Brave Eagle

📊 Series Specifications

Network CBS
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 26
Original Language EN

Brave Eagle (1955)

⭐ 4.2 / 5 (3 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 26 Episodes 🏷️ Western, Drama 📡 Ended
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Rating Consensus & Critics

Live Multi-Source
– / 5
MATCHCUT Members
– / 10
IMDb Audience
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TOMATOMETER Critics
– / 100
METASCORE Top Critics
8.3 / 10
TMDB (3)
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Series Status:

This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.

Ended

Synopsis

Brave Eagle is a 26-episode half-hour western television series which aired on CBS from September 28, 1955, to March 14, 1956, with rebroadcasts continuing until June 6. Keith Larsen, who was of Norwegian descent, starred as Brave Eagle, a peaceful young Cheyenne chief. The program was unconventional in that it ⁕ reflects the Native American viewpoint in the settlement of the American West and ⁕ was the first series to feature an American Indian as a lead character. Larsen's co-stars were Kim Winona, a Sioux Indian, as Morning Star, Brave Eagle's romantic interest; Anthony Numkena of Arizona, a Hopi Indian then using the stage name Keena Nomkeena, appeared as Keena, the adopted son of Brave Eagle; Pat Hogan as Black Cloud, and Bert Wheeler of the comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey, as the halfbreed Smokey Joe, full of tribal tall tales but accompanying wisdom. The episodes center upon routine activities among the Cheyenne, clashes with other tribes, attempts to prevent war, encroachment from white settlers, racial prejudice, and a threat of smallpox.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Blood Brother

Keena saves the life of a young Cree brave and, in the Indian tradition, becomes his blood brother. Not long afterward Keena is taken gravely ill, and he learns the wisdom of this old tradition.

E2 Cry of the Heron

An innocent joke starts a chain of events that may lead to war between the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet if Brave Eagle can't put a stop to it.

E3 Treachery at At-Ta-Tu
E4 Gold of Haunted Mountain
E5 Search for the Sun
E6 Moonfire

A stubborn young white girl who is staying at Brave Eagle's village refuses to leave with her uncle, a cavalry officer. The uncle believes she is being held against her will and determines to "rescue" her. In order to avert a war, Brave Eagle must resolve the situation.

E7 Mask of the Manitou
E8 The Flight
E9 Code of a Chief
E10 Face of Fear
E11 Voice of the Serpent
E12 Shield of Honor
E13 The Challenge

Chief Brave Eagle is challenged by a warrior who wants to take his position as chief--in a fight to the death.

E14 Medicine Drums
E15 The Spirit of Hidden Valley
E16 Papoose
E17 The Storm Pool
E18 The Gentle Warrior
E19 The Strange Animal
E20 White Medicine Man
E21 Death Trap
E22 War Paint

Keena, Brave Eagle's adopted son, has defied his father and joined the tribe in an attack on renegade Indians who have attacked a white settlement, and has been captured by the renegades. Brave Eagle sets out to rescue him.

E23 Valley of Decision
E24 Witch Bear
E25 Trouble at Medicine Creek
E26 Ambush at Arrow Pass