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The Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 2

Every episode of Wagon Train Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 2!

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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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Around the Horn" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train" season 2. It scored 8.1/10 based on 107 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1958. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Juan Ortega Story".

  • Around the Horn
    8.1/10107 votes

    #1 - Around the Horn

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1958

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Juan Ortega Story
    8.2/1083 votes

    #2 - The Juan Ortega Story

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1958

    Juan awakens to the sound of three men hanging his beloved father. Joining the wagon train, he comes across one of the three, tortured by Indians. He nurses him back to health but only under the guise of looking for the other two killers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Jennifer Churchill Story
    8.0/1096 votes

    #3 - The Jennifer Churchill Story

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1958

    Jennifer Churchill, pampered all her life, runs away from a smothering lifestyle and pending marriage, and joins the wagon train. With bounty hunters on her heels, she finds Flint, a man who she wants but doesn't want her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Tobias Jones Story
    8.7/10181 votes

    #4 - 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 Liam Fitzmorgan Story
    8.2/1087 votes

    #5 - The Liam Fitzmorgan Story

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1958

    Liam Fitzmorgan has come from Ireland on a mission to kill an informer he believes is traveling with the train. However, his mission is complicated when he falls in love with his target's daughter.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Doctor Willoughby Story
    8.0/1090 votes

    #6 - The Doctor Willoughby Story

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1958

    Concerned by one of the passengers on the wagon train, a woman doctor tries to help even though she's hampered further by everyone else who shuns her. Meantime an Indian chief needs doctoring and they don't believe in female medicine men.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bije Wilcox Story
    8.2/1086 votes

    #7 - The Bije Wilcox Story

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1958

    After advertising to look for his brother Charles and offering a $5,000 reward, a member of the wagon train gets a response from someone who walks through an Indian party that's pinning them all down. What he finds is not what he expected.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Millie Davis Story
    8.4/1099 votes

    #8 - The Millie Davis Story

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1958

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sakae Ito Story
    8.6/10106 votes

    #9 - 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

  • The Tent City Story
    8.2/1089 votes

    #10 - The Tent City Story

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1958

    When a member of the train is placed in chains after breaking Indian law by killing a buffalo, Major Adams quarrels with Flint who quits and takes a job at nearby Tent City. But White Eagle discovers the dead buffalo and demands justice.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Beauty Jamison Story
    7.0/1081 votes

    #11 - The Beauty Jamison Story

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1958

    Flint, at a grave, sees a man stabbed in the back with a note saying Deliver to Beauty Jamison. As that is the daughter of the man interred he pays a visit and sees a woman trying to continue a legacy with the locals trying to break her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mary Ellen Thomas Story
    8.8/10148 votes

    #12 - 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 Dick Richardson Story
    7.6/1078 votes

    #13 - The Dick Richardson Story

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/31/1958

    When the wagon horses start to die of a disease, Adams is forced to send two men who are feuding to buy new horses with his emergency money. One of the men's horse returns without him making Adams wonder if he made a mistake.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Kitty Angel Story
    8.3/10124 votes

    #14 - The Kitty Angel Story

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1959

    Kitty Angel finds herself not welcome on the wagon train due to her past. When Flint returns to the train toting a sick Indian baby, she has everyone's prejudices to deal with as well as this life threatening illness.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Flint McCullough Story
    8.0/1089 votes

    #15 - The Flint McCullough Story

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1959

    Flint, in love with a Mormon girl he can't marry, joins the confederate army. When he finds out that he won't be joining any battles and what their real purpose is, it may be too late for him and the girl he loves.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hunter Malloy Story
    8.0/1086 votes

    #16 - The Hunter Malloy Story

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1959

    Hunter Malloy and partner get jobs as drivers on the wagon train to rob their boss. Striking gold instead while stopping to repair their wagons, the fever is high as some stop to strike it rich and uncover more than just a few nuggets.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ben Courtney Story
    8.3/1098 votes

    #17 - The Ben Courtney Story

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1959

    The sheriff of Bitter Springs feels he has lots of reasons to hate. When settlers from the south want to live there, he tries to take a black child he says they are just using for free labour but his reasons go much deeper than that.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ella Lindstrom Story
    8.8/10387 votes

    #18 - 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 Last Man
    8.1/1091 votes

    #19 - The Last Man

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1959

    Scouting for a better pass, Flint finds a mountain man, hungry and half out of his mind. With no memory, his strange behavior may endanger the entire wagon train especially when everyone feels they know who he is.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Old Man Charvanaugh Story
    7.3/1096 votes

    #20 - The Old Man Charvanaugh Story

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1959

    Flint escorts a wagon, leaving the train, to their new home. When they meet an old man with a wagon load of uncured buffalo skins he's trying to sell, they invite him along as he appears friendly enough. But Flint feels he's too friendly.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Annie Griffith Story
    8.3/1089 votes

    #21 - The Annie Griffith Story

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1959

    Flint, seeking safe passage through the mountains, is shot and losing consciousness is dragged to a cabin. Nursed back to health, his saviour finds the man who shot him was her husband and Flint had to kill him or be killed.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Jasper Cato Story
    7.9/1099 votes

    #22 - The Jasper Cato Story

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1959

    Wanting a safe escort through Indian country, a stranger rides upon the wagon train. Telling the major his reasons for being there, the truth is soon uncovered and it causes two men to come to change their lifelong habits.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Vivian Carter Story
    8.2/1097 votes

    #23 - The Vivian Carter Story

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1959

    Getting set to leave the wagon train, Vivian Carter finds out a friend she knows from the train hoped for more than that. Heading to a new life and her first marriage, she's given some options and even at her age has its surprises.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Conchita Vasquez Story
    7.6/1089 votes

    #24 - The Conchita Vasquez Story

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1959

    Suspecting a hurt girl he finds on the trail is part of a group of bandits, Flint cautiously helps her but soon learns she is all he suspects until her guardian is killed and Flint becomes her only protection.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sister Rita Story
    8.4/10100 votes

    #25 - The Sister Rita Story

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/25/1959

    Leaving the safety of their village, a group of nuns set out to help those Indians in need at a mission. Now Flint must try to help them fight some Ute Indians who don't seem to know the nuns are just there to help them.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A