Cheyenne
The Brand
TV Flash files “The Brand” as hour 31 of 108 in the TV Flash guide — Cheyenne (1955–1963) on ABC, season 2, episode 16, aired 1957-04-09, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E16: listed hour 31 of 108 in the Cheyenne guide, hour 16 of 20 in season 2. It aired 1957-04-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Born Bad” (S02E15). Next is “Decision at Gunsight” (S02E17).
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Brand sit in the Cheyenne guide?
S02E16 is listed hour 31 of 108 — hour 16 of 20 in season 2, season 2 episode 16.
When did Cheyenne S02E16 air?
The Brand aired 1957-04-09 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Walker as Bodie on the trail-job weeks — the drifting mountain is the brief. Hour-western architecture is the reason to look.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Cheyenne is TV's first hour-long western smash: Clint Walker as a drifting mountain of a hero, Warner Bros. trail jobs, a contract walkout in the legend. Watch it in 2026 as the floodgate for adult hour westerns — 108 black-and-white episodes of big landscape, weekly ethics, and a studio factory learning to scale.
The silhouette is a mountain in a saddle. Clint Walker's towering Cheyenne Bodie wandered the West as a jack-of-all-trades loner on ABC's *Cheyenne* (1955–1962 in the facts; the catalog years run to 1963), 108 black-and-white episodes across seven seasons, widely cited as television's first successful hour-long western series. Trail jobs, moral tests, Walker filling the frame. Warner Bros. used it as a cornerstone of the network western boom. Big man, big landscape, weekly ethics. The timeline can argue about…
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- Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie
Clint Walker played Cheyenne Bodie on Cheyenne — TV's first hour-long western smash, a drifting mountain of a hero, Warner Bros. trail jobs, a contract walkout in the legend. 108 black-and-white episodes of big landscape and weekly…