Wagon Train
Synopsis
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.
Season 5 Episodes
EP 1
Captain Dan Brady, a colorful, boisterous and well known veteran frontier scout who is famous throughout the East, is demanding to be taken…
EP 2
Kitty Albright is a registered nurse who's stagecoach is attacked and destroyed. Flint agrees to let her use her new skill on the wagon tra…
EP 3
Maud Frazer takes command of her wagon train after all the men are killed. Flint tries to dissuade Maud from going through hostile Indian c…
EP 4
Selena Hartnell joins the train after bandits attack her wagon. Later, she reveals she is a bounty hunter looking for William Barrett, a mu…
EP 5
Clementine 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…
EP 6
Jenna 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. …
EP 7
Duke 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…
EP 8
Mark Miner and his younger brother Matthew join the wagon train after making it appear their own wagon has broken down. The passengers of t…
EP 9
Lord Bruce Saybrook, London millionaire, takes his brother, wife and employee out west on a hunting trip hoping to repair his relationships…
EP 10
Lizabeth Ann Calhoun meets the wagon train staff as they stop for supplies. She asks permission to join the train so she can avoid the adva…
EP 11
Flint McCullough's involvement in a horse-stealing operation proves that he's ""gone bad."" Reluctantly, Chris Hale sentences him to 20 las…
EP 12
Bettina May leads three generations of her family across the plains. Other members of the wagon train as well as some family members become…
EP 13
Charlie's life undergoes an epiphany when he finds an injured buffalo and the animal befriends him. He takes the buffalo, who he calls Clyd…
EP 14
A 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…
EP 15
Overwhelmed girl takes on her father's responsibility as man of the house after he passes. She cares for her pregnant mother and 5 sisters …
EP 16
When 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…
EP 17
An 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 i…
EP 18
Bill 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…
EP 19
Cowboy Lonnie Fallon is in love with Kathy Jennings---but her strict father forbids the relationship.
EP 20
Jeff Hartfield becomes concerned when his sister Jenny begins dating Dallas who threatens him with an orphanage at journey's end. Jeff take…
EP 21
Judge Clay and his family join the wagon train. He has a reputation for cleaning up frontier towns, but his fanatical attention to the law …
EP 22
A young lieutenant on his first assignment must face an overbearing, murderous sergeant who is determined to kill two deserters in cold blo…
EP 23
The 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 i…
EP 24
The wagon train encounters Amos Billings who tells of a new road that might shorten their trip and avoid Indian trouble. Chris and Flint ar…
EP 25
A teacher traveling with the wagon train encounters conflict when he become attracted to the daughter of a medicine man who has just joined…
EP 26
Ousted medicine man predicts future of wagon train passenger. Is it a hoax or real?
EP 27
A 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 st…
EP 28
The young Crawford couple is trying to leave their past behind but having difficulty doing it. The wagon train is crossing a massive ranch …
EP 29
Chris 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 …
EP 30
After the Sheriff escorts Ben Morrell and his son Terry to the wagon train, the members find Ben Morrell and his son very antisocial: the t…
EP 31
Bill 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…
EP 32
A Frenchman arouses strong---and polarized---emotions among the wagon train members: men distrust him, women adore him. He owes a substanti…
EP 33
The 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--…
EP 34
Duke's resemblance to gambler Jason Carter makes him the target for a murderer's bullet when he visits Jason Carter's hometown looking for …
EP 35
Bill and Charlie looking for horses help out an old friend John Turnbull (an Ute lawyer) defend his reservation against local land sharks w…
EP 36
Duke quits the wagon train to take up a steady position as Deputy Indian Agent at San Marcos on an Apache reservation under Hiram Winthrope…
EP 37
Chris Hale has dinner with a society matron whose carriage team he had stopped after being spooked. A rival for the woman's attention is Ch…
