Encore Westerns only airs 107 of the 108 original episodes!
From January 1 to April 24, 2009 the Encore Westerns
channel has aired a supposed full-run of "Cheyenne".
But it seems that the network syndication package
that Encore Westerns channel acquired has had the ep
"A Man Called Ragan" removed from it. This can be
seen in several ways. First, it should have aired
as episode #95 on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2009, but instead
of "Ragan", ep. #96 "The Durango Brothers" aired,
and in the Encore Westerns schedule PDF file
"0904WST1.pdf" it clearly states that their package
regards "Durango Brothers" as #95. Also, the end of
the Cheyenne run, when it wraps back to #1 which is
on Friday, April 24, 2009, it is expected that the
last episode to air would be #108, but the PDF file
clearly shows Encore Westerns regards that one as
ep. #107; that is because ONE episode of the 108
does not air in their pack, that being:
"A Man Called Ragan". Evidently, the powers-that-be
have decreed that since Clint Walker does not appear
in ep #95, and since ep #95 was simply a PILOT ep
for "The Dakotas", that it is not a proper inclusion
in the "Cheyenne" network syndex package. I am
posting this here under Notes for "A Man Called Ragan"
so that other TV recording completists who are
wondering (after recording the whole "Cheyenne" run
for four months off Encore Westerns) ... 'where the
heck is episode 95?', can search Google and find the
details of the above analysis ... and appreciate the
other 107 episodes they did get.