Cheyenne

[GaryS]

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.

 

[memtb]

I don’t remember any specific episodes.....I just remember that it was one of my favorite westerns! Along with.....Maverick, The Rebel, Bat Matsterson, Sugarfoot ( my aunt used to call me that), Rawhide, The Rifleman, Branded, Have Gun Will Travel, to name a few! memtb

 

[DeathGrip]

It's not just the plots that get recycled. The cowboys, the towns, the saloons, the sheriffs office, the stagecoach.

If you watch enough Hollywood westerns you'll get to recognize the horses too.

But I still watch them.

 

[loknload]

Most recently I’ve been watching the old episodes of Johnny Yuma. I liked those old shows and still enjoy them today. They were simple stories of good vs. evil and the good guy always prevailed,,,maybe took a couple hits but always came out on top.
The lead in songs to those shows were some of the best as well!

 

[Texas Star]

YouTube has, Tombstone Territory, a favorite of mine.

 

[DeathGrip]

Most recently I’ve been watching the old episodes of Johnny Yuma. I liked those old shows and still enjoy them today. They were simple stories of good vs. evil and the good guy always prevailed,,,maybe took a couple hits but always came out on top.
The lead in songs to those shows were some of the best as well!

Johnny Cash for the win.

 

[GaryS]

True. There were only so many outdoor sets to use, so they got a lot of use.

Some of the series also cut in stock footage from old movies. That was not so obvious back when TVs were smaller and there was no high definition. Now that TVs are pretty big and there are a lot of high def stations, it's fairly obvious.

It's not just the plots that get recycled. The cowboys, the towns, the saloons, the sheriffs office, the stagecoach.

If you watch enough Hollywood westerns you'll get to recognize the horses too.

But I still watch them.

 

[Golddollar]

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.

My dad had a theory that the original Star Trek was based on Gunsmoke. You had the respective head honchos, Capt. Kirk and Marshall Dillon, and you had the local medical practitioners, Doctor McCoy and Doc Adams, who were always arguing with the deputies, Mr. Spock and Festus Hagen. We never did figure out a counterpart for Miss Kitty.

 

[biku324]

Jack Paladin?

 

[GaryS]

Gene Roddenberry pitched it as "Wagon Train to the Stars", so your dad was pretty close. Given Roddenberry's history as a writer in Hollywood, there was also some element of "Gunsmoke" early on in development.

BTW, he was a LAPD officer (like his father) before leaving to write full time.

My dad had a theory that the original Star Trek was based on Gunsmoke. You had the respective head honchos, Capt. Kirk and Marshall Dillon, and you had the local medical practitioners, Doctor McCoy and Doc Adams, who were always arguing with the deputies, Mr. Spock and Festus Hagen. We never did figure out a counterpart for Miss Kitty.

 

[Rudi]

My dad had a theory that the original Star Trek was based on Gunsmoke. You had the respective head honchos, Capt. Kirk and Marshall Dillon, and you had the local medical practitioners, Doctor McCoy and Doc Adams, who were always arguing with the deputies, Mr. Spock and Festus Hagen. We never did figure out a counterpart for Miss Kitty.

Capt. Kirk had a string of Miss Kittys across the galaxy. He made James Bond look like a choir boy.

 

[DeathGrip]

Capt. Kirk had a string of Miss Kittys across the galaxy. He made James Bond look like a choir boy.

He even liked the green ones

 

[Rustyt1953]

Who doesn't?

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Capt. Kirk had a string of Miss Kittys across the galaxy. He made James Bond look like a choir boy.

Yes that is true! But for a girl to be Jim Kirk's girlfriend was a sure way to die!

The only way the ex-wife survived to be in Star Trek II was she never showed up on TV!

Ivan

 

[roguegamma]

My dad had a theory that the original Star Trek was based on Gunsmoke. You had the respective head honchos, Capt. Kirk and Marshall Dillon, and you had the local medical practitioners, Doctor McCoy and Doc Adams, who were always arguing with the deputies, Mr. Spock and Festus Hagen. We never did figure out a counterpart for Miss Kitty.

Captain James Kirk and his travels on the Enterprise are a fictionalized tribute/homage/ripoff to/of the real travels of Captain James Cook on the HMS Endeavor.

 

[DWalt]

Back when I was a kid in the 50s, my favorites were always Maverick, Gunsmoke, and Have Gun Will Travel. I didn't often watch any of the numerous other TV westerns of that time. Regarding dramatic plotlines, there really are only a fairly small number, and most movies and TV shows (westerns and others, then and now) just use variants and/or combinations of them.

 

[S&WsRsweet]

Less see .What did the TV and Movie cowboys do for this country. Well without them we may not have had Bob Munden ,Ruger Single Six revolvers or those way cool special fast draw rigs built by the holster makers not to mention one of my favorite shooting events to go see .Cowboy action .Was is true that Mr. Munden competed in The Bianchi Cup with a single action revolver .If so I bet that was something to see . Me and grandad watching gun smoke every night and me and my trusty horse running down and catching bad guys on saturday ( my horse was actually a Ross bicycle) my gun shot caps of course but we assisted in many many a gunfight with the desperadoes. Watched Lash Larue once went out and made myself a homemade bull whip out of old plow lines grandpa had laying around the barn . Nearly tore my ear off with it right off to bat . I went back to cap guns next week end Lol . Great memories . I must admit I also had an affinity for some of those Alien females on Star Trek almost broke my hand once trying to break a board using a Capt. Kirk karate chop on it .Yea I was a dumb child from the country and have the scars and t shirt to prove it .

 

[JcMack]

Clint Walker's for real girlfriend was Donna Douglas. Another reason for envying him. He was skiing one time and put a ski pole through his chest that nearly killed him.
Clint, along with a lot of TV cowboys "roamed thru the west". Was that considered a "trade"? What was pay scale and were they in Local 725?

 

[cowboy4evr]

In my hometown , a small town in SE Az , on Sunday eve we had , Maverick , Lawman , Sugarfoot and The Alaskans . We only got one channel , Channel 9 out of Tucson , KGUN . Used an antenna to get the signal . For awhile we just used a set of " rabbit ears " small antenna that set on top of the tv but the picture was fuzzy . Soon we got an external antenna my dad mounted on an old power pole bolted to the side of the house . I have always thought TV was better back then with just one channel than today with hundreds of channels available , of course for a price . Regards, Paul

 

[ACORN]

He even liked the green ones

I wonder what she looked like once ripened?

 

[cowboy4evr]

Clint Walker was a body builder , never smoked or drank . The last movie I ever saw him in was " The Dirty Dozen " , alongside the main character Lee Marvin . He played a character named " Posey " . I didn't know that Donna Douglas was his girlfriend . She , for sure was a " looker " , and I say that in complete respect for that young lady . Regards, Paul

 

[Wyatt Burp]

In the early shows Cheyenne carried an 1875 Remington and dressed more like a scout. Then he switched to a Great Western .45. My Coltsmith friend is an expert on those guns, too and rebuilt Clint's that some guy bought for a crazy high price. The great L.Q. Jones played his sidekick for a while. Here he's interviewed about Cheyenne. He should have kept his real name. It really had character.



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[Doug627]

We love Cheyenne. We watch it every night here on Starz Westerns. Looking back, he reminds me of an old west Equalizer. He always did the right thing. Not the easy thing.

 

[Kurusu]

In the early shows Cheyenne carried an 1875 Remington and dressed more like a scout. Then he switched to a Great Western .45. My Coltsmith friend is an expert on those guns, too and rebuilt Clint's that some guy bought for a crazy high price. The great L.Q. Jones played his sidekick for a while. Here he's interviewed about Cheyenne. He should have kept his real name. It really had character.


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Why is he pointing a Smith & Wesson #3 American then?

 

[JohnRippert]

He even liked the green ones

So did I.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

When westerns come up, I must mention the classic western, The Legend of Evil Roy Slade.

 

[Doug627]

Kurusu:

In that episode, Cheyenne was shooting a salesman's revolver. The salesman was actually his partner.

 

[Golddollar]

So did I.

That is the late Yvonne Craig, who played Batgirl in the Batman TV series back in the 1960s.

 

[kmyers]

A favorite from my childhood was Laredo, especially the first season. Although Chad and Joe were fine the real show stealer was Neville Brand as Reese. Season 2 kind of went off the rails bringing in a new ranger who was sort of a dude and dandy type.

 

[amazingflapjack]

I watched "run for cover" western with Jimmy Cagney the other day-1955-just terrific. Survived the summer on "Perry Mason and Peter Gunn-great cars-clothes-and music.