who hates Indians and goes by the book. When Jed's horse Glory comes up lame he's had enough and deserts taking his horse, leaving his troubles and his friend Cheyenne behind. He comes across the Chief of the Comanches Little Elk who gives Jed protection in his camp. Cheyenne is able to delay desertion charges until he can try to find Jed and bring him back. Cheyenne finds him in the Comanche camp where he must also deal with an Indian uprising over the Colonel's orders that the Comanche must move to the desert in the southwest.
Episode 12
The Empty Gun
Tue, Feb 25, 195860 mins
Cheyenne is riding on a cold and stormy night looking for shelter and a hot meal. He comes upon a grave being dug. A man, Matt Reardon, who shot its soon-to-be tenant arrives. The two ride off together talking. Reardon tells Cheyenne that Moundsville is the closest place for a meal and room which is where he is headed. Reardon takes their horses to the stable while Cheyenne enters the saloon for a hot drink. Three men at the bar start threatening the diminutive bartender Miklos. When Cheyenne tries to help, the three men threaten him but Reardon enters with a rifle stopping them. He finds out that Reardon has regrets and a 12-year old debt he needs to pay before anyone finds out he's no longer the same gunslinger he used to be. He offers to pay Cheyenne $300 to help but Cheyenne wants no money. The next day they pay a visit to a widow Martha Fullerton and her son Mike. The first man Reardon killed was her husband and Reardon's business partner because he loved Martha as well. However, Mike has other ideas about repayment.
Episode 13
White Warrior
Tue, Mar 11, 195860 mins
Cheyenne is hired as wagon master to lead a number of families and traders through rough Apache and Comanche Indian territory, Along the way the train encounters a group of Apaches wanting to trade. Trader Eli Henderson who organized the train offers to trade knives and tobacco for furs while his associate Pinto secretly mentions they have powder and guns to trade later. Cheyenne trades a horse for a Comanche captive who he spots as being white. He tries to convince the boy of his good heritage in spite of some of the train members and keeping everyone in his charge safe against ambush from Apaches. After a day or two with the train, the boy Alan Horn tells Cheyenne he overheard the Apache say they were waiting to ambush the train at Kill Devil Pass. When Cheyenne tells Henderson they will take a different route, Henderson disagrees as that is where he is to trade the rifles for sale hidden amongst the wagons. Henderson decides to frame Horn to reroute the wagon train.
Episode 14
Ghost of the Cimarron
Tue, Mar 25, 195860 mins
Doc Johnson's gang is outside the town of Comanche planning their next bank job. Cheyenne walks up on them after losing his horse to a mountain lion. As they are not sure what he heard, they force him to come along. What they all soon realize is that thanks to the Kiowa Kid, they are riding into an ambush that nets everyone except Doc, wounded gang member Luke and Cheyenne who must now try to undo the Kid's betrayal. Luke sacrifices himself to save Doc which surprises Cheyenne not expecting honor among thieves. Doc was shot near the knee but him and Cheyenne make it to a cave for cover. Cheyenne returns to Comanche to clear himself but learns the Kiowa Kid said he is a gang member for another $200. Cheyenne returns to Doc, removes the bullet, and then the two hide out at a old female friend of Doc until he heals for a price. They hear the Kiowa Kid is in another town. They arrive there by stage and meet the local Sheriff Kim Younger who is an old friend of Doc. Cheyenne gains valuable insight about Doc's life.
Episode 15
Wagon-Tongue North
Tue, Apr 8, 195860 mins
Cheyenne rides into the town of China Hat to follow up on a job he heard about. He runs into Del Swain who he arrested in Texas and is now running cattle talking to Burt Wrangel who had put out the job offer. He almost has to fight his way out of town because of this encounter. Outside town he is ambushed by Swain but shoots in self defense, killing him. Witnessed by the local Sheriff, Cheyenne rides on on the advice of the Sheriff. Outside town he runs into a stalled cattle drive and one of the hands drinking. He rides down to ask for a job finding a fresh grave and a pregnant woman Faith Swain who owns the herd with an unruly group of trail hands. The owner was just buried by his wife. The man who killed him: Cheyenne Bodie! Upon learning who she is, Cheyenne tries to leave but upon learning Cheyenne has ramrodded a cattle drive before, she begs him to stay. He joins the cattle drive under the name Ace Black proving his worth but soon discovers not all is as it seems.
Episode 16
The Long Search
Tue, Apr 22, 195860 mins
Kenny is out riding when he spots a wild rabbit. He chases it into an abandoned mine and there's a cave in. Cheyenne and his Sioux friend Char riding by split up as Char returns to his village and Cheyenne heads to Gainesville. A posse spots Cheyenne who tells them he has not seen the boy. The sheriff's posse then finds Char leading the boy's horse. Their prejudices and his answers don't add up so he is arrested. The sheriff was forced to shoot and kill the drunken son of the local Sioux Chief Sleeping Bear and Char's brother a day or two earlier. In town Char is spotted by his friend Cheyenne who goes to the jail to vouch for his friend. The sheriff doesn't buy his story and locks Char up. Meanwhile the boy's hysterical mother has to be calmed as well as the restless townspeople. Elsewhere, the local saloon owner Peg shows an interest in Kenny's disappearance. She soon comes between the town, the Sioux and Cheyenne as the secret she tells him threatens to tear everyone apart.
Episode 17
Standoff
Tue, May 6, 195860 mins
Cheyenne is deputized to look for Marshal Beloin who has been on the trail of an outlaw named Porter for over a month. He comes upon two men, chained together, one wounded and one dead. He takes the wounded man who says he is Beloin to the nearest town where they find the female doctor Maria Vargas and the outlaw gang run by the feared Lobos. Vargas treats Beloin but a knock on the door brings Lobos and his gang. Lobos' second in command Ortega wants to kill the men but Lobos impressed by Cheyenne's bravery allows them to stay until well enough to leave. Vargas tells Cheyenne that Lobos is on the trail of the man who shot two of his men while trying to kill Lobos. He executed two townspeople but still wants the guilty party. If the real shooter doesn't turn himself in by noon the next day, Lobos plans to burn the village with everyone in their homes. Cheyenne learns Beloin is Porter and the killer. A showdown is forced as the Federalis approach the town and Cheyenne tries to stop the ensuing bloodbath.
Episode 18
Dead to Rights
Tue, May 20, 195860 mins
Shorty Jones gets a letter that cuts into his plans to deliver some freight to Marysville with Cheyenne. On the Monday he left, he said he'll be back "Wednesday night or Thursday morning at the latest." On Friday, Cheyenne goes looking for him, turning their business over to a local outfit. He finds him in Sacramento in jail for fighting and disturbing the peace. When Shorty is shot through his jail cell window, Cheyenne sets out to find his friend's killer and the rest of the secret he started to tell him but didn't get a chance to finish. Cheyenne knowing Shorty has a wife and son is given his few possessions to return to them after a lawyer, Saylor Hornbook, tries to take them first. Back in his hotel room Cheyenne is attacked in the dark by a large man who tries to search Cheyenne's room. The intruder leaves his pistol with the brand Running M on it leading Cheyenne to the Marshall ranch. Shorty had been responding to a letter and ad about the death of Samuel Marshall Jr.
Episode 19
Noose at Noon
Tue, Jun 3, 195860 mins
Cheyenne rides into town looking for his friend Jim's ranch. He finds out where the ranch is but that he is not there. He's in jail and is going to be hanged soon. When he visits Jim, his friend is less than forthcoming as to why he is in jail. Cheyenne is godfather to Jim's daughter Susie so he buys a doll for her. However, some locals who work for Duke Rhein use it as an excuse to harass Cheyenne to take his measure. In doing so they break the doll. As Cheyenne investigates the circumstances surrounding Jim's arrest he learns Judge Roy McHenry, an old friend, was forced to rule on the evidence presented and rumors of illegal opium. He visits Jim's ranch to see his wife Mary and daughter Susie with a new music box for her. He learns from Jim's ranch hand Lonzo that cattle are running back and forth over the border in a more private fjord on Jim's land. He decides to pay Duke Rhein a visit in Mexico where he finds a key piece of the puzzle - if he survives.
Episode 20
The Angry Sky
Tue, Jun 17, 195860 mins
Cheyenne is shot in the back by a trap utilizing a shotgun while tracking a bank robber called the Black Jack. His name comes from the black clothes he wears and that he wears a kerchief as a face mask with the name 'Jack' embroidered on it. Black Jack takes Cheyenne's gun, badge, and identification but is forced to leave Cheyenne's unconscious body which is discovered by Lilac, one of two sisters who lives nearby with her sister's husband. Lilac's sister Rose is wary of visitors so Lilac hides Cheyenne in the barn but Rose finds him the next day. They take him into the house to treat him as Rose's husband returns. He is Judge Granger Ward who Cheyenne has heard of. With winter and snow coming on the four are trapped in the mountains for the winter and Christmas. Lilac grows close to Cheyenne as she is leery of Granger. For Christmas Granger gives Cheyenne a gun and belt - the one taken off the wounded Cheyenne by Black Jack leading to questions in Cheyenne's mind.
