8.2/10197 votes#1 - The Willy Moran Story
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1957
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10145 votes
#2 - The Jean LeBec Story
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1957
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10140 votes
#3 - The John Cameron Story
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1957
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10151 votes
#4 - The Ruth Owens Story
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1957
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10136 votes
#5 - The Les Rand Story
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1957
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10119 votes
#6 - The Nels Stack Story
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1957
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10148 votes
#7 - The Emily Rossiter Story
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1957
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10142 votes
#8 - The John Darro Story
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1957
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10106 votes
#9 - The Charles Avery Story
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1957
Lieutenant Avery has a mission. Deliver a peace treaty and the chief's daughter. But he has a secret vendetta that may jeopardize everyone's hope for peace.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10137 votes
#10 - The Mary Halstead Story
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1957
Mary Halstead is in search of a son she gave up a long time ago. With months to live, she comes west on the trail of someone who could be her son, but he may also turn out to be a notorious outlaw.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10116 votes
#11 - The Zeke Thomas Story
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1957
The wagon train stops in a newly built town to get water they had always been able to get before for free. Wanting money now, and at a steep price, has the Major upset. Sending Flint also uncovers a wife of a passenger thought dead.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10109 votes
#12 - The Riley Gratton Story
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1957
Riley Gratton has always drifted from here to there, a smooth tongue getting him whatever he needed. When he tries to do the same with some folks on the Major's wagon train, what comes next may be the least of his worries.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10120 votes
#13 - The Clara Beauchamp Story
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1957
When a new officer and troops kill an Indian brave and the post commander's drunken bored wife insults the Chief, Flint is forced to act as a neutral agent between the Army and Indians and save the wagon train.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10129 votes
#14 - The Julie Gage Story
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1957
A head strong Julie Gage is determined to ride her wagon to California. Losing her pa to fever, many suitors step up to help but she'll have none of it until one comes down with fever himself and she's the only one who will tend to him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10109 votes
#15 - The Cliff Grundy Story
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1957
Mortally wounded in a buffalo stampede, Cliff Grundy's friend Flint stays when the wagon train leaves. Manson says he will help but his reasons for staying become clear as Cliff keeps saying he has a goldmine somewhere and he's recovering.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10100 votes
#16 - The Luke O'Malley Story
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1958
Luke O'Malley is running from an outlaw who said he would kill him for turning him into the law. Since he won't believe he didn't do it, he takes his two kids and joins Adams' wagon train disguised as a parsons, who doesn't act like one.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1098 votes
#17 - The Jesse Cowan Story
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1958
The Cowans and Beals have been feuding a long time. Bob and Jesse return from the war and find their family dead and the Beals have joined a wagon train. Revenging their family is just the start of what Major Adams must now deal with.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Dwight Newton
- 7.9/1094 votes
#18 - The Gabe Carswell Story
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1958
Gabe Carswell wants his son to join the whites because of what he sees coming for the Indians. When his son refuses he takes him to the wagon train heading for California but the Arapaho are getting set to attack.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1095 votes
#19 - The Honorable Don Charlie Story
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/1958
Don Charlie is a gambler and womanizer and makes no excuses for it. When he meets a woman who wants to marry him there may be trouble because the Major promised her uncle that she would make it safely to San Francisco.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10123 votes
#20 - The Dora Gray Story
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/1958
Dora Gray has made some poor choices in her life. Just wanting to get to San Francisco, her latest one involves someone who sells army guns to the Indians and Flint finds himself right in the middle of it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1097 votes
#21 - The Annie MacGregor Story
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/5/1958
The MacGregor clan decides to come to America and start a new life. The wagon trains going to California have had a hard time dealing with their different customs. Can Major Adams' be any different?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1099 votes
#22 - The Bill Tawnee Story
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1958
Bill Tawnee served his country heroically. When Major Adams recognizes him on the trail and sees he is unable to wake, he asks his wife to join his wagon train even though there is plenty of anti-Indian sentiment afloat.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1096 votes
#23 - The Mark Hanford Story
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/1958
Jack Hanford built his wealth to give his son. He turns it all down to honor his Cheyenne heritage when his mother dies. To make matters worse in his son's eyes, he had sent for a woman he briefly met to replace her even before she died.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1084 votes
#24 - The Bernal Sierra Story
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1958
Revolutionary Bernal Sierra joins the train finding the wife of his dead friend married to Casey Reardon who sold guns to the Mexican revolutionaries. Bernal is suspicious of Casey, his brothers, and Perdita over missing gold.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10103 votes
#25 - The Marie Dupree Story
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1958
A beautiful woman riding with the train likes flirting. When she gets mixed up with the wrong man, she strings along a boy on the train in order to make him jealous, playing one man's love against another's.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Willy Moran Story" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 197 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/18/1957. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Jean LeBec Story".