- 9.1/10115 votesLoading...
#1 - The Weight of Command
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/25/1961
Bill 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 the peace treaty and the wagon train may be their next target.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.1/1078 votesLoading...
#2 - The Tom Tuesday Story
Season 6 Episode 28 - Aired 4/3/1963
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, and Duke is able to turn the tables on him.
Director: N/A
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- 8.9/1089 votesLoading...
#3 - The Robert Harrison Clarke Story
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1963
Chris and Cooper along with a British journalist accompany civilians surveying for the Army when they come across an Army troop that has been massacred except for two survivors. This opens the journalist's eyes to the real America.
Director: N/A
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- 8.9/10127 votesLoading...
#4 - The John Gillman Story
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1964
John 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 Abigail. She takes a liking to him but he tries to rebuff her. However, events cause a change.
Director: N/A
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- 8.9/10110 votesLoading...
#5 - Herman
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/1965
The wagon train comes across old Jamison Hershey and Herman, his 3000 pound Belgian horse. The old man has made it safely through hostile Indian territory because the tribes are so in awe of his horse. Hershey and Herman are invited to ride with the train, though it becomes apparent that Herman is not able to travel very fast and may hold back the entire group.
Director: N/A
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- 8.8/10148 votesLoading...
#6 - The Mary Ellen Thomas Story
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1958
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 Sally Mayhew, another girl traveling west with her family dying of consumption.
Director: N/A
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- 8.8/10387 votesLoading...
#7 - The Ella Lindstrom Story
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1959
Ella Lindstrom loses her husband on the wagon train ride west from Boston. With her seven children she decides to stay the course against the wishes of Major Adams. It gets more complicated when she thinks she is expecting number eight.
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: Allen H. Miner
- 8.8/10106 votesLoading...
#8 - The Tom Tuckett Story
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1960
Ever 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 he feels he's about to find out who that is but it isn't who he imagined.
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- 8.8/10109 votesLoading...
#9 - The Odyssey of Flint McCullough
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1961
Looking 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 massacred by some Mescaleros and they're running low on supplies especially milk for the baby.
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- 8.8/10114 votesLoading...
#10 - The Christopher Hale Story
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/15/1961
Flint meets Chris Hale alone on the prairie. Hale has just found his entire family massacred by Indians, and Flint asks him to join the wagon train. However, the company that owns the wagon train has hired a new wagonmaster, Jud Benedict. Benedict is a ruthless and brutal tyrant who puts time above all other considerations, and does not care how many people are left behind or even die in the process of heading to the final destination as soon as possible. He has also hired unscrupulous gunmen to enforce this goal by brutalizing slower people, or anyone who stands up to him. It is revealed that Hale has also been a wagonmaster, but has retired from the job and does not ever want such a responsibility again. Still, people on the train are looking to Hale to stand up to Benedict.
Director: N/A
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- 8.7/10181 votesLoading...
#11 - The Tobias Jones Story
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1958
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 drinking, and things get worse when he's accused of murder.
Director: N/A
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- 8.7/1099 votesLoading...
#12 - The Christine Elliott Story
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1960
Her father on his deathbed, Christine Elliot decides to fulfill his dream of a boys school and joins the wagon train. A good start: the eleven boys he already has. One man is determined to stop her unless he collects his pound of flesh.
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- 8.7/1078 votesLoading...
#13 - The Echo Pass Story
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1965
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 shoots Charlie after tying him up, and they take Coop to lead them through a mountain pass to get to California.
Director: N/A
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- 8.6/10109 votesLoading...
#14 - The Major Adams Story (1)
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/23/1958
During the Civil War Charlie Wooster joins Bill Hawks under the command of Major Seth Adams. When Adams is seriously wounded saving Hawks's life he must struggle to survive, while dreaming of the girl he left behind.
Director: N/A
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- 8.6/10106 votesLoading...
#15 - The Sakae Ito Story
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1958
The major comes upon two Japanese men, attacked by Indians and heading towards California. He learns one of the men plans on committing hara kiri while others on the train have designs on a black box they suspect may contain precious gems.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/10103 votesLoading...
#16 - Chuck Wooster, Wagonmaster
Season 2 Episode 33 - Aired 5/20/1959
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 Hawks go missing, it's up to Chuck Wooster to lead the train to safety.
Director: N/A
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- 8.6/10127 votesLoading...
#17 - The Andrew Hale Story
Season 2 Episode 35 - Aired 6/3/1959
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 the other passengers, he remembers not just his name but the faith he thought he lost as well.
Director: N/A
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- 8.6/1094 votesLoading...
#18 - The Benjamin Burns Story
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1960
One 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 of, Shining Water. Troubles await them but the worst may be a too green city boy.
Director: N/A
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- 8.6/1099 votesLoading...
#19 - The Jeremy Dow Story
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1960
When the wagon train passes through town, habitually drunk Jeremy Dow finds that his past has caught up with him. His choices: continue running, or face the demons from his past when he is confronted with this wife and son on the train.
Director: N/A
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- 8.6/1084 votesLoading...
#20 - The Will Santee Story
Season 4 Episode 31 - Aired 5/3/1961
The Santee family---Will, his mother, and his younger sister---join the wagon train under a false surname. They have been forced out of town after town because of a terrible thing a family member did. They confide in Hale, Hawks, and Charlie, who agree to keep their secret from the others on the train. But it soon comes out anyway, and things get complicated when Will falls for a young woman from the wagon train.
Director: N/A
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- 8.6/1074 votesLoading...
#21 - The Barnaby West Story
Season 6 Episode 37 - Aired 6/5/1963
Bill meets young Barnaby West, who claims he is traveling west to see his father, a famous frontiersman. Bill invites him to join the wagon train. But he and the others wonder just how much, if any, of young Barnaby's story is really true.
Director: N/A
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- 8.6/1060 votesLoading...
#22 - The Zebedee Titus Story
Season 7 Episode 31 - Aired 4/20/1964
Barnaby and Charlie talk Chris Hale into hiring legendary mountain man Zebedee Titus as a scout. The nearly 80 year old Zeb's failing eyesight leads to problems including Coop's being captured by the Comanche Zeb couldn't see.
Director: N/A
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- 8.6/10132 votesLoading...
#23 - Little Girl Lost
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1964
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.
Director: N/A
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- 8.5/10103 votesLoading...
#24 - The Major Adams Story (2)
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/30/1958
Years 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 always come easy, as a sinister rival and a dark secret attest.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1090 votesLoading...
#25 - The Matthew Lowry Story
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 4/1/1959
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 who he really is and why he has been acting this way.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Wagon Train
Every episode of Wagon Train ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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...
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Best Episodes Summary
"The Weight of Command" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train". It scored 9.1/10 based on 115 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/25/1961. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Tom Tuesday Story".