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 6 Episodes
When Comancheros wipe out a small wagon train ahead of them, Chris sends Bill and Duke to check it out. They find a youn…
Indian captive Caroline Casteel is traded to a man who brings her to the wagon train. She encounters prejudice and hosti…
Madame Delphine Sagittarius asks to be picked by the wagon train at Beaver City. The town is expelling her as a con woma…
Wealthy merchant Martin Gatsby, a man with little room for compassion for others, wants the wagon train to keep rolling …
John Augustus in a game of cards with a Chinese merchant wins a beautiful Chinese girl. But when he takes her on the wag…
In the midst of a dry spell and desperately in need of water, the wagons stop at Mavis Grant's station, the only source …
Bill Hawks is caught with three Indian grave robbers being chased by the Indians. He is the only one captured and is to …
An officer Chris knows is found near the wagon train near death. He tells Chris that a passage in the bible describes hi…
When the Levy family joins the wagon train, the tranquility becomes less so as the fathers compete in checkers, young so…
Indians kidnap an elderly lady on the train. They will return her when the train takes the Chief's son to the doctor and…
Kurt Davos, a highly respected man, is badly injured while trying to save Florence Hastings trapped in a runaway wagon. …
Patrick O'Shaughnessy has come to visit his daughter Eve, believing her to be a respectable married woman. Knowing that …
A Bible-quoting marshal joins the wagon train with his prisoner, a young bank robber whom he claims to be trying to refo…
A woman and three companions in a runaway wagon are rescued by a winemaker and Charlie. They are against the consumption…
The wagon train finds Sam Darland with orphan boys in an old ghost town. Hale tries to convince Darland that it is not s…
A sea captain traveling west haunted by nightmares from his past is found stranded, injured and drunk by Bill and Charli…
When his wagon falls down a cliff, Davey Baxter's mother is killed, and his arm is crushed. The doctor is unavailable, s…
On his way to Fort David, wagon scout Duke Shannon rescues Sgt. Johnny Masters being sent to prison for twenty years; a …
Hawks rides to the John Kaylor ranch to buy horses for the train but John just died. His widow Naomi refuses to sell the…
Bitter alcoholic Stevenson Drake develops a dislike for the even tempered John Hollister, a fellow Southerner, when he l…
While riding through the desert plains, Duke and Charlie come across a sheriff as he is about to die of a heart attack a…
Bella McKavitch wants to kidnap Chris Hale, in order to find out about a gold shipment which she thinks the wagon train …
When children's dolls are found mutilated in her possession, passengers believe that Sara Proctor is either deranged or …
Duke Shannon stops in the town High Times and almost right away gets into a fight with, and accidentally kills, one of t…
An elderly couple and then a young girl become ill with typhoid fever on the wagon train. A young servant girl has atten…
When four brothers are orphaned, no one on the train wants all four. Charlie is determined to find a home for the four t…
The Perez family is run out of town because people believe their daughter Juana is a witch. The family joins the wagon t…
While scouting in Wyoming territory, Duke is forced by outlaw Tom Tuesday to act as his guide to an important rendezvous…
Samuel MacIntosh picks Hamish Browne to marry his daughter Heather before the two have met. Heather is a naive young gir…
Duke and three women under attack by Cheyenne Indians are helped by a stranger who has a fatalistic attitude toward life…
Tom O'Neal and Ellen Howard want to get married, but their parents object, so Tom takes money from his father's savings …
Duke and Charlie leave the train for supplies and to see Duke's old friends at a fort. One is a minister who was cashier…
Hale is entrusted to deliver $8,000 to a bank. Young David Garner is determined to steal it and he stows along on the wa…
Bill Hawks receives a note asking him to help an Indian friend of his from the Civil War. He arrives to find the local t…
Invalid rancher Henry Ludlow is so determined that daughter Judy not marry Basque sheepherder Antone Rose that he sells …
Duke Shannon returns to check on his small ranch he split evenly with a childhood friend. When he arrives he finds tenan…
Bill meets young Barnaby West, who claims he is traveling west to see his father, a famous frontiersman. Bill invites hi…
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