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 3 Episodes
E1
The men are returning to St. Louis by stagecoach except for Flint - until he becomes the driver to help a friend. They a…
E2
At the beginning of any wagon train trip, the challenges faced by everyone turns a greenhorn into a seasoned veteran, ev…
E3
A reporter has joined the wagon train. When the Major finds out he is a she, he finds his hands full especially when her…
E4
Flint find a young man bleeding to death and a knife nearby. He takes the body to sheriff who identifies the man as the …
E5
Elizabeth McQueeny is traveling with her girls, heading to a finishing school in the West. When her real purpose becomes…
E6
Flint and a long time Sioux Indian friend reunite but trouble is brewing as the Cheyenne are on the warpath and in their…
E7
Old salt Cappy Darrin is on the train with his orphaned grandson Tuck. But Cappy's daughter granted custody of Tuck to h…
E8
Tough as nails Felizia Kingdom controls an enormous amount of land by force, and no one is good enough to inherit the re…
E9
Flint, scouting ahead of the wagon train, is in search of fresh meat. With prospects none too good he comes upon a hidde…
E10
He 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 s…
E11
The King orders his womanizing nephew to San Francisco. He joins the wagon train but causes the Major problems as the hu…
E12
Almost Christmas eve, the wagon train deals with a happy time, the perils that go with hostile Indians and a little lost…
E13
As the wagon train moves through Sioux territory, a man named Marshall asks for help in finding his daughter, Ruth, who …
E14
Never having met Lita Foladaire, Major Adams learned a lot about her past, the town she grew up in, the people who loved…
E15
Flint goes to Fort Young to see the Harris family and Bowman Lewis who were friends from his youth. He finds Mrs. Harris…
E16
Trying to give her son a chance, Maidie Brant is found by the wagon train. Needing fresh horses after a cougar attack, s…
E17
On his deathbed, Joe asks Flint to look after his 17-year old son Larry Hanify and get him to California. There was one …
E18
Taking a dangerous route through the desert to join up with the wagon train, a small band of settlers take a turn for th…
E19
One dry water hole is normal but when the wagon train has two, Flint and Ben Burns lead a party to find a legend that on…
E20
Laurie and Ricky Bell uproot and go West, leaving their comforts in Baltimore. When she announces she is pregnant, he is…
E21
Ever since he was young, Tom Tuckett has been sent to good schools and looked after by an unknown benefactor. When he jo…
E22
David Forest always believed his father to be as he claimed. When Tracy Sadler joins the wagon train his beliefs are alt…
E23
Kidnapped, Flint is forced to scout and find a lost Aztec treasure. As some of the men were previously thrown off the wa…
E24
Her father on his deathbed, Christine Elliot decides to fulfill his dream of a boys school and joins the wagon train. A …
E25
Bill and the Major find a man lying hurt, a meal for the buzzards. When he meets an innocent woman on the wagon train wh…
E26
When their daughter runs away from the wagon train, the Hamiltons hire Flint to bring her back. With renegades in the ar…
E27
Out of meat and low on food, the wagon train must not kill any wildlife or all will face the wrath of the local Indians.…
E28
After an argument with Major Adams, Flint leaves the wagon train and mozies up to a bar at a nearby town. What he doesn'…
E29
When a well thought of member of the wagon train is found dead, Adams needs to prevent mob rule and make sure a lawful t…
E30
When the deceased's wife arrives, the people on the wagon train learn that the murdered man has a dark past, and this co…
E31
Countess Baranof is desperate to get to Alaska to claim her family fortune, and with no horses she applies her considera…
E32
A boy hurt in a crippling accident and a domineering mother meet a runaway boy who she feels is making him do things out…
E33
Thinking he is not welcome by the white man or his people, an educated Chiracua Indian returns to find prejudices among …
E34
Luke Grant is found wandering the desert with one wish on his mind - kill me! Turned over to the wagon train by some fri…
E35
A baby girl sure has a rough start when she arrives on the stage with her dead mother. Plague is what people think kille…
E36
Abigail has lost her driver to the better paying mines. Her new driver says he owns a bank and a pig. The ride West reve…
E37
Shadrack Bennington has been a cavalier of the open road, not wanting to be tied down until he joins the wagon train, he…
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