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The Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 3

Every episode of Wagon Train Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 3!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 21 - The Tom Tuckett Story
    8.6/10(133 votes)

    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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  2. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 19 - The Benjamin Burns Story
    8.5/10(115 votes)

    S3:E19

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 35 - The Charlene Brenton Story
    8.4/10(115 votes)

    S3:E35

    A baby girl sure has a rough start when she arrives on the stage with her dead mother. Plague is what people think killed her and then Charlie Wooster steps in to try to help - and well, you can imagine where it went from there.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 8 - The Felizia Kingdom Story
    8.3/10(119 votes)

    S3:E8

    Tough as nails Felizia Kingdom controls an enormous amount of land by force, and no one is good enough to inherit the responsibility. When Flint handles her henchmen with ease, she decides he's the man for the job.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 24 - The Christine Elliott Story
    8.3/10(124 votes)

    S3:E24

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 30 - Trial for Murder (2)
    8.3/10(104 votes)

    S3:E30

    When the deceased's wife arrives, the people on the wagon train learn that the murdered man has a dark past, and this could be a case of Cain & Abel - or perhaps something or someone in the dead-man's past came home-to-roost.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 32 - The Dick Jarvis Story
    8.3/10(111 votes)

    S3:E32

    A boy hurt in a crippling accident and a domineering mother meet a runaway boy who she feels is making him do things outside his capabilities. Another accident reveals something unexpected since it may pit two friends against each other.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 5 - The Elizabeth McQueeny Story
    8.2/10(346 votes)

    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 22 - The Tracy Sadler Story
    8.2/10(111 votes)

    S3:E22

    David Forest always believed his father to be as he claimed. When Tracy Sadler joins the wagon train his beliefs are altered when he slowly and painfully learns the truth about his past.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 29 - Trial for Murder (1)
    8.2/10(106 votes)

    S3:E29

    When a well thought of member of the wagon train is found dead, Adams needs to prevent mob rule and make sure a lawful trial takes place. The accused who was not well liked is found passed out with the rifle used in the murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 37 - The Shadrack Bennington Story
    8.2/10(106 votes)

    S3:E37

    Shadrack Bennington has been a cavalier of the open road, not wanting to be tied down until he joins the wagon train, heading for San Francisco and a future even he couldn't anticipate.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 33 - Dr. Swift Cloud
    8.1/10(98 votes)

    S3:E33

    Thinking he is not welcome by the white man or his people, an educated Chiracua Indian returns to find prejudices among both of them and must find a way to overcome all of them before it is too late.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 9 - The Jess MacAbee Story
    8.0/10(152 votes)

    S3:E9

    Flint, scouting ahead of the wagon train, is in search of fresh meat. With prospects none too good he comes upon a hidden paradise, green and lush and offering far more than he expected especially for a single man.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 12 - The St. Nicholas Story
    8.0/10(122 votes)

    S3:E12

    Almost Christmas eve, the wagon train deals with a happy time, the perils that go with hostile Indians and a little lost boy who may have already been captured by those same hostiles.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 25 - The Joshua Gilliam Story
    8.0/10(102 votes)

    S3:E25

    Bill and the Major find a man lying hurt, a meal for the buzzards. When he meets an innocent woman on the wagon train who has an inheritance waiting for her, he shows other skills besides being just a schoolteacher and her mother is wary.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 27 - The Jonas Murdock Story
    8.0/10(99 votes)

    S3:E27

    Out of meat and low on food, the wagon train must not kill any wildlife or all will face the wrath of the local Indians. The one holdout is Jonas Murdock who has always lived outside the rules and doesn't consider a rabbit an issue.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 2 - The Greenhorn Story
    7.9/10(137 votes)

    S3:E2

    At the beginning of any wagon train trip, the challenges faced by everyone turns a greenhorn into a seasoned veteran, even if those may mean death of those they love or some other loss.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 13 - The Ruth Marshall Story
    7.9/10(108 votes)

    S3:E13

    As the wagon train moves through Sioux territory, a man named Marshall asks for help in finding his daughter, Ruth, who apparently was taken by Indians following a raid eleven years ago. The girl would now be 19 years old. Flint McCullough goes in search of the girl, is injured in an ambush by a lone Indian, and is treated by a blue-eyed white woman living with four wolves. The woman communicates only through sign-language and is held in reverence by the local Sioux. Meanwhile the Indian who ambushed Flint and was wounded in the process reports back to his father, Red Cloud. Red Cloud learns that the ""Woman Who Lives with Wolves"" is treating a white man and orders Flint to be brought to his camp for possible punishment. The Wolf Woman intervenes and has Flint returned to the wagon train along with a book which bears the name ""Ruth Marshall"" on its flyleaf.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 36 - The Sam Livingston Story
    7.9/10(101 votes)

    S3:E36

    Abigail has lost her driver to the better paying mines. Her new driver says he owns a bank and a pig. The ride West reveals another side of him that takes at least the pig to change both heart and mind.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 15 - The Colonel Harris Story
    7.8/10(111 votes)

    S3:E15

    Flint goes to Fort Young to see the Harris family and Bowman Lewis who were friends from his youth. He finds Mrs. Harris dead and her husband swearing to wipe out all Indians including Lewis who leads the Comanche and his mother, Princess. English

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 23 - The Alexander Portlass Story
    7.8/10(125 votes)

    S3:E23

    Kidnapped, Flint is forced to scout and find a lost Aztec treasure. As some of the men were previously thrown off the wagon train, their unfriendliness is certain unless he can help them find the lost treasure of Montezuma.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 28 - The Amos Gibbon Story
    7.8/10(100 votes)

    S3:E28

    After an argument with Major Adams, Flint leaves the wagon train and mozies up to a bar at a nearby town. What he doesn't know is the locals are shanghaiing strangers for slave labour in the mine and no one on the train knows where he went.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 11 - The Vittorio Bottecelli Story
    7.7/10(105 votes)

    S3:E11

    The King orders his womanizing nephew to San Francisco. He joins the wagon train but causes the Major problems as the husbands are complaining but he may have lost his heart to someone who understands.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 34 - The Luke Grant Story
    7.7/10(114 votes)

    S3:E34

    Luke Grant is found wandering the desert with one wish on his mind - kill me! Turned over to the wagon train by some friendly Chiracawa Indians, they slowly discover his identity and that there are Apaches on the war path and nearby.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 17 - The Larry Hanify Story
    7.6/10(115 votes)

    S3:E17

    On his deathbed, Joe asks Flint to look after his 17-year old son Larry Hanify and get him to California. There was one catch. His latest escapade put him in jail awaiting trial for armed robbery.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Tom Tuckett Story" is the best rated episode of Wagon Train season 3. It scored 8.6/10 from 133 votes. Directed by Herschel Daugherty and written by Jean Holloway, it aired on March 2, 1960. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Benjamin Burns Story".