8.0/10121 votes#1 - The Molly Kincaid Story
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1963
Having just left St. Joseph, Hale tells everyone there are no Indians when in fact two escaped Comanche captives steal two horses and show up at the wagon trains first stop. The female wants to kill a man there - her cowardly husband.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1090 votes
#2 - The Fort Pierce Story
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1963
As the wagon train reaches Fort Pierce it is in dangerous Indian country. Chris is hoping the Army will provide an escort when they leave, but the Colonel refuses due to Army orders. In fact, he wants the lone woman there to leave with the train.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1087 votes
#3 - The Gus Morgan Story
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1963
A tough railroad executive and his younger college educated brother are guided by Chris up a mountain to scout a route. When is accidentally shot by the younger brother, the older brother is forced to make a tough decision he may regret.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Norman Jolley
- 7.5/1082 votes
#4 - The Widow O'Rourke Story
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1963
When Duke and Charlie do not return from a scouting assignment, Chris sends Cooper who has a pretty good idea what lays ahead. The Chinese widow of an Irish Ship Captain wants Coop to carry on her husband's empire.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.9/1089 votes
#5 - The Robert Harrison Clarke Story
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1963
Chris and Cooper along with a British journalist accompany civilians surveying for the Army when they come across an Army troop that has been massacred except for two survivors. This opens the journalist's eyes to the real America.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1071 votes
#6 - The Myra Marshall Story
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1963
Coop accompanies Grace Marshall to visit her sister Myra whom, traumatized by an upbringing by an abusive father, Grace finds living a life of addiction and infidelity for which Grace wrongfully blames husband Vern.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1069 votes
#7 - The Sam Spicer Story
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1963
After witnessing a bank holdup, Barnaby is taken hostage by outlaws Sam Spicer and Reno Sutton. Sam takes a liking to the boy as he reminds him of himself when Reno first made him a partner but Reno doesn't trust Barnaby.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1059 votes
#8 - The Sam Pulaski Story
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1963
On the train Coop is falling for the sister of the man running a gang who beat and robbed Coop in Hell's Kitchen in Brooklyn. Coop believes the man who says he is going west to change but his goons are still plying their scam on the train.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1072 votes
#9 - The Eli Bancroft Story
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1963
Eli Bancroft became an outlaw looking for revenge raising his three sons as such after a town's citizens banded together and forced his entire family to uproot, fearing they would catch their illness. Coop and others become his victims.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1062 votes
#10 - The Kitty Pryer Story
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1963
Kitty Pryer finds herself in a bigamous marriage to Victor Harp who asks her to join him on the wagon train posing as the wife of a friend until he can divorce his wife. However, Victor's change of plans puts Kitty in unique peril.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1070 votes
#11 - The Sandra Cummings Story
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1963
After escaping from a Confederate prison for being a spy, Sandra Cummings, becomes the lead in a musical troupe in the west. When she joins the wagon train, Cooper Smith takes an interest in her daughter Paula against Sandra's wishes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1064 votes
#12 - The Bleeker Story
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1963
The Bleecker gang disguised as farmers with several wagons seek Hale's wagon train to join but they actually carry a wagon of weapons and plan to hijack the train and use it and the weapons to rob a nearby fort of gold.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1063 votes
#13 - The Story of Cain
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1963
While scouting Coop nearly dies after finding a man near death from lack of water who has found a major gold strike. The man decides to let the wagon train share in his windfall but later reneges resulting in disaster for him and Coop.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1064 votes
#14 - The Cassie Vance Story
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 12/23/1963
Cassie Vance is accused of theft when money and items belonging to a woman on the train that she nursed turn up missing, and especially after another woman recognizes Cassie as having served time in prison for theft when young.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1068 votes
#15 - The Fenton Canaby Story
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 12/30/1963
Canaby, who is unjustly reputed to have led a wagon train to disaster in the desert, becomes unexpectedly part of Hale's train as Hale has some of the same problems Canaby had and the train carries a widow wanting revenge against Canaby.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1065 votes
#16 - The Michael Malone Story
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1964
Julie Holland is falling for Michael Malone, a man haunted by the death of his sister. Meanwhile, the marriage of Ben and Beth Mitchell is strained because of Beth's increasing bitterness toward her husband and her feeling of unworthiness.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1063 votes
#17 - The Jed Whitmore Story
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 1/13/1964
Jed Whitmore, one of three brothers that committed an infamous train robbery, is now town sheriff Frank Lewis but his brother released from prison comes to town with a fellow inmate and a reporter to get paid for the Jed Whitmore story.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1063 votes
#18 - The Geneva Balfour Story
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1964
Hale's train must take a dangerous desert route due to hostilities which danger grows when spoiled Geneva Balfour starts a fire destroying supplies to get her husband to return east and Hale lies to train members about the danger's extent.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1076 votes
#19 - The Kate Crawley Story
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 1/27/1964
When Hale begins to romance tough, independent freight line operator Kate Crawley, the others begin to fear she will wind up dominating Chris, and try to encourage her adoring assistant to better himself so that she'll notice him instead.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1061 votes
#20 - The Grover Allen Story
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 2/3/1964
After being fired and setting a bomb which kills his tyrannical boss, Grover Allen joins the wagon train and heads west with his widowed daughter-in-law Della and grandson Jeff. A detective searching for Allen joins the wagon train.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1063 votes
#21 - The Andrew Elliott Story
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 2/10/1964
Duke Shannon, arrested by the Cavalry, is charged with criminal negligence as leader of an expedition into the badlands, from which he alone has returned. He must retrace his steps with the Army and one of the victim's father.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1061 votes
#22 - The Melanie Craig Story
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 2/17/1964
Everyone wants to help pretty Melanie Craig after her husband is killed in an accident so four men fight over who will be the one to court and marry her. Also, Rudd Basham, father of three boys, uses the wrong ideas about women to win her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1068 votes
#23 - The Pearlie Garnet Story
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 2/24/1964
Beautiful but shrewd Pearlie Garnet was forced to leave the wagon train after she was found to be a liar, manipulator, and thief who stole from everyone on the train.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1053 votes
#24 - The Trace McCloud Story
Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1964
A strangler is loose in the town of Bedrock so when the wagon train comes through it is joined by a good percentage of the town's population which it becomes apparent includes the strangler.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1058 votes
#25 - The Duncan McIvor Story
Season 7 Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/1964
Duke and Bill are rescued from Indians by a stranger. He joins the train which is headed to Fort Chacon. Unknown to them he is an Army officer. Members of the train are offered stolen Army supplies creating a problem for the officer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 7
Every episode of Wagon Train Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 7!
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 7 Ratings Summary
"The Molly Kincaid Story" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train" season 7. It scored 8/10 based on 121 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/16/1963. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Fort Pierce Story".