IT HAS BEEN said that there are some people who always manage to find trouble or visa-versa. Cheyenne Bodie would certainly have to be considered one of these guys.
WHILE STOPPING LONG enough from his wanderings in the Olde West in order to help out an old friend, Charley Dolan (John Qualen) from a previous time, Cheyenne gets involved in some crooked scheme to dispossess his friend from his homestead.
THROUGH AN EERIE string of "coincidences" he also befriends a local with a drinking problem, Boyd Copeland (Mark Roberts) who also just coincidentally is married to Cheyenne's old acquaintance Paula (Anne Robinson).
THE STORY EXPANDS to include a homicide by arson of the local newspaper publisher (Uncle of Boyd's), the effort to re-open the paper's operation and a shootout between Cheyenne and the local corrupt would be political boss. Just for good measure, we witness a cross country wagon journey that is supposed to have been a mission to bring new printing presses to the town for the paper's new publisher, Boyd.
WE SCREENED THIS episode on the Cable Channel HEROES & ICONS. We can't say whether or not that we had seen this one in its original run; for we did regularly view CHEYENNE in our house. We do believe that this was not one of those banner episodes. This one also makes us wonder how much drifting around the Great Plains, the Rockies, the Panhandles, etc., as he had bumped into two old acquaintances in just one town.