7.7/10197 votes#1 - Mountain Fortress
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1955
Cheyenne, Smitty and a woman they just rescued from an Indian attack are trapped by a band of desperados in their fortified mountain hideaway.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10152 votes
#2 - Julesburg
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1955
Trying to guide a lost wagon train, Cheyenne and Smitty tangle with a gang of cattle rustlers.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Charles Lang
- 7.9/10164 votes
#3 - The Argonauts
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/1955
Cheyenne tries to help two prospectors in their search for a gold mine, but then they encounter renegade Indians who try to rob them.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10136 votes
#4 - Border Showdown
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/22/1955
Pursuing the bandits who killed a friend of theirs, Cheyenne and Smitty find that the gang has taken over an entire town and only the local padre has the courage to stand against them.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Dean Riesner, Clarke Reynolds
- 7.7/10135 votes
#5 - The Outlander
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/13/1955
Cheyenne's previous acquaintance with a woman involves him in blackmail and nearly gets him killed.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: R. Wright Campbell
- 7.6/10129 votes
#6 - The Travelers
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/3/1956
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Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10146 votes
#7 - Decision
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/24/1956
Guiding a cavalry troop through Indian territory, Cheyenne leads a mutiny to avoid a massacre.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10148 votes
#8 - The Storm Riders
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/7/1956
A rancher named John Dembro gives shelter to Cheyenne who's been hurt in an ""incident"" on the adjoining ranch owned by Martin Storm. Both Dembro's teenaged daughter, Johnny, and her stepmother, Sheila, are anxious to treat Cheyenne's injuries and they become bitter rivals. Soon Dembro persuades the recovered Cheyenne to help him unite the other small ranchers to oppose Storm who maintains his authority through a hired ""gun"" named Swallow. Cheyenne kills Swallow in a shootout. Dembro becomes drunk in the ensuing celebration and dies in a fire, though Sheila could have saved him. Now free of her husband, Sheila makes a play for Cheyenne who spurns her. Hurt and angry, the increasingly-deranged Sheila has Cheyenne arrested, claiming he killed her husband. Sheila's deemed too crazy to give credible testimony so Cheyenne is freed but townspeople, believing Cheyenne's guilty, form a lynch mob, egged on by Storm. Johnny arrives on the scene and convinces the crowd of Cheyenne's innocence. Sto
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Dean Riesner
- 8.0/10120 votes
#9 - Rendezvous at Red Rock
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/21/1956
Pat Keogh is a bank robber and killer who, when the episode begins, has just killed a man and Cheyenne has been accused by a group of vigilantes. Keogh rescues Cheyenne, admitting to him that he was the guilty party, and he cuts Cheyenne in on the bank robbery he's about to make in Red Rock with the help of two accomplices. Cheyenne meets a marshal friend who is trailing Keogh and enlists Cheyenne's help in stopping Keogh. Cheyenne foils the plot, but not after a lot of gunplay.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10138 votes
#10 - West of the River
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/10/1956
It's been five years since Ed McKeever's two daughters, Ruth and Jenny, were kidnapped by Chief Tanaka. A scout has just located the women and Cheyenne is assigned to lead the rescue mission of volunteers made up mostly of stockade prisoners from a nearby fort.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10126 votes
#11 - Quicksand
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/1/1956
Cheyenne meets a sly Indian's test of courage to save a wagonload of white settlers.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10128 votes
#12 - Fury at Rio Hondo
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/17/1956
In a Mexico wracked by political unrest, Cheyenne tangles with revolutionaries, a con man and a blonde pickpocket.
Director: Walter Doniger
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/10128 votes
#13 - Star in the Dust
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/1/1956
A small-town sheriff, whom Cheyenne admires, is hoodwinked by a woman.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10120 votes
#14 - Johnny Bravo
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/15/1956
Cheyenne's friend falls for a rancher's pretty daughter, but the rancher prefers Cheyenne as his son-in-law.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Dean Riesner
- 7.8/10132 votes
#15 - The Last Train West
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/29/1956
The train to California carries some mighty interesting passengers, including Cheyenne and his...
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Cheyenne Season 1
Every episode of Cheyenne Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Cheyenne Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Mountain Fortress" is the best rated episode of "Cheyenne" season 1. It scored 7.7/10 based on 197 votes. Directed by Richard L. Bare and written by N/A, it aired on 9/20/1955. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Julesburg".