The Worst Episodes of Cheyenne
Every episode of Cheyenne ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Cheyenne!
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Cheyenne" is "A Man Called Ragan", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by Richard C. Sarafian and written by N/A. "A Man Called Ragan" aired on 4/23/1962 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Satonka".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - A Man Called Ragan
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 4/23/1962
Marshal Frank Ragan rides into Stark City to visit Johnny Wilson. But Wilson has disappeared and cattle baron Ben Stark tells Ragan he had better do the same. Clint Walker does not appear in this episode, which was the pilot for the series The Dakotas; hence, it is not included in the DVD release of season six.
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 84 votes
#2 - Satonka
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1962
Cheyenne's after a killer and Indians tell him his quarry is a monster called Satonka.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 151 votes
#3 - 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
- 7.6/10 135 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
- 7.6/10 127 votes
#5 - The Travelers
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/3/1956
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Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 137 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.7/10 196 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.7/10 134 votes
#8 - 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
- 7.7/10 97 votes
#9 - The Law Man
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1956
Cheyenne is sent by the Cattlemen's Association to stop a cattle rustling.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 147 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.8/10 85 votes
#11 - Legacy of the Lost
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 12/4/1961
Cheyenne learns that his white father may still be alive.
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10 163 votes
#12 - 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
- 7.9/10 125 votes
#13 - 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
- 7.9/10 131 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.9/10 97 votes
#15 - The Trap
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/18/1956
Cheyenne rides into Stagge City (pop. 407) and is promptly arrested on a trumped-up charge of vagrancy. He's given a 90-day sentence which must be served by performing hard labor at the Stagge Silver Mine. From the other convict-workers at this mine, Cheyenne learns that even when his sentence has been served, excuses will be made to extend it indefinitely. Cheyenne also learns that Mr. Stagge, rendered mute by a stroke, has had his mine effectively stolen from him by a conniving woman named Iris Danner who was originally hired to teach Stagge's daughter, Virginia. Iris runs the mine with the support of gunslinger, Les Shore. By playing off Iris and Shore against each other, Cheyenne eventually frees himself and his fellow prisoners while returning control of the mine to Stagge and his daughter.
Director: Walter Doniger
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10 87 votes
#16 - The Reprieve
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1959
Cheyenne poses as robber Wes McQueen to find the late crook's hidden loot.
Director: Paul Henreid
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10 79 votes
#17 - The Young Fugitives
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1961
Young Gilby Collins outshoots ""the Great Kinsey"" in a carnival competition and wins a gun. When Nita, Kinsey's assistant, congratulates Collins, her sore-loser boss manhandles her. Collins comes to her defense, Kinsey draws a gun, and Collins shoots him dead. Kinsey's relatives, the Crawfords, plan to lynch Collins despite Nita's insistence that Collins fired in self defense. Cheyenne steps forward, saying that Collins should be taken to the Marshal in a nearby town for a fair trial. Not trusting the legal system, however, Collins flees toward Mexico along with Nita. The elder Crawford organizes a posse and goes after them. Cheyenne rides along with the posse, anxious to see that justice is done even if it means risking a horsewhipping at the hands of the vengeful Crawford.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lester Fuller
- 8.0/10 145 votes
#18 - 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
- 8.0/10 117 votes
#19 - 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
- 8.0/10 125 votes
#20 - 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
- 8.0/10 99 votes
#21 - Born Bad
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/26/1957
While working as a small town sheriff Cheyenne falls for a girl who's father was a sheriff & her brother is a killer.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 94 votes
#22 - The Broken Pledge
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 6/4/1957
An Indian uprising results when reporter Fay Kirby tries to interview Sitting Bull.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 81 votes
#23 - The Last Comanchero
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/14/1958
Cheyenne must stand up to a lynch mob to protect his captive, a man who sold guns to the Indians.
Director: Douglas Heyes
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 89 votes
#24 - Apache Blood
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 2/8/1960
Cheyenne sides with a white man raised by Apaches when a vengeful character tries to break up his marriage.
Director: William J. Hole Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 79 votes
#25 - Winchester Quarantine
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1961
A fiery cattlewoman involves Cheyenne in her business and her life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A