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Cheyenne Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1960 - 1961
Episode 1
The Long Rope
Mon, Sep 26, 196060 mins
Cheyenne returns to the town, High Point, of his youth where he lived with the Pierce family after he left the Cheyenne Indians. He passes by the tree where Mr. Pierce was lynched by a mob. Mrs. Pierce and her two children Randy and Fay left the town while Cheyenne struck out on his own. Upon entering the saloon he sees that Hugo Parma is still Sheriff and Reed Moriarity who lead the lynch mod is his lackey. An Indian Joe Maybe enters the saloon with a chit from Parma's foreman for Parma to pay him $10 for rounding up cattle. Parma instead knocks him down and has him jailed for entering the saloon. Cheyenne helps Joe and then defeats Parma arm wrestling after being challenged. He picks up the chit which he takes to the Sheriff's office to pay Joe's fine. After seeing Cheyenne challenge Parma, local citizens who recognize Cheyenne ask him to run for Sheriff. He does and wins but doesn't realize he is facing the fact that Randy Pierce has returned for revenge putting Cheyenne in the middle.
Episode 2
Counterfeit Gun
Mon, Oct 10, 196060 mins
Cheyenne has been working as a railroad guard for only a couple of weeks. The train arrives at Crestline where the Sheriff escorts a $100,000 shipment of gold from the local mine to the train where Cheyenne takes responsibility for it. The train leaves the station but a gang of outlaws rolls a large boulder on the track forcing the train to stop. A man on the train, Tully, has knocked out the conductor and uses his uniform to gain entry to the freight car with the money in a safe. He wounds the freight manager in the arm while holding Cheyenne at bay. The freight manager opens the safe but in an ensuing scuffle he is killed and Tully is mortally wounded. Cheyenne playing possum hears the gang leader as they take the gold. The train backs up to Crestline where Tully names Cheyenne as the leader as he dies. The Sheriff doesn't believe Cheyenne who says the leader is Cliff Murdock who is a criminal living in Mexico. He tries to arrest Cheyenne who escapes and now is forced to prove his innocence but Cliff seems to have an air tight alibi.
Episode 3
Road to Three Graves
Mon, Oct 31, 196060 mins
As Cheyenne starts to inspect three loads of freight a big man, Tuk, attacks him. The two brawl until Tuk final stops it. After introductions Tuk learns that Cheyenne is the freighter who is taking his three loads of mining gear and supplies to his leased mine. Over dinner Tuk explains he and his group leased property from Manuel Loza and struck gold. They want to use the proceeds to build an orphanage for the boys left with no fathers due to the Civil War. Three previous teamsters were killed making the trip and are buried along side the Three Graves Road across Loza's property. Tuk finds Carl Tower to be the third driver. He was just released from a southern army hospital. Loza's men try asking Cheyenne to turn back then try to ambush the teamsters while they sleep. Prepared for the attack Cheyenne is able to kill one of the ambushers. Tower is to meet a woman and her son in Loza's town called Security. They corresponded while he was in the hospital and are to be married. They make Security where Tower is married but he has a secret that may stop Cheyenne and Tuk from their planned delivery.
Episode 4
Two Trails to Santa Fe
Fri, Oct 28, 196060 mins
While returning to the fort after a scouting mission Cheyenne finds a white man and Apache Indian woman staked out. The man is dead but the woman is alive. She was the wife of the dead man but the Mescalero Apache don't allow it. While cutting her loose, Cpl. Howie Burch rides up to help. Cheyenne takes the girl to the fort while Howie buries the man. At the fort the woman recovers as Cheyenne learns the fort is to be abandoned and the troop relocated to Texas. He volunteers to take the woman Aleeah to Santa Fe to her tribe which is the Chiricahua Apache after he warns the nearby mining camps that the Army has left. Howie returns after the Army leaves but before Cheyenne and Aleeah leave. Instead of heading after the Army he decides to join Cheyenne to see Mary North but in reality he wants to see her older sister Amy Brandon, wife of miner Jed Brandon. The miners decide to send the women out with Cheyenne and Howie to Santa Fe while they continue. However, on the way out Yellow Knife attacks the wagon. They return as a siege ensues.
Episode 5
Savage Breed
Mon, Dec 19, 196060 mins
Cheyenne is hired to guide a hunt for buffalo. The group is led by Marshal Al Lestrade of Dodge City. It includes his sister Lily along with Senator Leland Carr and Phil Kenton and his wife Nora plus a cook and wrangler. Cheyenne finds a herd of about 200 buffalo but they are scared off by someone shooting a powerful rifle. He finds a 50-70 shell along with a cigar stub. Lily tries to say she fired the shot at a rabbit but Cheyenne suspects Lestrade of wanting to keep the camp poker game going. He is starting to wonder if this party was such a good idea and confronts Lestrade. Was he hired to kill buffalo or get mixed up in gambling, or come between husband/wife squabbles. As they start to argue the other men and Lily state they want him to stay. The next day they go after the buffalo but Cheyenne is wounded by a bullet and the Senator is stomped on buy stampeding buffalo but lives. The latest issue comes to their attention when a man rides into camp with an arrow in his back. They now fear being scalped by a Sioux raiding party.
Episode 6
Incident at Dawson Flats
Mon, Jan 9, 196160 mins
Cheyenne is to be the best man at his friend Johnny McIntyre's wedding. Selma Dawson is set to marry Johnny, the foreman her father hired. Her kid brother Jasper doesn't like the "saddle tramp" but easy go lucky older brother Lafe does. On the road someone takes a shot at Cheyenne. In town Johnny and Lafe are having a two man bachelor party in the saloon while waiting for Cheyenne. Outside the saloon Elmer Bostrum tears down all the wanted posters and puts one up saying Cheyenne is wanted dead or alive for murder with a $2,000 reward. Bostrum takes the drunk Lafe outside and makes sure he sees the poster as Cheyenne arrives. Lafe fires at Cheyenne. When the drunk Johnny comes to help and accidentally kills Lafe in a dark alley, Cheyenne wants to know who's been taking potshots at him. The next day as Cheyenne and Johnny return the body to the Dawson ranch someone takes another shot at Cheyenne hitting Johnny in the arm. When they reach the ranch, Cheyenne wonders why Cyrus Dawson seems hellbent on keeping Cheyenne at arms length!
Episode 7
Duel at Judas Basin
Mon, Jan 30, 196160 mins
Cheyenne is heading a cattle drive for Ian Stewart and his brother who want to settle in the Judas Basin near Fort Benton. Cheyenne's crew is surprised when Bronco rides in chased by Sioux Indians and the Sioux have new repeating rifles. At the same time Sugarfoot and Ian Stewart rides into a nearby settlement by Fort Benton where they persuade the Lutz brothers to sell them 10,000 acres for $20,000. Ian gives them a check for $10,000 for an option to pay the other $10,000 in 30 days. Trader Pike Hanson is furious when he hears the news as the east section contains a pass he needs to trade with the Indians. Ian and Sugarfoot are riding the Lutz's stage to Bismarck to tell Ian's brother about the deal. Pike decides to join the stage. At Sweetwater he makes a bet with Sugarfoot and Ian that Sugarfoot can put six shots in an area the size of a pocket watch. While Sugarfoot shoots, Pike shoots Ian as the stage driver accuses Sugarfoot of murder. With Ian dead and Sugarfoot in jail even Bronco turns on Cheyenne who has to pay the men and save the herd.
Episode 8
The Return of Mr. Grimm
Mon, Feb 13, 196160 mins
Cheyenne and three men including his Deputy and the Mayor are after Jud Grimm who is shooting at them. Jud fakes giving up but throws dirt into Cheyenne's face as he prepares to cuff Jud. As he runs off he picks up a gun and fires at Cheyenne who kills him. Jud's father Nathanael Grimm does not respond to a telegram sent him so the town goes ahead with an inquest finding it justifiable homicide. At the end of the hearing He arrives with an entourage. He owns the local mine which is what keeps the town going. He tells the crowd that he expects a trial for Cheyenne at which he expects a guilty decision and a hanging. He doesn't believe Jud broke into saloon girl Grace Evans room, beat her up, stole money from her and left on a stolen horse. The town supports Cheyenne until the next day when Grimm pulls his money out of the bank and closes the mine. Grimm pushes mine foreman Wesley Mason to stir the men up. In the end revenge is had - of a different type.
Episode 9
The Beholden
Mon, Feb 27, 196160 mins
Cheyenne rides into Winslow with a letter recommending him for the job of marshal as a gang of three led by Elijah McGuire plans to rob the bank the next morning. McGuire rides into town alone. Cheyenne stops by the bank to give bank president Frank Smaller the letter but it is closed. He gets a room and drops by the saloon to eat. Marshal Tom Grant comes in and spots McGuire eating. He has a rule that he is to be notified when any strangers enter any business. He asks McGuire his business and decides to kick him out. Cheyenne watches and after it is over spots Harriet Miller who he knows. She introduces him to Tom who decides to offer Cheyenne a free meal to welcome him. Harriet asks to see Cheyenne in his room later. She knows that Tom is to lose his job at noon Friday and Cheyenne is there to apply for it. Wanting Tom to stay, she asks Cheyenne to refuse the job which he says he will consider. The next morning as he talks to Smaller the bank is robbed. Morgan is wounded as Cheyenne wounds gang member Bert McGuire. Cheyenne is thrust into the job of deputy but all is not as it seems.
Episode 10
The Frightened Town
Mon, Mar 20, 196160 mins
Joe Cooper's crew stops due to a broken axle on the chuck wagon. The men go to town for some fun while Joe picks up supplies and foreman Cheyenne looks for a new axle. One of the men, Callow, repeatedly accosts women outside the saloon. Callow stops a woman and her son who is the Marshal's wife. The Marshal knocks him out with his gun as Cheyenne walks up to apologize. Marshal Delaney tells Cheyenne to have his men out of town that day. Cheyenne reports the order to Joe who leaves to track down missing cowhands. He finds Gorrell, Dillard, and Tully who want to rob the bank. When he recognizes what they are up to, Tully hits Joe with his gun barrel killing him. Gorrell decides they can use the incident to incite the crew to create a disturbance to cover robbing the bank. When Dillard reports that Joe is dead, Joe's sick brother wants answers. Cheyenne offers to return to town but once there finds the crew has turned when Tully tries to kill him. He and only a few men are left to support the Marshal.
Episode 11
Lone Patrol
Mon, Apr 10, 196160 mins
Cheyenne returns as his enlistment as a scout has ended. Upon arriving he reports to Major Prewitt and Captain Duquesne he saw 200 Shoshone led by Gray Wolf which delayed his return. Prewitt asks Cheyenne to scout for one last time to lead troops with supplies to Fort Burnside. It is to be led by the green Captain Duquesne from the east. They won't be able to rely on help from their home fort. When he tries to befriend a new recruit with a shady past, he finds himself stuck with Trooper Dailey as his courier. Neither the captain or trooper have never had to face the business end of a rifle in battle with the Indians. The captain dismisses most of Cheyenne's concerns but finds himself surrounded by rampaging Shoshone. In their initial battle Dailey freezes up so Duquesne has him arrested. Against Cheyenne's recommendation the wounded captain decides to take refuge in an abandoned Army fort where they find Jen Claypool and her daughter Sarah stranded by a broken wagon. Duquesne must find a way out.
Episode 12
Massacre at Gunsight Pass
Mon, May 1, 196160 mins
Cheyenne is assigned the job of transferring outlaw Johnny Eldorado to Fort Bridger for trial. He killed a man while stealing and hiding $10,000, which he refuses to give up, even in exchange for a more lenient sentence. As the Shoshone Powder Face is in the area and on the warpath, the Sheriff suggests Cheyenne take him by stage to have better protection to which Cheyenne agrees. There are four other passengers on the stage including two women and two men, including a Russian who calls himself "Count Nicholas Potosi", an arrogant and violent blowhard, who says he can take on anyone. The passengers are given the option to wait for a later stage but none do so. The Count feels he is being derided so he decides to ride on the top of the stage. "Potosi" wantonly shoots a Shoshone brave dead as the train passes. Cheyenne and the others are furious as they try to bury the brave's body well enough to ensure the Shoshone do not find his body too soon but this fails. They drive as fast as possible to the relay station but Powder Face and his braves, after suffering losses in the initial shootout, trap the train passengers along with the bigoted and repugnant station manager, his abused wife, and her Indian friend who has been attending "the white man's school" and is somewhat conflicted as to his identity. They are all stuck in the relay station with a short supply of water, food, and ammo, but lots of surprises and violence to come.
Episode 13
The Greater Glory
Mon, May 15, 196160 mins
Roy and Mary Wiley have a ranch in Utah on which they owe a final payment to Rafe Donovan. However, due to the discovery of ore deposits on the land Rafe wants the property back so he is trying to prevent the Wileys from making the payment. His men stampede Roy's cattle severely injuring him. Cheyenne arrives at the Wiley door looking to buy a meal but is met by Mary with a shotgun. He discovers she is pregnant after which she shows him her injured husband. He learns she plans to drive a small herd of cattle to Salt Lake City 50 miles away to sell for the final payment while taking her husband so they can be married in the Mormon Temple as their faith requires for eternal life together. Cheyenne offers to help her as he is headed there but feels their chances are slim. Her faith in God is strong which is displayed on the road as they overcome Rafe's attacks and other problems including Billy the Kid.
