Skip to content
Back
Playback unavailable Playback is disabled.

Playback is currently unavailable for S1 E1 · The Willy Moran Story. Episode details remain available below.

Poster for Wagon Train

Wagon Train

6.6/10 31 votes
WesternDramaFamily

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.

Cast:
John McIntire, Robert Fuller, Michael Burns, Frank McGrath
Language:
English
Country:
United States of America
Network:
NBC, ABC

Episode guide

Seasons

8 available

Season 1

Episodes

Episode 1 selected
Still from The Willy Moran Story E01

Episode 1

★ 10.0

The Willy Moran Story

1957-09-18 · 51m

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 member of the train who wants to rob it. When the battle starts, Willy uses his army skills to turn the battle.

Current episode
Still from The Jean LeBec Story E02

Episode 2

The Jean LeBec Story

1957-09-25 · 51m

The train cannot get supplies after a member kills the son of the man who owns most of St. Joseph in self-defense. He escapes with the help of Flint but when he learns the train is still being denied supplies he returns to face hanging.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The John Cameron Story E03

Episode 3

The John Cameron Story

1957-10-02 · 51m

John Cameron, from Philadelphia, heads west with his wife to start a new life. Her flirtatious ways may get the better of her when three trappers come into camp offering fresh buffalo and thinking she might be more available than she is.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Ruth Owens Story E04

Episode 4

The Ruth Owens Story

1957-10-09 · 51m

Ruth Owens remarries and is moving west with her new husband. When her brother comes looking for her, he stirs up trouble for her about her past and himself because he just killed a man.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Les Rand Story E05

Episode 5

The Les Rand Story

1957-10-16 · 51m

Les Rand, just released from prison for murder, goes back home to kill the man he held responsible; his father, the doctor. Meanwhile, Flint is there to fetch the doctor to help someone injured. Les vows that no one will stand in his way.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Nels Stack Story E06

Episode 6

The Nels Stack Story

1957-10-23 · 50m

A pacifist since the war, Nels Stack stands up to any man prejudiced against another. When his own beliefs are tested in the face of an impending Indian attack against the wagon train, he has to decide who he is going to defend.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Emily Rossiter Story E07

Episode 7

The Emily Rossiter Story

1957-10-30 · 50m

Emily Rossiter had a young daughter to care for. She met and married someone she felt she could trust. When she found out this was misplaced, getting the daughter away from him and into a better life becomes her main goal.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The John Darro Story E08

Episode 8

The John Darro Story

1957-11-06 · 50m

When the train picks up an abandoned drunk on the trail, he exposes John Darro to be the reviled coward John Thurman who abandoned a previous train during a massacre. Darro's young son Tommy is unable to cope with the truth.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Charles Avery Story E09

Episode 9

The Charles Avery Story

1957-11-13 · 50m

Lieutenant Avery has a mission. Deliver a peace treaty and the chief's daughter. But he has a secret vendetta that may jeopardize everyone's hope for peace.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Mary Halstead Story E10

Episode 10

The Mary Halstead Story

1957-11-20 · 50m

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 someone who could be her son, but he may also turn out to be a notorious outlaw.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Zeke Thomas Story E11

Episode 11

The Zeke Thomas Story

1957-11-27 · 50m

The wagon train stops in a newly built town to get water they had always been able to get before for free. Wanting money now, and at a steep price, has the Major upset. Sending Flint also uncovers a wife of a passenger thought dead.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Riley Gratton Story E12

Episode 12

The Riley Gratton Story

1957-12-04 · 51m

Riley Gratton has always drifted from here to there, a smooth tongue getting him whatever he needed. When he tries to do the same with some folks on the Major's wagon train, what comes next may be the least of his worries.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Clara Beauchamp Story E13

Episode 13

The Clara Beauchamp Story

1957-12-11 · 50m

When a new officer and troops kill an Indian brave and the post commander's drunken bored wife insults the Chief, Flint is forced to act as a neutral agent between the Army and Indians and save the wagon train.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Julie Gage Story E14

Episode 14

The Julie Gage Story

1957-12-18 · 50m

A head strong Julie Gage is determined to ride her wagon to California. Losing her pa to fever, many suitors step up to help but she'll have none of it until one comes down with fever himself and she's the only one who will tend to him.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Cliff Grundy Story E15

Episode 15

The Cliff Grundy Story

1957-12-25 · 50m

Mortally wounded in a buffalo stampede, Cliff Grundy's friend Flint stays when the wagon train leaves. Manson says he will help but his reasons for staying become clear as Cliff keeps saying he has a goldmine somewhere and he's recovering.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Luke O'Malley Story E16

Episode 16

The Luke O'Malley Story

1958-01-01 · 50m

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 he didn't do it, he takes his two kids and joins Adams' wagon train disguised as a parsons, who doesn't act like one.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Jesse Cowan Story E17

Episode 17

The Jesse Cowan Story

1958-01-08 · 50m

The Cowans and Beals have been feuding a long time. Bob and Jesse return from the war and find their family dead and the Beals have joined a wagon train. Revenging their family is just the start of what Major Adams must now deal with.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Gabe Carswell Story E18

Episode 18

The Gabe Carswell Story

1958-01-15 · 50m

Gabe Carswell wants his son to join the whites because of what he sees coming for the Indians. When his son refuses he takes him to the wagon train heading for California but the Arapaho are getting set to attack.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Honorable Don Charlie Story E19

Episode 19

The Honorable Don Charlie Story

1958-01-22 · 50m

Don Charlie is a gambler and womanizer and makes no excuses for it. When he meets a woman who wants to marry him there may be trouble because the Major promised her uncle that she would make it safely to San Francisco.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Dora Gray Story E20

Episode 20

The Dora Gray Story

1958-01-29 · 50m

Dora Gray has made some poor choices in her life. Just wanting to get to San Francisco, her latest one involves someone who sells army guns to the Indians and Flint finds himself right in the middle of it.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Annie MacGregor Story E21

Episode 21

The Annie MacGregor Story

1958-02-05 · 49m

The MacGregor clan decides to come to America and start a new life. The wagon trains going to California have had a hard time dealing with their different customs. Can Major Adams' be any different?

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Bill Tawnee Story E22

Episode 22

The Bill Tawnee Story

1958-02-12 · 50m

Bill Tawnee served his country heroically. When Major Adams recognizes him on the trail and sees he is unable to wake, he asks his wife to join his wagon train even though there is plenty of anti-Indian sentiment afloat.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Mark Hanford Story E23

Episode 23

The Mark Hanford Story

1958-02-26 · 50m

Jack Hanford built his wealth to give his son. He turns it all down to honor his Cheyenne heritage when his mother dies. To make matters worse in his son's eyes, he had sent for a woman he briefly met to replace her even before she died.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Bernal Sierra Story E24

Episode 24

The Bernal Sierra Story

1958-03-12 · 50m

Revolutionary Bernal Sierra joins the train finding the wife of his dead friend married to Casey Reardon who sold guns to the Mexican revolutionaries. Bernal is suspicious of Casey, his brothers, and Perdita over missing gold.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Marie Dupree Story E25

Episode 25

The Marie Dupree Story

1958-03-19 · 50m

A beautiful woman riding with the train likes flirting. When she gets mixed up with the wrong man, she strings along a boy on the train in order to make him jealous, playing one man's love against another's.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from A Man Called Horse E26

Episode 26

A Man Called Horse

1958-03-26 · 50m

Horse, a name he comes to be called, is searching for himself. Since he doesn't feel that he found it in Boston, where he grew up, he tries out west, under the watchful eye of a small tribe of Crow.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Sarah Drummond Story E27

Episode 27

The Sarah Drummond Story

1958-04-02 · 50m

During a storm, Flint takes shelter at a farmhouse. He soon discovers the husband is refusing his wife the care of a midwife and before it's too late for her he needs to find out why.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Sally Potter Story E28

Episode 28

The Sally Potter Story

1958-04-09 · 50m

Sally Potter hitches a ride on the wagon train but being pretty helps and hurts her. Someone she knew catches up to the train and wants to remind her of who she is and where she came from, possibly ruining what she wants for her future.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Daniel Barrister Story E29

Episode 29

The Daniel Barrister Story

1958-04-16 · 50m

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 doctor, he finds they have their own problems: a smallpox epidemic.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Major Adams Story (1) E30

Episode 30

The Major Adams Story (1)

1958-04-23 · 50m

During the Civil War Charlie Wooster joins Bill Hawks under the command of Major Seth Adams. When Adams is seriously wounded saving Hawks's life he must struggle to survive, while dreaming of the girl he left behind.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Major Adams Story (2) E31

Episode 31

The Major Adams Story (2)

1958-04-30 · 49m

Years after the Civil War, Major Adams gets a second chance with his lost love Ranie, who had married in his absence. But happiness doesn't always come easy, as a sinister rival and a dark secret attest.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Charles Maury Story E32

Episode 32

The Charles Maury Story

1958-05-07 · 50m

Disguised as Yank soldiers, a band of confederate marauders blend into the wagon train, planning on robbing everyone. They are at first stopped but a member of the train helps the man in charge when she discovers the truth to his identity.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Dan Hogan Story E33

Episode 33

The Dan Hogan Story

1958-05-14 · 50m

In a growing town, Seth meets a friend from his distant past. He remembers how they met and the circumstances bringing them west. When his friend's home is threatened, not ever wearing a gun surprisingly helps him rather than the reverse.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Ruttledge Munroe Story E34

Episode 34

The Ruttledge Munroe Story

1958-05-21 · 50m

Ruttledge Munroe joins the wagon train on the trail. It's noticed right off his odd sense of humor but when he saves the major's life, it is forgotten until he kills someone else and the real reason he joined up is revealed.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Rex Montana Story E35

Episode 35

The Rex Montana Story

1958-05-28 · 50m

On one final push to the west, a wild west showman runs into some old friends. Some that were part of a massacre that almost cost them their lives and one man his sanity.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Cassie Tanner Story E36

Episode 36

The Cassie Tanner Story

1958-06-04 · 50m

Trail hardened Cassie Tanner joins the train, and sets her eye on Major Adams. But the train desperately needs horses, and she may be the only one who can make the dangerous journey to buy them.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The John Wilbot Story E37

Episode 37

★ 7.0

The John Wilbot Story

1958-06-11 · 49m

Tensions are running high in the train between northerners and southerners traveling west. As trouble escalates one passenger with a noticeable limp, John Wilbot, is accused of being John Wilkes Booth, who many believe is still alive.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Monty Britton Story E38

Episode 38

The Monty Britton Story

1958-06-18 · 50m

Low on water, Flint scouts for more. When three water holes are dry or poisoned, Fort Paiute seems their only hope but he has to make it back to the wagon train on foot and the only other man who knows the way is believed to be a deserter.

Watch progress · Not tracked
Still from The Sacramento Story E39

Episode 39

★ 8.0

The Sacramento Story

1958-06-25 · 49m

At the end of a long journey, lives were lost. Some made it with their dreams intact. Flint tries to help two of the passengers with theirs and almost bites off too much. Politics are involved as well as unsolicited trips to the Far East.

Watch progress · Not tracked

Cast

John McIntire

John McIntire

Christopher Hale

Robert Fuller

Robert Fuller

Cooper Smith

Michael Burns

Michael Burns

Barnaby West

Frank McGrath

Frank McGrath

Charlie Wooster

Terry Wilson

Terry Wilson

Bill Hawks

More Like This

Drag to explore