Wagon Train
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.
Season 1 Episodes
E1
Willy 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 …
E2
The train cannot get supplies after a member kills the son of the man who owns most of St. Joseph in self-defense. He es…
E3
John Cameron, from Philadelphia, heads west with his wife to start a new life. Her flirtatious ways may get the better o…
E4
Ruth Owens remarries and is moving west with her new husband. When her brother comes looking for her, he stirs up troubl…
E5
Les Rand, just released from prison for murder, goes back home to kill the man he held responsible; his father, the doct…
E6
A pacifist since the war, Nels Stack stands up to any man prejudiced against another. When his own beliefs are tested in…
E7
Emily Rossiter had a young daughter to care for. She met and married someone she felt she could trust. When she found ou…
E8
When the train picks up an abandoned drunk on the trail, he exposes John Darro to be the reviled coward John Thurman who…
E9
Lieutenant Avery has a mission. Deliver a peace treaty and the chief's daughter. But he has a secret vendetta that may j…
E10
Mary 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 som…
E11
The wagon train stops in a newly built town to get water they had always been able to get before for free. Wanting money…
E12
Riley Gratton has always drifted from here to there, a smooth tongue getting him whatever he needed. When he tries to do…
E13
When a new officer and troops kill an Indian brave and the post commander's drunken bored wife insults the Chief, Flint …
E14
A head strong Julie Gage is determined to ride her wagon to California. Losing her pa to fever, many suitors step up to …
E15
Mortally wounded in a buffalo stampede, Cliff Grundy's friend Flint stays when the wagon train leaves. Manson says he wi…
E16
Luke O'Malley is running from an outlaw who said he would kill him for turning him into the law. Since he won't believe …
E17
The Cowans and Beals have been feuding a long time. Bob and Jesse return from the war and find their family dead and the…
E18
Gabe Carswell wants his son to join the whites because of what he sees coming for the Indians. When his son refuses he t…
E19
Don Charlie is a gambler and womanizer and makes no excuses for it. When he meets a woman who wants to marry him there m…
E20
Dora Gray has made some poor choices in her life. Just wanting to get to San Francisco, her latest one involves someone …
E21
The MacGregor clan decides to come to America and start a new life. The wagon trains going to California have had a hard…
E22
Bill Tawnee served his country heroically. When Major Adams recognizes him on the trail and sees he is unable to wake, h…
E23
Jack Hanford built his wealth to give his son. He turns it all down to honor his Cheyenne heritage when his mother dies.…
E24
Revolutionary Bernal Sierra joins the train finding the wife of his dead friend married to Casey Reardon who sold guns t…
E25
A beautiful woman riding with the train likes flirting. When she gets mixed up with the wrong man, she strings along a b…
E26
Horse, a name he comes to be called, is searching for himself. Since he doesn't feel that he found it in Boston, where h…
E27
During a storm, Flint takes shelter at a farmhouse. He soon discovers the husband is refusing his wife the care of a mid…
E28
Sally Potter hitches a ride on the wagon train but being pretty helps and hurts her. Someone she knew catches up to the …
E29
Faith is tested when a man's wife is injured and he refuses medical aid. When Flint rides to the nearest town to get a d…
E30
During the Civil War Charlie Wooster joins Bill Hawks under the command of Major Seth Adams. When Adams is seriously wou…
E31
Years after the Civil War, Major Adams gets a second chance with his lost love Ranie, who had married in his absence. Bu…
E32
Disguised as Yank soldiers, a band of confederate marauders blend into the wagon train, planning on robbing everyone. Th…
E33
In a growing town, Seth meets a friend from his distant past. He remembers how they met and the circumstances bringing t…
E34
Ruttledge Munroe joins the wagon train on the trail. It's noticed right off his odd sense of humor but when he saves the…
E35
On one final push to the west, a wild west showman runs into some old friends. Some that were part of a massacre that al…
E36
Trail hardened Cassie Tanner joins the train, and sets her eye on Major Adams. But the train desperately needs horses, a…
E37
Tensions are running high in the train between northerners and southerners traveling west. As trouble escalates one pass…
E38
Low on water, Flint scouts for more. When three water holes are dry or poisoned, Fort Paiute seems their only hope but h…
E39
At the end of a long journey, lives were lost. Some made it with their dreams intact. Flint tries to help two of the pas…
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