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The Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 4

Every episode of Wagon Train Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover 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 as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 1 - Wagons Ho!
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    #1 - Wagons Ho!

    S4:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 2 - The Horace Best Story
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    #2 - The Horace Best Story

    S4:E2

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 3 - The Albert Farnsworth Story
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    #3 - The Albert Farnsworth Story

    S4:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 4 - The Allison Justis Story
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    #4 - The Allison Justis Story

    S4:E4

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 5 - The Jose Morales Story
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Jose Morales Story

    S4:E5

    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:Virgil W. Vogel
    Writer:Gene L. Coon

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  6. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 6 - The Princess of a Lost Tribe
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Princess of a Lost Tribe

    S4:E6

    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:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Jean Holloway

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  7. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 7 - The Cathy Eckhart Story
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    #7 - The Cathy Eckhart Story

    S4:E7

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 8 - The Bleymier Story
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    #8 - The Bleymier Story

    S4:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 9 - The Colter Craven Story
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - The Colter Craven Story

    S4:E9

    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

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  10. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 10 - The Jane Hawkins Story
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    #10 - The Jane Hawkins Story

    S4:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 11 - The Candy O'Hara Story
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    #11 - The Candy O'Hara Story

    S4:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 12 - The River Crossing
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    #12 - The River Crossing

    S4:E12

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 13 - The Roger Bigelow Story
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    #13 - The Roger Bigelow Story

    S4:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 14 - The Jeremy Dow Story
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    #14 - The Jeremy Dow Story

    S4:E14

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 15 - The Earl Packer Story
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    #15 - The Earl Packer Story

    S4:E15

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 16 - The Patience Miller Story
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    #16 - The Patience Miller Story

    S4:E16

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 17 - The Sam Elder Story
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    #17 - The Sam Elder Story

    S4:E17

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 18 - The Weight of Command
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    #18 - The Weight of Command

    S4:E18

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 19 - The Prarie Story
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    #19 - The Prarie Story

    S4:E19

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 20 - Path of the Serpent
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    #20 - Path of the Serpent

    S4:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 21 - The Odyssey of Flint McCullough
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    #21 - The Odyssey of Flint McCullough

    S4:E21

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 22 - The Beth Pearson Story
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    #22 - The Beth Pearson Story

    S4:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 23 - The Jed Polke Story
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    #23 - The Jed Polke Story

    S4:E23

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 24 - The Nancy Palmer Story
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    #24 - The Nancy Palmer Story

    S4:E24

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 25 - The Christopher Hale Story
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - The Christopher Hale Story

    S4:E25

    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:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Norman Jolley

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Wagons Ho!" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train" season 4. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/28/1960. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Horace Best Story".