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Wagon Train (1957)
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
Seasons & episodes
E1Willy Moran, a drunk, is hired by a wagon as a driver. He is an army buddy of the Major, but is used as a fall guy by a member of the train…
E2The train cannot get supplies after a member kills the son of the man who owns most of St. Joseph in self-defense. He escapes with the help…
E3John Cameron, from Philadelphia, heads west with his wife to start a new life. Her flirtatious ways may get the better of her when three tr…
E4Ruth Owens remarries and is moving west with her new husband. When her brother comes looking for her, he stirs up trouble for her about her…
E5Les Rand, just released from prison for murder, goes back home to kill the man he held responsible; his father, the doctor. Meanwhile, Flin…
E6A pacifist since the war, Nels Stack stands up to any man prejudiced against another. When his own beliefs are tested in the face of an imp…
E7Emily Rossiter had a young daughter to care for. She met and married someone she felt she could trust. When she found out this was misplace…
E8When the train picks up an abandoned drunk on the trail, he exposes John Darro to be the reviled coward John Thurman who abandoned a previo…
E9Lieutenant Avery has a mission. Deliver a peace treaty and the chief's daughter. But he has a secret vendetta that may jeopardize everyone'…
E10Mary Halstead is in search of a son she gave up a long time ago. With months to live, she comes west on the trail of someone who could be h…
E11The wagon train stops in a newly built town to get water they had always been able to get before for free. Wanting money now, and at a stee…
E12Riley Gratton has always drifted from here to there, a smooth tongue getting him whatever he needed. When he tries to do the same with some…
E13When a new officer and troops kill an Indian brave and the post commander's drunken bored wife insults the Chief, Flint is forced to act as…
E14A head strong Julie Gage is determined to ride her wagon to California. Losing her pa to fever, many suitors step up to help but she'll hav…
E15Mortally wounded in a buffalo stampede, Cliff Grundy's friend Flint stays when the wagon train leaves. Manson says he will help but his rea…
E16Luke O'Malley is running from an outlaw who said he would kill him for turning him into the law. Since he won't believe he didn't do it, he…
E17The Cowans and Beals have been feuding a long time. Bob and Jesse return from the war and find their family dead and the Beals have joined…
E18Gabe Carswell wants his son to join the whites because of what he sees coming for the Indians. When his son refuses he takes him to the wag…
E19Don Charlie is a gambler and womanizer and makes no excuses for it. When he meets a woman who wants to marry him there may be trouble becau…
E20Dora Gray has made some poor choices in her life. Just wanting to get to San Francisco, her latest one involves someone who sells army guns…
E21The MacGregor clan decides to come to America and start a new life. The wagon trains going to California have had a hard time dealing with…
E22Bill Tawnee served his country heroically. When Major Adams recognizes him on the trail and sees he is unable to wake, he asks his wife to…
E23Jack Hanford built his wealth to give his son. He turns it all down to honor his Cheyenne heritage when his mother dies. To make matters wo…
E24Revolutionary Bernal Sierra joins the train finding the wife of his dead friend married to Casey Reardon who sold guns to the Mexican revol…
E25A beautiful woman riding with the train likes flirting. When she gets mixed up with the wrong man, she strings along a boy on the train in…
E26Horse, a name he comes to be called, is searching for himself. Since he doesn't feel that he found it in Boston, where he grew up, he tries…
E27During a storm, Flint takes shelter at a farmhouse. He soon discovers the husband is refusing his wife the care of a midwife and before it'…
E28Sally Potter hitches a ride on the wagon train but being pretty helps and hurts her. Someone she knew catches up to the train and wants to…
E29Faith is tested when a man's wife is injured and he refuses medical aid. When Flint rides to the nearest town to get a doctor, he finds the…
E30During the Civil War Charlie Wooster joins Bill Hawks under the command of Major Seth Adams. When Adams is seriously wounded saving Hawks's…
E31Years after the Civil War, Major Adams gets a second chance with his lost love Ranie, who had married in his absence. But happiness doesn't…
E32Disguised as Yank soldiers, a band of confederate marauders blend into the wagon train, planning on robbing everyone. They are at first sto…
E33In a growing town, Seth meets a friend from his distant past. He remembers how they met and the circumstances bringing them west. When his…
E34Ruttledge Munroe joins the wagon train on the trail. It's noticed right off his odd sense of humor but when he saves the major's life, it i…
E35On one final push to the west, a wild west showman runs into some old friends. Some that were part of a massacre that almost cost them thei…
E36Trail hardened Cassie Tanner joins the train, and sets her eye on Major Adams. But the train desperately needs horses, and she may be the o…
E37Tensions are running high in the train between northerners and southerners traveling west. As trouble escalates one passenger with a notice…
E38Low on water, Flint scouts for more. When three water holes are dry or poisoned, Fort Paiute seems their only hope but he has to make it ba…
E39At the end of a long journey, lives were lost. Some made it with their dreams intact. Flint tries to help two of the passengers with theirs…
Cast
John McIntireChristopher Hale
Robert FullerCooper Smith
Michael BurnsBarnaby West
Frank McGrathCharlie Wooster
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