Writer:	Lester Fuller
Director:	James P. Yarbrough
Star:	Russ McCubbin ((Stunt Man For Clint Walker As Cheyenne Bodie)),  Clint Walker (Cheyenne Bodie)
Recurring Role:	Lane Chandler (Proudhomme)
Guest Star:	Don Haggerty (Sam Kinsey),  Edward Knight (the Great Kinsey),  Barry Cahill (Ransom),  Anne Whitfield (Nita),  Richard Evans (Gilby Collins),  Paul Langton (Sheriff),  Dayton Lummis (Frank Collins),  Charles Tannen (Perkins),  Dale van Sickel (Posse Member - uncredited),  Trevor Bardette (Lige Crawford),  Richard Rogers (Alfred Crawford)

"Take his gun and strip off his shirt. Tie 'im up." When the vengeance-seeking leader of a posse says these words about Cheyenne, viewer interest surely picked up all across America, especially when the leader adds: "I want my whip." Moments later, a member of the posse finishes tying the wrists of a bare-chested Cheyenne to a horizontal tree branch. The posse leader then turns his whip over to his son with the order: "Hit 'im!" The son, however, has scruples. "No one's gonna tell me to horsewhip a man, not even my own father." Thus, after all the build-up, Cheyenne is cut free without receiving a single lash. This is one of the greatest "teases" in TV westerns, along with a sequence in "Rawhide" in which both Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood are tied shirtless to trees and threatened with a whip only to be rescued at the last possible moment. Perhaps the makers of "Cheyenne" felt that Clint Walker had such a broad back, no whip was up to the task of striking it! In any case, this almost-whipping scene illustrates two common points about the "Cheyenne" series: (1) Situations were always found to strip Clint Walker of his shirt, and (2)
Clint Walker, despite his size and strength, usually played his character with a certain passive, almost masochistic quality. Here, for example, he's in a situation where he's about to be horsewhipped -- perhaps savagely and without mercy -- and yet he's shown meekly standing next to the tree branch as his wrists are tied, making no protests and offering no resistance. One wonders if such Quaker-like behavior would ever be found in any of today's "action heroes." (edit)

Cheyenne: "A gun has no moral standard of its own accord, Frank. It's kinda up to the man that's using it." (edit)

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