Cheyenne
Prisoner of Moon Mesa
TV Flash files “Prisoner of Moon Mesa” as hour 61 of 108 in the TV Flash guide — Cheyenne (1955–1963) on ABC, season 4, episode 6, aired 1959-11-16, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E06: listed hour 61 of 108 in the Cheyenne guide, hour 6 of 13 in season 4. It aired 1959-11-16 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Imposter” (S04E05). Next is “Gold, Glory and Custer - Prelude (1)” (S04E07).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Prisoner of Moon Mesa sit in the Cheyenne guide?
S04E06 is listed hour 61 of 108 — hour 6 of 13 in season 4, season 4 episode 6.
When did Cheyenne S04E06 air?
Prisoner of Moon Mesa aired 1959-11-16 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…