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At The End Of The Day.

posted 16 years ago by g8856
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Warner Brothers produced 108 Episodes of "CHEYENNE".
Less than 5% were Remakes/Rip Offs (Whatever turns you on) from other Warner Brothers Movies.
Just imagine "The Cyber Space Traffic",if it had exceeded 5%.
In other words,this is all :-
"A Storm In A Teacup (Not Original Phrase- Remake/Rip Off).
Luckily,many people in the States,have the opportunity to see this great tv show for the first time via the Encore Western Channel.
Many Babyboomers,like myself,saw the "CHEYENNE Episodes",before the Warner Brothers Movies,as we were brought up on TV Westerns.
Finally,there was one Danny Kaye Film called:-
On The Riviera
This was filmed previously on 2 other occasions.
The film did not hurt Danny Kaye's International Career and The "CHEYENNE Show" continued for another 6 Successful Seasons-World Wide.

[–] cvalance 16 years ago

Where did you come up with that 5% figure?

[–] g8856 16 years ago

I have seen all of the 108 episodes of CHEYENNE and I can only come up with the maximum of 4-5 ,that were remakes of other Warner Bros movies.

[–] cvalance 16 years ago

What are the 4 or 5 you came up with?

[–] g8856 16 years ago

They have already been mentioned in previous posts.Just check them out.
Personally,I wish all the Warner Brothers Movies were to become Remakes for the "CHEYENNE Show".
The more Clint Walker-The Better.

[–] DontBogartMe 16 years ago

Seeing all 108 Cheyenne episodes is some feat, but not enough. You must also be familiar with every Warner's motion picture ever produced. Otherwise, how would you know if a Cheyenne episode were based on a Warner's movie that you've never seen?

[–] ZevII 16 years ago

I bought the Cheyenne season I DVD about a year ago and a couple of the episodes were movie remakes ("Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was one, "I think to Have and Have Not" was the other).

It didn't bother me, but it surprised me. I tried to imagine what TV watchers were thinking in 1955. Classic movies probably weren't available to see like they are today, so would these shows have been a promotional hook to attract viewers, or would the audience be saying 'What the heck are they doing?" Or maybe there was a writer's strike and this gave them too easy scripts.

Like I said, it wasn't a big deal to me, but it was curious to see.

I've also noticed that my favorite western, Maverick, did some borrowing from Cheyenne. Roy Huggins had his hand in both shows, so that's probably not surprising.

Diane Brewster played Samantha Crawford on Cheyenne before she reprised it on Maverick, and I believe the cattle drive episode that she was in on Cheyenne was remade (with another actress) on Maverick.

[–] DontBogartMe 16 years ago

The borrowing was worse than that. During the run of Maverick, there was a writer's strike. As a result, Maverick scripts were recycled for another Warner's show, The Alaskans starring Roger Moore. When exposed, the producers said they thought no one would notice.