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The Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 6

Every episode of Wagon Train Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 6!

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 6 Ratings Summary

"The Wagon Train Mutiny" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train" season 6. It scored 8.4/10 based on 93 votes. Directed by Virgil W. Vogel and written by N/A, it aired on 9/19/1962. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Caroline Casteel Story".

  • The Wagon Train Mutiny
    8.4/1093 votes

    #1 - The Wagon Train Mutiny

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1962

    When Comancheros wipe out a small wagon train ahead of them, Chris sends Bill and Duke to check it out. They find a young wounded Comanchero who tells them they are to be attacked. Chris' actions cause a mutiny.

    Director: Virgil W. Vogel

    Writer: N/A

  • The Caroline Casteel Story
    8.1/1092 votes

    #2 - The Caroline Casteel Story

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1962

    Indian captive Caroline Casteel is traded to a man who brings her to the wagon train. She encounters prejudice and hostility from many of the train members. But her biggest hurdle comes when her family, who had long given up hope, arrives.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Madame Sagittarius Story
    8.5/1085 votes

    #3 - The Madame Sagittarius Story

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1962

    Madame Delphine Sagittarius asks to be picked by the wagon train at Beaver City. The town is expelling her as a con woman. Charlie is initially against it but when no one else on the train accepts her, he becomes her lone supporter.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Martin Gatsby Story
    8.4/1064 votes

    #4 - The Martin Gatsby Story

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1962

    Wealthy merchant Martin Gatsby, a man with little room for compassion for others, wants the wagon train to keep rolling and demands that Hale leave Caleb Lefton and his family behind, because the inexperienced Lefton is causing delays.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The John Augustus Story
    7.8/1064 votes

    #5 - The John Augustus Story

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1962

    John Augustus in a game of cards with a Chinese merchant wins a beautiful Chinese girl. But when he takes her on the wagon train, other passengers ask Hale to have him and the girl kicked off the train for their "indecent" relationship.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mavis Grant Story
    8.0/1070 votes

    #6 - The Mavis Grant Story

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1962

    In the midst of a dry spell and desperately in need of water, the wagons stop at Mavis Grant's station, the only source of water for miles. But Miss Grant is a bitter and cold hearted woman who demands an outrageous price for the water.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lisa Raincloud Story
    7.1/1095 votes

    #7 - The Lisa Raincloud Story

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1962

    Bill Hawks is caught with three Indian grave robbers being chased by the Indians. He is the only one captured and is to be killed until he and the Chief's daughter fall in love. However, the leading brave has other ideas for her and Bill.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Shiloh Degnan Story
    7.8/1065 votes

    #8 - The Shiloh Degnan Story

    Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1962

    An officer Chris knows is found near the wagon train near death. He tells Chris that a passage in the bible describes him and his commander - Shiloh Degnan. Chris returns him to Fort Bannerman to the Army where the truth is revealed.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Levy-McGowan Story
    7.9/1070 votes

    #9 - The Levy-McGowan Story

    Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1962

    When the Levy family joins the wagon train, the tranquility becomes less so as the fathers compete in checkers, young sons fight, and son and daughter fall in love. Lastly, a settler who tries to shake down the train to cross his property.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The John Bernard Story
    8.2/1065 votes

    #10 - The John Bernard Story

    Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1962

    Indians kidnap an elderly lady on the train. They will return her when the train takes the Chief's son to the doctor and cure him. However, some on the train don't want to help. The task becomes harder when they learn what the illness is.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Kurt Davos Story
    8.5/1083 votes

    #11 - The Kurt Davos Story

    Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1962

    Kurt Davos, a highly respected man, is badly injured while trying to save Florence Hastings trapped in a runaway wagon. Florence, scared of dogs had once tried to kill Kurt's dog, volunteers to live with and care for Kurt, now paralyzed.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Eve Newhope Story
    7.8/1072 votes

    #12 - The Eve Newhope Story

    Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1962

    Patrick O'Shaughnessy has come to visit his daughter Eve, believing her to be a respectable married woman. Knowing that Eve actually is the popular owner of a saloon, Hawks, Wooster, Duke, and Eve's favourite patrons decide to change Eve. English

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Orly French Story
    7.7/1065 votes

    #13 - The Orly French Story

    Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1962

    A Bible-quoting marshal joins the wagon train with his prisoner, a young bank robber whom he claims to be trying to reform. He wants the prisoner to atone for his sins by telling the location of the money he hid from his last holdup.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Donna Fuller Story
    7.5/1064 votes

    #14 - The Donna Fuller Story

    Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1962

    A woman and three companions in a runaway wagon are rescued by a winemaker and Charlie. They are against the consumption of alcohol and join the wagon train. However, she begins to fall for the winemaker until she learns his trade.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sam Darland Story
    8.3/1092 votes

    #15 - The Sam Darland Story

    Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 12/26/1962

    The wagon train finds Sam Darland with orphan boys in an old ghost town. Hale tries to convince Darland that it is not safe to stay in the town, as it in the midst of Indian territory and the leader of the tribe has been on the warpath.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Abel Weatherly Story
    7.4/1066 votes

    #16 - The Abel Weatherly Story

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/1963

    A sea captain traveling west haunted by nightmares from his past is found stranded, injured and drunk by Bill and Charlie. After hearing his story, they help him reach his destination to locate a ghost: a dead sailor that may be alive.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Davey Baxter Story
    7.5/1056 votes

    #17 - The Davey Baxter Story

    Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1963

    When his wagon falls down a cliff, Davey Baxter's mother is killed, and his arm is crushed. The doctor is unavailable, so Chris is forced to make the decision to amputate. This changes everything for Davey and the girl he plans to marry.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Johnny Masters Story
    7.5/1061 votes

    #18 - The Johnny Masters Story

    Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/1963

    On his way to Fort David, wagon scout Duke Shannon rescues Sgt. Johnny Masters being sent to prison for twenty years; a man caught between two worlds. The world of his ancestors the Cherokee, and the world of his loyalty, the U.S. Army.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Naomi Kaylor Story
    8.5/1098 votes

    #19 - The Naomi Kaylor Story

    Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/1963

    Hawks rides to the John Kaylor ranch to buy horses for the train but John just died. His widow Naomi refuses to sell the horses at the price John had promised. Naomi shows no sorrow over her husband's death, only wanting to sell the ranch.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hollister John Garrison Story
    7.2/1068 votes

    #20 - The Hollister John Garrison Story

    Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1963

    Bitter alcoholic Stevenson Drake develops a dislike for the even tempered John Hollister, a fellow Southerner, when he learns he didn't fight for the Confederacy. He also is bothered by the friendliness between his wife and Hollister.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lily Legend Story
    7.7/1071 votes

    #21 - The Lily Legend Story

    Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/1963

    While riding through the desert plains, Duke and Charlie come across a sheriff as he is about to die of a heart attack and his female prisoner, Lily Legend, a childhood sweetheart of Duke who the sheriff is taking to be hanged for murder.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Charlie Wooster - Outlaw
    8.4/1025 votes

    #22 - Charlie Wooster - Outlaw

    Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1963

    Bella McKavitch wants to kidnap Chris Hale, in order to find out about a gold shipment which she thinks the wagon train is carrying, but her dim-witted sons nab Wooster instead. To stop them, Wooster pretends to be a robber himself.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sara Proctor Story
    7.6/1060 votes

    #23 - The Sara Proctor Story

    Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/1963

    When children's dolls are found mutilated in her possession, passengers believe that Sara Proctor is either deranged or practicing witchcraft. Hale slowly arrives at the real story after Sara confides to him and Charlie's snooping.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Emmett Lawton Story
    8.1/1069 votes

    #24 - The Emmett Lawton Story

    Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 3/6/1963

    Duke Shannon stops in the town High Times and almost right away gets into a fight with, and accidentally kills, one of the gunmen who are essentially holding the town hostage. Then he finds his horse missing and ignores advise to leave.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Annie Duggan Story
    7.9/1061 votes

    #25 - The Annie Duggan Story

    Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 3/13/1963

    An elderly couple and then a young girl become ill with typhoid fever on the wagon train. A young servant girl has attended to them all in isolation. One of the women on the train has an idea about the cause but no one wants to listen.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A