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Cheyenne Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1959 - 1960
Episode 1
Blind Spot
Mon, Sep 21, 195960 mins
Cheyenne rides into a town to do a favor for a friend he met when the man was a guard at Leavenworth prison. He sees a man whipped to death in the street. As there were no other witnesses, Cheyenne's account is brought into question including from the local law who calls it an accident. When he tries to complete the favor that brought him here, he runs into folks who still have prejudices against the north and a young boy whose love for his father is caught in the middle. The boy Gerald is being raised by his grandfather who clings to the old southern honor system and his Uncle Ashley who despise Gerald's father Paul who fought for the North. The dead man left a widow Ruth Francis who is the school teacher and a friend of Gerald. She tells Cheyenne that her husband was killed by a group known as the Regulators. He sees that there is a fight among the cotton growers over whether to sell their cotton to the North for a profit or Europe at a loss and lose their property.
Episode 2
Reprieve
Mon, Oct 5, 195960 mins
Cheyenne is deputized by Pinkerton to escort an old friend Wes McQueen, now a convict, to where he stashed $30K. Wes is turned over to Cheyenne in his hometown where he is hated. They are confronted by the Martin gang who force Cheyenne to shoot Cote Martin who wants revenge for Wes killing his brother. While Cheyenne clears the shooting with Sheriff Ringler, Wes runs into Ten Cents Harmon who wants Wes to rejoin his gang. Ten Cents uses the fact Wes's son Billy has been taken care of by Ten Cents since Wes's wife Martha died. Billy is with his gang in a remote abandoned Mexican village. Wes is shot and dies on the way by the Martin gang but tells Cheyenne that his then six year old son will know where the money is hidden without realizing it. Cheyenne has to trust that Wes is right by joining Ten Cents' gang that is about to hold up a bank. He poses as Wes so he can guide the boy onto the straight and narrow and find the money hidden this past 10 years in the Valley of the Moon. Cheyenne finds the gang and Billy plus the young female hostage Clovis.
Episode 3
The Rebellion
Mon, Oct 12, 195960 mins
Cheyenne is hired to transport some sewing machines into Mexico in 1867 during the rebellion against Maximilian. An agent from the U.S. government, Pat Brady, is riding with Cheyenne. The shipment is confiscated when it is discovered by some French soldiers that the cargo is really printing equipment. Brady is taken prisoner while the leader orders Cheyenne to be shot but Sergeant Pedro Castillo intentionally misses Cheyenne who is lying on the ground as the soldiers are run off by some Mexican rebels. Cheyenne meets up with their leader, an old acquaintance, Luis Cardenas. Cheyenne learns that the printing press is for Manuel Lagrone who is held prisoner by the French as well as Brady. Cheyenne convinces Luis to attack the town where they are held to free them but only Manuel is there. Manuel asks to talk to Cheyenne in private via Maria Rivera. Cheyenne must decide if his loyalties lie with the French or Luis, who is under suspicion by the rebel leader Manuel.
Episode 4
Trial by Conscience
Mon, Oct 26, 195960 mins
Deputy U.S. Marshal Cheyenne Bodie is hired and sent to investigate the death of the local Sheriff and bring law and order to the town. He finds Mojave City lacking in civic-minded citizens except perhaps for Judge Pruett. One man, Nick Avalon, owns and runs the town. The railroad work stopped there but the workers are still being paid so there is a lot of money spent in Mojave City. When a Shakespearean troupe hired by Avalon comes to town, Cheyenne gets an idea of how he can clean up the town for good. His first idea is closing Avalon's saloon due to a law regarding the nearby Mojave Indian Reservation. When the idea backfires, he has to bring in water from the outside to keep the townsfolk from rioting. A beautiful member of the troupe, Jenny Girard, finds Quinn Lacy, the town's drunk piano player, who she has been looking for. He decides to become sober and a deputy but when he goes missing, Cheyenne decides to use a Shakespearian ploy to catch the killer.
Episode 5
The Imposter
Mon, Nov 2, 195960 mins
Sam Magruder is pushed by his lawyer Phillip Derwent to name a trustee for his huge estate as Derwent doesn't believe Sam will find his son. The son was taken away by his mother and raised to hate his father after Sam went to jail for robbing a train. Cheyenne meets Sam in a bar fight. He befriends Sam during an attempted robbery. Sam offers him a partnership and they ride out to one of his holdings, a mine. Sam is killed and Cheyenne is hurt in a cave-in and when he awakens he meets a stranger who helped him out of the mine. After he recovers, he answers an ad that asks for Cheyenne Bodie to come to Denver and contact attorney Phillip Derwent. When he finds out the ad had already been answered by Mr. Bodie, he rides out to the Magruder ranch posing as Lano, a hired hand looking for a job. He finds a lawyer bent on cashing in on the Magruder fortune, a son who returned to claim his rightful fortune and a sniveling Cheyenne Bodie who is the frontman for the whole charade.
Episode 6
Prisoner of Moon Mesa
Fri, Nov 6, 195960 mins
Cheyenne hires on as the new foreman at Moon Mesa after receiving a letter from the owner Hub Lassiter. Cheyenne senses the tension when he meets Hub's daughter Ellen who is confined to a wheelchair after an accident many years earlier. Hub is suspicious of anyone who looks twice at her, proving that by running off the previous foreman Clay Mason. After working many years to create the Mesa from the ground up, Hub would like his stepson Wes to show him that he can do more than just ride into town to get the mail. He also wants Wes to take over the ranch and care of Ellen if something happens to Hub. In addition, a problem is occurring in the area with rustlers. Hub lost 100 head himself and a local ranch hand was murdered. Cheyenne catches Clay trying to enter the Moon Mesa property. Hub blames him for the rustling and murder but Clay tells a different story that has Cheyenne's interest. Cheyenne learns from some of the crew that Hub isn't the only one to steer clear of at the ranch - that would be his stepson!
Episode 7
Gold, Glory and Custer - Prelude
Mon, Jan 4, 196060 mins
In 1874 Cheyenne is riding to meet Lt. Col. George Custer's troop to report as Army Scout when he spots two Indians carrying off a white woman from the nearby Army wagon train. He shoots one and catches the second one who he shoots in hand combat. After the fight he notices the man is white wearing a wig to appear Indian. He tends to the woman Irene Travers who is not severely harmed. Army officers including Maj. Marcus Reno appear complaining about the attack by the Sioux. Irene is a close friend of Reno but she is fascinated with Cheyenne creating a tense situation with Reno. Cheyenne tells the officers that the Indians are not to blame showing them the bodies with wigs. At Fort A. Lincoln Cheyenne reports to Custer who tells him they are going to lead an expedition into the Sioux's Black Hills to look for a potential location for an Army fort. In reality political forces want the expedition to look for gold. Cheyenne tries to help the Indian Commissioner Brady stop the trouble while he and Reno wage a personal fight for Irene .
Episode 8
Gold, Glory and Custer - Requiem
Mon, Jan 11, 196060 mins
Cheyenne is in hiding from the Army as there are desertion charges against him as he left Custer's command. Irene Travers, Capt. Fred Benteen, and California Joe locate Cheyenne to ask him to return to testify for Maj. Marcus Reno who is facing charges for cowardice due to conflicting stories about the number of Indians Custer and Reno faced. Cheyenne learns that the one man Commissioner Brady, who can clear him, has died of a stroke. Brady asked Cheyenne to contact Sitting Bull as a Southern Cheyenne Chief. Cheyenne unwillingly comes to the aid of Major Reno as he knows the charges against him are false. The only true witness of the massacre, dressed as an Indian, Cheyenne says the Indians numbered 4-5,000, not just 900! He must convince the court that Custer was misled as to the true strength of the Indians at the Little Big Horn.
Episode 9
Riot at Arroyo Seco
Mon, Feb 1, 196060 mins
There's a real water shortage tearing up Arroyo Seco. Cheyenne, as sheriff, is trying to keep a lid on tempers and the townsfolk together. The town banker Ralph Tobin is trying to hold the town together to provide a strong future for his sons Jess and Harry. He is providing water by paying to have it hauled into town. At the same time the town has raised money to pay Chet Noler aided by Johnny Benson to drill a water well. What neither Cheyenne or Ralph know is that Ralph's sons who are supposed to be behind the town's best interests are the ones upsetting the water barrel. They pay Noler to say the well is dry but Noler is forced to kill Johnny to keep him quiet. Cheyenne arrests Noler for Johnny's murder. Jess and Harry while their dad is gone stir up the town to lynch Noler. Cheyenne who knew Jess's beautiful wife Beth as a saloon girl before she married Jess finds himself on trial with the town against him for killing Jess who led the lynch mob as the boys try to kill the evidence - Noler - in spite of Cheyenne who they hate as well.
Episode 10
Apache Blood
Mon, Feb 8, 196060 mins
with Cheyenne riding shotgun for the stage line the Apaches try to attack it using a man in white clothes laying on the ground as a trap. Cheyenne tells the driver to ride past - fast. When the decoy jumps up, Cheyenne notices he is a white man as he shoots his rifle out of his hands. As he and the driver make their report to the marshal, an arrow is fired into the office with a message for Cheyenne. The Apache Chief Chotah wants to meet. He wants to surrender his people to move to a reservation. He also wants Cheyenne to help his adopted white son who was captured ten or so years ago who will not be allowed to go to the reservation. Cheyenne agrees but is surprised at the hand-off when the son Mickey Free shows up with a wife who is a Mexican captive. By treaty any Mexicans captured south of the border must be returned to Mexico but Cheyenne and Rev. Joshua Collins who agreed to take Mickey overlook the issue. However, others have a problem with the couple - especially the Collins house guest - Elizabeth Quill.
Episode 11
Outcast of Cripple Creek
Mon, Feb 29, 196060 mins
Cheyenne is hired to replace Cripple Creek Marshal Hugh Beaumont, a friend of his, who died after recommending Cheyenne. All he needs to do is keep the peace on Peace Street and keep the drovers on Cow Street off Peace Street. One of his deputies is Bill Lockhart who is engaged to Jenny Beaumont, the daughter of the previous marshal. Lockhart has said he plans to resign once Cheyenne learns the ropes. After seeing the drovers in action Bodie proposes a law: 10 PM curfew, closed on Sunday and 2 drink limit per man. This threatens the revenues that folks on Peace Street have been reaping from Cow Street and they don't like it. The respectable people on Peace Street including Mayor Myron Ackelroyd hide their ownership of the saloons on Cow Street through others. They decide to try to bribe Cheyenne as they did Beaumont to go along with their wishes but Cheyenne decides to resign instead leaving the job to Lockhart. In addition Big K ranch owner Carl Banner wants in on the money putting pressure on the secret owners.
Episode 12
Alibi for the Scalped Man
Mon, Mar 7, 196060 mins
Cheyenne arrives in the small town Emmetville where he was invited by his friend Dan Marchison from the Arizona Rangers to be the best man at his wedding. Upon arriving he finds Dan's business boarded up and padlocked by the Sheriff. Almost immediately he finds a gun in his ribs as a young deputy and the Sheriff ask him his business. After telling them, he is invited to leave town. Instead he decides to take a room at the hotel where the owner refuses him a room after learning why he is there until Mayor Angus Emmett tells her to give him a room and invites him to his house. His daughter Jane is the girl Dan was to marry but Angus says the story is a fabrication. Cheyenne meets her that evening and her story confirms that told by Angus. Later that night the same girl shows up at Cheyenne's room asking him to meet her the next morning outside town. Cheyenne arrives to find a dead girl at the bottom of a cliff and himself arrested for her murder and no one to help him.
Episode 13
Home Is the Brave
Mon, Mar 14, 196060 mins
Cheyenne is tasked by the U.S. Army with bringing home the body of Cole Prescott, a decorated soldier, for burial. Expecting to meet Prescott's family at the train station, he instead finds no one and a message to take the body away from Sheriff Dan Blaisdell. Blaisdell takes Cheyenne to John Thompson who is president of the town council. Thompson repeats the desire of the town but gives no reason. In the saloon he finds Prescott's father who is a drunk. He takes Cheyenne to Cole's widow Maria. There Cheyenne learns she did not receive the wires that he was coming and Cole's mother is a Sioux Indian. Jealousy and anger are tearing up the town. The town council doesn't want that "half-breed" to own even "six feet of White River property!" as stated by Thompson. Mrs. Ruth Thompson wanting the issue put to rest contacts Cheyenne and Maria to tell them there is a work around. Three citizens can veto the council decision. Now Cheyenne just has to find those three!
