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 4 Episodes
While preparing to return to St. Joseph, the men read the story "Wagon Ho" written and printed by Samuel T. Evans about …
Adams' "distant" cousin Horace arrives hoping to be a wagon master. His trading skills allow him to steal the crew and v…
Arrogant British Colonel Albert Farnsworth causes an uproar in camp and puts the wagon train in danger of Indian attack,…
When someone yells horse thief, Flint shoots a man only to find he is the husband of a childhood friend. Flint learns th…
Bill Hawkes is leading 3 wagons through Indian territory. They run into trouble with Mexician bandits lead by Lee Marvin…
Ordered by Major Adams to guide three passengers to a campsite up a haunted mountain, Flint does so but with caution: ru…
One murder begets a second murder while a treacherous journey awaits the wagon train. An unknown scout and Kiowa Indians…
Heed the signs! Or so says Samuel Bleymier. When the rains won't stop a splintered group of the wagon train has to trave…
Dr. Craven feels he can't perform surgery any longer. When he joins the wagon train and his services are desperately nee…
Flint discovers a badly wounded waitress on the range and takes her to a doctor, where he finds the evil town's owner wa…
Gabe Henry and his son have been sorely missing the female touch over five years now. Finding a wife during a stopover i…
A green Army Colonel wipes out a village of Comanche women and children thinking he is getting revenge. The wagon train …
Roger Bigelow turns to the ministry with his father's help when he realizes what he might become without it. He gets the…
When the wagon train passes through town, habitually drunk Jeremy Dow finds that his past has caught up with him. His ch…
Wounded Bill Strode arrives in camp looking for Flint. Strode, who saved Flint's life in Abilene, asks Flint to help him…
A Quaker schoolteacher heads to the Arapaho nation on the wagon train when her husband is killed. She meets the Chief an…
A retired Captain and ten boys join the wagon train on their way to California. Hitching a ride was all he thought he wa…
Bill and Major Adams plan on going hunting with a friend but when he is not home they suspect a renegade party of Cheyen…
The story of the women of the wagon train and the unforgiving prairie through which they pass. Who will endure, and who …
At a Rocky Mountains fort , a wounded soldier asks his old friend Ruddy Blaine to bring his daughter to him before he di…
Looking forward to some time off, Flint heads towards the town of Monument but runs into an old man and some kids whose …
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 M…
When Flint brings a stranded woman and boy to the train, her husband who went off to find help is also found but his ret…
A married couple use the wife's innocent face and winning way with children to gain the trust of their companions on the…
Flint meets Chris Hale alone on the prairie. Hale has just found his entire family massacred by Indians, and Flint asks …
Bill Hawks is leading four wagons through to California when they are stopped by Tiburcio Mendez and his band of renegad…
When actress Nellie Jefferson joins the wagon train, her incessant demands for special treatment come to grate on Hale a…
Saul Bevins, a blind doctor traveling with his son, his sister, and his dog, asks to join the wagon train. Many others o…
Polish immigrant Joe Muharich tries to befriend and hopefully straighten out Johnny Kamen, a brash young man who doesn't…
With his clever tall tales, old prospector Henry Shannon talks Charlie Wooster into coming with him to search for a gold…
The Santee family---Will, his mother, and his younger sister---join the wagon train under a false surname. They have bee…
An Army general announces he is taking over the wagon train and requiring all members to act as soldiers in helping him …
Flint goes to visit Eleanor Culhane, an old flame of his who had been married to a notorious gunman. He finds everyone i…
An Italian immigrant couple needs help in transporting water for their grapevines to California. Unfortunately, the two …
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 sis…
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. Thi…
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