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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
While preparing to return to St. Joseph, the men read the story "Wagon Ho" written and printed by Samuel T. Evans about his trip as a naive…
Adams' "distant" cousin Horace arrives hoping to be a wagon master. His trading skills allow him to steal the crew and vendors from Adams b…
Arrogant British Colonel Albert Farnsworth causes an uproar in camp and puts the wagon train in danger of Indian attack, resulting in the c…
When someone yells horse thief, Flint shoots a man only to find he is the husband of a childhood friend. Flint learns the man is mayor and…
Bill Hawkes is leading 3 wagons through Indian territory. They run into trouble with Mexician bandits lead by Lee Marvin. When the 2 groups…
Ordered by Major Adams to guide three passengers to a campsite up a haunted mountain, Flint does so but with caution: rumours that an escap…
One murder begets a second murder while a treacherous journey awaits the wagon train. An unknown scout and Kiowa Indians threaten the pass.…
Heed the signs! Or so says Samuel Bleymier. When the rains won't stop a splintered group of the wagon train has to travel through a Sioux I…
Dr. Craven feels he can't perform surgery any longer. When he joins the wagon train and his services are desperately needed, he realizes he…
Flint discovers a badly wounded waitress on the range and takes her to a doctor, where he finds the evil town's owner wants to hang her wit…
Gabe Henry and his son have been sorely missing the female touch over five years now. Finding a wife during a stopover is his top priority…
A green Army Colonel wipes out a village of Comanche women and children thinking he is getting revenge. The wagon train must face on the on…
Roger Bigelow turns to the ministry with his father's help when he realizes what he might become without it. He gets the chance to help som…
When the wagon train passes through town, habitually drunk Jeremy Dow finds that his past has caught up with him. His choices: continue run…
Wounded Bill Strode arrives in camp looking for Flint. Strode, who saved Flint's life in Abilene, asks Flint to help him get to Fort Kearny…
A Quaker schoolteacher heads to the Arapaho nation on the wagon train when her husband is killed. She meets the Chief and his willingness t…
A retired Captain and ten boys join the wagon train on their way to California. Hitching a ride was all he thought he was involving the boy…
Bill and Major Adams plan on going hunting with a friend but when he is not home they suspect a renegade party of Cheyenne who have broken…
The story of the women of the wagon train and the unforgiving prairie through which they pass. Who will endure, and who will give up? Who w…
At a Rocky Mountains fort , a wounded soldier asks his old friend Ruddy Blaine to bring his daughter to him before he dies. With the Ute In…
Looking forward to some time off, Flint heads towards the town of Monument but runs into an old man and some kids whose parents were just m…
The leaders of the wagon train are taken aback when they see a woman asking to join the wagon train who is the twin of Major Adams one and…
When Flint brings a stranded woman and boy to the train, her husband who went off to find help is also found but his return to the train se…
A married couple use the wife's innocent face and winning way with children to gain the trust of their companions on the wagon train so tha…
Flint meets Chris Hale alone on the prairie. Hale has just found his entire family massacred by Indians, and Flint asks him to join the wag…
Bill Hawks is leading four wagons through to California when they are stopped by Tiburcio Mendez and his band of renegades, who demand they…
When actress Nellie Jefferson joins the wagon train, her incessant demands for special treatment come to grate on Hale and Hawks, but Woost…
Saul Bevins, a blind doctor traveling with his son, his sister, and his dog, asks to join the wagon train. Many others on the train object…
Polish immigrant Joe Muharich tries to befriend and hopefully straighten out Johnny Kamen, a brash young man who doesn't take well to anyon…
With his clever tall tales, old prospector Henry Shannon talks Charlie Wooster into coming with him to search for a gold mine. When Hawks f…
The Santee family---Will, his mother, and his younger sister---join the wagon train under a false surname. They have been forced out of tow…
An Army general announces he is taking over the wagon train and requiring all members to act as soldiers in helping him rescue a trapped ca…
Flint goes to visit Eleanor Culhane, an old flame of his who had been married to a notorious gunman. He finds everyone in the town she live…
An Italian immigrant couple needs help in transporting water for their grapevines to California. Unfortunately, the two men who offer the u…
A flashback episode - Chris Hale's duties as wagonmaster require him to leave his family in their prairie home.
Flint comes across four survivors of an Indian massacre, the two Ellison sisters and two Carder brothers. One of the sisters is deaf and mu…
Dissatisfied with Charley Wooster, Hale and Hawks push for a new cook - a Chinese cook named Ah Chong.
A dying Spanish nobleman asks Flint to impersonate Don Alvarado to claim the inheritance for the rest of his family. This brings Flint into…
Cast
John McIntireChristopher Hale
Robert FullerCooper Smith
Michael BurnsBarnaby West
Frank McGrathCharlie Wooster
Terry WilsonBill HawksYou may also like
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