TV series · 1955WesternDrama

Cheyenne

Name: Cheyenne
Released: 1955

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AI Woke Score

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No detectable agenda — story first.

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The Verdict

A classic 1955 Warner Bros. Western built around a traditional masculine frontier hero. It contains none of the identity messaging this scale measures and is entirely clean across every axis.

What the AI Flagged

Each axis scored 0–100, with the receipts. The headline score weights the worst offense, so a single egregious element isn't diluted by the rest.

Identity Swaps

An original 1950s Western hero; no established characters swapped.

Girlboss & Male Demotion

A traditional male frontier hero; no male-demotion messaging.

LGBTQ+ / Trans / Non-Binary Content

No LGBTQ+ content in this 1950s Western.

DEI Casting

Cast reflects standard mid-century Western conventions.

Preachiness

Episodic adventure storytelling with no modern activist messaging.

Anti-Masculinity / Anti-West

Celebrates a rugged, larger-than-life masculine hero; no anti-Western framing.

Cheyenne Bodie as a 'big man' and 'larger-than-life hero'

Source Betrayal

Original property, no source material to betray.

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Details

Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV series
Genres: Western, Drama

Synopsis

Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

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AI analysis

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Analysis generated June 9, 2026

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