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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.
- Cast:
- John McIntire, Robert Fuller, Michael Burns, Frank McGrath
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- NBC, ABC
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Seasons
Season 2
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 8.0Around the Horn
1958-10-01 · 51mPlanning to sail to Boston, the Major, Hawks and Charlie are instead shanghaied to New Orleans where they meet a Captain who has different ideas on raising his child and running a ship.
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Episode 2
The Juan Ortega Story
1958-10-08 · 51mJuan awakens to the sound of three men hanging his beloved father. Joining the wagon train, he comes across one of the three, tortured by Indians. He nurses him back to health but only under the guise of looking for the other two killers.
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E03
Episode 3
The Jennifer Churchill Story
1958-10-15 · 50mJennifer Churchill, pampered all her life, runs away from a smothering lifestyle and pending marriage, and joins the wagon train. With bounty hunters on her heels, she finds Flint, a man who she wants but doesn't want her.
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E04
Episode 4
The Tobias Jones Story
1958-10-22 · 51mMajor Adams allows two stowaways, Tobias Jones and his young friend Midge, to stay with the train. But Tobias is in trouble due to his drinking, and things get worse when he's accused of murder.
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E05
Episode 5
The Liam Fitzmorgan Story
1958-10-28 · 50mLiam Fitzmorgan has come from Ireland on a mission to kill an informer he believes is traveling with the train. However, his mission is complicated when he falls in love with his target's daughter.
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Episode 6
The Doctor Willoughby Story
1958-11-15 · 51mConcerned by one of the passengers on the wagon train, a woman doctor tries to help even though she's hampered further by everyone else who shuns her. Meantime an Indian chief needs doctoring and they don't believe in female medicine men.
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Episode 7
The Bije Wilcox Story
1958-11-19 · 51mAfter advertising to look for his brother Charles and offering a $5,000 reward, a member of the wagon train gets a response from someone who walks through an Indian party that's pinning them all down. What he finds is not what he expected.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 8.0The Millie Davis Story
1958-11-26 · 51mMillie Davis reluctantly takes in an orphaned baby girl. Eight years later the girl's grandmother arrives to retrieve her. But Millie doesn't want to give up the child, so she claims that she and Flint are the parents.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 8.0The Sakae Ito Story
1958-12-03 · 51mThe major comes upon two Japanese men, attacked by Indians and heading towards California. He learns one of the men plans on committing hara kiri while others on the train have designs on a black box they suspect may contain precious gems.
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E10
Episode 10
The Tent City Story
1958-12-10 · 51mWhen a member of the train is placed in chains after breaking Indian law by killing a buffalo, Major Adams quarrels with Flint who quits and takes a job at nearby Tent City. But White Eagle discovers the dead buffalo and demands justice.
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Episode 11
The Beauty Jamison Story
1958-12-17 · 51mFlint, at a grave, sees a man stabbed in the back with a note saying Deliver to Beauty Jamison. As that is the daughter of the man interred he pays a visit and sees a woman trying to continue a legacy with the locals trying to break her.
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Episode 12
The Mary Ellen Thomas Story
1958-12-24 · 51mMary Ellen is an orphan traveling west to join family, but members of the train reject her due to her surly disposition. Her only friend is Sally Mayhew, another girl traveling west with her family dying of consumption.
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Episode 13
The Dick Richardson Story
1958-12-31 · 51mWhen the wagon horses start to die of a disease, Adams is forced to send two men who are feuding to buy new horses with his emergency money. One of the men's horse returns without him making Adams wonder if he made a mistake.
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Episode 14
The Kitty Angel Story
1959-01-07 · 50mKitty Angel finds herself not welcome on the wagon train due to her past. When Flint returns to the train toting a sick Indian baby, she has everyone's prejudices to deal with as well as this life threatening illness.
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Episode 15
The Flint McCullough Story
1959-01-14 · 51mFlint, in love with a Mormon girl he can't marry, joins the confederate army. When he finds out that he won't be joining any battles and what their real purpose is, it may be too late for him and the girl he loves.
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Episode 16
The Hunter Malloy Story
1959-01-21 · 51mHunter Malloy and partner get jobs as drivers on the wagon train to rob their boss. Striking gold instead while stopping to repair their wagons, the fever is high as some stop to strike it rich and uncover more than just a few nuggets.
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Episode 17
The Ben Courtney Story
1959-01-28 · 51mThe sheriff of Bitter Springs feels he has lots of reasons to hate. When settlers from the south want to live there, he tries to take a black child he says they are just using for free labour but his reasons go much deeper than that.
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Episode 18
★ 7.0The Ella Lindstrom Story
1959-02-04 · 51mElla Lindstrom loses her husband on the wagon train ride west from Boston. With her seven children she decides to stay the course against the wishes of Major Adams. It gets more complicated when she thinks she is expecting number eight.
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Episode 19
The Last Man
1959-02-11 · 50mScouting for a better pass, Flint finds a mountain man, hungry and half out of his mind. With no memory, his strange behavior may endanger the entire wagon train especially when everyone feels they know who he is.
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Episode 20
The Old Man Charvanaugh Story
1959-02-18 · 51mFlint escorts a wagon, leaving the train, to their new home. When they meet an old man with a wagon load of uncured buffalo skins he's trying to sell, they invite him along as he appears friendly enough. But Flint feels he's too friendly.
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E21
Episode 21
The Annie Griffith Story
1959-02-25 · 51mFlint, seeking safe passage through the mountains, is shot and losing consciousness is dragged to a cabin. Nursed back to health, his saviour finds the man who shot him was her husband and Flint had to kill him or be killed.
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E22
Episode 22
The Jasper Cato Story
1959-03-04 · 50mWanting a safe escort through Indian country, a stranger rides upon the wagon train. Telling the major his reasons for being there, the truth is soon uncovered and it causes two men to come to change their lifelong habits.
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Episode 23
The Vivian Carter Story
1959-03-11 · 50mGetting set to leave the wagon train, Vivian Carter finds out a friend she knows from the train hoped for more than that. Heading to a new life and her first marriage, she's given some options and even at her age has its surprises.
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Episode 24
The Conchita Vasquez Story
1959-03-18 · 50mSuspecting a hurt girl he finds on the trail is part of a group of bandits, Flint cautiously helps her but soon learns she is all he suspects until her guardian is killed and Flint becomes her only protection.
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Episode 25
The Sister Rita Story
1959-03-25 · 50mLeaving the safety of their village, a group of nuns set out to help those Indians in need at a mission. Now Flint must try to help them fight some Ute Indians who don't seem to know the nuns are just there to help them.
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Episode 26
The Matthew Lowry Story
1959-04-01 · 51mMatthew Lowry seems timid to everyone especially a bully on the wagon train. Riding upon some cholera sick wagons in a pass, they find out who he really is and why he has been acting this way.
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Episode 27
★ 8.0The Swift Cloud Story
1959-04-08 · 51mDuring an Indian attack on the wagon train, Major Adams spares the life of Swift Cloud, crippled son of the Indian Chief. Adams is shocked to learn that Swift Cloud's condition is the result of a vicious attack by a half-breed. The chief sends his son with the wagon train to go see a city doctor who might be able to cure him.
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Episode 28
The Vincent Eaglewood Story
1959-04-15 · 51mAn educated man from the East tags alongside the wagon train. When he offers to teach school to pay his passage, all goes well until he is kicked off the train and the kids go looking for him - and they are near an Indian camp.
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Episode 29
The Clara Duncan Story
1959-04-22 · 50mClara Duncan joins the train in a search for her artist fiancee. But finding him could lead to trouble, as one of his missing paintings depicting a heinous crime may implicate some of the locals.
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Episode 30
The Duke LeMay Story
1959-04-29 · 50mDuke Le May, an escaped convict, joins the wagon train under an assumed name. When a deputy shows up to arrest him and is killed, Flint is asked to escort him to the nearest fort for trial but he does all he can to prolong that journey.
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Episode 31
The Kate Parker Story
1959-05-06 · 50mThe wagon train pushes ahead when one of the passengers has an accident. With only a wagon between two couples, one person decides to leave with money including some gold coins. They have an accident and the storm's only getting worse.
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Episode 32
The Steve Campden Story
1959-05-13 · 51mFlint must find a way to get the wagon train around a snow covered pass. On a scouting trek, he meets a father and son who are willing to help him but they want to hike up the mountain. The adventure ahead has surprises for them all.
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Episode 33
Chuck Wooster, Wagonmaster
1959-05-20 · 50mWhen a big snow halts the train, several of the men disappear mysteriously with no trace of them to be found. After Flint, Major Adams, and Hawks go missing, it's up to Chuck Wooster to lead the train to safety.
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Episode 34
The Jose Maria Moran Story
1959-05-27 · 50mThe Major and party find a Pawnee Indian strung up and left to die. Back at the wagon train they find he is not who he appears to be. The mystery deepens as the Shoshonees, who hung him there, are still after him and getting closer.
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Episode 35
The Andrew Hale Story
1959-06-03 · 50mThe Major finds an old man in the desert and takes him to the wagon train. He doesn't remember his name but when he's recognized by one of the other passengers, he remembers not just his name but the faith he thought he lost as well.
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Episode 36
The Rodney Lawrence Story
1959-06-10 · 50mAfter his parents are killed by whites, a boy is raised by a lone Indian. Years later when the wagon train stops nearby, the Indian tells the young man to join his people. But his previous experience and with the train make him hesitate.
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Episode 37
The Steele Family
1959-06-17 · 51mNearing the end of their trip, a mother with four beautiful daughters, all of marrying age and a wagon train full of men who are either the same or wanting to be and the Major is not off limits either.
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Episode 38
The Jenny Tannen Story
1959-06-24 · 50mA young girl is injured while on the way to San Francisco to find her famous mother who abandoned her as a baby. The crew helps her with her pending blindness and find her mother who has her own problem unknown to her daughter.
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John McIntire
Christopher Hale
Robert Fuller
Cooper Smith
Michael Burns
Barnaby West
Frank McGrath
Charlie Wooster
Terry Wilson
Bill Hawks
