Cheyenne

Cheyenne is a 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 regular 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 ori... more

Original network:

Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 20, 1955

Air date of final episode:

  • Apr 30, 1962

Original episode running time:

  • 1 h

Number of episodes:

  • 108
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