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Cheyenne is a solid western series, but it is problematic in certain ways. One problem is a complete lack of internal logic. For instance, in Season 3 they did a two-parter about the death of Custer at Little Big Horn. But in season 4 they had an episode where an army officer told the star (Clint Walker) that Col. Custer was asking for him to help scout in the Black Hills. Huh? Custer died the season before! Also, Bode had way too many jobs for any one man. This series was supposed to take place in the 1870s, 80s, and maybe 90s. But Bode was a sheriff one week, a Mexican freight man another, a cattle drover, in another, back to being a sheriff in a completely different town the next, then a cattle drover again, and even an Army spy several times... seriously. This guy had every job in the west in those tiny few number of years. There is no way he could have been elected sheriff in half a dozen towns, yet also spent a year driving cattle half a dozen times, AND been a drifter, and hired hand half a dozen other times in just 20 or so years. Each show on its own is fine, granted, but they just had Bode doing too many things, and the series taken as a whole just makes no cohesive sense as a story about a man's life.
score 7/10
igcolonel 14 October 2019
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