The Storm Riders

I believe that by this point in the first season, producer Hal Wallis had a fairly good understanding of Clint Walker's assets. He had the ability to be rough and tough and hyper-masculine (needed in a weekly Western), while at the same time projecting decency, morality, and most important, a lack of any threat to women. Cheyenne was unmarried and did not have even a steady girl, so as to be more attractive for fantasy purposes.

This story in its pre-title sequence, suggests that the plot will be about the conflict with Mr. Storm, but that quickly becomes a subplot in the set-up of the real theme: how Cheyenne Bodie drove frontier women wild.

Cheyenne finds that he has to keep a steady nerve to fend off the amorous advances of a elderly rancher's younger wife.

Sheila Dembro played by Beverley Michaels throws herself at our hero after she tends his wounds following a beating by a crooked cattle baron's thugs. Sheila's sexual side is obviously not fulfilled and her desire to entrap Cheyenne pushes her to commit the ultimate sin...MURDER!!

If this is not enough for Bodie to contend with, her 17 year old stepdaughter also has designs on him, but not to the extent of her step-mom!

Yet,while all this is going on, Cheyenne still finds time to have a shoot-out with a hired gun and kick-start the local ranchers into forming an alliance to take on the dastardly cattle baron Martin Storm, played with aplomb by veteran actor Barton MacLane.

For me, Beverley Michaels steals the honours with her portrayal of the crazed wife with madness and lust in her eyes!! Beverley's movie career seemed to fold soon after and she disappeared into obscurity, I wonder whatever happened to her?