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The Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 5

Every episode of Wagon Train Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 5!

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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 5 Episode 1 - The Captain Dan Brady Story
    7.9/10(101 votes)

    #1 - The Captain Dan Brady Story

    S5:E1

    Captain Dan Brady, a colorful, boisterous and well known veteran frontier scout who is famous throughout the East, is demanding to be taken on as trail scout. Hale faces a dilemma as he will lose a Government mail contract that is necessary to finance the wagon train if he doesn't hire Brady. But he will lose Flint, angered by Brady's bad advice to members of the wagon train, who threatens to quit if Brady stays on.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 2 - The Kitty Albright Story
    8.2/10(95 votes)

    #2 - The Kitty Albright Story

    S5:E2

    Kitty Albright is a registered nurse who's stagecoach is attacked and destroyed. Flint agrees to let her use her new skill on the wagon train. She quickly becomes disturbed at the lack of hygiene and health in general around the train.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 3 - The Maud Frazer Story
    7.2/10(110 votes)

    #3 - The Maud Frazer Story

    S5:E3

    Maud Frazer takes command of her wagon train after all the men are killed. Flint tries to dissuade Maud from going through hostile Indian country where there is gold.. She proceeds anyway but is forced to change plans.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 4 - The Selena Hartnell Story
    7.8/10(81 votes)

    #4 - The Selena Hartnell Story

    S5:E4

    Selena Hartnell joins the train after bandits attack her wagon. Later, she reveals she is a bounty hunter looking for William Barrett, a murderer on the run. It turns out that Barrett is Will Cottrell, the leader of pacifists on the train.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 5 - The Clementine Jones Story
    8.5/10(94 votes)

    #5 - The Clementine Jones Story

    S5:E5

    Clementine Jones is in the process of being thrown out of a town when a bank robbery occurs. One of the fugitives ends up joining the wagon train on the same wagon as one of the bank robbers is trying to escape on.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 6 - The Jenna Douglas Story
    7.7/10(90 votes)

    #6 - The Jenna Douglas Story

    S5:E6

    Jenna Douglas is found by scouts for the wagon train. She appears to have been a victim of a scavenger attack and is adopted by the train. As time goes on people on the train begin to have doubts about her story and her mental state.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 7 - The Artie Matthewson Story
    8.0/10(79 votes)

    #7 - The Artie Matthewson Story

    S5:E7

    Duke finds Flint's dying foster mother who asks Flint to check on her real son Artie who she hasn't seen in five years and has a reputation for getting into trouble with the law. Flint finds him on the right side of the law - or is he.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 8 - The Mark Miner Story
    8.3/10(36 votes)

    #8 - The Mark Miner Story

    S5:E8

    Mark Miner and his younger brother Matthew join the wagon train after making it appear their own wagon has broken down. The passengers of the train enjoy Mark's guitar and singing, but soon items and money begin disappearing. What they don't realize is that the two brothers want to frame Duke Shannon for the thievery, because they blame him for the imprisonment of their father and want revenge for it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 9 - The Bruce Saybrook Story
    7.7/10(86 votes)

    #9 - The Bruce Saybrook Story

    S5:E9

    Lord Bruce Saybrook, London millionaire, takes his brother, wife and employee out west on a hunting trip hoping to repair his relationships. They run into hostile Indians. During the ensuing battle, everyone's the true character comes out.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 10 - The Lizabeth Ann Calhoun Story
    8.0/10(73 votes)

    #10 - The Lizabeth Ann Calhoun Story

    S5:E10

    Lizabeth Ann Calhoun meets the wagon train staff as they stop for supplies. She asks permission to join the train so she can avoid the advances of a young man she claims is in love with her, however his real motives may be very different.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 11 - The Traitor
    7.9/10(98 votes)

    #11 - The Traitor

    S5:E11

    Flint McCullough's involvement in a horse-stealing operation proves that he's ""gone bad."" Reluctantly, Chris Hale sentences him to 20 lashes and permanent banishment from the wagon train. Bill Hawks refuses to flog his friend so the punishment's administered by Sgt. Oakes from nearby Fort Henderson. Hawks soon learns that Flint's uncharacteristic behavior is part of a plan to infiltrate the gang of notorious outlaw, Angel de Muerte. Flint now travels to the ranch of Sam Upton and his sister Madge, a place rumored to have ties with Muerte. The fresh welts on Flint's back persuade Sam to take Flint to meet Muerte, but Flint soon realizes this bearded man is a stand-in for the real Muerte -- none other than Sam Upton himself. While taking Upton to Major Hansen at Fort Henderson, the outlaw dies in an escape attempt. Flint decides to split the $10,000 reward money with Madge Upton who was unaware of her brother's dual identity.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 12 - The Bettina May Story
    8.0/10(335 votes)

    #12 - The Bettina May Story

    S5:E12

    Bettina May leads three generations of her family across the plains. Other members of the wagon train as well as some family members become concerned with her over bearing nature and the level of control she exerts on the family.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 13 - Clyde
    8.4/10(89 votes)

    #13 - Clyde

    S5:E13

    Charlie's life undergoes an epiphany when he finds an injured buffalo and the animal befriends him. He takes the buffalo, who he calls Clyde, into the wagon train as a pet. Others, however, don't appreciate the trouble the creature causes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 14 - The Martin Onyx Story
    8.1/10(74 votes)

    #14 - The Martin Onyx Story

    S5:E14

    A man finds a corpse that looks remarkably like himself. On an impulse he takes on the persona of the dead man only to find he was a living legend of west and had made a lot of enemies along the way.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Robert Libott

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  15. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 15 - The Dick Pederson Story
    8.2/10(86 votes)

    #15 - The Dick Pederson Story

    S5:E15

    Overwhelmed girl takes on her father's responsibility as man of the house after he passes. She cares for her pregnant mother and 5 sisters and is suspicious of a young drifter who joins the train and pays too much attention to the girls.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 16 - The Hobie Redman Story
    8.2/10(70 votes)

    #16 - The Hobie Redman Story

    S5:E16

    When three wagons are late in the desert, Chris sends Duke to find them and bring them to the wagon train as the train cannot wait for them. It may be a suicide mission due to water holes drying up and the missing people's personal issues.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 17 - The Malachi Hobart Story
    7.5/10(98 votes)

    #17 - The Malachi Hobart Story

    S5:E17

    An old con man trys to fleece the wagon train members of money by pretending to be a preacher trying to raise funds to build a church. He is outfoxed by Duke but redeems himself by aiding a dying woman.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 18 - The Dr. Denker Story
    7.7/10(97 votes)

    #18 - The Dr. Denker Story

    S5:E18

    Bill spots a young boy alone on the trail. He passes out but they later learn he can't talk but that he saw his dad killed by strangers for no apparent reason. Later, they run into Dr. Denker taking musical instruments to California.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 19 - The Lonnie Fallon Story
    7.7/10(29 votes)

    #19 - The Lonnie Fallon Story

    S5:E19

    Cowboy Lonnie Fallon is in love with Kathy Jennings---but her strict father forbids the relationship.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 20 - The Jeff Hartfield Story
    7.8/10(60 votes)

    #20 - The Jeff Hartfield Story

    S5:E20

    Jeff Hartfield becomes concerned when his sister Jenny begins dating Dallas who threatens him with an orphanage at journey's end. Jeff takes off but Dallas follows with deadly intent, believing Jeff knows the location of $30,000.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 21 - The Daniel Clay Story
    8.0/10(86 votes)

    #21 - The Daniel Clay Story

    S5:E21

    Judge Clay and his family join the wagon train. He has a reputation for cleaning up frontier towns, but his fanatical attention to the law sees him ostracized as often as he is praised. He must face this when his son must be tried by him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 22 - The Lieutenant Burton Story
    8.4/10(84 votes)

    #22 - The Lieutenant Burton Story

    S5:E22

    A young lieutenant on his first assignment must face an overbearing, murderous sergeant who is determined to kill two deserters in cold blood. The sergeant wounds Chris thinking he is one of them and into a feud with Flint at the train.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 23 - The Charley Shutup Story
    8.0/10(80 votes)

    #23 - The Charley Shutup Story

    S5:E23

    The wagon master encounters opposition when he calls a halt to the train due to weather. One group needs to push on due to an inheritance in California. Chris and Duke take them but Duke injures his foot forcing him to stay in a cabin.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 24 - The Amos Billings Story
    7.5/10(74 votes)

    #24 - The Amos Billings Story

    S5:E24

    The wagon train encounters Amos Billings who tells of a new road that might shorten their trip and avoid Indian trouble. Chris and Flint are very suspicious of the situation since the location has been a dead end.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Wagon Train Season 5 Episode 25 - The Baylor Crowfoot Story
    8.2/10(93 votes)

    #25 - The Baylor Crowfoot Story

    S5:E25

    A teacher traveling with the wagon train encounters conflict when he become attracted to the daughter of a medicine man who has just joined the train. The man despises cowards and sees the teacher as one.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Captain Dan Brady Story" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train" season 5. It scored 7.9/10 based on 101 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/27/1961. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Kitty Albright Story".