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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
E1The men are returning to St. Louis by stagecoach except for Flint - until he becomes the driver to help a friend. They are forced to take a…
E2At the beginning of any wagon train trip, the challenges faced by everyone turns a greenhorn into a seasoned veteran, even if those may mea…
E3A reporter has joined the wagon train. When the Major finds out he is a she, he finds his hands full especially when her looks and curiosit…
E4Flint find a young man bleeding to death and a knife nearby. He takes the body to sheriff who identifies the man as the youngest Zamora bro…
E5Elizabeth McQueeny is traveling with her girls, heading to a finishing school in the West. When her real purpose becomes known, all the fem…
E6Flint and a long time Sioux Indian friend reunite but trouble is brewing as the Cheyenne are on the warpath and in their way is Fort Hastin…
E7Old salt Cappy Darrin is on the train with his orphaned grandson Tuck. But Cappy's daughter granted custody of Tuck to his uncle, and as th…
E8Tough as nails Felizia Kingdom controls an enormous amount of land by force, and no one is good enough to inherit the responsibility. When…
E9Flint, scouting ahead of the wagon train, is in search of fresh meat. With prospects none too good he comes upon a hidden paradise, green a…
E10He says his name is Tom Smith but a young man Major Adams meets on the trail refuses to join the wagon train and won't say why. When he doe…
E11The King orders his womanizing nephew to San Francisco. He joins the wagon train but causes the Major problems as the husbands are complain…
E12Almost Christmas eve, the wagon train deals with a happy time, the perils that go with hostile Indians and a little lost boy who may have a…
E13As the wagon train moves through Sioux territory, a man named Marshall asks for help in finding his daughter, Ruth, who apparently was take…
E14Never having met Lita Foladaire, Major Adams learned a lot about her past, the town she grew up in, the people who loved her and most impor…
E15Flint goes to Fort Young to see the Harris family and Bowman Lewis who were friends from his youth. He finds Mrs. Harris dead and her husba…
E16Trying to give her son a chance, Maidie Brant is found by the wagon train. Needing fresh horses after a cougar attack, she is reluctant to…
E17On his deathbed, Joe asks Flint to look after his 17-year old son Larry Hanify and get him to California. There was one catch. His latest e…
E18Taking a dangerous route through the desert to join up with the wagon train, a small band of settlers take a turn for the worse when they l…
E19One dry water hole is normal but when the wagon train has two, Flint and Ben Burns lead a party to find a legend that only the Indians spea…
E20Laurie and Ricky Bell uproot and go West, leaving their comforts in Baltimore. When she announces she is pregnant, he is less than happy as…
E21Ever since he was young, Tom Tuckett has been sent to good schools and looked after by an unknown benefactor. When he joins the wagon train…
E22David Forest always believed his father to be as he claimed. When Tracy Sadler joins the wagon train his beliefs are altered when he slowly…
E23Kidnapped, Flint is forced to scout and find a lost Aztec treasure. As some of the men were previously thrown off the wagon train, their un…
E24Her father on his deathbed, Christine Elliot decides to fulfill his dream of a boys school and joins the wagon train. A good start: the ele…
E25Bill and the Major find a man lying hurt, a meal for the buzzards. When he meets an innocent woman on the wagon train who has an inheritanc…
E26When their daughter runs away from the wagon train, the Hamiltons hire Flint to bring her back. With renegades in the area, he soon discove…
E27Out of meat and low on food, the wagon train must not kill any wildlife or all will face the wrath of the local Indians. The one holdout is…
E28After an argument with Major Adams, Flint leaves the wagon train and mozies up to a bar at a nearby town. What he doesn't know is the local…
E29When a well thought of member of the wagon train is found dead, Adams needs to prevent mob rule and make sure a lawful trial takes place. T…
E30When the deceased's wife arrives, the people on the wagon train learn that the murdered man has a dark past, and this could be a case of Ca…
E31Countess Baranof is desperate to get to Alaska to claim her family fortune, and with no horses she applies her considerable charms on Flint…
E32A boy hurt in a crippling accident and a domineering mother meet a runaway boy who she feels is making him do things outside his capabiliti…
E33Thinking he is not welcome by the white man or his people, an educated Chiracua Indian returns to find prejudices among both of them and mu…
E34Luke Grant is found wandering the desert with one wish on his mind - kill me! Turned over to the wagon train by some friendly Chiracawa Ind…
E35A baby girl sure has a rough start when she arrives on the stage with her dead mother. Plague is what people think killed her and then Char…
E36Abigail has lost her driver to the better paying mines. Her new driver says he owns a bank and a pig. The ride West reveals another side of…
E37Shadrack Bennington has been a cavalier of the open road, not wanting to be tied down until he joins the wagon train, heading for San Franc…
Cast
John McIntireChristopher Hale
Robert FullerCooper Smith
Michael BurnsBarnaby West
Frank McGrathCharlie Wooster
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