I was just a kid when Cheyenne made it's initial TV run. I mostly watched it in the later 1960s when UHF TV stations were starting to come on line and mostly showed old TV shows and older movies.
Still, I had fond memories of Cheyenne and when retro TV shows came along on cable it was one of the shows I liked to watch.
I've been watching it again lately and noticed something that I never had before.
A good number of the plots are adapted from movies of the 1930s and 1940s, not all of them westerns either.
One episode I watched was a modified rewrite of "They Drive by Night" with George Raft and Humprhey Bogart. Not trucks, but freight wagons this time. Still, a wife that was unhappy with her husband and left him to die so that she could chase another man.
Another episode was a remake of "To Have and Have Not." No boat, but again a freight wagon and a sidekick obviously copied from Walter Brennan.
The third one I can't remember the name of, but I've seen the movie. Honest sheriff goes bad when he kills a bank robber. He recovers the money but decides to keep it for himself so that the showgirl will love him and leave town. Cheyenne is his deputy and in the end kills him and recovers the money.
This doesn't make the shows any less interesting or enjoyable, it just reminds me that there aren't a lot of unique story lines in Hollywood.
Still, I had fond memories of Cheyenne and when retro TV shows came along on cable it was one of the shows I liked to watch.
I've been watching it again lately and noticed something that I never had before.
A good number of the plots are adapted from movies of the 1930s and 1940s, not all of them westerns either.
One episode I watched was a modified rewrite of "They Drive by Night" with George Raft and Humprhey Bogart. Not trucks, but freight wagons this time. Still, a wife that was unhappy with her husband and left him to die so that she could chase another man.
Another episode was a remake of "To Have and Have Not." No boat, but again a freight wagon and a sidekick obviously copied from Walter Brennan.
The third one I can't remember the name of, but I've seen the movie. Honest sheriff goes bad when he kills a bank robber. He recovers the money but decides to keep it for himself so that the showgirl will love him and leave town. Cheyenne is his deputy and in the end kills him and recovers the money.
This doesn't make the shows any less interesting or enjoyable, it just reminds me that there aren't a lot of unique story lines in Hollywood.
