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Wagon Train (1957)

6.6 8 seasons 284 episodes Ended
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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.

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Seasons & episodes

E1
The Bob Stuart StorySep 20, 1964

Ex-Marshal Bob Stuart and his new wife are among three wagons joining Chris Hale's wagon train. Scout Cooper Smith is assigned to escort th…

E2
The Hide HuntersSep 27, 1964

Hide hunters, hunters who kill buffalo for their hides only, have temporarily joined up with the wagon train. One of their number, Gib Ryke…

E3
The John Gillman StoryOct 4, 1964

John Gillman being chased and shot in the leg by a posse escapes via a river. He is found downriver nearly passes out by a young orphan gir…

E4
The Race Town StoryOct 11, 1964

Bill accompanies Barnaby to Sam Race's tent city of "entertainers", where a girl from the train that Barnaby likes has taken a job, not as…

E5
The Barbara Lindquist StoryOct 18, 1964

Cooper Smith is on his way to the town of Washburn to pick up long awaited mail for the wagon train when he stumbles upon a stagecoach robb…

E6
The Brian Conlin StoryOct 25, 1964

Brian Conlin walks into Hale's camp, delirious and dehydrated. After he recovers, he leads Coop to his group of Irish immigrants, whose wag…

E7
The Alice Whitetree StoryNov 1, 1964

Coop falls for a young half-Indian woman wandering alone in the wilderness. He brings her to the wagon train, where Hale discovers she is a…

E8
Those Who Stay BehindNov 8, 1964

Hale is unable to take everybody on the next phase and has to turn down some of those applying. One is Ben Campbell, an ex-convict who is b…

E9
The Nancy Styles StoryNov 22, 1964

Spoiled Nancy Styles, claiming to be the daughter of the owner of the company that owns the wagon train, is determined to get to Denver by…

E10
The Richard Bloodgood StoryNov 29, 1964

A blind man called Sangre has joined the wagon train along with his guide. He is actually Coop's boyhood blood brother Richard Bloodgood, a…

E11
The Clay Shelby StoryDec 6, 1964

With Hawks ill and Comanches threatening to attack, an Army troop meets up with the wagon train. The Indians appear to greatly outnumber th…

E12
Little Girl LostDec 13, 1964

A little girl, crying each night, appears to be a ghost from The Donner Party. Many people hear her, but she appears each night to Charlie,…

E13
The Hector Heatherton StoryDec 20, 1964

Charlie has finally found someone else who shares his dream of man being able to fly, henpecked inventor Hector Heatherton, who has been wo…

E14
The Echo Pass StoryJan 3, 1965

While out looking for water Coop and Charlie are stopped by a gang of five, including two women, who are on the run after robbing a bank an…

E15
The Chottsie Gubenheimer StoryJan 10, 1965

Hale finds his old flame Chottsie Gubenheimer working in a gambling house and in an argument with the owner, so he asks her to come with hi…

E16
The Wanda Snow StoryJan 17, 1965

Wanda Snow has several times seen events before they have happened, causing several people on the wagon train to accuse her of being a witc…

E17
The Isaiah Quickfox StoryJan 31, 1965

Coop and Charlie ride into a small village for supplies finding it deserted. There is an Indian who stays hidden and later three men and a…

E18
HermanFeb 14, 1965

The wagon train comes across old Jamison Hershey and Herman, his 3000 pound Belgian horse. The old man has made it safely through hostile I…

E19
The Bonnie Brooke StoryFeb 21, 1965

Don Brooke is desperate for money for his pregnant wife Bonnie, who's condition is too delicate for the long trip without more medical care…

E20
The Miss Mary Lee McIntosh StoryFeb 28, 1965

Teacher Mary Lee McIntosh refuses to pay what she feels is an excessive fee to join the wagon train, so she decides instead to follow behin…

E21
The Captain Sam StoryMar 21, 1965

Tough and headstrong female ferryboat captain Samantha Stewart is asked by her son Johnny and his bride to accompany them on the wagon trai…

E22
The Betsy Blee Smith StoryMar 28, 1965

Despite the advice of some Coop decides to visit former girlfriend Eloise Blee, but finds Eloise gone, and instead winds up being talked in…

E23
The Katy Piper StoryApr 11, 1965

Barnaby is forced to shot and kill a boy his own age who took a woman and her daughters hostage. He is cleared of any wrongdoing but cannot…

E24
The Indian Girl StoryApr 18, 1965

A white renegade rides into the wagon train camp with an Indian girl tied to a rope and forced to walk without food or water. He says that…

E25
The Silver LadyApr 25, 1965

Coop tells Bill the story of the Earp brothers and the Silver Lady, a woman who was encased in a coffin of sliver coins that melted around…

E26
The Jarbo Pierce StoryMay 2, 1965

The series' final episode begins and ends with the two characters who stayed with it from beginning to end, as Charlie tells Hawks about hi…

Cast

John McIntireChristopher Hale
Robert FullerCooper Smith
Michael BurnsBarnaby West
Frank McGrathCharlie Wooster
Terry WilsonBill Hawks

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