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 2 Episodes
EP 1
Planning to sail to Boston, the Major, Hawks and Charlie are instead shanghaied to New Orleans where they meet a Captain who has different …
EP 2
Juan awakens to the sound of three men hanging his beloved father. Joining the wagon train, he comes across one of the three, tortured by I…
EP 3
Jennifer Churchill, pampered all her life, runs away from a smothering lifestyle and pending marriage, and joins the wagon train. With boun…
EP 4
Major Adams allows two stowaways, Tobias Jones and his young friend Midge, to stay with the train. But Tobias is in trouble due to his drin…
EP 5
Liam Fitzmorgan has come from Ireland on a mission to kill an informer he believes is traveling with the train. However, his mission is com…
EP 6
Concerned 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…
EP 7
After advertising to look for his brother Charles and offering a $5,000 reward, a member of the wagon train gets a response from someone wh…
EP 8
Millie Davis reluctantly takes in an orphaned baby girl. Eight years later the girl's grandmother arrives to retrieve her. But Millie doesn…
EP 9
The major comes upon two Japanese men, attacked by Indians and heading towards California. He learns one of the men plans on committing har…
EP 10
When a member of the train is placed in chains after breaking Indian law by killing a buffalo, Major Adams quarrels with Flint who quits an…
EP 11
Flint, 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…
EP 12
Mary 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…
EP 13
When 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…
EP 14
Kitty 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 ha…
EP 15
Flint, 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 wh…
EP 16
Hunter Malloy and partner get jobs as drivers on the wagon train to rob their boss. Striking gold instead while stopping to repair their wa…
EP 17
The 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 bla…
EP 18
Ella Lindstrom loses her husband on the wagon train ride west from Boston. With her seven children she decides to stay the course against t…
EP 19
Scouting for a better pass, Flint finds a mountain man, hungry and half out of his mind. With no memory, his strange behavior may endanger …
EP 20
Flint 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 tryi…
EP 21
Flint, seeking safe passage through the mountains, is shot and losing consciousness is dragged to a cabin. Nursed back to health, his savio…
EP 22
Wanting a safe escort through Indian country, a stranger rides upon the wagon train. Telling the major his reasons for being there, the tru…
EP 23
Getting 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 …
EP 24
Suspecting 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 suspec…
EP 25
Leaving 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 fi…
EP 26
Matthew Lowry seems timid to everyone especially a bully on the wagon train. Riding upon some cholera sick wagons in a pass, they find out …
EP 27
During an Indian attack on the wagon train, Major Adams spares the life of Swift Cloud, crippled son of the Indian Chief. Adams is shocked …
EP 28
An 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 …
EP 29
Clara Duncan joins the train in a search for her artist fiancee. But finding him could lead to trouble, as one of his missing paintings dep…
EP 30
Duke 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 …
EP 31
The wagon train pushes ahead when one of the passengers has an accident. With only a wagon between two couples, one person decides to leave…
EP 32
Flint 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 h…
EP 33
When 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…
EP 34
The 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 m…
EP 35
The 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 …
EP 36
After 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 t…
EP 37
Nearing 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…
EP 38
A 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 he…
