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Cheyenne Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1961 - 1962
Episode 1
Winchester Quarantine
Mon, Sep 25, 196160 mins
Cheyenne is trying his hand at running his own cattle herd in the Texas Panhandle, but an outbreak of Texas Fever has decimated his herd, ruining Cheyenne's investment. He decides to leave, cutting his losses. An attractive woman coming from South Texas with her herd - possible carriers of Texas fever - trying to take it to market, comes up against Panhandle ranchers who won't let her cattle through. They insist she makes a long detour which will probably mean the total loss of her herd. She offers Cheyenne a job as ramrod since he's going in the same direction and knows the route and plus she has her eye on Cheyenne as a future husband. Cheyenne has more than one unpleasant surprise waiting for him, especially when some gunslingers show up to help the woman get her cattle through to market, as she wants but she didn't hire them - one of her old hands did. Meanwhile, the local vet and head of the cattlemen's association looks for a solution with Cheyenne.
Episode 2
Trouble Street
Mon, Oct 2, 196160 mins
As Cheyenne rides upon a chain gang it distracts a guard allowing a prisoner to sneak off. When the guard notices the prisoner missing he gives the man little warning before shooting to kill as Cheyenne watches. In town he stops at the local hotel and restaurant for a meal. The owner, Sharon Colton, tells him rather curtly that anyone wearing a gun is not served. After removing it, Kell, a deputy enters minus his badge. In a surly manner he asks Cheyenne who he is and where he is going forcing Cheyenne to push him in response to a slight shove. He then pins on the badge saying Cheyenne has assaulted a peace officer. After being arrested and jailed Cheyenne learns they plan to force him to work on the chain gang forever. He asks for bail which is granted for $100 since he had sixty plus dollars on him. Unbeknowst to Kell he had more money allowing him to make bail. Due to a robbery and the murder of the town founder and his son, the daughter has allowed Kell to run roughshod over the law and the city marshal. Cheyenne decides to fight back.
Episode 3
Cross Purpose
Mon, Oct 9, 196160 mins
Cheyenne gets involved in a dispute over a dead "hero's" reputation. It seems the citizens of Clairmont have erected a statue to the memory of Col. Charles DeVier, who legend has it was tortured to death by Comanches. However, it turns out that two prospectors have found the colonel's body which they return to the Army fort. The Army doctor confirms the body is that of DeVier and that he was shot in the head with new bullets that only the Army had. At the same time the body is returned, Capt. Robert Holman (who reported DeVier's bravery) is marrying DeVier's sister Madaline. Holman was the only survivor as the rest of the troop was massacred. When a Sergeant comes after Homan at the wedding, Holman runs away to Mexico. Cheyenne, who knew Holman earlier, is hired to enter Mexico to bring him back. Although the Army is convinced Holman shot DeVier, Cheyenne is not so sure and decides to find the truth, but finds someone is trying to stop him.
Episode 4
The Young Fugitives
Mon, Oct 23, 196160 mins
Cheyenne rides in to visit his old friend Frank Collins who had been a lawman. He finds Frank bound to a wheelchair due to a gunshot, depressed and harping on his son Gilby who loves guns but has no friends due to his father. Cheyenne decides to befriend Gilby in town treating him to the shooting exhibit at the circus. Lige Crawford has his son Alfred push Gilby into a shooting contest with the show's marksman Pat Kinsey by shooting a lit cigarette in the mouth of showgirl Nita. Gilby wins a rifle angering Kinsey. Later, as Gilby and Nita talk, Kinsey hits her forcing Gilby to protect her. Kinsey draws but Gilby kills him. Kinsey is related to the Crawfords causing Lige to push to lynch Gilby as the law is out of town. Nita says Gilby is innocent but they ignore her. Cheyenne stops the lynching telling Gilby to go to the town where the marshal is and turn himself in with Nita as his witness. Instead they head for the border with Mexico with a posse and Cheyenne chasing them.
Episode 5
Day's Pay
Sat, Dec 30, 196160 mins
Cheyenne is being paid $60 a month to be sheriff. With the town now under control the city officials want him to take a pay cut to $40 or they will hire a young man who has worked sporadically as Cheyenne's deputy. He refuses so they decide to give the job to 21 year old Billy Fipps. At the same time outlaw Luis Boladas takes a room at the hotel. He has a $10,000 bounty on his head. Billy tries to arrest him but his inexperience results in Billy's death and Cheyenne arresting Luis. The town wants to lynch Luis so Cheyenne decides to take him to the federal marshal. During a rest Luis reveals he once saved Cheyenne from a hanging and a rope burn. He says he was framed for the robbery by the Cocklin brothers so Cheyenne decides to fake his death and to help him find the brothers. Their quest is cut short when two men and a woman take him off a stage to help clear the MCracken clan out of their home town - Three Corners. They can only pay $20 but force Cheyenne and Luis to help after Luis reveals the McCrackens are related to the Cocklins.
Episode 6
Retaliation
Mon, Nov 13, 196160 mins
While Sheriff Cheyenne Bodie is out of town visiting the widow Cora Ainslie and her son Bart, the bank in town is robbed. A railroad trestle is blown, the telegraph wires cut, a hay wagon burned, and horses ran off at the same time the safe door is blown. $125,000 is stolen which belonged to Thackeray Smith who controls most of the town and surrounding area. After hearing about the robbery, Smith demands action from Cheyenne. He finds evidence that the job may have been committed by men in town but he faces the issue that Smith is hated for running roughshod over everyone. The tactics remind him of Col. Hillary Lee who rode for the Confederacy and many of the men in town were in the Confederate Army. Cora Ainslie tries to make her mortgage payment to Smith but he recognizes the money as coming from the robbery as the notes are brand new. Smith wants her arrested - Cheyenne wants the name of the robbers but she refuses to confess putting Cheyenne in a rough situation.
Episode 7
Storm Center
Mon, Nov 20, 196160 mins
Cheyenne rides into Devil's Gorge on a whim and stops a bank holdup, however two of the robbers escape. Having killed one of the robbers he receives a big reward. As he becomes a local hero he thinks that an old friend Frank Garcia has looked him up so he plans an extravagant party for him. But this person turns out to be a small boy who just wants to find out who he is and where he came from. He feels his parents are ashamed of him since they sent him to the orphanage but he receives frequent packages of clothes, food, and money with no return address. His mother Lily Mae Nelson owns the saloon so she feels it would be improper to raise Frank herself. His father is in prison for a robbery he committed with the two escaped bank robbers. When they overhear the facts about the boy, they decide to kidnap him for the $20,000 which is their share of the robbery. Cheyenne is asked to help return the boy which requires the help of the boy's father.
Episode 8
Legacy of the Lost
Mon, Dec 4, 196160 mins
Cheyenne is accompanied by detective Dennis Carter to the camp of White Cloud who raised Cheyenne. Carter is looking for John Abbot the son of Lionel Abbot. He was lost in an Indian raid when he was an infant and his mother was killed. Lionel was not with the family. White Cloud tells Carter the date on which he found Cheyenne which agrees with the date Lionel says his son was lost plus White Cloud produces a locket with the initials JA on it which he says he found on Cheyenne. Carter takes Cheyenne to Lionel who owns a massive ranch in Wyoming much of which he took from White Cloud with whom he is a mortal enemy. Cheyenne must prove his mettle with Lionel by standing up to one of his men in a fight. Afterwards, he learns that he has a brother James Abbot who is to receive an inheritance only if John Abbot is shown dead. James is married and a drinker who hates John due to his father's favoritism. Cheyenne hopes to repair the feud between Lionel and White Cloud but soon learns there are complications.
Episode 9
The Brahma Bull
Mon, Dec 11, 196160 mins
Cheyenne stopped by to visit his friend Sam and ended up helping him rebuild his barn after a fire burned it down. Sam's son Harper was burned when he ran back into the burning barn to rescue his Brahma bull calf but it was killed. The doctor feels a new calf might help the boy recover so Cheyenne agrees to see if he can buy one from a rancher named Dunbarton who hates to part with his livestock. Sam gives Cheyenne $450 dollars he borrowed while they are in the saloon. The Hawker brothers who are wanted see the transaction and decide Cheyenne would be easy pickings. While camped he is jumped by the Hawkers but John Butler arrives on the scene to help and kills one of the brothers. He offers to take the body to the sheriff while Cheyenne goes to the Dunbarton ranch. He encounters Lucy Dunbarton bathing and is run off the ranch by her father. In town he finds Butler has said Cheyenne killed the Hawker brother setting him up as a target while Lucy offers to quietly sell him a bull.
Episode 10
The Wedding Rings
Mon, Jan 8, 196260 mins
As Cheyenne checks out of a hotel, he overhears a small boy ask about his father. The clerk tells Cheyenne the boy's father has gone to Tombstone for money after a big loss the night before. Outside Cheyenne gives the boy, Pepe, money for a meal and asks his father's name as he is going to Tombstone himself. Two men in the lobby follow Cheyenne and attack him on the trail. They are freed convicts Cheyenne put in jail. As they start to shoot Cheyenne, a man rides up. In the crossfire a ricochet kills him. Cheyenne takes him to a doctor who tells him the bullet was a ricochet plus a letter identifies the man as Pepe's father. Cheyenne returns to find Pepe. After explaining what happened, Cheyenne decides to take Pepe to his mother in Mexico. There he runs into her father Perez who is a tyrant. Cheyenne tries to take the place of the man he killed although no one blames him but finds he fulfills a different need.
Episode 11
The Idol
Mon, Jan 29, 196260 mins
Clem Peters is followed by three men led by Gene Kirby. They are to kill the man Peters is meeting. Peters looks up Cheyenne who runs a freight line in the area. He asks Cheyenne to ferry Deborah Morse, a new school teacher, and her son Gabe to Creek Point as the stage line does not go that far. Cheyenne agrees to extend his route to there for $10. As they leave the stable for the saloon the three men attack but another man, Ben Shelby, intervenes. Red, one of the three men, recognizes Shelby. He and another man decide to pull out leaving Kirby alone. They mistook Cheyenne for Shelby who has been hired by the merchants of Creek Point for $2500 to become city marshal and wipe out the three Kirby brothers who force them to pay protection. Shelby who has no horse asks Cheyenne for a ride to Creek Point. Cheyenne agrees. Shelby is a gunfighter recently released from prison for killing by accident a nine year old boy. Gabe worships Shelby to the dismay of his mother as they travel and Shelby ponders his future.
Episode 12
One Way Ticket
Mon, Feb 12, 196260 mins
In Kansas City, Kansas news spreads that Cole Younger has been found guilty and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a Denver prison. Friends of Younger work to free him starting with kidnapping the brakeman on the Kansas City to Denver Express train. Deputy U.S. Marshals Cheyenne Bodie and John C. Warren are accompanying Younger in the baggage car. While eating his dinner in the dining car, Cheyenne finds a gun in his face. Reacting quickly with his own gun he discovers a ten year old boy holding it who runs away leaving the toy gun with Cheyenne. Cheyenne visits the baggage car to offer Johnny a chance to go eat but Johnny prefers to avoid the fancy environment of the ding car. Cheyenne then tracks down the boy finding her with his grandmother Mrs. Frazier and beautiful widowed mother Laura Barrington. He returns the toy and tries to calm the scared boy. Laura is impressed with Cheyenne's character and strength. Their mutual interest leads to more time together interrupted by the escape attempts by Younger.
Episode 13
The Bad Penny
Sun, Dec 17, 196160 mins
Mysterious letters are received by leading citizens of the town of Calista from Omaha. Each letter indicates the recipient will die starting with the sheriff. Cheyenne is the only one who analyzes the meaning of the letters and takes them seriously. Who is sending them or why is a question for the four involved and the new deputy, Cheyenne. They decide to meet the stage from Omaha to see who arrives. Two men and the pretty Penelope Piper (Penny) arrive. One man says he is a peddler while the other is a gambler. Penny says she is a widow from Boston who has never been west. After she arrives, what's in the letters starts to come true starting with the sheriff! He is apparently shot by accident with his own gun by Penny who is holding it to look at the notches carved on it. A second man dies when his horse goes over a cliff with a second man and Penny involved. Cheyenne believes she is the cause but no one else believes him. When the third man apparently dies at the hand of the fourth man, Cheyenne tries to prove his innocence.
