8.4/1092 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
- 8.2/1089 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
- 8.5/1080 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
- 8.4/1061 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
- 7.8/1061 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
- 8.1/1068 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
- 7.1/1093 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
- 7.8/1062 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
- 7.8/1067 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
- 8.2/1061 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
- 8.5/1081 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
- 7.7/1070 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
- 7.7/1064 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
- 7.5/1061 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
- 8.2/1091 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
- 7.4/1062 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
- 7.6/1053 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
- 7.5/1059 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
- 8.5/1097 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
- 7.1/1066 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
- 7.7/1068 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
- 8.3/1024 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
- 7.5/1059 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
- 8.1/1068 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
- 7.9/1059 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
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 92 votes. Directed by Virgil W. Vogel and written by N/A, it aired on 9/19/1962. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Caroline Casteel Story".