6.1/1011 votes#1 - Hard Ride Home
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1977
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed.
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Writer: Michael Gleason
- 6.0/1010 votes
#2 - The Last Game
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1977
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed. This one picked up where last week's left off.
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/109 votes
#3 - The Waterhole
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1977
After hours in the desert, the Wagon Train comes upon a watering hole in the desert. After everyone drinks the water, they fall ill. IT takes some smart thinking to figure out what caused the sickness - and to save the people on the Wagon Train.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/109 votes
#4 - Trapper's Rendezvous
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1977
No description available
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - The Army Deserter
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1977
No description available
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1015 votes
#6 - Hannah's Girls
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1977
Hannah Morgan (Stella Stevens) is the leader of a group of mail-order brides (who actually are a group of ""showgirls"") who join the wagon train. Romance percolates, but mutual respect arises instead as Hannah helps nurse Evan's daughter back from a bout of cholera.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/109 votes
#7 - Return From Death
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired Unknown
Evan Thorpe serves as defense attorney for a mysterious man suspected of killing a member of the wagon train. Frontier justice was never so just.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: Robert Pirosh
- 6.6/1015 votes
#8 - The Scarlet Ribbon
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1977
A bullet-ridden wagon reveals that gun-runners are supplying rifles to the Redskins and Evan is detemined to run them to earth whatever the risk.
Director: Lewis Allen, Bill Bixby
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/109 votes
#9 - The Gold Dust Queen
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired Unknown
No description available
Director: William Wiard
Writer: N/A
- 5.6/109 votes
#10 - The Return of the Baby
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/4/2022
An Indian woman gives birth to a baby after her village is destroyed.
Director: Bill Bixby
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1012 votes
#11 - Evan's Vendetta
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired Unknown
No description available
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/109 votes
#12 - Suffer the Little Children
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired Unknown
No description available
Director: John C. Champion
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1010 votes
#13 - Wagon Race
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired Unknown
No description available
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Oregon Trail Season 1
Every episode of The Oregon Trail Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Oregon Trail Season 1!
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...
Genre:Western
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Hard Ride Home" is the best rated episode of "The Oregon Trail" season 1. It scored 6.1/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Herb Wallerstein and written by Michael Gleason, it aired on 9/21/1977. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Last Game".