Yes. Clint Walker was a big guy and I suppose it may have been his idea (or that of the show’s writers and producers) to have Cheyenne be vulnerable and not always come out on top in fights, as was always the case for the Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy types, so he would get jumped by a pipsqueak and have a hard time winning the fight after getting knocked around a lot.
In one episode Clint Eastwood played a tough who confronted Cheyenne with something like, “Bodie, I accuse you of cow-ar-dise.” That was before Eastwood decame Rowdy Yates on Rawhide (if my memory serves).
In the process of trying to find that line on a YouTube clip, I ran across Clint Walker arm wrestles Peter Graves which might amuse Mission: Impossible fans just a touch.
The dumb bimbo doesn’t, in general, appeal to me. But April Bowlby made this character work. She is smokin’ hot of course, but for most of the show also sweet. I don’t know if, IRL, I would tolerate her (character) for long, but for most of her stint on the show, she was the highlight of the episodes she was in.
I generally don’t care for stupid either. This really rocked because it is so difficult to make it work. I was hoping for a spin-off called “I like Candy”, but for some reason the producers didn’t see the gold.
Oh, another one that really worked for me was Lisa Robin Kelly as Laurie Foreman on “That '70’s Show” as the evil slut. I understand that the actress was impossible to work with, but I swear back in the 70s I knew a few young women exactly like that.
Bret Maverick (Maverick)
Number 6 (The Prisoner)
Columbo (Columbo)
Jim Ignatowski (Taxi)
Gus McCrae (Lonesome Dove)
Lennie Briscoe (Law & Order)
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt (Numb3rs)
Andy Travis (WKRP)
Niles Crane (Frasier)
Dr. Luka and Dr. Abby (on ER)
Dr. Gregory House (House)
Capt. Dylan Hunt (Andromeda)
Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper (MTM Show and Rhoda)
The whole cast of Northern Exposure.
There are others, but just off the top of my head, I enjoyed the above characters and remember the shows fondly.
No way to argue that point, but it’s fun looking over the Full cast and crew for “Cheyenne” (1955) to try to find such an individual. I was quite surprised to see that I must have missed the episode(s) where James Garner appeared as Bret!
It’s also unsettling not to find Clint Eastwood’s credit there, or on his own page. I must have misremembered the thing with his delivery of that line I so associate with him. Must be another young actor just getting started on his way to bigger and better things.
A quick list of initial thoughts:
Homer Simpson
Mal Reynolds
Omar!
Jack Donaghey (which I’m sure is spelled wrong)
CM Punk (maybe not the kind of character you’re thinking of)
