The Best Episodes of Wagon Train

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#1 - The Tom Tuesday Story
S6:E284/3/1963
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.
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8.9/10(172 votes)
#2 - The John Gillman Story
S8:E310/4/1964
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.
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8.9/10(147 votes)
#3 - Herman
S8:E182/14/1965
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.
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8.9/10(138 votes)
#4 - The Weight of Command
S4:E181/25/1961
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.
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8.8/10(182 votes)
#5 - The Mary Ellen Thomas Story
S2:E1212/24/1958
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.
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8.8/10(144 votes)
#6 - The Christopher Hale Story
S4:E253/15/1961
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:Herschel Daugherty
Writer:Norman Jolley
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8.7/10(384 votes)
#7 - The Ella Lindstrom Story
S2:E182/4/1959
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
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8.7/10(222 votes)
#8 - The Tobias Jones Story
S2:E410/22/1958
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.
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8.7/10(170 votes)
#9 - Little Girl Lost
S8:E1212/13/1964
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.
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8.7/10(155 votes)
#10 - The Andrew Hale Story
S2:E356/3/1959
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.
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8.7/10(117 votes)
#11 - The Robert Harrison Clarke Story
S7:E510/14/1963
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.
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8.7/10(111 votes)
#12 - The Will Santee Story
S4:E315/3/1961
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.
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8.6/10(133 votes)
#13 - The Tom Tuckett Story
S3:E213/2/1960
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.
Director:Herschel Daugherty
Writer:Jean Holloway
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8.6/10(133 votes)
#14 - The Odyssey of Flint McCullough
S4:E212/15/1961
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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8.6/10(106 votes)
#15 - The Clementine Jones Story
S5:E510/25/1961
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 train on the same wagon as one of the bank robbers is trying to escape on.
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8.6/10(104 votes)
#16 - The Barnaby West Story
S6:E376/5/1963
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.
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8.6/10(91 votes)
#17 - The Michael McGoo Story
S6:E263/20/1963
When four brothers are orphaned, no one on the train wants all four. Charlie is determined to find a home for the four together and even proposes to a spinster who wants the boys but turns him down so he looks for a husband for her.
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8.6/10(82 votes)
#18 - The Zebedee Titus Story
S7:E314/20/1964
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.
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8.5/10(115 votes)
#19 - The Benjamin Burns Story
S3:E192/17/1960
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.
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8.5/10(107 votes)
#20 - The Madame Sagittarius Story
S6:E310/3/1962
Madame Delphine Sagittarius asks to be picked by the wagon train at Beaver City. The town is expelling her as a con woman. Charlie is initially against it but when no one else on the train accepts her, he becomes her lone supporter.
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8.5/10(107 votes)
#21 - The Kurt Davos Story
S6:E1111/28/1962
Kurt Davos, a highly respected man, is badly injured while trying to save Florence Hastings trapped in a runaway wagon. Florence, scared of dogs had once tried to kill Kurt's dog, volunteers to live with and care for Kurt, now paralyzed.
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8.5/10(103 votes)
#22 - The Saul Bevins Story
S4:E284/12/1961
Saul Bevins, a blind doctor traveling with his son, his sister, and his dog, asks to join the wagon train. Many others on the train object that he will slow them down, but Hale agrees to let him ride at least until the next settlement, at which time the entire wagon train will vote on whether he should continue. On the way Bevins is forced to overcome many obstacles.
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8.4/10(134 votes)
#23 - The Major Adams Story (2)
S1:E314/30/1958
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.
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8.4/10(128 votes)
#24 - Chuck Wooster, Wagonmaster
S2:E335/20/1959
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.
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8.4/10(122 votes)
#25 - The Ruttledge Munroe Story
S1:E345/21/1958
Ruttledge Munroe joins the wagon train on the trail. It's noticed right off his odd sense of humor but when he saves the major's life, it is forgotten until he kills someone else and the real reason he joined up is revealed.
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