Cheyenne
The Long Search
TV Flash files “The Long Search” as hour 51 of 108 in the TV Flash guide — Cheyenne (1955–1963) on ABC, season 3, episode 16, aired 1958-04-22, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E16: listed hour 51 of 108 in the Cheyenne guide, hour 16 of 20 in season 3. It aired 1958-04-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Wagon-Tongue North” (S03E15). Next is “Standoff” (S03E17).
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Long Search sit in the Cheyenne guide?
S03E16 is listed hour 51 of 108 — hour 16 of 20 in season 3, season 3 episode 16.
When did Cheyenne S03E16 air?
The Long Search aired 1958-04-22 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…