Wagon Train (1957–1965)

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Plot

Wagon Train followed the trials and tribulations of pioneering families as they set out from the East to carve out a new life in the West soon after the American Civil War. For some of the travellers it was a happy ending, but not for all, which only heightened the drama along the way.

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Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Wagon Train S01E01The Willy Moran StoryS01E01 · 10.0Willy 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.
  2. 02The Sam Spicer StoryS07E07 · 9.0After witnessing a bank holdup, Barnaby is taken hostage by outlaws Sam Spicer and Reno Sutton. Sam takes a liking to the boy as he reminds him of himself when Reno first made him a partner but Reno doesn't trust Barnaby.
  3. 03Wagon Train S01E39The Sacramento StoryS01E39 · 8.0At 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.

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode39Episodes1957–58Aired 8.3Season avg
  1. S01E01Wagon Train S01E01Season's bestThe Willy Moran StorySeptember 18, 1957 10.0Willy 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
  2. S01E02Wagon Train S01E02The Jean LeBec StorySeptember 25, 1957The 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
  3. S01E03Wagon Train S01E03The John Cameron StoryOctober 2, 1957John Cameron, from Philadelphia, heads west with his wife to start a new life. Her flirtatious ways may get the better of her when three tra
  4. S01E04Wagon Train S01E04The Ruth Owens StoryOctober 9, 1957Ruth 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
  5. S01E05Wagon Train S01E05The Les Rand StoryOctober 16, 1957Les Rand, just released from prison for murder, goes back home to kill the man he held responsible; his father, the doctor. Meanwhile, Flint
  6. S01E06Wagon Train S01E06The Nels Stack StoryOctober 23, 1957A 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 impe
  7. S01E07Wagon Train S01E07The Emily Rossiter StoryOctober 30, 1957Emily 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
  8. S01E08Wagon Train S01E08The John Darro StoryNovember 6, 1957When the train picks up an abandoned drunk on the trail, he exposes John Darro to be the reviled coward John Thurman who abandoned a previou
  9. S01E09Wagon Train S01E09The Charles Avery StoryNovember 13, 1957Lieutenant Avery has a mission. Deliver a peace treaty and the chief's daughter. But he has a secret vendetta that may jeopardize everyone's
  10. S01E10Wagon Train S01E10The Mary Halstead StoryNovember 20, 1957Mary 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 he
  11. S01E11Wagon Train S01E11The Zeke Thomas StoryNovember 27, 1957The 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
  12. S01E12Wagon Train S01E12The Riley Gratton StoryDecember 4, 1957Riley 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
  13. S01E13Wagon Train S01E13The Clara Beauchamp StoryDecember 11, 1957When 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
  14. S01E14Wagon Train S01E14The Julie Gage StoryDecember 18, 1957A 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
  15. S01E15Wagon Train S01E15The Cliff Grundy StoryDecember 25, 1957Mortally wounded in a buffalo stampede, Cliff Grundy's friend Flint stays when the wagon train leaves. Manson says he will help but his reas
  16. S01E16Wagon Train S01E16The Luke O'Malley StoryJanuary 1, 1958Luke 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
  17. S01E17Wagon Train S01E17The Jesse Cowan StoryJanuary 8, 1958The 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
  18. S01E18Wagon Train S01E18The Gabe Carswell StoryJanuary 15, 1958Gabe 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 wago
  19. S01E19Wagon Train S01E19The Honorable Don Charlie StoryJanuary 22, 1958Don 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 becaus
  20. S01E20Wagon Train S01E20The Dora Gray StoryJanuary 29, 1958Dora 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
  21. S01E21Wagon Train S01E21The Annie MacGregor StoryFebruary 5, 1958The 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 t
  22. S01E22Wagon Train S01E22The Bill Tawnee StoryFebruary 12, 1958Bill 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 j
  23. S01E23Wagon Train S01E23The Mark Hanford StoryFebruary 26, 1958Jack 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 wor
  24. S01E24Wagon Train S01E24The Bernal Sierra StoryMarch 12, 1958Revolutionary Bernal Sierra joins the train finding the wife of his dead friend married to Casey Reardon who sold guns to the Mexican revolu
  25. S01E25Wagon Train S01E25The Marie Dupree StoryMarch 19, 1958A 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 o
  26. S01E26Wagon Train S01E26A Man Called HorseMarch 26, 1958Horse, 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
  27. S01E27Wagon Train S01E27The Sarah Drummond StoryApril 2, 1958During 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
  28. S01E28Wagon Train S01E28The Sally Potter StoryApril 9, 1958Sally 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 r
  29. S01E29Wagon Train S01E29The Daniel Barrister StoryApril 16, 1958Faith 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
  30. S01E30Wagon Train S01E30The Major Adams Story (1)April 23, 1958During the Civil War Charlie Wooster joins Bill Hawks under the command of Major Seth Adams. When Adams is seriously wounded saving Hawks's
  31. S01E31Wagon Train S01E31The Major Adams Story (2)April 30, 1958Years 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
  32. S01E32Wagon Train S01E32The Charles Maury StoryMay 7, 1958Disguised as Yank soldiers, a band of confederate marauders blend into the wagon train, planning on robbing everyone. They are at first stop
  33. S01E33Wagon Train S01E33The Dan Hogan StoryMay 14, 1958In a growing town, Seth meets a friend from his distant past. He remembers how they met and the circumstances bringing them west. When his f
  34. S01E34Wagon Train S01E34The Ruttledge Munroe StoryMay 21, 1958Ruttledge 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
  35. S01E35Wagon Train S01E35The Rex Montana StoryMay 28, 1958On 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
  36. S01E36Wagon Train S01E36The Cassie Tanner StoryJune 4, 1958Trail hardened Cassie Tanner joins the train, and sets her eye on Major Adams. But the train desperately needs horses, and she may be the on
  37. S01E37Wagon Train S01E37The John Wilbot StoryJune 11, 1958 7.0Tensions are running high in the train between northerners and southerners traveling west. As trouble escalates one passenger with a noticea
  38. S01E38Wagon Train S01E38The Monty Britton StoryJune 18, 1958Low 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 bac
  39. S01E39Wagon Train S01E39The Sacramento StoryJune 25, 1958 8.0At 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

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode38Episodes1958–59Aired 7.8Season avg
  1. S02E01Wagon Train S02E01Season's bestAround the HornOctober 1, 1958 8.0Planning to sail to Boston, the Major, Hawks and Charlie are instead shanghaied to New Orleans where they meet a Captain who has different i
  2. S02E02Wagon Train S02E02The Juan Ortega StoryOctober 8, 1958Juan awakens to the sound of three men hanging his beloved father. Joining the wagon train, he comes across one of the three, tortured by In
  3. S02E03Wagon Train S02E03The Jennifer Churchill StoryOctober 15, 1958Jennifer Churchill, pampered all her life, runs away from a smothering lifestyle and pending marriage, and joins the wagon train. With bount
  4. S02E04Wagon Train S02E04The Tobias Jones StoryOctober 22, 1958Major Adams allows two stowaways, Tobias Jones and his young friend Midge, to stay with the train. But Tobias is in trouble due to his drink
  5. S02E05Wagon Train S02E05The Liam Fitzmorgan StoryOctober 28, 1958Liam Fitzmorgan has come from Ireland on a mission to kill an informer he believes is traveling with the train. However, his mission is comp
  6. S02E06Wagon Train S02E06The Doctor Willoughby StoryNovember 15, 1958Concerned 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
  7. S02E07Wagon Train S02E07The Bije Wilcox StoryNovember 19, 1958After 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
  8. S02E08Wagon Train S02E08The Millie Davis StoryNovember 26, 1958 8.0Millie Davis reluctantly takes in an orphaned baby girl. Eight years later the girl's grandmother arrives to retrieve her. But Millie doesn'
  9. S02E09Wagon Train S02E09The Sakae Ito StoryDecember 3, 1958 8.0The major comes upon two Japanese men, attacked by Indians and heading towards California. He learns one of the men plans on committing hara
  10. S02E10Wagon Train S02E10The Tent City StoryDecember 10, 1958When 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
  11. S02E11Wagon Train S02E11The Beauty Jamison StoryDecember 17, 1958Flint, 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
  12. S02E12Wagon Train S02E12The Mary Ellen Thomas StoryDecember 24, 1958Mary 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
  13. S02E13Wagon Train S02E13The Dick Richardson StoryDecember 31, 1958When 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.
  14. S02E14Wagon Train S02E14The Kitty Angel StoryJanuary 7, 1959Kitty 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
  15. S02E15Wagon Train S02E15The Flint McCullough StoryJanuary 14, 1959Flint, 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 wha
  16. S02E16Wagon Train S02E16The Hunter Malloy StoryJanuary 21, 1959Hunter Malloy and partner get jobs as drivers on the wagon train to rob their boss. Striking gold instead while stopping to repair their wag
  17. S02E17Wagon Train S02E17The Ben Courtney StoryJanuary 28, 1959The 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 blac
  18. S02E18Wagon Train S02E18The Ella Lindstrom StoryFebruary 4, 1959 7.0Ella Lindstrom loses her husband on the wagon train ride west from Boston. With her seven children she decides to stay the course against th
  19. S02E19Wagon Train S02E19The Last ManFebruary 11, 1959Scouting for a better pass, Flint finds a mountain man, hungry and half out of his mind. With no memory, his strange behavior may endanger t
  20. S02E20Wagon Train S02E20The Old Man Charvanaugh StoryFebruary 18, 1959Flint 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 tryin
  21. S02E21Wagon Train S02E21The Annie Griffith StoryFebruary 25, 1959Flint, seeking safe passage through the mountains, is shot and losing consciousness is dragged to a cabin. Nursed back to health, his saviou
  22. S02E22Wagon Train S02E22The Jasper Cato StoryMarch 4, 1959Wanting a safe escort through Indian country, a stranger rides upon the wagon train. Telling the major his reasons for being there, the trut
  23. S02E23Wagon Train S02E23The Vivian Carter StoryMarch 11, 1959Getting 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 l
  24. S02E24Wagon Train S02E24The Conchita Vasquez StoryMarch 18, 1959Suspecting 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 suspect
  25. S02E25Wagon Train S02E25The Sister Rita StoryMarch 25, 1959Leaving 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 fig
  26. S02E26Wagon Train S02E26The Matthew Lowry StoryApril 1, 1959Matthew Lowry seems timid to everyone especially a bully on the wagon train. Riding upon some cholera sick wagons in a pass, they find out w
  27. S02E27Wagon Train S02E27The Swift Cloud StoryApril 8, 1959 8.0During an Indian attack on the wagon train, Major Adams spares the life of Swift Cloud, crippled son of the Indian Chief. Adams is shocked t
  28. S02E28Wagon Train S02E28The Vincent Eaglewood StoryApril 15, 1959An 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 k
  29. S02E29Wagon Train S02E29The Clara Duncan StoryApril 22, 1959Clara Duncan joins the train in a search for her artist fiancee. But finding him could lead to trouble, as one of his missing paintings depi
  30. S02E30Wagon Train S02E30The Duke LeMay StoryApril 29, 1959Duke 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 a
  31. S02E31Wagon Train S02E31The Kate Parker StoryMay 6, 1959The wagon train pushes ahead when one of the passengers has an accident. With only a wagon between two couples, one person decides to leave
  32. S02E32Wagon Train S02E32The Steve Campden StoryMay 13, 1959Flint 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 he
  33. S02E33Wagon Train S02E33Chuck Wooster, WagonmasterMay 20, 1959When 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
  34. S02E34Wagon Train S02E34The Jose Maria Moran StoryMay 27, 1959The 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 my
  35. S02E35Wagon Train S02E35The Andrew Hale StoryJune 3, 1959The 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 t
  36. S02E36Wagon Train S02E36The Rodney Lawrence StoryJune 10, 1959After 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 th
  37. S02E37Wagon Train S02E37The Steele FamilyJune 17, 1959Nearing 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
  38. S02E38Wagon Train S02E38The Jenny Tannen StoryJune 24, 1959A 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

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season0337Episodes1959–60Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S03E01Wagon Train S03E01The Stagecoach StorySeptember 30, 1959The men are returning to St. Louis by stagecoach except for Flint - until he becomes the driver to help a friend. They are forced to take a
  2. S03E02Wagon Train S03E02The Greenhorn StoryOctober 7, 1959At the beginning of any wagon train trip, the challenges faced by everyone turns a greenhorn into a seasoned veteran, even if those may mean
  3. S03E03Wagon Train S03E03The C.L. Harding StoryOctober 14, 1959A reporter has joined the wagon train. When the Major finds out he is a she, he finds his hands full especially when her looks and curiosity
  4. S03E04Wagon Train S03E04The Estaban Zamora StoryOctober 21, 1959Flint find a young man bleeding to death and a knife nearby. He takes the body to sheriff who identifies the man as the youngest Zamora brot
  5. S03E05Wagon Train S03E05The Elizabeth McQueeny StoryOctober 28, 1959 8.0Elizabeth McQueeny is traveling with her girls, heading to a finishing school in the West. When her real purpose becomes known, all the fema
  6. S03E06Wagon Train S03E06The Martha Barham StoryNovember 4, 1959Flint and a long time Sioux Indian friend reunite but trouble is brewing as the Cheyenne are on the warpath and in their way is Fort Hasting
  7. S03E07Wagon Train S03E07The Cappy Darrin StoryNovember 11, 1959Old salt Cappy Darrin is on the train with his orphaned grandson Tuck. But Cappy's daughter granted custody of Tuck to his uncle, and as the
  8. S03E08Wagon Train S03E08The Felizia Kingdom StoryNovember 18, 1959Tough as nails Felizia Kingdom controls an enormous amount of land by force, and no one is good enough to inherit the responsibility. When F
  9. S03E09Wagon Train S03E09The Jess MacAbee StoryNovember 25, 1959Flint, scouting ahead of the wagon train, is in search of fresh meat. With prospects none too good he comes upon a hidden paradise, green an
  10. S03E10Wagon Train S03E10The Danny Benedict StoryDecember 2, 1959He says his name is Tom Smith but a young man Major Adams meets on the trail refuses to join the wagon train and won't say why. When he does
  11. S03E11Wagon Train S03E11The Vittorio Bottecelli StoryDecember 16, 1959The King orders his womanizing nephew to San Francisco. He joins the wagon train but causes the Major problems as the husbands are complaini
  12. S03E12Wagon Train S03E12The St. Nicholas StoryDecember 23, 1959Almost Christmas eve, the wagon train deals with a happy time, the perils that go with hostile Indians and a little lost boy who may have al
  13. S03E13Wagon Train S03E13The Ruth Marshall StoryDecember 30, 1959As the wagon train moves through Sioux territory, a man named Marshall asks for help in finding his daughter, Ruth, who apparently was taken
  14. S03E14Wagon Train S03E14The Lita Foladaire StoryJanuary 6, 1960Never having met Lita Foladaire, Major Adams learned a lot about her past, the town she grew up in, the people who loved her and most import
  15. S03E15Wagon Train S03E15The Colonel Harris StoryJanuary 13, 1960Flint goes to Fort Young to see the Harris family and Bowman Lewis who were friends from his youth. He finds Mrs. Harris dead and her husban
  16. S03E16Wagon Train S03E16The Marie Brandt StoryJanuary 20, 1960Trying to give her son a chance, Maidie Brant is found by the wagon train. Needing fresh horses after a cougar attack, she is reluctant to s
  17. S03E17Wagon Train S03E17The Larry Hanify StoryJanuary 27, 1960On his deathbed, Joe asks Flint to look after his 17-year old son Larry Hanify and get him to California. There was one catch. His latest es
  18. S03E18Wagon Train S03E18The Clayton Tucker StoryFebruary 10, 1960Taking a dangerous route through the desert to join up with the wagon train, a small band of settlers take a turn for the worse when they lo
  19. S03E19Wagon Train S03E19The Benjamin Burns StoryFebruary 17, 1960One dry water hole is normal but when the wagon train has two, Flint and Ben Burns lead a party to find a legend that only the Indians speak
  20. S03E20Wagon Train S03E20The Ricky and Laurie Bell StoryFebruary 24, 1960Laurie and Ricky Bell uproot and go West, leaving their comforts in Baltimore. When she announces she is pregnant, he is less than happy as
  21. S03E21Wagon Train S03E21The Tom Tuckett StoryMarch 2, 1960 8.0Ever since he was young, Tom Tuckett has been sent to good schools and looked after by an unknown benefactor. When he joins the wagon train
  22. S03E22Wagon Train S03E22The Tracy Sadler StoryMarch 9, 1960David Forest always believed his father to be as he claimed. When Tracy Sadler joins the wagon train his beliefs are altered when he slowly
  23. S03E23Wagon Train S03E23The Alexander Portlass StoryMarch 16, 1960Kidnapped, Flint is forced to scout and find a lost Aztec treasure. As some of the men were previously thrown off the wagon train, their unf
  24. S03E24Wagon Train S03E24The Christine Elliott StoryMarch 23, 1960Her father on his deathbed, Christine Elliot decides to fulfill his dream of a boys school and joins the wagon train. A good start: the elev
  25. S03E25Wagon Train S03E25The Joshua Gilliam StoryMarch 30, 1960Bill and the Major find a man lying hurt, a meal for the buzzards. When he meets an innocent woman on the wagon train who has an inheritance
  26. S03E26Wagon Train S03E26The Maggie Hamilton StoryApril 6, 1960When their daughter runs away from the wagon train, the Hamiltons hire Flint to bring her back. With renegades in the area, he soon discover
  27. S03E27Wagon Train S03E27The Jonas Murdock StoryApril 13, 1960Out of meat and low on food, the wagon train must not kill any wildlife or all will face the wrath of the local Indians. The one holdout is
  28. S03E28Wagon Train S03E28The Amos Gibbon StoryApril 20, 1960After an argument with Major Adams, Flint leaves the wagon train and mozies up to a bar at a nearby town. What he doesn't know is the locals
  29. S03E29Wagon Train S03E29Trial for Murder (1)April 27, 1960When a well thought of member of the wagon train is found dead, Adams needs to prevent mob rule and make sure a lawful trial takes place. Th
  30. S03E30Wagon Train S03E30Trial for Murder (2)May 4, 1960When the deceased's wife arrives, the people on the wagon train learn that the murdered man has a dark past, and this could be a case of Cai
  31. S03E31Wagon Train S03E31The Countess Baranof StoryMay 11, 1960Countess Baranof is desperate to get to Alaska to claim her family fortune, and with no horses she applies her considerable charms on Flint.
  32. S03E32Wagon Train S03E32The Dick Jarvis StoryMay 18, 1960A boy hurt in a crippling accident and a domineering mother meet a runaway boy who she feels is making him do things outside his capabilitie
  33. S03E33Wagon Train S03E33Dr. Swift CloudMay 25, 1960Thinking he is not welcome by the white man or his people, an educated Chiracua Indian returns to find prejudices among both of them and mus
  34. S03E34Wagon Train S03E34The Luke Grant StoryJune 1, 1960Luke Grant is found wandering the desert with one wish on his mind - kill me! Turned over to the wagon train by some friendly Chiracawa Indi
  35. S03E35Wagon Train S03E35The Charlene Brenton StoryJune 8, 1960A baby girl sure has a rough start when she arrives on the stage with her dead mother. Plague is what people think killed her and then Charl
  36. S03E36Wagon Train S03E36The Sam Livingston StoryJune 15, 1960Abigail has lost her driver to the better paying mines. Her new driver says he owns a bank and a pig. The ride West reveals another side of
  37. S03E37Wagon Train S03E37The Shadrack Bennington StoryJune 22, 1960Shadrack Bennington has been a cavalier of the open road, not wanting to be tied down until he joins the wagon train, heading for San Franci

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season04Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode38Episodes1960–61Aired 6.4Season avg
  1. S04E01Wagons Ho!September 28, 1960While preparing to return to St. Joseph, the men read the story "Wagon Ho" written and printed by Samuel T. Evans about his trip as a naive
  2. S04E02The Horace Best StoryOctober 5, 1960Adams' "distant" cousin Horace arrives hoping to be a wagon master. His trading skills allow him to steal the crew and vendors from Adams bu
  3. S04E03The Albert Farnsworth StoryOctober 12, 1960Arrogant British Colonel Albert Farnsworth causes an uproar in camp and puts the wagon train in danger of Indian attack, resulting in the ca
  4. S04E04The Allison Justis StoryOctober 19, 1960When someone yells horse thief, Flint shoots a man only to find he is the husband of a childhood friend. Flint learns the man is mayor and h
  5. S04E05Season's bestThe Jose Morales StoryOctober 26, 1960 8.0Bill Hawkes is leading 3 wagons through Indian territory. They run into trouble with Mexician bandits lead by Lee Marvin. When the 2 groups
  6. S04E06The Princess of a Lost TribeNovember 2, 1960 6.0Ordered by Major Adams to guide three passengers to a campsite up a haunted mountain, Flint does so but with caution: rumours that an escape
  7. S04E07The Cathy Eckhart StoryNovember 9, 1960One murder begets a second murder while a treacherous journey awaits the wagon train. An unknown scout and Kiowa Indians threaten the pass.
  8. S04E08The Bleymier StoryNovember 16, 1960Heed the signs! Or so says Samuel Bleymier. When the rains won't stop a splintered group of the wagon train has to travel through a Sioux In
  9. S04E09The Colter Craven StoryNovember 23, 1960 6.0Dr. Craven feels he can't perform surgery any longer. When he joins the wagon train and his services are desperately needed, he realizes he
  10. S04E10The Jane Hawkins StoryNovember 30, 1960Flint discovers a badly wounded waitress on the range and takes her to a doctor, where he finds the evil town's owner wants to hang her with
  11. S04E11The Candy O'Hara StoryDecember 7, 1960Gabe Henry and his son have been sorely missing the female touch over five years now. Finding a wife during a stopover is his top priority b
  12. S04E12The River CrossingDecember 14, 1960A green Army Colonel wipes out a village of Comanche women and children thinking he is getting revenge. The wagon train must face on the one
  13. S04E13The Roger Bigelow StoryDecember 21, 1960Roger Bigelow turns to the ministry with his father's help when he realizes what he might become without it. He gets the chance to help some
  14. S04E14The Jeremy Dow StoryDecember 28, 1960When the wagon train passes through town, habitually drunk Jeremy Dow finds that his past has caught up with him. His choices: continue runn
  15. S04E15The Earl Packer StoryJanuary 4, 1961Wounded Bill Strode arrives in camp looking for Flint. Strode, who saved Flint's life in Abilene, asks Flint to help him get to Fort Kearny.
  16. S04E16The Patience Miller StoryJanuary 11, 1961A Quaker schoolteacher heads to the Arapaho nation on the wagon train when her husband is killed. She meets the Chief and his willingness to
  17. S04E17The Sam Elder StoryJanuary 18, 1961A retired Captain and ten boys join the wagon train on their way to California. Hitching a ride was all he thought he was involving the boys
  18. S04E18The Weight of CommandJanuary 25, 1961Bill and Major Adams plan on going hunting with a friend but when he is not home they suspect a renegade party of Cheyenne who have broken t
  19. S04E19The Prarie StoryFebruary 1, 1961The story of the women of the wagon train and the unforgiving prairie through which they pass. Who will endure, and who will give up? Who wi
  20. S04E20Path of the SerpentFebruary 8, 1961At a Rocky Mountains fort , a wounded soldier asks his old friend Ruddy Blaine to bring his daughter to him before he dies. With the Ute Ind
  21. S04E21The Odyssey of Flint McCulloughFebruary 15, 1961Looking forward to some time off, Flint heads towards the town of Monument but runs into an old man and some kids whose parents were just ma
  22. S04E22The Beth Pearson StoryFebruary 22, 1961The leaders of the wagon train are taken aback when they see a woman asking to join the wagon train who is the twin of Major Adams one and o
  23. S04E23The Jed Polke StoryMarch 1, 1961When Flint brings a stranded woman and boy to the train, her husband who went off to find help is also found but his return to the train set
  24. S04E24The Nancy Palmer StoryMarch 8, 1961A married couple use the wife's innocent face and winning way with children to gain the trust of their companions on the wagon train so that
  25. S04E25The Christopher Hale StoryMarch 15, 1961 8.0Flint meets Chris Hale alone on the prairie. Hale has just found his entire family massacred by Indians, and Flint asks him to join the wago
  26. S04E26The Tiburcio Mendez StoryMarch 22, 1961Bill Hawks is leading four wagons through to California when they are stopped by Tiburcio Mendez and his band of renegades, who demand they
  27. S04E27The Nellie Jefferson StoryApril 5, 1961When actress Nellie Jefferson joins the wagon train, her incessant demands for special treatment come to grate on Hale and Hawks, but Wooste
  28. S04E28The Saul Bevins StoryApril 12, 1961Saul Bevins, a blind doctor traveling with his son, his sister, and his dog, asks to join the wagon train. Many others on the train object t
  29. S04E29The Joe Muharich StoryApril 19, 1961Polish immigrant Joe Muharich tries to befriend and hopefully straighten out Johnny Kamen, a brash young man who doesn't take well to anyone
  30. S04E30The Duke Shannon StoryApril 26, 1961With his clever tall tales, old prospector Henry Shannon talks Charlie Wooster into coming with him to search for a gold mine. When Hawks fi
  31. S04E31The Will Santee StoryMay 3, 1961The Santee family---Will, his mother, and his younger sister---join the wagon train under a false surname. They have been forced out of town
  32. S04E32The Jim Bridger StoryMay 10, 1961An Army general announces he is taking over the wagon train and requiring all members to act as soldiers in helping him rescue a trapped cav
  33. S04E33The Eleanor Culhane StoryMay 17, 1961Flint goes to visit Eleanor Culhane, an old flame of his who had been married to a notorious gunman. He finds everyone in the town she lives
  34. S04E34The ChaliceMay 24, 1961An Italian immigrant couple needs help in transporting water for their grapevines to California. Unfortunately, the two men who offer the us
  35. S04E35The Janet Hale StoryMay 31, 1961A flashback episode - Chris Hale's duties as wagonmaster require him to leave his family in their prairie home.
  36. S04E36Wagon to Fort AndersonJune 7, 1961Flint comes across four survivors of an Indian massacre, the two Ellison sisters and two Carder brothers. One of the sisters is deaf and mut
  37. S04E37The Ah Chong StoryJune 14, 1961 4.0Dissatisfied with Charley Wooster, Hale and Hawks push for a new cook - a Chinese cook named Ah Chong.
  38. S04E38The Don Alvarado StoryJune 21, 1961A dying Spanish nobleman asks Flint to impersonate Don Alvarado to claim the inheritance for the rest of his family. This brings Flint into

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season0537Episodes1961–62Aired 7.0Season avg
  1. S05E01The Captain Dan Brady StorySeptember 27, 1961Captain Dan Brady, a colorful, boisterous and well known veteran frontier scout who is famous throughout the East, is demanding to be taken
  2. S05E02The Kitty Albright StoryOctober 4, 1961Kitty Albright is a registered nurse who's stagecoach is attacked and destroyed. Flint agrees to let her use her new skill on the wagon trai
  3. S05E03The Maud Frazer StoryOctober 11, 1961Maud Frazer takes command of her wagon train after all the men are killed. Flint tries to dissuade Maud from going through hostile Indian co
  4. S05E04The Selena Hartnell StoryOctober 18, 1961Selena Hartnell joins the train after bandits attack her wagon. Later, she reveals she is a bounty hunter looking for William Barrett, a mur
  5. S05E05The Clementine Jones StoryOctober 25, 1961Clementine Jones is in the process of being thrown out of a town when a bank robbery occurs. One of the fugitives ends up joining the wagon
  6. S05E06The Jenna Douglas StoryNovember 1, 1961Jenna Douglas is found by scouts for the wagon train. She appears to have been a victim of a scavenger attack and is adopted by the train. A
  7. S05E07The Artie Matthewson StoryNovember 8, 1961Duke finds Flint's dying foster mother who asks Flint to check on her real son Artie who she hasn't seen in five years and has a reputation
  8. S05E08Wagon Train S05E08The Mark Miner StoryNovember 15, 1961Mark Miner and his younger brother Matthew join the wagon train after making it appear their own wagon has broken down. The passengers of th
  9. S05E09The Bruce Saybrook StoryNovember 22, 1961Lord Bruce Saybrook, London millionaire, takes his brother, wife and employee out west on a hunting trip hoping to repair his relationships.
  10. S05E10The Lizabeth Ann Calhoun StoryDecember 6, 1961Lizabeth Ann Calhoun meets the wagon train staff as they stop for supplies. She asks permission to join the train so she can avoid the advan
  11. S05E11The TraitorDecember 13, 1961Flint McCullough's involvement in a horse-stealing operation proves that he's ""gone bad."" Reluctantly, Chris Hale sentences him to 20 lash
  12. S05E12The Bettina May StoryDecember 20, 1961Bettina May leads three generations of her family across the plains. Other members of the wagon train as well as some family members become
  13. S05E13ClydeDecember 27, 1961Charlie's life undergoes an epiphany when he finds an injured buffalo and the animal befriends him. He takes the buffalo, who he calls Clyde
  14. S05E14The Martin Onyx StoryJanuary 3, 1962 7.0A man finds a corpse that looks remarkably like himself. On an impulse he takes on the persona of the dead man only to find he was a living
  15. S05E15The Dick Pederson StoryJanuary 10, 1962Overwhelmed girl takes on her father's responsibility as man of the house after he passes. She cares for her pregnant mother and 5 sisters a
  16. S05E16The Hobie Redman StoryJanuary 17, 1962When three wagons are late in the desert, Chris sends Duke to find them and bring them to the wagon train as the train cannot wait for them.
  17. S05E17The Malachi Hobart StoryJanuary 24, 1962An old con man trys to fleece the wagon train members of money by pretending to be a preacher trying to raise funds to build a church. He is
  18. S05E18The Dr. Denker StoryJanuary 31, 1962Bill spots a young boy alone on the trail. He passes out but they later learn he can't talk but that he saw his dad killed by strangers for
  19. S05E19The Lonnie Fallon StoryFebruary 7, 1962Cowboy Lonnie Fallon is in love with Kathy Jennings---but her strict father forbids the relationship.
  20. S05E20The Jeff Hartfield StoryFebruary 14, 1962Jeff Hartfield becomes concerned when his sister Jenny begins dating Dallas who threatens him with an orphanage at journey's end. Jeff takes
  21. S05E21The Daniel Clay StoryFebruary 21, 1962Judge Clay and his family join the wagon train. He has a reputation for cleaning up frontier towns, but his fanatical attention to the law s
  22. S05E22The Lieutenant Burton StoryFebruary 28, 1962A young lieutenant on his first assignment must face an overbearing, murderous sergeant who is determined to kill two deserters in cold bloo
  23. S05E23The Charley Shutup StoryMarch 7, 1962The wagon master encounters opposition when he calls a halt to the train due to weather. One group needs to push on due to an inheritance in
  24. S05E24The Amos Billings StoryMarch 14, 1962The wagon train encounters Amos Billings who tells of a new road that might shorten their trip and avoid Indian trouble. Chris and Flint are
  25. S05E25The Baylor Crowfoot StoryMarch 21, 1962A teacher traveling with the wagon train encounters conflict when he become attracted to the daughter of a medicine man who has just joined
  26. S05E26The George B. Hanrahan StoryMarch 28, 1962Ousted medicine man predicts future of wagon train passenger. Is it a hoax or real?
  27. S05E27The Swamp DevilApril 4, 1962A section of the wagon train splits to attempt a crossing of a dangerous swamp. On the way they hear stories from the local Indians of a str
  28. S05E28The Cole Crawford StoryApril 11, 1962The young Crawford couple is trying to leave their past behind but having difficulty doing it. The wagon train is crossing a massive ranch a
  29. S05E29The Levi Hale StoryApril 18, 1962Chris Hale is traveling to the Wyoming prison to pick up his brother Levi---who's about to be released from prison. Chris assumed Levi was p
  30. S05E30The Terry Morrell StoryApril 25, 1962After the Sheriff escorts Ben Morrell and his son Terry to the wagon train, the members find Ben Morrell and his son very antisocial: the tw
  31. S05E31The Jud Steele StoryMay 2, 1962Bill Hawks returns the horse and belongings of a horse thief he shot to the local town sheriff. These identify the thief as a long dead war
  32. S05E32The Mary Beckett StoryMay 9, 1962A Frenchman arouses strong---and polarized---emotions among the wagon train members: men distrust him, women adore him. He owes a substantia
  33. S05E33The Nancy Davis StoryMay 16, 1962The Nancy Davis Story Flint stops in a saloon with Bill and Charlie where he learns the whereabouts of a man he's been hunting for years---
  34. S05E34The Frank Carter StoryMay 23, 1962Duke's resemblance to gambler Jason Carter makes him the target for a murderer's bullet when he visits Jason Carter's hometown looking for s
  35. S05E35The John Turnbull StoryMay 30, 1962Bill and Charlie looking for horses help out an old friend John Turnbull (an Ute lawyer) defend his reservation against local land sharks wh
  36. S05E36The Hiram Winthrop StoryJune 6, 1962Duke quits the wagon train to take up a steady position as Deputy Indian Agent at San Marcos on an Apache reservation under Hiram Winthrope.
  37. S05E37The Heather Mahoney StoryJune 13, 1962Chris Hale has dinner with a society matron whose carriage team he had stopped after being spooked. A rival for the woman's attention is Chr

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

Season0637Episodes1962–63Aired 7.0Season avg
  1. S06E01The Wagon Train MutinySeptember 19, 1962When Comancheros wipe out a small wagon train ahead of them, Chris sends Bill and Duke to check it out. They find a young wounded Comanchero
  2. S06E02The Caroline Casteel StorySeptember 26, 1962Indian captive Caroline Casteel is traded to a man who brings her to the wagon train. She encounters prejudice and hostility from many of th
  3. S06E03The Madame Sagittarius StoryOctober 3, 1962Madame Delphine Sagittarius asks to be picked by the wagon train at Beaver City. The town is expelling her as a con woman. Charlie is initia
  4. S06E04The Martin Gatsby StoryOctober 10, 1962Wealthy merchant Martin Gatsby, a man with little room for compassion for others, wants the wagon train to keep rolling and demands that Hal
  5. S06E05The John Augustus StoryOctober 17, 1962John Augustus in a game of cards with a Chinese merchant wins a beautiful Chinese girl. But when he takes her on the wagon train, other pass
  6. S06E06The Mavis Grant StoryOctober 24, 1962In the midst of a dry spell and desperately in need of water, the wagons stop at Mavis Grant's station, the only source of water for miles.
  7. S06E07The Lisa Raincloud StoryOctober 31, 1962Bill Hawks is caught with three Indian grave robbers being chased by the Indians. He is the only one captured and is to be killed until he a
  8. S06E08The Shiloh Degnan StoryNovember 7, 1962An officer Chris knows is found near the wagon train near death. He tells Chris that a passage in the bible describes him and his commander
  9. S06E09The Levy-McGowan StoryNovember 14, 1962When the Levy family joins the wagon train, the tranquility becomes less so as the fathers compete in checkers, young sons fight, and son an
  10. S06E10The John Bernard StoryNovember 21, 1962Indians kidnap an elderly lady on the train. They will return her when the train takes the Chief's son to the doctor and cure him. However,
  11. S06E11The Kurt Davos StoryNovember 28, 1962Kurt Davos, a highly respected man, is badly injured while trying to save Florence Hastings trapped in a runaway wagon. Florence, scared of
  12. S06E12The Eve Newhope StoryDecember 5, 1962Patrick O'Shaughnessy has come to visit his daughter Eve, believing her to be a respectable married woman. Knowing that Eve actually is the
  13. S06E13The Orly French StoryDecember 12, 1962A Bible-quoting marshal joins the wagon train with his prisoner, a young bank robber whom he claims to be trying to reform. He wants the pri
  14. S06E14The Donna Fuller StoryDecember 19, 1962A woman and three companions in a runaway wagon are rescued by a winemaker and Charlie. They are against the consumption of alcohol and join
  15. S06E15The Sam Darland StoryDecember 26, 1962The wagon train finds Sam Darland with orphan boys in an old ghost town. Hale tries to convince Darland that it is not safe to stay in the t
  16. S06E16The Abel Weatherly StoryJanuary 2, 1963 7.0A sea captain traveling west haunted by nightmares from his past is found stranded, injured and drunk by Bill and Charlie. After hearing his
  17. S06E17The Davey Baxter StoryJanuary 9, 1963When his wagon falls down a cliff, Davey Baxter's mother is killed, and his arm is crushed. The doctor is unavailable, so Chris is forced to
  18. S06E18The Johnny Masters StoryJanuary 16, 1963On his way to Fort David, wagon scout Duke Shannon rescues Sgt. Johnny Masters being sent to prison for twenty years; a man caught between t
  19. S06E19The Naomi Kaylor StoryJanuary 30, 1963Hawks rides to the John Kaylor ranch to buy horses for the train but John just died. His widow Naomi refuses to sell the horses at the price
  20. S06E20The Hollister John Garrison StoryFebruary 6, 1963Bitter alcoholic Stevenson Drake develops a dislike for the even tempered John Hollister, a fellow Southerner, when he learns he didn't figh
  21. S06E21The Lily Legend StoryFebruary 13, 1963While riding through the desert plains, Duke and Charlie come across a sheriff as he is about to die of a heart attack and his female prison
  22. S06E22Charlie Wooster - OutlawFebruary 20, 1963Bella McKavitch wants to kidnap Chris Hale, in order to find out about a gold shipment which she thinks the wagon train is carrying, but her
  23. S06E23The Sara Proctor StoryFebruary 27, 1963When children's dolls are found mutilated in her possession, passengers believe that Sara Proctor is either deranged or practicing witchcraf
  24. S06E24The Emmett Lawton StoryMarch 6, 1963Duke Shannon stops in the town High Times and almost right away gets into a fight with, and accidentally kills, one of the gunmen who are es
  25. S06E25The Annie Duggan StoryMarch 13, 1963An elderly couple and then a young girl become ill with typhoid fever on the wagon train. A young servant girl has attended to them all in i
  26. S06E26The Michael McGoo StoryMarch 20, 1963When four brothers are orphaned, no one on the train wants all four. Charlie is determined to find a home for the four together and even pro
  27. S06E27The Adam MacKenzie StoryMarch 27, 1963The Perez family is run out of town because people believe their daughter Juana is a witch. The family joins the wagon train, and after Juan
  28. S06E28The Tom Tuesday StoryApril 3, 1963While scouting in Wyoming territory, Duke is forced by outlaw Tom Tuesday to act as his guide to an important rendezvous in Ruby City, Idaho
  29. S06E29The Heather and Hamish StoryApril 10, 1963Samuel MacIntosh picks Hamish Browne to marry his daughter Heather before the two have met. Heather is a naive young girl who thinks she can
  30. S06E30The Blane Wessels StoryApril 17, 1963Duke and three women under attack by Cheyenne Indians are helped by a stranger who has a fatalistic attitude toward life. They take refuge i
  31. S06E31The Tom O'Neal StoryApril 24, 1963Tom O'Neal and Ellen Howard want to get married, but their parents object, so Tom takes money from his father's savings and runs away with E
  32. S06E32The Clarence Mullins StoryMay 1, 1963Duke and Charlie leave the train for supplies and to see Duke's old friends at a fort. One is a minister who was cashiered out of the Army w
  33. S06E33The David Garner StoryMay 8, 1963Hale is entrusted to deliver $8,000 to a bank. Young David Garner is determined to steal it and he stows along on the wagon train, along wit
  34. S06E34Alias Bill HawksMay 15, 1963Bill Hawks receives a note asking him to help an Indian friend of his from the Civil War. He arrives to find the local town drilling a well
  35. S06E35The Antone Rose StoryMay 22, 1963Invalid rancher Henry Ludlow is so determined that daughter Judy not marry Basque sheepherder Antone Rose that he sells his land and joins t
  36. S06E36The Jim Whitlow StoryMay 29, 1963Duke Shannon returns to check on his small ranch he split evenly with a childhood friend. When he arrives he finds tenant farmers being bull
  37. S06E37The Barnaby West StoryJune 5, 1963Bill meets young Barnaby West, who claims he is traveling west to see his father, a famous frontiersman. Bill invites him to join the wagon

Season 6 ranked & reviewed

Season0732Episodes1963–64Aired 9.0Season avg
  1. S07E01The Molly Kincaid StorySeptember 16, 1963Having just left St. Joseph, Hale tells everyone there are no Indians when in fact two escaped Comanche captives steal two horses and show u
  2. S07E02The Fort Pierce StorySeptember 23, 1963As the wagon train reaches Fort Pierce it is in dangerous Indian country. Chris is hoping the Army will provide an escort when they leave, b
  3. S07E03The Gus Morgan StorySeptember 30, 1963A tough railroad executive and his younger college educated brother are guided by Chris up a mountain to scout a route. When is accidentally
  4. S07E04The Widow O'Rourke StoryOctober 7, 1963When Duke and Charlie do not return from a scouting assignment, Chris sends Cooper who has a pretty good idea what lays ahead. The Chinese w
  5. S07E05The Robert Harrison Clarke StoryOctober 14, 1963Chris and Cooper along with a British journalist accompany civilians surveying for the Army when they come across an Army troop that has bee
  6. S07E06The Myra Marshall StoryOctober 21, 1963Coop accompanies Grace Marshall to visit her sister Myra whom, traumatized by an upbringing by an abusive father, Grace finds living a life
  7. S07E07The Sam Spicer StoryOctober 28, 1963 9.0After witnessing a bank holdup, Barnaby is taken hostage by outlaws Sam Spicer and Reno Sutton. Sam takes a liking to the boy as he reminds
  8. S07E08The Sam Pulaski StoryNovember 4, 1963On the train Coop is falling for the sister of the man running a gang who beat and robbed Coop in Hell's Kitchen in Brooklyn. Coop believes
  9. S07E09The Eli Bancroft StoryNovember 11, 1963Eli Bancroft became an outlaw looking for revenge raising his three sons as such after a town's citizens banded together and forced his enti
  10. S07E10The Kitty Pryer StoryNovember 18, 1963Kitty Pryer finds herself in a bigamous marriage to Victor Harp who asks her to join him on the wagon train posing as the wife of a friend u
  11. S07E11The Sandra Cummings StoryDecember 2, 1963After escaping from a Confederate prison for being a spy, Sandra Cummings, becomes the lead in a musical troupe in the west. When she joins
  12. S07E12The Bleeker StoryDecember 9, 1963The Bleecker gang disguised as farmers with several wagons seek Hale's wagon train to join but they actually carry a wagon of weapons and pl
  13. S07E13The Story of CainDecember 16, 1963While scouting Coop nearly dies after finding a man near death from lack of water who has found a major gold strike. The man decides to let
  14. S07E14The Cassie Vance StoryDecember 23, 1963Cassie Vance is accused of theft when money and items belonging to a woman on the train that she nursed turn up missing, and especially afte
  15. S07E15The Fenton Canaby StoryDecember 30, 1963Canaby, who is unjustly reputed to have led a wagon train to disaster in the desert, becomes unexpectedly part of Hale's train as Hale has s
  16. S07E16The Michael Malone StoryJanuary 6, 1964Julie Holland is falling for Michael Malone, a man haunted by the death of his sister. Meanwhile, the marriage of Ben and Beth Mitchell is s
  17. S07E17The Jed Whitmore StoryJanuary 13, 1964Jed Whitmore, one of three brothers that committed an infamous train robbery, is now town sheriff Frank Lewis but his brother released from
  18. S07E18The Geneva Balfour StoryJanuary 20, 1964Hale's train must take a dangerous desert route due to hostilities which danger grows when spoiled Geneva Balfour starts a fire destroying s
  19. S07E19The Kate Crawley StoryJanuary 27, 1964When Hale begins to romance tough, independent freight line operator Kate Crawley, the others begin to fear she will wind up dominating Chri
  20. S07E20The Grover Allen StoryFebruary 3, 1964After being fired and setting a bomb which kills his tyrannical boss, Grover Allen joins the wagon train and heads west with his widowed dau
  21. S07E21The Andrew Elliott StoryFebruary 10, 1964Duke Shannon, arrested by the Cavalry, is charged with criminal negligence as leader of an expedition into the badlands, from which he alone
  22. S07E22The Melanie Craig StoryFebruary 17, 1964Everyone wants to help pretty Melanie Craig after her husband is killed in an accident so four men fight over who will be the one to court a
  23. S07E23The Pearlie Garnet StoryFebruary 24, 1964Beautiful but shrewd Pearlie Garnet was forced to leave the wagon train after she was found to be a liar, manipulator, and thief who stole f
  24. S07E24The Trace McCloud StoryMarch 2, 1964A strangler is loose in the town of Bedrock so when the wagon train comes through it is joined by a good percentage of the town's population
  25. S07E25The Duncan McIvor StoryMarch 9, 1964Duke and Bill are rescued from Indians by a stranger. He joins the train which is headed to Fort Chacon. Unknown to them he is an Army offic
  26. S07E26The Ben Engel StoryMarch 16, 1964Wealthy Engel has used psychopathic Harry Diel as a proxy during the Civil War to save Diel from jail but Diel plots on the train as Engel's
  27. S07E27The WhippingMarch 23, 1964With Chris gone Bill is in charge of the train when Barnaby goes overboard in his pranks. After messing with a wagon wheel, Bill orders him
  28. S07E28The Santiago Quesada StoryMarch 30, 1964Kim Case is returning home during Indian wars after schooling in the east although her parents have died. She is anxious to return to the ma
  29. S07E29The Stark Bluff StoryApril 6, 1964Duke stops by the town of Stark Bluff looking for a friend and his wife who had formerly been on the wagon train. He finds out that the frie
  30. S07E30The Link Cheney StoryApril 13, 1964Coop brings Link Cheney to the wagon train after the professional gambler is wounded by sore losers in a game. Link is nursed back to health
  31. S07E31The Zebedee Titus StoryApril 20, 1964Barnaby and Charlie talk Chris Hale into hiring legendary mountain man Zebedee Titus as a scout. The nearly 80 year old Zeb's failing eyesig
  32. S07E32Last Circle UpApril 27, 1964As the wagon train approaches the end of the trail, Hale's crew and passengers deal with birth, death, romance, a clash of different faiths,

Season 7 ranked & reviewed

Season0826Episodes1964–65AiredSeason avg
  1. S08E01The Bob Stuart StorySeptember 20, 1964Ex-Marshal Bob Stuart and his new wife are among three wagons joining Chris Hale's wagon train. Scout Cooper Smith is assigned to escort the
  2. S08E02The Hide HuntersSeptember 27, 1964Hide hunters, hunters who kill buffalo for their hides only, have temporarily joined up with the wagon train. One of their number, Gib Ryker
  3. S08E03The John Gillman StoryOctober 4, 1964John Gillman being chased and shot in the leg by a posse escapes via a river. He is found downriver nearly passes out by a young orphan girl
  4. S08E04The Race Town StoryOctober 11, 1964Bill accompanies Barnaby to Sam Race's tent city of "entertainers", where a girl from the train that Barnaby likes has taken a job, not as a
  5. S08E05The Barbara Lindquist StoryOctober 18, 1964Cooper Smith is on his way to the town of Washburn to pick up long awaited mail for the wagon train when he stumbles upon a stagecoach robbe
  6. S08E06The Brian Conlin StoryOctober 25, 1964Brian Conlin walks into Hale's camp, delirious and dehydrated. After he recovers, he leads Coop to his group of Irish immigrants, whose wago
  7. S08E07The Alice Whitetree StoryNovember 1, 1964Coop falls for a young half-Indian woman wandering alone in the wilderness. He brings her to the wagon train, where Hale discovers she is a
  8. S08E08Those Who Stay BehindNovember 8, 1964Hale is unable to take everybody on the next phase and has to turn down some of those applying. One is Ben Campbell, an ex-convict who is be
  9. S08E09The Nancy Styles StoryNovember 22, 1964Spoiled Nancy Styles, claiming to be the daughter of the owner of the company that owns the wagon train, is determined to get to Denver by f
  10. S08E10The Richard Bloodgood StoryNovember 29, 1964A blind man called Sangre has joined the wagon train along with his guide. He is actually Coop's boyhood blood brother Richard Bloodgood, an
  11. S08E11The Clay Shelby StoryDecember 6, 1964With Hawks ill and Comanches threatening to attack, an Army troop meets up with the wagon train. The Indians appear to greatly outnumber the
  12. S08E12Little Girl LostDecember 13, 1964A little girl, crying each night, appears to be a ghost from The Donner Party. Many people hear her, but she appears each night to Charlie,
  13. S08E13The Hector Heatherton StoryDecember 20, 1964Charlie has finally found someone else who shares his dream of man being able to fly, henpecked inventor Hector Heatherton, who has been wor
  14. S08E14The Echo Pass StoryJanuary 3, 1965While out looking for water Coop and Charlie are stopped by a gang of five, including two women, who are on the run after robbing a bank and
  15. S08E15The Chottsie Gubenheimer StoryJanuary 10, 1965Hale finds his old flame Chottsie Gubenheimer working in a gambling house and in an argument with the owner, so he asks her to come with hi
  16. S08E16The Wanda Snow StoryJanuary 17, 1965Wanda Snow has several times seen events before they have happened, causing several people on the wagon train to accuse her of being a witch
  17. S08E17The Isaiah Quickfox StoryJanuary 31, 1965Coop and Charlie ride into a small village for supplies finding it deserted. There is an Indian who stays hidden and later three men and a w
  18. S08E18HermanFebruary 14, 1965The wagon train comes across old Jamison Hershey and Herman, his 3000 pound Belgian horse. The old man has made it safely through hostile In
  19. S08E19The Bonnie Brooke StoryFebruary 21, 1965Don Brooke is desperate for money for his pregnant wife Bonnie, who's condition is too delicate for the long trip without more medical care
  20. S08E20The Miss Mary Lee McIntosh StoryFebruary 28, 1965Teacher Mary Lee McIntosh refuses to pay what she feels is an excessive fee to join the wagon train, so she decides instead to follow behind
  21. S08E21The Captain Sam StoryMarch 21, 1965Tough and headstrong female ferryboat captain Samantha Stewart is asked by her son Johnny and his bride to accompany them on the wagon train
  22. S08E22The Betsy Blee Smith StoryMarch 28, 1965Despite the advice of some Coop decides to visit former girlfriend Eloise Blee, but finds Eloise gone, and instead winds up being talked int
  23. S08E23The Katy Piper StoryApril 11, 1965Barnaby is forced to shot and kill a boy his own age who took a woman and her daughters hostage. He is cleared of any wrongdoing but cannot
  24. S08E24The Indian Girl StoryApril 18, 1965A white renegade rides into the wagon train camp with an Indian girl tied to a rope and forced to walk without food or water. He says that h
  25. S08E25The Silver LadyApril 25, 1965Coop tells Bill the story of the Earp brothers and the Silver Lady, a woman who was encased in a coffin of sliver coins that melted around h
  26. S08E26The Jarbo Pierce StoryMay 2, 1965The series' final episode begins and ends with the two characters who stayed with it from beginning to end, as Charlie tells Hawks about his

Season 8 ranked & reviewed

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