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The Oregon Trail

TV·1977–1977·1 season, 13 episodes·NBC·Western·1h

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The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also starred Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr starred as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrayed Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.

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Episodes by season

Season0113Episodes1977AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Hard Ride HomeSeptember 21, 1977We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions reveal
  2. S01E02The Last GameSeptember 21, 1977We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions reveal
  3. S01E03The WaterholeSeptember 28, 1977After hours in the desert, the Wagon Train comes upon a watering hole in the desert. After everyone drinks the water, they fall ill. IT ta
  4. S01E04Trapper's RendezvousOctober 12, 1977
  5. S01E05The Army DeserterOctober 19, 1977
  6. S01E06Hannah's GirlsOctober 26, 1977Hannah Morgan (Stella Stevens) is the leader of a group of mail-order brides (who actually are a group of ""showgirls"") who join the wagon
  7. S01E07Return From DeathNovember 2, 1977Evan Thorpe serves as defense attorney for a mysterious man suspected of killing a member of the wagon train. Frontier justice was never so
  8. S01E08The Scarlet RibbonNovember 9, 1977A bullet-ridden wagon reveals that gun-runners are supplying rifles to the Redskins and Evan is detemined to run them to earth whatever th
  9. S01E09The Gold Dust QueenNovember 16, 1977
  10. S01E10The Return of the BabyNovember 23, 1977An Indian woman gives birth to a baby after her village is destroyed.
  11. S01E11Evan's VendettaNovember 30, 1977
  12. S01E12Suffer the Little ChildrenDecember 7, 1977
  13. S01E13Wagon RaceDecember 14, 1977

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