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.
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 3
Duration: 1h
Release: 1957
Rating: 6.3
Season 3 - Wagon Train
1959-09-30
"The 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 detour to Mexico by other passengers - one of whom denies knowing Flint who is in love with her."
1959-12-02
"He 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 find out he meets an old friend and why the boy is so tortured."
Season 5 - Wagon Train
1961-09-27
"Captain Dan Brady, a colorful, boisterous and well known veteran frontier scout who is famous throughout the East, is demanding to be taken on as trail scout. Hale faces a dilemma as he will lose a Government mail contract that is necessary to finance the wagon train if he doesn't hire Brady. But he will lose Flint, angered by Brady's bad advice to members of the wagon train, who threatens to quit if Brady stays on."
Season 6 - Wagon Train
26 Sep 1962
"Caroline Casteel, captured many years ago by Indians, is traded back to a man who brings her to join the wagon train. There she encounters prejudice and hostility from many of the train's ..."
03 Oct 1962
"Madame Sagittarius, a fortune teller and psychic, is suspected of being a con woman by the rest of the passengers on the wagon train. Particularly hostile is the father of a young woman who..."
17 Oct 1962
"John Augustus, an art collector traveling with the wagon train, wins a game of cards with a Chinese merchant. His prize turns out to be a beautiful Chinese girl. But when he takes her with ..."
31 Oct 1962
"After three men who have stolen sacred items from them wander into his camp, Hawks is shot and taken prisoner by Indians, who assume he was acting with them. The Indians are led by the ..."
07 Nov 1962
"Hale finds a gravely wounded Army officer, whom he knew very well and attended the wedding of. The officer is delirious, but before he dies he says things which if true could seriously ..."
14 Nov 1962
"Simon Levy and Patrick McGowan both consider themselves unbeatable at checkers, and when each loses to the other over several games their pride is hurt. Compounding things is that Patrick's..."
21 Nov 1962
"A woman on the wagon train is kidnapped by Indians, who say they will only return her when the chief's seriously ill son is taken by the wagon train to a doctor and cured. But some ..."
28 Nov 1962
"Kurt Davos is badly injured while trying to save Florence Hastings, who is trapped in a runaway wagon. Florence, who sometime earlier had tried to kill the man's dog, volunteers to live ..."
05 Dec 1962
"Patrick O'Shaughnessy has come to visit his daughter Eve, believing her to be a respectable married woman. Knowing that Eve actually is the popular owner of a saloon in Bitter Springs, ..."
19 Dec 1962
"A crusader against the consumption of alcohol joins the wagon train, and begins to fall in love with a winemaker."
26 Dec 1962
"The wagon train finds Sam Darland and a number of orphan boys in an old ghost town. Hale tries to convince Darland that it is not safe to stay in the town, as it in the midst of Indian ..."
02 Jan 1963
"A sea captain traveling west is haunted by nightmares from his past."
09 Jan 1963
"When his wagon falls down a cliff, Davey Baxter's mother is killed, and his arm is crushed. The doctor is unavailable, so Chris Hale is the one forced to make the decision to amputate ..."
16 Jan 1963
"On his way to Fort David, wagon scout Duke Shannon rescues Sgt. Johnny Masters, a man caught between two worlds. The world of his ancestors the Cherokee, and the world of his loyalty, the U.S. Army."
06 Feb 1963
"Bitter and alcoholic Stevenson Drake develops a dislike for John Hollister, a fellow Southerner, when he learns he didn't fight for the Confederacy. He also is bothered by the friendliness ..."
13 Feb 1963
"While riding back to the wagon train through the desert plains, Duke and Charlie come across a sheriff and his female prisoner, Lily Legend, a childhood sweetheart of Duke's who the sheriff..."
20 Feb 1963
"Bella McKavitch wants to kidnap Hale, in order to find out about a gold shipment which she thinks the wagon train is carrying, but her dimwitted sons nab Wooster instead. To keep them from ..."
06 Mar 1963
"Duke Shannon stops over in the town of High Times, and almost right away gets into a fight with, and accidentally kills, one of the gunmen who are essentially holding the town hostage. Then..."
13 Mar 1963
"Hale recalls how Annie Duggan selflessly nursed the elderly couple she worked for until they died of typhoid. Afterward, it was necessary for her to be quarantined for two weeks, but she ..."
27 Mar 1963
"The Perez family is run out of their town because people believe their daughter Juana is a witch. The family joins the wagon train, and then after Juana's brother Felipe is mauled by a cat,..."
03 Apr 1963
"While scouting in Wyoming territory, Duke is forced by outlaw Tom Tuesday to act as his guide to an important rendezvous in Ruby City, Idaho. Tuesday is going blind from a gunshot wound, ..."
10 Apr 1963
"Samuel MacIntosh picks farmer Hamish Browne to marry his daughter Heather, before the two have even met, and gets the young man to sign a contract. But getting them to understand each other..."
17 Apr 1963
"Duke comes upon three women under attack by hostile Indians. They are saved by a man named Blane Wessels who appears on the scene. One of the women, whose husband was killed in the attack, ..."
24 Apr 1963
"Tom 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 Ellen. They soon realize that that was an unwise decision."
01 May 1963
"Duke and Charlie visit an Army fort to see Duke's friend Clarence Mullins, a minister who was also a lieutenant at the fort. They learn that Mullins was kicked out of the Army for refusing ..."
08 May 1963
"Hale is entrusted to deliver a box containing $8,000 to a bank. Young David Garner is determined to steal the box, and he stows along on the wagon train, along with a girl who's in love ..."
15 May 1963
"Bill Hawks travels to a desert town to visit an old friend, an Indian who has a ranch there. However, upon arriving on his friend's property, he discovers that it is under the control of ..."
22 May 1963
"Invalid cattle rancher Henry Ludlow is so determined that his daughter Judy not marry young Basque sheepherder Antone Rose that he sells his land and joins the wagon train to head west. ..."
29 May 1963
"Duke Shannon goes to visit his ranch, Shannon's Glen, which he gave his friend Jim Whitlow a half interest in. Duke finds the Shannon spread now a ranching empire, due mostly to the use of ..."
Season 7 - Wagon Train
16 Sep 1963
"When a defiant young brave and his mother turn up at a wagon train stop, the town's female boss won't release needed provisions, to keep the caravan at a standstill. Nothing about the ..."
23 Sep 1963
"Due to orders from Washington to limit costs, Colonel Lathrop denies Chris Hale's request for a military escort for the wagon train as it travels through hostile Indian territory. However, ..."
30 Sep 1963
"Tough, self-made railroad owner Gus Morgan wants to tunnel his rail line through a mountain. His college-educated brother Ethan, distressed over twenty men who were killed attempting to ..."
07 Oct 1963
"Duke and Charlie are taken prisoner by servants of Princess Mei Ling, matriarch of a hidden Chinese empire, and forced to work as slaves. Coop, who has some familiarity with the legend of ..."
14 Oct 1963
"British journalist Robert Harrison Clarke joins the wagon train, along with his Sikh aide, hoping to write a story on the \"real\" West. Clarke is a pompous and arrogant man who looks down on..."
28 Oct 1963
"After witnessing a bank holdup, Barnaby is taken hostage by the robbers, outlaws Sam Spicer and Reno Sutton. Sam takes a liking to the boy as he reminds him of himself when Reno first made ..."
11 Nov 1963
"Eli Bancroft became an outlaw and raised his three sons as such after a town's citizens banded together and under threat forced his entire family to uproot, fearing they would catch their ..."
02 Dec 1963
"Years after using her considerable charms to escape from a Confederate prison camp, singer Sandra Cummings joins the wagon train, along with her musical troupe and her daughter Paula. From ..."
09 Dec 1963
"The Bleecker gang disguised as farmers with several wagons seek Hale's wagon train to join but they actually carry a wagon of weapons and plan to hijack the train and use it and the weapons to rob a nearby fort of gold."
16 Dec 1963
"At the beginning of the story Coop and John Cain are brought into Cain's hometown, both very seriously wounded, and with Cain's wife vowing to make sure Coop lives so he can suffer. It all ..."
23 Dec 1963
"Cassie Vance is accused of theft when money and items belonging to a woman on the train that she nursed turn up missing, and especially after another woman recognizes Cassie as having ..."
30 Dec 1963
"Canaby, 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 some of the same problems Canaby had and the train carries a widow wanting revenge against Canaby."
13 Jan 1964
"Jed Whitmore, one of three brothers that committed an infamous train robbery, is now town sheriff Frank Lewis but his brother released from prison comes to town with a fellow inmate and a reporter to get paid for the Jed Whitmore story."
20 Jan 1964
"Hale's train must take a dangerous desert route due to hostilities which danger grows when spoiled Geneva Balfour starts a fire destroying supplies to get her husband to return east and Hale lies to train members about the danger's extent."
27 Jan 1964
"When Hale begins to romance tough, independent freight line operator Kate Crawley, the others begin to fear she will wind up dominating the wagon train, and try to encourage her adoring ..."
03 Feb 1964
"After setting a bomb which killed his tyrannical boss, Grover Allen joins the wagon train and heads west with his widowed daughter Della and grandson Jeff. But a detective searching for ..."
10 Feb 1964
"Duke Shannon, arrested by the Cavalry, is charged with criminal negligence as leader of an expedition into the badlands, from which he alone has returned."
17 Feb 1964
"Everyone wants to help pretty Melanie Craig after her husband is killed in an accident, and several men fight over who will be the one to court and marry her, including Rudd Basham, a ..."
24 Feb 1964
"Beautiful but shrewd Pearlie Garnet was forced to leave the wagon train after she was found to be a liar, manipulator, and thief who stole from everyone on the train. Now Bill and Duke have..."
09 Mar 1964
"Duncan McIvor saves Duke and Bill from an attack by hostile Indians, and he is welcomed onto the wagon train. However, McIvor does not tell them at first that he is an Army lieutenant ..."
16 Mar 1964
"Wealthy 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 employee to usurp Engel's business by making himself appear a cuckold to Engel among other wiles."
06 Apr 1964
"Duke 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 friend is dead, and his wife has been forced to work ..."
13 Apr 1964
"Coop 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 by Dorthea Gillford, and the two fall in love, ..."
20 Apr 1964
"Duke and Barnaby persuade Hale to hire old mountain man and legendary trailblazer Zebedee Titus as a scout for the wagon train, after others have turned him down due to his age. It becomes ..."
Season 8 - Wagon Train
27 Sep 1964
"Hide hunters, hunters who kill buffalo for their hides only, have temporarily joined up with the wagon train. One of their number, Gib Ryker, is a sociopath who enjoys antagonizing young ..."
04 Oct 1964
"John Gilliam is on the run from the law. Shot while trying to evade a posse, he is found by Abigail, an angry young orphan girl from the wagon train. Abigail wants desperately to be adopted..."
18 Oct 1964
"Cooper 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 robbery in progress. The very proper Miss Barbara ..."
25 Oct 1964
"Brian Conlin walks into Hale's camp, delirious and dehydrated. After he recovers, he leads Coop to his group of Irish immigrants, whose wagons have broken down, and Hale invites them to ..."
01 Nov 1964
"Coop finds a young half-Indian woman wandering alone in the wilderness. He brings her to the wagon train, where Hale discovers she is a survivor of a tribe totally massacred ten years ..."
29 Nov 1964
"A blind man called Sangre has joined the wagon train along with his guide. He is actually Coop's boyhood blood brother Richard Bloodgood, and he openly states his plan to kill Coop. Coop ..."
06 Dec 1964
"With Hawks ill and Comanches threatening to attack, an Army troop meets up with the wagon train. The Indians appear to greatly outnumber the soldiers, so to give the train hope the troop's ..."
13 Dec 1964
"A 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, who questions his own sanity."
03 Jan 1965
"While 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 killing three lawmen. The leader of the gang ..."
10 Jan 1965
"Hale finds his old flame Chottsie Gubenheimer (played by John McIntire's real-life wife Jeanette Nolan) working in a gambling house and in an argument with the owner, so he asks her to come..."
31 Jan 1965
"Coop and Charlie find a town totally deserted except for one old Indian, and four white residents who later return. They learn that the town was deserted because of a plague of bats ..."
14 Feb 1965
"The wagon train comes across old Jamison Hershey and Herman, his 3000 pound Clydesdale. The old man has made it safely through hostile Indian territory because the tribes are so in awe of ..."
21 Feb 1965
"Don Brooke is desperate for money for his pregnant wife Bonnie, who's condition is too delicate for the long trip without more medical care. When he sees an opportunity at the bank, it leads to tragedy."
28 Feb 1965
"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 it in her wagon alone, and refuses help from Hale. But ..."
21 Mar 1965
"Tough and headstrong female ferryboat captain Samantha Stewart is asked by her son Johnny and his bride to accompany them on the wagon train to California, where they will board a ship for ..."
28 Mar 1965
"Coop comes to visit former girlfriend Eloise Blee, but finds Eloise gone, and instead winds up being talked into posing as her twin sister Betsy's missing husband and father of her baby daughter."
11 Apr 1965
"Charlie Wooster and Barnaby West have the task of escorting Dr. Katy Piper and her daughters to join up with the Chris Hale wagon train. Barnaby is forced to shoot a masked bandit who has ..."
18 Apr 1965
"A 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 he is bringing her back to the tribe where she ..."
