8.3/1094 votes#1 - Wagons Ho!
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1960
While preparing to return to St. Joseph, the men read the story "Wagon Ho" written and printed by Samuel T. Evans about his trip as a naive young Irishman headed west and his experiences and adventure on the trail.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10116 votes
#2 - The Horace Best Story
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1960
Adams' "distant" cousin Horace arrives hoping to be a wagon master. His trading skills allow him to steal the crew and vendors from Adams but when Adams confronts him with the decisions he must make on the trail, there are second thoughts.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10119 votes
#3 - The Albert Farnsworth Story
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1960
Arrogant British Colonel Albert Farnsworth causes an uproar in camp and puts the wagon train in danger of Indian attack, resulting in the capture of a young girl by the Cheyenne and the mortal wounding of his long time aide.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10100 votes
#4 - The Allison Justis Story
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1960
When someone yells horse thief, Flint shoots a man only to find he is the husband of a childhood friend. Flint learns the man is mayor and highly respected. The question of whether he killed an innocent man bothers him and the man's son.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10110 votes
#5 - The Jose Morales Story
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1960
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.5/10134 votes
#6 - The Princess of a Lost Tribe
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1960
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10104 votes
#7 - The Cathy Eckhart Story
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1960
One murder begets a second murder while a treacherous journey awaits the wagon train. An unknown scout and Kiowa Indians threaten the pass. Now there may be a renegade and murderer in their midst which Adams must resolve before continuing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1088 votes
#8 - The Bleymier Story
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1960
Heed the signs! Or so says Samuel Bleymier. When the rains won't stop a splintered group of the wagon train has to travel through a Sioux Indian burial ground. That may have consequences all its own but what of the signs?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10184 votes
#9 - The Colter Craven Story
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1960
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
- 8.1/1091 votes
#10 - The Jane Hawkins Story
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1960
Flint discovers a badly wounded waitress on the range and takes her to a doctor, where he finds the evil town's owner wants to hang her without trial, because he suspects she murdered his son.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1094 votes
#11 - The Candy O'Hara Story
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1960
Gabe Henry and his son have been sorely missing the female touch over five years now. Finding a wife during a stopover is his top priority but his choice is known to Major Adams and he does not approve.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1093 votes
#12 - The River Crossing
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1960
A green Army Colonel wipes out a village of Comanche women and children thinking he is getting revenge. The wagon train must face on the one side a swollen river they must cross or a Comanche chief on the other who seeks justice.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10103 votes
#13 - The Roger Bigelow Story
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1960
Roger Bigelow turns to the ministry with his father's help when he realizes what he might become without it. He gets the chance to help someone else on the wrong path but Major Adams is not sure the reverend is helping the right person.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/10102 votes
#14 - 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
- 8.3/1091 votes
#15 - The Earl Packer Story
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1961
Wounded Bill Strode arrives in camp looking for Flint. Strode, who saved Flint's life in Abilene, asks Flint to help him get to Fort Kearny. Flint learns the itchy Strode is being hunted by bounty hunter Earl Packer and Strode has changed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10101 votes
#16 - The Patience Miller Story
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1961
A Quaker schoolteacher heads to the Arapaho nation on the wagon train when her husband is killed. She meets the Chief and his willingness to fight another Indian nation puts her right in the middle of each tribe's pride and customs.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1094 votes
#17 - The Sam Elder Story
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/18/1961
A retired Captain and ten boys join the wagon train on their way to California. Hitching a ride was all he thought he was involving the boys in until he meets one man on the train with a secret resentment.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/10120 votes
#18 - 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
- 8.2/10110 votes
#19 - The Prarie Story
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/1/1961
The story of the women of the wagon train and the unforgiving prairie through which they pass. Who will endure, and who will give up? Who will live, and who will die?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1086 votes
#20 - Path of the Serpent
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1961
At a Rocky Mountains fort , a wounded soldier asks his old friend Ruddy Blaine to bring his daughter to him before he dies. With the Ute Indians on the warpath, Blaine will have to take a dangerous route known only to him and the Shoshone.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/10112 votes
#21 - 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
- 8.4/10108 votes
#22 - The Beth Pearson Story
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/22/1961
The leaders of the wagon train are taken aback when they see a woman asking to join the wagon train who is the twin of Major Adams one and only love who died in his arms.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1089 votes
#23 - The Jed Polke Story
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/1/1961
When Flint brings a stranded woman and boy to the train, her husband who went off to find help is also found but his return to the train sets off tempers when four men recognize him and their only thought is murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1095 votes
#24 - The Nancy Palmer Story
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/8/1961
A married couple use the wife's innocent face and winning way with children to gain the trust of their companions on the wagon train so that they won't be suspected when the husband pulls off a bank robbery nearby.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/10123 votes
#25 - 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 Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 4
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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...
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Wagons Ho!" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train" season 4. It scored 8.3/10 based on 94 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/28/1960. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Horace Best Story".