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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...
Genres:WesternDramaFamily
Networks:NBCABC
Episodes
284
Avg. Rating
7.9
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8.2
8.0
7.9
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Best Episodes Summary

"The Tom Tuesday Story" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train". It scored 9.1/10 based on 80 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/3/1963. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Robert Harrison Clarke Story".

  • The Tom Tuesday Story
    9.1/10(80)
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    #1 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Robert Harrison Clarke Story
    8.9/10(92)
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    #2 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • The John Gillman Story
    8.9/10(128)
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    #3 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • Herman
    8.9/10(111)
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    #4 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mary Ellen Thomas Story
    8.8/10(154)
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    #5 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ella Lindstrom Story
    8.8/10(389)
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    #6 - 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

  • The Tom Tuckett Story
    8.8/10(109)
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    #7 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Weight of Command
    8.8/10(121)
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    #8 - 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

  • The Christopher Hale Story
    8.8/10(124)
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    #9 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Tobias Jones Story
    8.7/10(185)
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    #10 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Andrew Hale Story
    8.7/10(129)
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    #11 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Christine Elliott Story
    8.7/10(101)
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Echo Pass Story
    8.7/10(79)
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    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Major Adams Story (1)
    8.6/10(114)
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    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sakae Ito Story
    8.6/10(108)
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    #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

  • Chuck Wooster, Wagonmaster
    8.6/10(105)
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    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Jeremy Dow Story
    8.6/10(103)
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    #17 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Odyssey of Flint McCullough
    8.6/10(115)
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    #18 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Will Santee Story
    8.6/10(91)
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    #19 - 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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Clementine Jones Story
    8.6/10(85)
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    #20 - The Clementine Jones Story

    Season 5 Episode 5

    Aired 10/25/1961

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Barnaby West Story
    8.6/10(77)
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    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Zebedee Titus Story
    8.6/10(60)
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    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • Little Girl Lost
    8.6/10(133)
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    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sarah Drummond Story
    8.5/10(102)
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    #24 - The Sarah Drummond Story

    Season 1 Episode 27

    Aired 4/2/1958

    During a storm, Flint takes shelter at a farmhouse. He soon discovers the husband is refusing his wife the care of a midwife and before it's too late for her he needs to find out why.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Major Adams Story (2)
    8.5/10(106)
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    #25 - 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