Cheyenne
The Greater Glory
TV Flash files “The Greater Glory” as the last listed hour of season 5 — Cheyenne (1955–1963) on ABC, season 5, episode 13, aired 1961-05-15, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E13: listed hour 81 of 108 in the Cheyenne guide, last listed hour of season 5. It aired 1961-05-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Massacre at Gunsight Pass” (S05E12). Next is “Winchester Quarantine” (S06E01).
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Greater Glory sit in the Cheyenne guide?
S05E13 is listed hour 81 of 108 — last listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 13.
When did Cheyenne S05E13 air?
The Greater Glory aired 1961-05-15 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…