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 7 Episodes
Having just left St. Joseph, Hale tells everyone there are no Indians when in fact two escaped Comanche captives steal t…
As the wagon train reaches Fort Pierce it is in dangerous Indian country. Chris is hoping the Army will provide an escor…
A tough railroad executive and his younger college educated brother are guided by Chris up a mountain to scout a route. …
When Duke and Charlie do not return from a scouting assignment, Chris sends Cooper who has a pretty good idea what lays …
Chris and Cooper along with a British journalist accompany civilians surveying for the Army when they come across an Arm…
Coop accompanies Grace Marshall to visit her sister Myra whom, traumatized by an upbringing by an abusive father, Grace …
After witnessing a bank holdup, Barnaby is taken hostage by outlaws Sam Spicer and Reno Sutton. Sam takes a liking to th…
On the train Coop is falling for the sister of the man running a gang who beat and robbed Coop in Hell's Kitchen in Broo…
Eli Bancroft became an outlaw looking for revenge raising his three sons as such after a town's citizens banded together…
Kitty Pryer finds herself in a bigamous marriage to Victor Harp who asks her to join him on the wagon train posing as th…
After escaping from a Confederate prison for being a spy, Sandra Cummings, becomes the lead in a musical troupe in the w…
The Bleecker gang disguised as farmers with several wagons seek Hale's wagon train to join but they actually carry a wag…
While scouting Coop nearly dies after finding a man near death from lack of water who has found a major gold strike. The…
Cassie Vance is accused of theft when money and items belonging to a woman on the train that she nursed turn up missing,…
Canaby, who is unjustly reputed to have led a wagon train to disaster in the desert, becomes unexpectedly part of Hale's…
Julie Holland is falling for Michael Malone, a man haunted by the death of his sister. Meanwhile, the marriage of Ben an…
Jed Whitmore, one of three brothers that committed an infamous train robbery, is now town sheriff Frank Lewis but his br…
Hale's train must take a dangerous desert route due to hostilities which danger grows when spoiled Geneva Balfour starts…
When Hale begins to romance tough, independent freight line operator Kate Crawley, the others begin to fear she will win…
After being fired and setting a bomb which kills his tyrannical boss, Grover Allen joins the wagon train and heads west …
Duke Shannon, arrested by the Cavalry, is charged with criminal negligence as leader of an expedition into the badlands,…
Everyone wants to help pretty Melanie Craig after her husband is killed in an accident so four men fight over who will b…
Beautiful but shrewd Pearlie Garnet was forced to leave the wagon train after she was found to be a liar, manipulator, a…
A strangler is loose in the town of Bedrock so when the wagon train comes through it is joined by a good percentage of t…
Duke and Bill are rescued from Indians by a stranger. He joins the train which is headed to Fort Chacon. Unknown to them…
Wealthy Engel has used psychopathic Harry Diel as a proxy during the Civil War to save Diel from jail but Diel plots on …
With Chris gone Bill is in charge of the train when Barnaby goes overboard in his pranks. After messing with a wagon whe…
Kim Case is returning home during Indian wars after schooling in the east although her parents have died. She is anxious…
Duke stops by the town of Stark Bluff looking for a friend and his wife who had formerly been on the wagon train. He fin…
Coop brings Link Cheney to the wagon train after the professional gambler is wounded by sore losers in a game. Link is n…
Barnaby and Charlie talk Chris Hale into hiring legendary mountain man Zebedee Titus as a scout. The nearly 80 year old …
As the wagon train approaches the end of the trail, Hale's crew and passengers deal with birth, death, romance, a clash …
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