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The Best Episodes of Wagon Train

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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

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    Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 1 - The Willy Moran Story
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Willy Moran Story

    S1:E1

    Willy Moran, a drunk, is hired by a wagon as a driver. He is an army buddy of the Major, but is used as a fall guy by a member of the train who wants to rob it. When the battle starts, Willy uses his army skills to turn the battle.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Wagon Train Season 7 Episode 7 - The Sam Spicer Story
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Sam Spicer Story

    S7:E7

    After witnessing a bank holdup, Barnaby is taken hostage by outlaws Sam Spicer and Reno Sutton. Sam takes a liking to the boy as he reminds him of himself when Reno first made him a partner but Reno doesn't trust Barnaby.

    Director:R.G. Springsteen
    Writer:Norman Jolley

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  3. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 39 - The Sacramento Story
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Sacramento Story

    S1:E39

    At the end of a long journey, lives were lost. Some made it with their dreams intact. Flint tries to help two of the passengers with theirs and almost bites off too much. Politics are involved as well as unsolicited trips to the Far East.

    Director:Richard Bartlett
    Writer:Thomas Thompson

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  4. Wagon Train Season 2 Episode 1 - Around the Horn
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Around the Horn

    S2:E1

    Planning to sail to Boston, the Major, Hawks and Charlie are instead shanghaied to New Orleans where they meet a Captain who has different ideas on raising his child and running a ship.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Ted Sherdeman

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  5. Wagon Train Season 2 Episode 8 - The Millie Davis Story
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Millie Davis Story

    S2:E8

    Millie Davis reluctantly takes in an orphaned baby girl. Eight years later the girl's grandmother arrives to retrieve her. But Millie doesn't want to give up the child, so she claims that she and Flint are the parents.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Leo Townsend

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  6. Wagon Train Season 2 Episode 9 - The Sakae Ito Story
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Sakae Ito Story

    S2:E9

    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:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Gene L. Coon

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  7. Wagon Train Season 2 Episode 27 - The Swift Cloud Story
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Swift Cloud Story

    S2:E27

    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 to learn that Swift Cloud's condition is the result of a vicious attack by a half-breed. The chief sends his son with the wagon train to go see a city doctor who might be able to cure him.

    Director:Virgil W. Vogel
    Writer:Donald S. Sanford

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  8. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 5 - The Elizabeth McQueeny Story
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Elizabeth McQueeny Story

    S3:E5

    Elizabeth McQueeny is traveling with her girls, heading to a finishing school in the West. When her real purpose becomes known, all the females want her gone but her worth to all shows itself before that can happen.

    Director:Allen H. Miner
    Writer:Allen H. Miner

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  9. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 21 - The Tom Tuckett Story
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Tom Tuckett Story

    S3:E21

    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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  10. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 5 - The Jose Morales Story
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - The Jose Morales Story

    S4:E5

    Bill Hawkes is leading 3 wagons through Indian territory. They run into trouble with Mexician bandits lead by Lee Marvin. When the 2 groups must band together to fight off an Indian attack, certain biases & assumptions are thrown away.

    Director:Virgil W. Vogel
    Writer:Gene L. Coon

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  11. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 25 - The Christopher Hale Story
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Christopher Hale Story

    S4:E25

    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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  12. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 37 - The John Wilbot Story
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The John Wilbot Story

    S1:E37

    Tensions are running high in the train between northerners and southerners traveling west. As trouble escalates one passenger with a noticeable limp, John Wilbot, is accused of being John Wilkes Booth, who many believe is still alive.

    Director:Mark Stevens
    Writer:Richard Maibaum

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  13. Wagon Train Season 2 Episode 18 - The Ella Lindstrom Story
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Ella Lindstrom Story

    S2:E18

    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

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  14. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 14 - The Martin Onyx Story
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Martin Onyx Story

    S5:E14

    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 legend of west and had made a lot of enemies along the way.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Robert Libott

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  15. Wagon Train Season 6 Episode 16 - The Abel Weatherly Story
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Abel Weatherly Story

    S6:E16

    A sea captain traveling west haunted by nightmares from his past is found stranded, injured and drunk by Bill and Charlie. After hearing his story, they help him reach his destination to locate a ghost: a dead sailor that may be alive.

    Director:Dick Moder
    Writer:Robert Libott

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  16. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 6 - The Princess of a Lost Tribe
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Princess of a Lost Tribe

    S4:E6

    Ordered by Major Adams to guide three passengers to a campsite up a haunted mountain, Flint does so but with caution: rumours that an escaped group of Aztecs now live there, almost 400 years after Cortez wiped them all out.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Jean Holloway

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  17. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 9 - The Colter Craven Story
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - The Colter Craven Story

    S4:E9

    Dr. Craven feels he can't perform surgery any longer. When he joins the wagon train and his services are desperately needed, he realizes he may be wrong after Major Adams gives him a history lesson.

    Director:John Ford
    Writer:Tony Paulson

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  18. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 37 - The Ah Chong Story
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Ah Chong Story

    S4:E37

    Dissatisfied with Charley Wooster, Hale and Hawks push for a new cook - a Chinese cook named Ah Chong.

    Director:Virgil W. Vogel
    Writers:Sheldon Bonnewell, Terry Wilson

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  19. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 2 - The Jean LeBec Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - The Jean LeBec Story

    S1:E2

    The train cannot get supplies after a member kills the son of the man who owns most of St. Joseph in self-defense. He escapes with the help of Flint but when he learns the train is still being denied supplies he returns to face hanging.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 3 - The John Cameron Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - The John Cameron Story

    S1:E3

    John Cameron, from Philadelphia, heads west with his wife to start a new life. Her flirtatious ways may get the better of her when three trappers come into camp offering fresh buffalo and thinking she might be more available than she is.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 4 - The Ruth Owens Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - The Ruth Owens Story

    S1:E4

    Ruth Owens remarries and is moving west with her new husband. When her brother comes looking for her, he stirs up trouble for her about her past and himself because he just killed a man.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 5 - The Les Rand Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - The Les Rand Story

    S1:E5

    Les Rand, just released from prison for murder, goes back home to kill the man he held responsible; his father, the doctor. Meanwhile, Flint is there to fetch the doctor to help someone injured. Les vows that no one will stand in his way.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 6 - The Nels Stack Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - The Nels Stack Story

    S1:E6

    A pacifist since the war, Nels Stack stands up to any man prejudiced against another. When his own beliefs are tested in the face of an impending Indian attack against the wagon train, he has to decide who he is going to defend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 7 - The Emily Rossiter Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - The Emily Rossiter Story

    S1:E7

    Emily Rossiter had a young daughter to care for. She met and married someone she felt she could trust. When she found out this was misplaced, getting the daughter away from him and into a better life becomes her main goal.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 8 - The John Darro Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - The John Darro Story

    S1:E8

    When the train picks up an abandoned drunk on the trail, he exposes John Darro to be the reviled coward John Thurman who abandoned a previous train during a massacre. Darro's young son Tommy is unable to cope with the truth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Willy Moran Story" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/18/1957. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Sam Spicer Story".